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 talks with China’s ZTE Corp. to purchase a majority stake in Congo China Telecom, the...
BBC News | July 18, 2011
The BBC is conducting a major survey into the state of mobile phone coverage in the UK.
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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 replace Tom Alexander who has resigned for personal reasons and to pursue other interests. Tom...
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".
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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 gain the option of independence as competition with rivals including Huawei Technologies Co. intensifies.
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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 firm to attempt a quad core build on ARM’s A9 architecture, while the likes of...
BBC News | July 12, 2011
A Scottish law firm has launched an iPhone app which will help employers calculate compensation claims.
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BBC News | July 12, 2011
A Scottish law firm has launched an iPhone app which will help employers calculate compensation claims.
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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 in Taiwan, rather than Korea, after a spate of legal disputes between Apple and Samsung...
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
Android-based Xperia(TM) volume up 150 percent year-on-year
The consolidated financial summary for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Ericsson)...
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 of global sales and marketing, effective immediately.
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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 sale.
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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 the matter said on Friday, in a sign that the iPad maker is shifting from...
The Google Plus Social Network has already managed to rope over 10 million members into its circles, Google CEO Larry Page said Thursday.
Despite launching only two weeks ago on June 28, by invitation only, the service – which is still officially in Beta –...
Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei has announced a partnership with Canada’s Manitoba NetSet Ltd at the Global WiMAX & LTE Development Forum in San Francisco on Thursday.
Manitoba NetSet - a consortium of the most prominent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in rural Manitoba – has the...
PayPal demonstrated its new NFC capabilities for the first time this week at the Mobile Beat 2011 conference in San Francisco.
Senior director of PayPal Mobile, Laura Chambers, gave the audience a demo of the new service by tapping two smartphones together to transfer a...
Economic Times | July 14, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip
NEW DELHI: Tata Teleservices has demanded that the government 'immediately' award startup GSM airwaves in Delhi and 39 other districts across the country.
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WebWire | July 13, 2011
The proliferation of powerful mobile devices, increasing mobile bandwidth and new form factors is creating demand for services that allow users to access personal data and content from any device, anywhere and at any time.
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DigiTimes | July 14, 2011 | Yenting Chen, Steve Shen
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has reportedly landed orders for 10.1-inch tablet PCs from Amazon with shipments to begin in 2012, while Quanta Computer has begun shipping a 7-inch model to Amazon.
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Nokia Siemens Networks | July 14, 2011 | Press Release
Nokia Siemens Networks has upgraded portions of T-Mobile USA’s 4G (HSPA+*) network, the country’s most widely deployed 4G network. T-Mobile customers now have access to lightning-fast mobile broadband at potential speeds of up to 42...
Ericsson | July 14, 2011 | Press Release
Today, Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Money Services launches its first global ‘corridor’ for cross-border international remittance in partnership with Globe Telecom and Smart Communications Inc (Smart) enabling mobile phone users in the Philippines to send and receive money to...
Ericsson | July 14, 2011 | Press Release
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) today announced the company has partnered with T-Mobile USA, Inc. to expand portions of the company’s 4G (HSPA+) mobile broadband network, making theoretical peak speeds up to 42 Mbps available to more than 170 million...
