We all know that Germany takes its rules, process and privacy seriously. I’m not being sarcastic; I live here, so I can say this. And you know what, there are a lot of good things about this. It’s a safe country, people are true...
Amdocs recently released a study on the State of the RAN as of the end of 2013 in comparison to the end of 2012. Sure, we all know that data continues to grow, video usage continues to grow and the customer experience challenges continue...
Flash Networks released its annual LTE study conducted at the LTE World Summit event regarding operator and subscriber views on the topic of net neutrality.
Not surprisingly 69% of operators thought there should be a so-called "fast lane" for Internet traffic geared towards premium content...
Vodafone appears ready to go shopping as its nears the closing of its $130 billion deal to sell Verizon Communications at the end of this month. CEO Vittorio Colao said that the carrier has an acquisition capacity of $30 billion to $40 billion.
The U.K.-based carrier...
Vodafone, one of the world's largest carriers and a bellwether for European operators, announced disappointing numbers for its first fiscal quarter ending in June.
The company reported service revenue of approximately $15.68 billion (₤9.98 billion). While this is a .6% increase year-over-year, it was forecasted...
Telefónica’s Latin American earnings surpassed its earnings from Europe for the first time in the Spanish group's history. The telecom operator announced first quarter 2012 earnings of 15,511 million euros, while operating income before depreciation and amortization (Oibda) dropped 8.8% to 5.08 billion euros...
Cloud computing apps are set to become much more popular by 2014, with Latin America and Asia-Pacific leading the way. Currently, large companies in emerging markets are the most aggressive adopters of cloud computing, while their European and U.S. counterparts remain more conservative about...
For most of the wireless industry’s history, Europe has played an important role in shaping the technology path. And, in combination with parts of Asia has led the way in terms of the deployment and adoption of the latest and greatest. This has been...
The 3-year partnership between Telenor Group and the Wikimedia Foundation will cover users in India, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Montenegro and Serbia.
When it comes to investing in the cloud, European carriers are not keeping pace with operators in North America and Asia, according to new research from Informa’s Telecom Cloud Monitor. European operators accounted for only 7% of the US$13.5 billion that operators committed to...
As the very last TouchPads leave the dusty shelves they’ve called home for the last month, making their way to consumers cashing in on fire-sale prices as low as $99, HP has announced it will sell its top-of-the-range Pre3 smartphone for just £49 ($80) in Europe only.
Business Insider | August 18, 2011 |Â Odysseas Papadimitirou
Already the standard in Europe, chip-and-pin credit cards prevent fraud at the point of sale by requiring that users enter a four-digit PIN number that must correspond to a microchip embedded within the card.
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An image used to sway a German court into granting Apple an injunction against sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe could have been manipulated it has been revealed.
Dutch IDG affiliate Webwereld.nl claims images of Samsung’s tablet – effectively now banned in...
Reuters | August 11, 2011 | Nicola Leske
Uncertainty in global financial markets will likely take its toll on the market for mobile devices in the second half as growth slows in Western Europe, according to research firm Gartner.
Read the full article here via Reuters...
Cloud Business Review | August 9, 2011
A different cause for cloud outage has been just discovered: Lightning storm. Amazon and Microsoft cloud services went offline for several hours as a lightning strike hit a power source that support Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud computing infrastructure...
The European Parliamentary Assembly (EPA) has been making much ado about nothing when it comes to the dangers of cellphones on children, according to a new report which found no link between mobile phones and child cancer.
The New York Times | July 24, 2011 | Kevin O'Brien
When the founders of Shutl, a British courier service that makes deliveries in 90 minutes in busy London, decided to set up a business that ran exclusively on cloud computing, they needed to get...
Brocade | July 19, 2011 | Press Release
GENEVA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/19/2011 -- More than half of all Europeans take at least one holiday each year, which means some 250 million people are well-versed in planning what essential items to squeeze into their luggage....
Reuters | July 20, 2011 | Nicola Leske
Norway's Telenor and Britain's Vodafone are expected to outshine their European telecom peers as the sector struggles with weak economies and forced price cuts.
Read the full article here via Reuters
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John Martin, chief financial officer of Time Warner Inc., talks about the company's expanded content distribution strategy for markets in Latin America, India and Europe. Martin speaks with Lisa Murphy on Bloomberg Television's "Fast Forward." (Source: Bloomberg)
Bloomberg
John Martin, chief financial officer of Time Warner Inc., talks about the company's expanded content distribution strategy for markets in Latin America, India and Europe. Martin speaks with Lisa Murphy on Bloomberg Television's "Fast Forward." (Source: Bloomberg)
