The Korea Herald | July 26, 2011 | Kim Ji-hyun
The smart device boom may be a blessing for many who now have instant access to everything from emails to the nearest restaurant serving their favorite foods, but smart products also are making electronics companies...
Business Standar | July 26, 2011
Opera Software and UTV Indiagames plan to offer gaming content on Opera Mini browsers, which are optimised for surfing on cellphones. Starting this month, Opera Mini browsers will sport a UTV Indiagames icon that would allow users a one-click...
Financial Times | July 26, 2011
Former telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja, who is facing trial in India's biggest corruption scandal, has told a court that prime minister Manmohan Singh knew of key decisions during the auction of 2G spectrum in 2007-08, and was therefore also...
Wall Street Journal | July 25, 2011 | R. Jai Krishna
The Indian government will announce a new telecommunications policy by October, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said. India's telecom regulator had recently submitted its recommendations on the policy, and the minister said the Telecom Commission...
Economic Times | July 26, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip & Rohini Singh
The government could move to a 'unified licence' regime under a planned radical overhaul of telecom rules, potentially dismantling walls between different types of communication services but at the same time risks...
Mobile marketing platform company Upstream says it will be opening new offices in Redwood City, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley.
The firm, whose MCS marketing technology platform boasts over one billion interactions every year to more than 500 million consumers in 40 countries...
Mountain View based Intuit Inc., maker of the popular TurboTax program, has announced the availability of its QuickBooks invoicing app for Android, following up its iOS app for Apple iPhone users.
The firm says this should make using QuickBooks easier on the fly for the firm’s...
iTnews | July 25, 2011 | James Hutchinson
The University of Western Australia has embarked on an 18-month project to consolidate approximately 1000 disparate servers to a private cloud platform in Amcom data centres.
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Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) has snapped up assets from Sunnyvale based GestureTek, which specializes in gesture recognition technology, for integration into its Snapdragon processors.
Gesture recognition, once the preserve of science fiction films like Minority Report, is slowly making its real life debut in tablets...
The Korean Herald | July 25, 2011 | Kim Ji-hyun
Companies fail to lure customers due to lack of killer products.
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Bloomberg | July 25, 2011 | Jun Yang
Samsung Electronics Co., maker of the Galaxy mobile phone, may have surpassed Nokia Oyj and Apple Inc. in smartphone sales for the first time on demand for devices that run on Android software, a research company said.
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DigiTimes | July 25, 2011 | Cage Chao, Steve Shen
As the entry-level to mid-range smartphones are expected to serve as killer applications in the device market in the second half of 2011 as well as in 2012, a number of Taiwan-based IC design houses...
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....
Alcatel-Lucent | July 25, 2011 | Press Release
Paris, July 25, 2011 -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced availability of a suite of visual collaboration solutions that bring high-quality, cost-effective video to users across the enterprise. Alcatel-Lucent’s Visual Collaboration suite moves beyond...
Nokia Siemens | July 22, 2011 | Press Release
Nokia Siemens Networks’ IP Multimedia Subsystem platform to offer new services
M-net Telekommunikations GmbH, a leading operator in Bavaria, Germany, is swapping its existing softswitch with a solution from Nokia Siemens Networks. The operator has selected Nokia...
TeliaSonera | July 22, 2011 | Press Release
The reduction of share capital by means of cancellation of shares resolved upon on April 6, 2011 by the annual general meeting in TeliaSonera has now been effected after the Swedish Companies Registrations Office’s approval of the...
Deutsche Telekom | July 22, 2011 | Press Release
Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, operator of the T-Mobile network, and PTK Centertel, operator of the Orange network, signed an agreement today to share their radio access networks. The agreement covers management, planning, support, development and maintenance of...
Vodafone | July 22, 2011 | Press Release
Group service revenue +1.5%(*), excluding mobile termination rate cuts +3.9%(*)
Strong service revenue growth in India +16.8%(*), Turkey +32.1%(*) and Vodacom +7.8%(*); resilient performance from Germany +0.2%(*) and UK +1.7%(*)
Conditions in southern Europe remain challenging: Italy -1.5%(*), Spain...
Mobile TeleSystems | July 22, 2011 | Press Release
Moscow, Russian Federation – Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS” or the “Company” – NYSE: MBT), the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, announces that the 3-months period from the registration of the Company’s share issuance...
Market research firm comScore has released figures which claim Google + has shot past the 20 million visitor mark in just three weeks since its launch, seeing a whopping 82% visitor increase over last week and 561% over two weeks ago.
US visitors made up...
Even after publicly declaring on several occasions that it had no interest in facial recognition, Google has gone out and bought itself a –yes - facial recognition software company by the name of PittPatt.
Pittsburgh based PittPatt, which emerged from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute,...
Google Austin: A first-person, customer update
Google. They are the digital version of General Electric, but for the 21st century. Both are classic, American-headquartered, global conglomerates, with diverse portfolios. But, whereas GE’s goods and services have ranged from light bulbs to jet engines to TV...
Google Austin: A first-person, customer update
Google. They are the digital version of General Electric, but for the 21st century. Both are classic, American-headquartered, global conglomerates, with diverse portfolios. But, whereas GE’s goods and services have ranged from light bulbs to jet engines to TV...
