Nokia Siemens Networks | July 13, 2011 | Press Release
Nokia Siemens Networks confirmed today that a review for assessing private equity interest in the company had been completed.
“We believe that the current shareholders are in the best position to further enhance the value of...
Swisscom | July 11, 2011 | Press Release
Winterthur Public Utilities and Swisscom to cooperate on fibre-optic expansion, providing Winterthur with super-fast Internet access in the years to come. Four optical fibres will be laid per household and business. Two will be for Swisscom, the...
BBC News | July 12, 2011
Wales is to receive almost £57m from the UK government to improve its broadband coverage, says Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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The Economist | July 6, 2011
Which Europeans are the most enthusiastic, and the most fearful, social networkers
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France Telecom - Orange | July 12, 2011 | Press Release
With social networks and multi-screen functions now part of everyday life, you no longer want to wait until the following day before you can talk about and comment on the TV shows you watch....
TeliaSonera | July 12, 2011 | Press Release
TeliaSonera’s Interim Report January – June 2011, will be announced on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at around 7:15 (CET) and a presentation will be available at www.teliasonera.com (http://www.teliasonera.com/) before the press and analyst conference.
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Telenor Group | July 12, 2011
The nationwide campaign in Norway for recycling of used mobile phones has now reached a total of 10,451 telephones. Førde sports club alone has collected 876 used mobile phones.
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Alcatel-Lucent | July 12, 2011 | Press Release
PARIS/hong kong, July 12, 2011 – New World Telecom, a leading telecommunications service provider in Hong Kong, has selected Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) to prepare its optical network for the introduction of blazingly fast 100-G (gigabit)...
Reuters | July 11, 2011 | Clare Jim
Shares in the world's No.5 handset maker, HTC Corp, tumbled more than 4 percent on Tuesday, after Apple Inc sued the company in a fresh complaint with a U.S. trade panel.
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Reuters | July 11, 2011 | Emi Emoto, Taro Fuse
Elpida Memory Inc plans to raise nearly 80 billion yen ($992 million) through new shares and convertible bonds as it shifts production away from DRAM memory to more profitable smartphone chips.
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Reuters | July 11, 2011 | Isabel Reynolds
Japanese mobile social gaming firm DeNA will seek to expand by buying more game developers, its new chief executive, Isao Moriyasu, said in an interview on Monday.
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Toshiba | July 12, 2011 | Press Release
Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan, July 12, 2011 — Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today celebrated the opening of Fab 5, the third 300mm wafer NAND fabrication facility at Toshiba's Yokkaichi Operations...
DigiTimes | July 12, 2011 | Traci Su, Jessie Shen
Global Unichip has esimated that products requiring 65nm and below processing rose to account for more than 50% of its revenues in the second quarter, up from 45% in the first.
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DigiTimes | July 12, 2011 | Josephine Lien, Jessie Shen
Japan-based DRAM maker Elpida Memory has approved plans to raise up to JPY79.67 billion (US$994 million), including a rights issue and convertible bonds (CBs). The funds raised will go towards equipment upgrades...
DigiTimes | July 12, 2011 | Ninelu Tu, Adam Hwang
Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) on July 11 held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Taipei Information Park, an IT shopping mall project based on a BOT (build-operate-transfer) contract with the Taipei City ...
DigiTimes | July 12, 2011 | Chloe Yu, Adam Hwang
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on July 11 reported net profit of NT$4.278 billion (US$148 million) for June 2011, resulting in January-June net earnings per share (EPS) of NT$3.20.
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Bloomberg Bussinessweek | July 12, 2011 | Susan Decker, Tim Culpan
HTC Corp., Asia’s second-largest maker of smartphones, was accused of infringing Apple Inc. patents in a case that may halt U.S. imports of the Taiwanese company’s phones and its new Flyer...
Huawei | July 4, 2011 | Press Release
: Huawei, a leading telecom solutions provider, has inaugurated in Madrid last week, the Network Operations Center (NOC), a center dedicated to operate and manage telecommunication networks, and provide professional services to ...
Ericsson | July 6, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone Italy has selected Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) as partner to manage the field operations of Vodafone’s fixed and mobile access and transmission networks, as well as for fixed core network nodes.
As part of the five...
ZTE | July 4, 2011 | Press Release
4 July 2011, Shenzhen– ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has launched the ZXSDR BS8920, the...
Nokia Siemens Networks | July 6, 2011 | Press Release
Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy optical network for China Unicom
China Unicom subscribers can look forward to a ten-fold increase in their access data rates thanks to a faster information highway across the country....
Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility have sunk $24 million in funding into Santa Clara based mobile payment firm ViVOtech, along with Singapore's EDBI, Citi Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Draper Fisher Jurveston and SingTel Innov8.
ViVOtech an NFC software and systems firm with 70% market share has stated...
Facebook has ‘friended’ yet another Googler by hiring Tom Stocky, the Mountain View firm’s director of product management for search, client and infrastructure products.
“I work at Facebook, where I serve as a director of product,” Stocky announced on his newly updated online profile, though...
Cisco is planning to fire 7000 workers by the end of August, with an additional 3000 taking voluntary resignation according to Bloomberg News.
The massive cuts – representing around 14% of the firm’s entire workforce - follow Cisco’s catastrophic quarterly earnings, which saw the firm’s...
