2011

Last week we brought you news that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) had crashed, taking with it popular services like FourSquare and Reddit. Just a few hours later Sony’s Playstation Network (PSN) was taken offline in response to an “external intrusion”.

Although many heralded the arrival of Amazon.com Inc.’s Android Appstore as a boost to the Android ecosystem, and a victory for consumer choice, Apple Inc. congratulated Amazon.com in a rather different way – they sued them.

Business News Americas | April 21, 2011 Peruvian telecoms watchdog Osiptel has issued two resolutions to regulate the rate of fixed-to-mobile telephony calls, Osiptel said in a release. The regulator decided …

Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2011 | Taos Turner BUENOS AIRES –Argentina’s government increased its sway over dozens of companies through a presidential decree on Wednesday, a move that …

Bangkok Post | April 25, 2011 | Srisamorn Phoosuphanusorn True Move is seeking to restart talks with prospective foreign partners in another step to move ahead with its third-generation (3G) mobile …

Reuters | April 22, 2011 | Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) – KT Corp , South Korea’s top fixed-line and No.2 mobile company, is in talks to sell its Russian unit New Telephone …

Today, Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN) announced the company’s newest member to the TMS320C66x (C66x) generation of multi-core devices, the TMS320C6671 (C6671), in addition to architecture software updates to the company’s …

While the Amazon cloud crash affected big sites such as Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and Reddit last week, it hit home at smaller companies across the nation and in Austin and …

The Telegraph | April 22, 2011 Guwahati, April 22: Reliance Communications today announced the launch of its 3G services in 24 locations in the Northeast, making them the first operator …

The two founders of Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL) are suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), alleging that Goldman unfairly coaxed the company into selling off shares by saying that …

The Star | April 23, 2011 | Leong Hung Yee KUALA LUMPUR: Celcom Axiata Bhd expects high subsidy on smartphones will put a dent on its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation …

The Hindu | April 25, 2011 The Telecom Ministry has pulled up SingTel for violating ILD licence norms by acquiring and billing customers in India without a licence between 2005 …