People’s awareness of cloud services is high and intent to store one’s virtual goods in a digital locker is on the rise, according to a new survey by Silicon Valley-based cloud sync service Funambol.
With Forrester Research reporting that the personal cloud will be a...
Job figures in the telecommunications space remained steady in Silicon Valley last month, according to new statistics released by the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Preliminary figures showed telecommunication jobs for the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area at 5.9 thousand, marginally up from last month’s 5.8....
Telstra | August 8, 2011 | Press Release
Businesses in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will be the first to experience 4G/LTE mobile broadband after Telstra announced it would commence selling Australia’s first commercial LTE device later this month.
Telstra switched on its first 4G base stations,...
Alcatel-Lucent | August 8, 2011 | Press Release
Paris, August 8, 2011 - In compliance with current regulations, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has published its first half report to June 30, 2011. The report is available in the Investors &...
Silicon Valley took it’s knocks with the rest of the U.S’ financial markets Friday, with tech stocks sinking significantly as fears of a double dip recession increased.
Even the Valley’s giants, Apple and Google, took major hits to share prices, losing millions in just moments....
Google has found itsef under attack from all sides this week as rivals attempt to patent bash it and poke holes in its open mantra, but a new study has taken things a step further with a claim that “Android ranks as the most...
Reuters | August 4, 2011 | Georgina Prodhan
Nokia Siemens Networks has begun cutting 1,500 jobs from the 6,900 staff it acquired with its $1.2 billion acquisition of Motorola's telecoms network unit in April, a spokesman said on Thursday.
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Bloomberg | August 5, 2011 | Chiara Remondini
Telecom Italia SpA (TIT), Italy’s biggest phone company, climbed in Milan trading after reporting that second-quarter earnings advanced 4.9 percent as revenue rose in Brazil.
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Bloomberg | August 5, 2011 | Joseph Ciolli, Matthew Campbell
Alcatel-Lucent SA is giving potential buyers a chance to acquire its earnings for free with patents that may be worth as much as the company itself.
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Telstra | August 2, 2011 | Press Release
Organisations will be able to manage their smartphone fleet more easily, track multiple devices and update mobile security configurations through a new Telstra web service launched today.
Tim Webber, Director of Business Mobility, Telstra said the Telstra Mobile...
DigiTimes | August 5, 2011 | Chloe Yu, Adam Hwang
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has set a contract-bundled sales goal of 100,000 tablet PCs, including iPad 2, in the Taiwan market in 2011 but sold only nearly 20,000 units in the first half of the year.
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DigiTimes | August 5, 2011 | Steve Shen
HTC has announces consolidated revenues of NT$45.11 billion (US$1.56 billion) for July, up 83.29% on year, while total revenues from January to July 2011 were NT$273.67 billion, up 121.56% from a year earlier.
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DigiTimes | August 4, 2011 | Daniel Shen, Steve Shen
Both LG Electronics (LGE) and HTC plan to launch 3D handsets in the Taiwan market in August.
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Bloomberg | August 3, 2011 | Ketaki Gokhale
Bharti Airtel Ltd. (BHARTI), India’s largest wireless operator, reported profit fell for the sixth straight quarter on higher costs.
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Bloomberg | August 4, 2011 | Jun Yang
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile-phone operator, reported a 3.7 percent increase in second-quarter profit, helped by a higher number of smartphone users and sales from new businesses.
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iTnews | August 4, 2011 | James Hutchinson
The chief information officer of ANZ's financial management subsidiary has called on colleagues and security managers to focus on securing applications, rather than data, in a cloud environment.
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iTnews | August 4, 2011 | James Hutchinson
NBN Co has started an education campaign to curb potential opposition to new phone towers required in communities that will receive fixed wireless services.
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iTnews | August 3, 2011 | John Hilvert, James Hutchinson
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has slammed a coalition proposal to disband the National Broadband Network builder and form a new partially funded wholesaler out of Telstra's infrastructure arm, branding the plan "economic vandalism".
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BBC News | August 3, 2011
Nearly one in three adults in the UK now uses a smartphone, according to a report by the telecoms regulator Ofcom.
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BBC News | August 3, 2011
Nearly one in three adults in the UK now uses a smartphone, according to a report by the telecoms regulator Ofcom.
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Bloomberg | August 3, 2011 | Diana ben-Aaron
Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) is offering companies advertising with embedded tags that can be read by some mobile phones as it tries to gain a lead in the technology over rivals such as Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google...
Bloomberg | August 4, 2011 | Cornelius Rahn
Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE), Europe’s largest phone company, reported a 6.5 percent decline in second-quarter profit before some items as it ceded mobile-phone customers in the U.S. and recorded costs for early retirements in Germany.
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Reuters | August 3, 2011 | Paul Sandle
Teenage Britons are spending more and more time using smartphones to make calls, send texts and use social networking sites, and more than half of those that own the devices claim to be addicted to them, regulator...
Ericsson | August 4, 2011 | Press Release
Mobifone, one of Vietnam's leading mobile operators with 32 percent of the country's mobile communications market, has chosen an Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) solution for combined bandwidth and mobile broadband traffic optimization. Mobifone is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the...
