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The smartphone war is being waged on many fronts. Of course there’s the never-ending price war and battle for customers at the retail or carrier level, but smartphone makers are …

Cenia | July 18, 2011 | Press Release Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that the Romanian Educational Network (RoEduNet) has chosen Ciena’s high-capacity coherent optical technology …

Telecom infrastructure giant American Tower Corp. (AMT) said it will buy up to 2,126 towers from telecommunications group Millicom International Cellular S.A. (MIC) subsidiary Colombia Móvil for $182 million in …

BCG | July 15, 2011 | Press Release The BCG e-Intensity Index Highlights National Differences in Internet Activity and the Need for Strong Regulatory, Payments, and Consumer-Protection Schemes LONDON, July …

Fairchild Semiconductor today announced the availability of its long vaunted mobile speaker amplifier, the FAB1200 stereo as well as the FAB2200 audio subsystem with stereo Class-G headphone amplifier and 1.2W Class-D mono speaker …

Pacific Fibre | July 18, 2011 | Lance Wiggs 12,750km System Will Set Record for Cross Sectional Capacity, Support Increasing Capacity Demands in Australia and New Zealand Read the full …

Ericsson | July 18, 2011 | Press Release A potential 25 million rugby fans across Oceania, and many more around the world, will enjoy live high definition coverage of the …

Reuters | July 18, 2011 | Jonathan Standing Shares in Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC tumbled as much as 6.5 percent on Monday after losing a preliminary ruling in a patent …

Bloomberg | July 18, 2011 | Matthew Campbell, Michael Kavanagh France Telecom SA (FTE) may make the Democratic Republic of Congo its next target for African expansion after entering exclusive …

BBC News | July 18, 2011 The BBC is conducting a major survey into the state of mobile phone coverage in the UK. Read the full article here via BBC …

Everything Everywhere | July 18, 2011 | Press Release Everything Everywhere Ltd today announced the appointment of Olaf Swantee as Chief Executive Officer as of 1st September 2011. He will …

BBC News | July 18, 2011 The boss of Everything Everywhere, the parent group of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T-Mobile, is standing down for “personal reasons”. Read the …

Bloomberg | July 15, 2011 | Diana ben-Aaron, Richard Weiss Nokia Siemens Networks, which this week ended talks to sell a stake to buyout firms, needs to cut jobs to …

NVIDIA’s upcoming Kal El mobile processor may be the only 40nm quad core on the market according to sources in the know. According to Fudzilla, NVIDIA will be the only chip …

BBC News | July 12, 2011 A Scottish law firm has launched an iPhone app which will help employers calculate compensation claims. Read the full article here via BBC News

Apple may dump Samsung and move to Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC for production of its A6 chip, it has been claimed. According to ComputerWorld, the 28nm chip will be fabbed …

Ericsson | July 15, 2011 | Press Release Highlights: Supply chain constraints from the Japan earthquake significantly impact Q2 results Smartphones account for more than 70 percent of total sales …

CNN | July 15, 2011 | Mark Milian A tablet computer doesn’t have to look like a flat rectangle. Read the full article here via CNN

DigiTimes | July 15, 2011 | Daniel Shen, Steve Shen HTC has appointed its incumbent president of North America and Latin America Jason Mackenzie to the newly-created position of president …

BBC News | July 15, 2011 The mobile phone maker said the quake last March had caused “supply chain constraints”, which meant that about 1.5m phones were not ready for …

Reuters | July 15, 2011 | Clare Jim, Argin Chang Taiwan’s TSMC has begun trial manufacturing of next generation chips for Apple Inc’s mobile devices, a source with knowledge of …