Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
WSJ | June 10, 2011 | R. JAI KRISHNA
NEW DELHI – BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. plans to introduce its PlayBook tablet in India in the week beginning June 19, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.
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HotHardware | June 10, 2011 | Ray Willington
What's needed to really get people hooked on contactless payments? Lots and lots of industry support. Google Wallet has set the bar for what's possible with NFC in thesmartphone, and now Visa is making a play to expand...
ZDNet | June 9, 2011 | Press Release
Hon Hai Precision Industry—a company best known for making Apple products like the iPad—outlined production improvements, data center plans and diversification efforts.
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ZDNet | June 9, 2011 | Press Release
Hon Hai Precision Industry—a company best known for making Apple products like the iPad—outlined production improvements, data center plans and diversification efforts.
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TechTree | June 10, 2011 | Chethan Rao
The Samsung Galaxy S II was launched some days ago in India right after the iPhone 4 was launched, which not surprisingly, spoiled the iPhone 4's party a bit. If there ever was a competitor to the World's best smartphone,...
Korea Times | June 10, 2011 | Kim Yoo-chul
Broad management shakeup may come
Samsung Group has declared an all-out war on internal corruption.
Lee Kun-hee, chairman of the group’s flagship Samsung Electronics, talked tough on the issue for a second consecutive day Thursday.
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Reuters | June 10, 2011 | Melanie Lee
(Reuters) - Dell Inc has chosen to launch its new 10-inch Android tablet in China this summer, passing up on a U.S., Europe launch, as China emerges as a front line battle for tablets.
The tablet named "Streak 10 Pro"...
Watch live streaming video from rcrtrack2 at livestream.comPHILADELPHIA – It doesn't take much looking to realize that the wireless industry is in the midst of a network capacity crisis. With data hungry smartphones flooding the market, carriers have been forced to come up with...
Maybe there is a point where technology ceases to make life easier/better/prettier. I think we're there. The first person to think “Hey, let's add a camera feature to a cellphone” probably didn't have Rep. Anthony Weiner in mind when he thought a camera and...
U.S. Cellular Corp.'s (USM) LTE plans continue to take shape as the regional operator said it plans to roll out its first LTE equipped device in November, presumably following the launch of its initial LTE services.The carrier announced last month that it planned to...
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) announced a series of M2M deals around payments, video surveillance, alarm monitoring and offered some updates on its push into tele-medicine.The Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX), a financial processing network, extended its partnership with the carrier to co-market services and extend...
Taiwanese phone maker HTC has more than doubled its profits since last year, thanks mainly to the firm’s focus on Android says the company’s annual report.HTC reported a $40 billion profit since May 2010 and said monthly sales have also been consistently doubling in...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
At first glance, mobile payments seem like a strategic slam dunk across several sectors. This...
Shenzhen Wuzhou Changlian | June 7, 2011 | Press Release
SHENZHEN, China, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- From May 30 to June 5, Shenzhen Wuzhou Changlian International Trading Co. held an iPhone 4 case and phone accessories exhibition lasting 5 days in Dongguan, China. During this period, special staff were...
TechOn | June 3, 2011 | Tomohisa Takei
Acer Inc showed a prototype of a tablet computer using the "MeeGo" software platform at a press conference that Intel Corp had in Taipei, Taiwan, June 1, 2011, and is about netbooks and tablet computers.
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Ecobank | June 6, 2011 | Press Release
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated ("Ecobank"), the leading pan-African banking group, and Bharti Airtel ("Airtel"), a leading global telecommunications company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") to promote mobile banking services across Africa.
Under the terms of the MOU,...
Free Press has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging that Verizon Wireless is abusing conditions of its 700 MHz spectrum by not allowing LTE devices to be used as wireless routers. Verizon is not amused, noting that Free Press is simply...
For the first time since 2008, Apple Inc. (AAPL) declined to introduce a new iPhone today at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. CEO Steve Jobs and his team of executives pulled few, if any, surprises on stage, however the software and...
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...
Application platform provider Service2Media said it received $10 million in round C venture-capital funding from Prime Ventures and the Private Plus Fund. CEO Geert Kolthof said the funding will enable it to expand its partner network, add staff, and increase sales and marketing efforts,...
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has taken its HealthVault mobile. Microsoft has built client libraries to develop standalone HealthVault applications for Windows Phone 7, iOS and Android. The software development kits (SDK) for Windows Phone 7 are available now and iOS and Android will be available...
SAN DIEGO — Fourth-generation networks and the smartphones and devices that take advantage of that new technology are going to “supercharge” consumers' experience with mobility, Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corp., said in his keynote at Uplinq.Smartphones will increasingly become digital wallets for consumers...
