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A panel discussion including representatives from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and mobile tech developer Motricity, at CommunicAsia in Singapore touched on why the mobile internet was so important and what the various firms are doing to make sure they don’t miss the mobile boat.

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Roaming the halls at CommunicAsia in Singapore this week, RCR managed to get an up-close and personal encounter with the Y-Phone and see why Yahoo is so excited about its potential for the APAC region

A consortium of Bharti Airtel, Cisco, and Servion today announced their foray into the Indian hosted Contact Center services market – valued at $50 million – with the launch of Hosted Contact Center (HCC) services.

The success and profitability of the mobile Internet all hinges on the level of personalization and intelligence it can achieve, according to Amdocs’ director for market development and strategy, Michael Breen.

Every year since the World Cup in 2006, companies have been proclaiming that ‘this year will be the year for mobile TV.’ Yet despite the optimism, Mobile TV doesn’t really seem to have taken the world by storm.

It has apparently been a very good year for Chinese telecom equipment and network provider ZTE. The Chinese firm announced not only had it leapfrogged rival Alcatel Lucent to become the world’s number two fixed broadband infrastructure provider, but also that it had just won a lucrative passive optical network (PON) equipment deal with China Telekom and will partner with Telekom Malaysia

French network operator Bouygues Telecom has selected Bluestreak Technologies Inc’s Flash based MachBlue platform to power the next generation interface of Bouygues’ Bbox IPTV.

Skype believes we are all living in a web of connected devices in an app centric world where phones are no longer phones, but little computers in our pockets.

The World Cup has kicked off and S.Korea is still in the game having scored two goals against Greece on Saturday. But while Korea is scoring on the soccer pitch, its mobile firms are having to play a tough game of defense at home.

Operators should spend more time thinking about that value added service commonly known as voice, according to Bryan Davies, director of marketing Alcatel Lucent, speaking today at CommunicAsia.

You’ve heard of the iPhone, but have you heard of the Y-Phone? Internet portal Yahoo announced at CommunicAsia today that it had teamed up with Alcatel to release a phone dubbed the Alcatel One Touch, with bundled Yahoo content and software the firm hopes will attract mobile internet adopters in Indonesia and other emerging markets throughout Asia.