Monthly Archives: May, 2011

Foxconn's Bottomline Unfazed by Recent Mishap

CNBC | May 25, 2011

Exclusive: Yahoo, Alibaba reach deal over Alipay

Reuters | May 31, 2011 | Nadia Damouni and Jennifer Saba (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has resolved a dispute with Alibaba Group over the Chinese company's...

Clinical Trial Of Mobile Health Monitoring Solution Starts In Singapore

Medical News Today | May 30, 2011 HP, SingTel, HealthSTATS and Frontier Healthcare Group today announced an 8-week clinical trial of a mobile health monitoring...

No strings on Thaicom 6

Bangkok Post | May 31, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana Thaicom Plc, the country's sole private satellite operator, has unconditionally decided to build a sixth satellite despite...

Texas governor vetoes tax bill for Internet sales

Texas Gov. Rick Perry killed his first bill of the year, which would have taxed retailers conducting online business in Texas, citing that the...

Interspire grows e-commerce platform, Austin workforce

E-commerce software firm Insterpire plans to expand its footprint in its Austin, Texas office from around 40 employees to 70 workers by the end...

FCC request could open new possibilities in AT&T/T-Mobile USA deal

I know we are still at least six months away from a likely decision, but the Federal Communications Commission’s request last week for more information from AT&T and Deutsche Telekom in regards to the $39 billion sale of T-Mobile USA does seem to add some tension to the proceedings.

Buttons ahoy! Twitter launches “Follow”, Google’s +1 likely coming tomorrow

A recent phenomenon of the social web - aside from your parents commenting on drunk pictures of you on Facebook - is the smattering of buttons now adorning every website, from Justin Bieber fansites to CNN. These buttons allow you to share the information on the page with your friends or followers on the likes on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or any number of link aggregators.

Genband employees celebrate Nortel buy with community service

If you are a Genband employee, you have tomorrow off. Jealous? You should be, but not because Genband employees are spending the day lounging...

Apple pre-announces WWDC keynote topics, pigs fly

In an odd move for a company usually so laser-focused on 100% secrecy, Apple today issued a press release to tell the world that Steve Jobs would be announcing a slew of new products at the firm's upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event next week in San Francisco.

Nokia stock hits 13-year low, forecasts cut 'substantially'

Nokia Corp.'s (NOK) stock hit a 13-year low today after the Finnish handset maker "substantially" cut its forecasts for devices and services in the...

FCC asks AT&T, DT for more details on planned deal

The Federal Communications Commission late last week requested additional information from AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG in regards to AT&T's pending $39 billion...

Contracts: Alcatel-Lucent adds Microsoft CRM; ZTE with Ncell; and more

Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: Alcatel-Lucent Africa: With Microsoft to extend customer management solution to include Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The...

RCR Wireless News on the ground at Uplinq

RCR Wireless News will be attending this week's Uplinq Conference in sunny San Diego. The two-day event is expected to give Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM)...

Apple confirms iOS 5, Lion, and iCloud to arrive next week

Apple Inc. (AAPL) announced today that it will reveal a sneak peek of the next generation of mobile device and Mac operating systems,...

Rogers calls for 'fair' 700 MHz Canadian auction

The Canadian governments plans to auction off 700 MHz spectrum is beginning to draw comments from industry players looking to ensure that their interests...

Ericsson Innovation Labs links developers, operators and technology

DALLAS – L.M. Ericsson's (ERIC) Connections initiative aims to link third-party groups with Ericsson's expertise in 3G and 4G technologies to show operators the...

Mavenir Systems acquires Airwide Solutions, get $40M in new funding

Dallas-based Mavenir Systems announced it will extend the company's 4G and LTE mobile infrastructure solutions by acquiring privately owned Airwide Solutions, a company specializing...

Reality Check: Finding a voice for 4G wireless

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their...

Twitter to launch photo hosting service?

While all manner of cool new hardware is shown off in Taipei at Computex 2011, the Silicon Valley rumour mill keeps churning. This week's choice titbit is that eponymous social network Twitter is due to launch its own photo upload and sharing service imminently, potentially when CEO Dick Costolo takes the stage at the D9 conference on Wednesday.

Computex 2011: Taiwanese Bon Jovi iPad cover band

Journalists at ARM's Computex press conference were in for a musical treat on Monday, in the form of a Taiwanese boy band using iPads as instruments.

Computex 2011: Tegra 3 not quite panning out as hoped

Taipei, Taiwan - Rumor on the showfloor has it that while Nvidia's Tegra 2 virtually cleared up in terms of design wins, Tegra 3 might not have the same luck.

Review: Save the world with Robotek!

Ah - the old "robots have taken over the world!" plot. Not especially original, but it has provided us with some good material over...

Computex 2011: Qualcomm confuses journalists with MeeGo logo

Qualcomm managed to confuse and confuddle press at its Computex briefing on Monday, as the firm displayed slides showing MeeGo logos alongside other “supported OSes”.
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