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ANALYSIS-Nimble Asian rivals raid Nokia’s emerging markets turf

Reuters | June 6, 2011 | Devidutta Tripathy and Tarmo Virki NEW DELHI/HELSINKI, June 7 (Reuters) - From New Delhi to Shanghai to Johannesburg, a flood of cheap handsets from the likes of China's ZTE (0763.HK) and India's Micromax is destroying Nokia's top position in emerging markets. ..... Read...

Computex 2011: C-Media takes cell phone noise cancellation to new levels

Audio appears to be becoming a burgeoning trend in the mobile industry, and at Computex 2011, the vendors were out in force to showcase how best to bring the beats to cell phones. Local Taiwanese company C-Media, widely known for its audio-playback hardware for PC...

Dell declares intention to expand lead in Internet servers

Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) said yesterday that the company wants to buy “everything around data centers” in attempts to keep its top spot in the computer server market. The world’s second-biggest maker of personal computers continues expansion and is targeting company acquisitions across the...

Exclusive: Yahoo, Alibaba reach deal over Alipay

Reuters | May 31, 2011 | Nadia Damouni and Jennifer Saba (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has resolved a dispute with Alibaba Group over the Chinese company's transfer of its online payment system, Alipay, to Chief Executive Jack Ma, two sources close to the matter said. .... Read full...

AT4 wireless Taiwan 1st Laboratory accredited in Asia for Continua Health Alliance Certification

AT4 Wireless | May 2, 2011 | Press Release Linkou, Taipei, Taiwan – May 02, 2011 — AT4 wireless Taiwan, a leading Testing Laboratory, is pleased to announce its official designation as First Continua Health Alliance Laboratory in Asia Continua Health Alliance today announced it has...

Texas Venture Week talks Asia

As I sat listening to a series of presentations by successful entrepreneurs at the University of Texas’s AT&T Conference Center in Austin for Texas Venture Week today, it became increasingly obvious that one particular factor was key to their success....

Tech 24: Facebook finds new 'friends' in Africa and Asia

Tech 24 | April 21, 2011 | Eric Olander With almost 700 million users, Facebook would have the world's third largest population if it was a country. Now the social networking site is heading south to find even more “friends”. This week on ‘Tech 24’,...

Tech 24: Facebook finds new ‘friends’ in Africa and Asia

Tech 24 | April 21, 2011 | Eric Olander With almost 700 million users, Facebook would have the world's third largest population if it was a country. Now the social networking site is heading south to find even more “friends”. This week on ‘Tech 24’,...

Pacnet to enhance connectivity to India through new partnership

Pacnet | April 7, 2011 | Press Release Plans Underway for a New US$120 Million High-Speed Network Directly Connecting Chennai to Los Angeles NEW DELHI, INDIA–(Marketwire – April 7, 2011) - Pacnet today announced that it has signed agreements with Bharti Airtel Limited to deliver a new...

Pacnet to enhance connectivity to India through new partnership

Pacnet | April 7, 2011 | Press Release Plans Underway for a New US$120 Million High-Speed Network Directly Connecting Chennai to Los Angeles NEW DELHI, INDIA--(Marketwire - April 7, 2011) - Pacnet today announced that it has signed agreements with Bharti Airtel Limited to deliver a new...

SingTel taps into the world's fastest growing economies of Asia and Middle East through the launch of its second satellite

SingTel | April 5, 2011 | Press Release ST-2 scheduled to launch in May 2011 Singapore, 5 April 2011 – Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) today announced that its ST-2 satellite has completed assembly and integration, and successfully passed all major tests. The satellite is currently being...

SingTel taps into the world’s fastest growing economies of Asia and Middle East through the launch of its second satellite

SingTel | April 5, 2011 | Press Release ST-2 scheduled to launch in May 2011 Singapore, 5 April 2011 – Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) today announced that its ST-2 satellite has completed assembly and integration, and successfully passed all major tests. The satellite is currently being...

Baraka Telecom, the first dedicated Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) in Asia was launched

Baraka Telecom | March 18, 2011 | Press Release KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (MMD Newswire) March 18, 2011 -- Baraka Telecom (www.barakatelecom.com), the first dedicated Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) in Asia was launched today in Kuala Lumpur. This marks an expansion of Reach Telecom Group...

2nd UPDATE:Asia Telecom Firms Rush To Fix Quake Damage To Undersea Cables

Wall Street Journal | March 14, 2011 | Owen Fletcher and Juro Osawa Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BEIJING (Dow Jones)--Asia's major telecom operators scrambled on Monday to eliminate the impact on their operations from damage to several submarine cables following the massive earthquake and...

Smartphone sales to top 100 mn in Asia-Pacific: analyst

Sydney Morning Herald | March 10, 2011 Sales of smartphones such as Apple's iPhone4 are set to top 100 million units for the first time this year in the Asia Pacific market -- excluding Japan, an industry analyst said Thursday. Smartphone sales are projected to hit...

Acision appoints Chris Jenkins to head Asia Pacific as executive vice president and managing director

Acision | February 8, 2011 | Press Release Acision, a world leader in mobile data, today announced the appointment of Chris Jenkins to the position of Executive Vice President and Managing Director for the Asia Pacific region. Based in Singapore, Chris will play a lead...

HTC aims to lead Taiwan’s smartphone market

Taiwan Economic News | February 8, 2011 | Ben Shen HTC Corp., Taiwan`s leading smartphone vendor, is cooperating with Tsai International to open a HTC-brand flagship store, the largest of its kind in Asia, at the Guanghwa market in Taipei City, known for ITC product...

HTC aims to lead Taiwan's smartphone market

Taiwan Economic News | February 8, 2011 | Ben Shen HTC Corp., Taiwan`s leading smartphone vendor, is cooperating with Tsai International to open a HTC-brand flagship store, the largest of its kind in Asia, at the Guanghwa market in Taipei City, known for ITC product...

Telenor advances after earnings beat estimates on Norway, Asia

Bloomberg | February 8, 2011 | Diana ben-Aron Telenor ASA, the Nordic region’s largest phone company, rose the most in two months in Oslo trading after reporting fourth-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates. Telenor climbed as much as 2.90 kroner, or 3.3 percent, to 91.90 kroner,...

CSL Management World Asia Mark Liversidge

Telecom Asia | January 27, 2011 Technology 'needs to be invisible' It's not about the technology or network. CSL CMO Mark Liversidge says it's about making the interaction between the network and the device as smooth as possible. Video via Telecom Asia

Reach asset restructure to drive shareholder value

Telstra | January 26, 2011 | Press Release Telstra and PCCW today signed an agreement to restructure the assets in their 50/50 joint venture, Reach, as part of an ongoing review of the company’s Asian assets to drive shareholder value. The restructure will result in a...

IBM to build Asia’s largest cloud computing data center

International Business Times | January 25, 2011 | Gabriel Perna International Business Machines' ever-expanding cloud computing services will continue development in Asia. The company announced it is collaborating with Range Technology Development, out of China, to build a state of the art cloud computing data center...