Reuters | August 23, 2011 | Clare Jim, Kelvin Soh
Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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iTnews | August 22, 2011 | Juha Saarinen
Vodafone's New Zealand subsidiary has confirmed plans to move all international capacity to submarine cable contender Pacific Fibre, replacing current arrangements with rival Southern Cross by 2014.
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DigiTimes | August 23, 2011 | Chloe Yu, Steve Shen
Taiwan Mobile (TWM) will start marketing its third own-brand smartphone, the Fantastic T3, in the Taiwan market on September 1 with a suggested retail price of NT$6,990 (US$241).
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DigiTimes | August 23, 2011 | Adam Hwang
Huawei Device, a China-based vendor and subsidiary of Huawei Technologies, and Taiwan mobile telecom carrier Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) on August 22 jointly unveiled IDEOS X1, the former's smartphone model, for launch in the Taiwan market later...
ZTE | August 18, 2011 | Press Release
18 August 2011, Shenzhen, China – 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, today announced it has established ZTE...
Ericsson | August 23, 2011 | Press Release
With so many customer-experience benefits, it is hard to imagine that there are any downsides to smartphones. And yet one common complaint relates to battery life. Ericsson software experts are at the forefront of reducing battery consumption,...
Alcatel-Lucent | August 23, 2011 | Press Release
Paris, August 23, 2011 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Zain Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA), a leading mobile operator in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to...
Times of India | August 22, 2011 | Shalini Singh
New Delhi: Close on the heels of PM Manmohan Singh's statement on Independence Day about streamlining and strengthening infrastructure regulators in India, the Department of Telecom(DoT) has informed Parliament that it is currently reviewing proposals for strengthening telecom regulator...
Times of India | August 22, 2011 | Manoj Mitta
NEW DELHI: Having burnt its fingers with 2G, the Department of Telecom ( DoT) is grappling with a policy anomaly that has arisen in 3G even after it had allotted that spectrum through the more transparent...
Telekom Austria | August 17, 2011 | Press Release
Vienna, 17 August 2011: Today, the Telekom Austria Group (VSE: TKA, OTC US: TKAGY) announced that the supervisory board of Telekom Austria Group has decided yesterday to extend the contract of Hans Tschuden for the period...
Investor's Business Daily | August 22, 2011
Source recently disclosed that China Unicom's iPhone 5 talk team with Apple Inc.(APPL) had come back to Beijing and that China Unicom would introduce iPhone 5 at some time.
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Khaleej Times | August 21, 2011
ABU DHABI - Etisalat on Saturday announced the launch of the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone in the UAE, making the telecom giant in line with the handset’s early launch date.
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Telecom NZ | August 19, 2011 | Press Release
Telecom New Zealand has today announced adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxation, Depreciation and Amortisation (EBITDA) of $1,801m for the year to 30 June 2011, an increase of 2.1% on the previous financial year, and above previous...
DigiTimes | August 22, 2011 | Han Lee, Adam Hwang
China Mobile, the largest mobile telecom carrier in China, brought in revenues of CNY250.080 billion (US$38.2 billion) for the first half of 2011, increasing 8.82% on year, according to the company.
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France Telecom - Orange | August 17, 2011 | Press Release
France Telecom announces having purchased treasury shares within the framework of its 2011 share buy back program.
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Bloomberg | August 21, 2011 | Tracy Withers
Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) agreed to a 10- year deal to take capacity on a new undersea fiber cable linking New Zealand, Australia and the U.S.
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Alcatel-Lucent | August 22, 2011 | Press Release
Paris, France – August 22, 2011 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has introduced a new set of services to proactively analyze the health and performance of telecommunications networks, identify potential problems and take appropriate actions...
International Business Times | August 19, 2011
A new rumour suggests Samsung might be taking the smartphone war to another level with the introduction of a 5.3-inch Android-based smartphone that may take its rivals by surprise.
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Bloomberg | August 19, 2011 | Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Ricadela
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) plans to keep supporting and updating the WebOS software it acquired in the $1.2 billion Palm Inc. acquisition, Senior Vice President Stephen DeWitt said in an interview.
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Business Insider | August 18, 2011 | Odysseas Papadimitirou
Already the standard in Europe, chip-and-pin credit cards prevent fraud at the point of sale by requiring that users enter a four-digit PIN number that must correspond to a microchip embedded within the card.
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Korea JoongAng Daily | August 19, 2011 | Lee Chul-ho
Last week, I related the story of Andy Rubin, the pioneer of the Android operating system for mobile devices, who is featured in Stephen Levy’s bestselling book “In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes...
Wall Street Journal | August 19, 2011 | R. Jai Krishna
NEW DELHI – A little-known, privately held company Friday launched a tablet computer for $99 in India, adding to competition in a market where local players are bringing in low-cost versions of the device...
Philippine Star | August 20, 2011
MANILA, Philippines - Nokia has announced that its entry-level touch-screen smartphone, the Nokia 500, will soon be available in the country.
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ZDNet | August 19, 2011 | Michael Lee
Kantar, which examines smartphone OS market share every 12 weeks, saw iOS first overtaken by Android during its recording period in May, when the platform's local market share dropped to 31.5 per cent and Android's increased to...
