Last Friday, HTC was dealt a massive blow when the US International Trade Commission (ITC) took Apple’s side and found the Taiwanese phonemaker guilty of infringing two iPhone patents. But HTC’s CEO is not taking the decision lying down and says he is prepared...
Motorola Solutions Venture Capital has led a $1 million round of financing for Menlo Park based Nearbuy Systems which specializes in indoor "micro-location."
Motorola Solutions joined Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, and Metamorphic Ventures to raise the cash which should help Nearbuy Systems deploy its software...
DigiTimes | July 21, 2011 | Ninelu Tu, Joseph Tsai
After having to share Apple's next generation iPhone orders with Pegatron Technology, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is internally working on raising its production efficiency and yield rates to maintain its advantages in tablet...
Reuters | July 21, 2011 | Hayley Platt
Swedish mobile phone maker Ericsson missed forecasts taking the gloss off strong quarterly sales while Finland's Nokia delivered a 391 million euro profit for the same period. Hayley Platt reports.
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Bloomberg | July 21, 2011 | Diana ben-Aaron
Ericsson AB, the largest maker of wireless networks, reported profit that missed analysts’ estimates on a job-cut charge and said U.S. spending was slowing, sending the stock to its biggest drop since 2009.
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France Telecom - Orange | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
Laurent Biojoux was appointed Customer Relations Director of Orange France, effective 18 July 2011.
Orange France combines the operational activities of France Telecom Orange on French soil. With almost 80,000 employees, including 40,000 employees who...
France Telecom - Orange | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
France Telecom-Orange has published its third party-operator access offer for its FTTH fiber-optic network outside very-dense areas, and has signed an agreement with Free (Iliad Group) concerning fiber deployment in these areas that is...
Nokia | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
6.7% Devices & Services non-IFRS operating margin, benefiting from IPR royalty income related to the second quarter 2011 and settling prior periods.
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Google has saddened early adopter everywhere today with its decision to shut down Google Labs, its incubator for newly conceived, half-baked products, which sometimes evolved into tasty new offerings from the software firm.
Bill Coughran, Google’s SVP for Research and Systems Infrastructure announced the news...
Ericsson | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
Bharti Airtel, ("Airtel") a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa today announced a five year managed services agreement with Ericsson (NASDA!Q:ERIC) for its Africa operations. As per the agreement, Ericsson...
Ericsson | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
In the quarter we saw a change in market mix where Brazil, China, Germany, Korea, and Russia showed especially strong growth both year-over-year and sequentially. The US maintained its high business activity although sequentially the networks business...
Telenor Group | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
In the second quarter of 2011, Telenor Group reported revenues of NOK 24,4 billion, representing an organic revenue growth of 7%. EBITDA before other items was NOK 7.5 billion, EBITDA margin was 31 per cent, and...
TeliaSonera | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
Telia Norge AS, a company owned by TeliaSonera has entered into an agreement to sell all of its shares in North Sea Communications AS (NSC) to HitecVision for approximately SEK 170 million. NSC operates a fiber optical...
Telefonica | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
Madrid, Spain & Abu-Dhabi, UAE, July 21st 2011 – Etisalat and Telefonica, two leading telecom operators worldwide, today jointly announced that they have signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement to enter into a broad-based cooperation. The partnership will...
San Francisco based startup Stampt today unleashed its digital loyalty reward card program across the US.
The service, which aims to swap out paper coupons of the "buy-10-get-1-free" variety with a smarter, digital version has been running trials of its service in San Francisco, Cincinnati,...
Despite another strong quarter for chipmaker Intel in terms of revenue, the chipmaking giant couldn’t help but be disappointed by its continued failures to break into the mobile market and the decline of its low powered Atom chipset.
Intel posted Q311 revenue of $13 billion,...
Jumbuck, an Australian VAS firm, is trying to translate the love affair people have with their phones into real life social relationships.
“The mobile phone is a device that has a wonderful intimate relationship with the users,” said David Gibbs, the firm’s CEO, noting that...
T-Mobile USA Inc. announced a change to its pricing for unlimited smartphone data service, providing new and lower postpaid plans. The carrier said it will also offer more flexibility for customers who bring existing devices to T-Mobile and a monthly payment plan for those...
The City of San Francisco will on Thursday hold a vote on whether to implement a controversial law which would make it mandatory for phone retailers to warn people about cellular radiation.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors already won unanimous approval for its “Right...
Dell Inc. (DELL) announced today that it will acquire Force 10 Networks, a buy that backs up analyst speculation that the second-largest computer maker in the world would absorb a networking vendor to provide the company a combined networking and data center offering to...
Tablet maker Lenovo today announced a trio of new 10.1-inch tablet devices, with two that run on Android 3.1 and one that operates on Windows 7.
The Android-based tablets are marketed for consumers under the name IdeaPad Tablet K1 and for sold for business users...
Research In Motion | July 19, 2011 | Press Release
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) and Brightstar Corp. today introduced a localized version of the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone in Vietnam. Featuring an incredibly easy-to-use Vietnamese...
Times of India | July 20, 2011
KOLKATA: EMC Corporation and Zinnov Management Consulting, in a study on private cloud landscape in India estimated that the totalcloud market in India, currently at $400 million, will reach a market value of $ 4.5 billion by 2015.
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The Korea Herald | July 18, 2011
South Korea's umbrella federation of small and medium-sized enterprises on Monday said it will seek to set up the country's fourth mobile carrier as part of an ongoing effort to boost growth of local venture firms.
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