Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) came out with news on rapid fire today. The company killed its webOS device business, leaving the webOS software destined for an anticlimactic end, and announced that its PC business might be separated into another company or spun off in another...
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) just dropped a bombshell — Palm and webOS are effectively dead. The company just announced that it will stop selling devices based on the webOS platform it acquired from Palm less than 16 months ago for $1.2 billion.
In addition to preliminary...
Andy Miller is leaving Apple Inc. (AAPL) for a job in venture capital, AllThingsD reports. The mobile advertising executive came to Apple in 2010 by way of a $275 acquisition of Quattro Wireless, a mobile advertising company he co-founded.
Miller is leaving Apple to become...
After Google Inc. (GOOG) announced plans to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) for $12.5 billion, executives from both companies jumped on a call with investors to offer more details about the pending transaction.
Marking his first major acquisition since taking the reins at Google,...
Vanguard Nigeria | August 10, 2011 | Prince Osuagwu
In a bid to provide specific, relevant and tailored telecommunications solutions to empower Small and Medium Enterprises in Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria has announced the appointment of Rajiv Seghal as Vice President: Enterprise, SMEs and Postpaid.
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Apple Inc. (AAPL) rose to the top spot in second-quarter marketshare in the smartphone space, capitalizing on a 31% plunge from longtime market leader Nokia Corp. (NOK), according to new analysis from IHS Inc.
Even though the smartphone space grew 7.5% quarter to quarter, Nokia’s...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) opened up the iCloud.com interface for developers yesterday and revealed pricing for the service that will launch this fall. Apple plans to offer users up to 5 GB for free and will charge $20 for 15 GB, $40 for 25 GB...
The Hindu | July 20, 2011
NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Department of Telecom (DoT) Wednesday said it is working on auctioning the broadband spectrum following the Finance Ministry's directive to speed up the process, but it did not specify any time frame for the auction.
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Mobile has become the absolute fabric of Apple Inc. (AAPL). The business has changed so dramatically thanks to the iPhone (and increasingly the iPad) that it barely resembles itself from even four years ago.
During the just closed quarter, Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones and...
The smartphone war is being waged on many fronts. Of course there's the never-ending price war and battle for customers at the retail or carrier level, but smartphone makers are treading just as deep into the legal department. Patent disputes abound in the wireless...
MSN News India | June 24, 2011
After HTC Bliss, pictures of HTC Glamor, another women oriented smartphone leaks online
The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer is in news again. Rumored to have been developing an Android-based women-centric smartphone known as HTC Bliss in May, it now appears...
Apple's launch strategy for new products is an interesting phenomenon. While the details are always jealously guarded so Jobs' "one more thing" can have the maximum impact on stage, this does leave the Cupertino-based gadget giant open for other legal ramifications down the road. Case in point - the iCloud trademark, which Jobs and Co. have just been sued over.
After Steve Jobs gave his keynote speech at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, he left the romance of San Francisco behind him and went to a slightly smaller scale meeting - one of the Cupertino Council. At the meeting he presented Apple's plans for their new headquaters - and to say they're grandiose would be something of an understatement.
Apple's historically profitable relationship with the four major record labels (Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal) paid dividends today as it became the first music vendor to allow would-be purchasers access to cloud-based copies of music they already own - even if it was not purchased through the companies iTunes music store.
The keynote at Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is just wrapping up in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where the company's CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest additions to their desktop operating system OS X, and iOS, its mobile sibling.
Cisco Systems Inc.’s (CSCO) Visual Networking Index, released yesterday, has enough big numbers in it to make your head spin. Internet traffic will increase 200 exabytes between 2014 and 2015; network-connected devices will outnumber people by 2:1; and the word “zettabyte” is mentioned. (A...
The Business Standard | May 25, 2011
A district court in Texas, US, has issued a subpoena to Infosys Technologies seeking details of the company’s use of B-1 business visas.
A subpoena is a court-issued command to an individual or representatives of corporate entities to provide...
The Hindustan Times | May 15, 2011 | N Madhavan
More than two years ago, I had started this column by describing as the "Law of diminishing digital returns" the phenomenon under which your digital device will seem dumber as they days progress while smarter ones...
Cisco | May 12, 2011 | Press Release
Deployment Is Amongst the Largest Globally for Any Public Sector Bank
KOLKATA, India, May 12, 2011 - Cisco today announced that United Bank of India, one of India's leading nationalized banks, has chosen to deploy Cisco's wide area network...
Economic Times | May 16, 2011
NEW DELHI: After dilly-dallying for years, the government has asked the two telecom PSUs - BSNL and MTNL - to synergise their operations and function as one entity, pending their merger, offering Pan-India services. BSNL provides all telecom services -...
Times of India | May 14, 2011
NEW DELHI: The telecom ministry has issued a showcause notice to Idea Cellular for the Karnataka circle and Spice for the Andhra Pradesh circle for cancellation of licences on account of a delay in network rollout. "Yes, they...
Economic Times | May 15, 2011
NEW DELHI: Telecom major Bharti airtel has opposed the consultation paper issued by regulator Trai to review interconnection usage charges (IUC), saying it is not being done in accordance with the directions of TDSAT and the Supreme Court and...
If numbers are anything to go by, mobile number portability (MNP) has not made much of a dent in the fortunes of most telecom companies, as only about 4 million out of 771 million users have dumped their operators in the first five months...
On Monday Google unveiled its latest efforts in its quest for local relevance by announcing its new mobile "News Near You" feature for smartphones.
As the name indicates, the new capability attempts to bring Google News users the latest from their surrounding location on their...
