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Latin America Gmail's users can now make phone calls. Since last year, it was possible for U.S. users to call any mobile phone or landline directly from Google Voice, and now it is available in 38 new languages to 150 destinations.
Spanish, the most-spoken language in...
Latin America Gmail‘s users can now make phone calls. Since last year, it was possible for U.S. users to call any mobile phone or landline directly from Google Voice, and now it is available in 38 new languages to 150 destinations. Spanish, the...
Intel Corp. aims to play in wireless and device markets, introducing digital signage and machine-to-machine solutions. “We are working with some players to validate our chips to tablets and smartphones,” said Carlos Kokron, Intel’s Latin America’s director of carriers business, in an interview with...
Vodafone | July 25, 2011 | Press Release
Tate and Vodafone today announced a new partnership to develop online and mobile technologies for Tate’s galleries and website. The partnership launches with Tate Debates, a weekly online discussion on Tate’s blog to encourage people to share...
Reuters | August 3, 2011 | Alice Baghdijan
Frankenstein, Oliver Twist and Robinson Crusoe could all be lurking on your iPad if you download a new application launched by the British Library this week which provides access to over 45,000 historical and antiquarian titles.
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Reuters | August 1, 2011 | Jonathan Spicer
Exchange operator NYSE Euronext (NYX.N) said on Monday it agreed to acquire a Tokyo-based firm that helps hedge funds and others trade as quickly and smoothly as possible on electronic markets across Asia and in Australia.
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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...
iTnews | July 29, 2011 | Liz Tay
Westpac has established an in-house team of commerce, legal and finance experts to support its move toward shorter deals with a greater number of outsourcers.
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The Semiconductor Industry Association said worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled $24.7 billion for June, a 1.5% decrease from May and a 0.5% decrease from a year ago. Sales in the second quarter were down 2% from the previous quarter.
“Despite this month’s modest contraction in...
Orange | July 26, 2011 | Press Release
BNP Paribas and Orange have formed a partnership and signed a trademark licence agreement to launch innovative mobile banking services in November 2011.
This strategic business partnership allows the groups to share expertise in their respective areas of...
Verizon Wireless (VZ) is now the second major carrier in line for integration with American Express Co.'s (AXP) burgeoning digital commerce platform Serve.Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) snagged the first carrier deal with American Express two weeks ago. It will also be the flagship carrier...
Qualcomm | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
TOKYO and SAN DIEGO – July 27, 2011 – Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), through its Wireless ReachTM initiative, and Renaissance Academy Incorporated, a private correspondence high school in Daigo-cho, Ibaraki, today announced the launch of the 3G...
The Palo Alto-based company develops biofeedback apps for smartphones, including its Instant Heart Rate, which lets users monitor their heart rate by holding their finger over a phone's camera for 10 seconds....
Canvas, which provides a mobile business application service that makes it easy to find, customize and publish business apps for mobile devices, today announced it has closed the first $1.2 million in a $1.75 million Series B funding round.
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A massive public safety communication system in Los Angeles just hit the skids. Three years after the county and numerous independent cities launched the project, which is expected to cost as much as $700 million, county leaders voted to abandon plans made thus far...
EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK), a leading IP infrastructure and services company, today announced that two senior sales executives have joined the company’s leadership team to run its newly established Premier Business Solutions and National Accounts divisions. ...
Vringo, Inc. (NYSE Amex: VRNG) ("Vringo" or the "Company"), a provider of software platforms for mobile social and video applications, announced today that it has closed a private placement of convertible notes in the aggregate amount of $2.5 million primarily to leading venture capital...
Epocrates has won over nearly half of the nation's doctors for its free smartphone apps that lets them look up information on drug dosing, interactions and insurance coverage while seeing a patient.
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