IT spending will reach nearly $3.6 trillion this year, marking at 5.6% increase from $3.4 trillion in 2010, Gartner Inc. projects in its latest study. IT spending growth in telecom will be down however. Telecom is projected to slide from a 5.5% growth rate...
AUSTIN, Texas-Rock Health, a San Francisco-based mobile health and Health 2.0 seed incubator, launched officially at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival last week. The mission of the company is to provide healthcare expertise, development resources and funding to the...
AUSTIN, Texas-This is the first year IBM Corp. has involvement at Austin’s South by Southwest (SXSW) and the company felt the need to become a part of the festival to work with business and innovation, and of course, provide a ...
AUSTIN-Some argue that there is little to a name, but if any of those people work in the world of the Web, they are very wrong. For companies that use either the terms “face” or “book” in a name on the...
International Business News | February 2011 | Alex He
China's Synacast Corporation, or PPLive, the operator the leading online TV service "PPTV", said on Thursday that Japan's Softbank has acquired a 35 percent stake into the company.
The Japanese mobile carrier acquired Synacast's stake for about...
International Business News | February 2011 | Alex He
China's Synacast Corporation, or PPLive, the operator the leading online TV service "PPTV", said on Thursday that Japan's Softbank has acquired a 35 percent stake into the company.
The Japanese mobile carrier acquired Synacast's stake for about...
AUSTIN-The Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), a research arm of the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, was named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC) this week and received a $400,000 grant to fund...
AUSTIN-Everyone is faced with a moment when accused of being dishonest. For instance, have you called in sick to kick off Austin City Limits or recover from your third day of South by Southwest? In an era of increased demand for efficiency, some businesses...
Issues addressed include wireless collocation, expansion
DALLAS, Texas--The nationwide push to expand broadband access is forcing utilities to cooperate with wireless companies on collocating wireless equipment on utility poles. As such, leaders from both groups spent Friday at the Marriott Dallas City Center...
Mind Map will promote collaboration, investment
AUSTIN, Texas--The new year is an exciting one in Austin, as the phenomenal growth in mobile broadband is picking up the local economy as groups involved in the industry look to expand.
In an effort to spread the cheer, Steve...
Report to highlight $3.6 billion expansion of Samsung Austin Semiconductor
AUSTIN, Texas--The old adage of everything being bigger in Texas is often true, and the boastful economic figures reported by the Austin Chamber of Commerce are making a solid impression that the capital of the Lone...
Trading Markets | December 21, 2010 | Press Release
SHANGHAI, HONG KONG and LONDON, December 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --
EMOZE Ltd. today announces a strategic world-wide agreement with TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd., to pre-embed the EMOZE push email solution on TCL and Alcatel...
By Patrick Nixon | Business News Americas
Unified communications will be a key focus for the recently merged Enterprise unit of French telecoms equipment supplier Alcatel-Lucent(NYSE: ALU) and call center specialist Genesys in Latin America, Sergio Valencia, Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise director for Mexico, Central America and the...
One widely touted solution for current U.S. economic woes is for America to produce more of the high-tech gadgets that the rest of the world craves.
Yet two academic researchers have found that Apple Inc.’s iPhone — one of the most iconic U.S. technology products...
BEIJING, Dec 13, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
China's mobile phone output is likely to exceed 700 million and takes a 60 percent share in the global market in 2010, predicted Wang Xiang, senior Vice President of Qualcomm recently.
Wang...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, indicates that worldwide enterprise Wireless LAN (WLAN) shipments grew 35 percent in Asia...
Slowdown in the growth of mobile revenue compared to growth in mobile subscriber base has been encouraging Chinese operators to focus more strongly on the development of Value-Added Services (VAS) for rich urban and rural (to some extent) consumers. According to...
IF JULIA GILLARD wants to "wind down" in these early days of her much-needed holiday, she'd be wise to avoid papers, radio and TV. The continuing unfolding drama of WikiLeaks is not conducive to relaxing and refreshing for a new year...
The opposition's attack on the national broadband network should focus on how replacing Telstra's copper wire will lead to higher consumer costs, a federal Liberal MP says.
Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull's criticism of the $36 billion project has centred on issues...
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Google may have breached Australia's Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, but the Australian Federal Police won't prosecute, saying the chances of a successful prosecution are "low."
Google collected private data, including full e-mails and passwords, off unsecured wireless networks with its Street View cars...
ZTE has successfully completed the world's first large-scale commercial GPON-based mobile backhaul network for TELKOM Indonesia, a full-service telecom operator in Indonesia. The project is the first large-scale, commercial deployment of GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Networking) backhaul technology, and...
