2011

It would seem you can’t escape fanboyism in even the most lofty corridors of power. It has been revealed by a former British MP that he nominated Apple’s eponymous CEO for the title, but the request was shot down by then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown as payback for Jobs snubbing an invitation to speak at Brown’s Labour Party conference.

Live PR | February 27, 2011 | Press Release Communications Test Design, Inc. : (CTDI), the world´s largest independent communications repair and logistics provider, today announced a joint venture, CTDI do …

Business News Americas | February 25, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás Latin America continued to boost Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica’s (NYSE: TEF) revenues in 2010, company chairman César Alierta said during …

Business News Americas | February 28, 2011 | Josh Miller Along with other areas of Brazil’s government, the communications ministry (Minicom) will see its 2011 budget suffer cuts, but the …

Fujitsu | February 25, 2011 | Press Release DTT solution for Latin America market with best cost/performance ratio Singapore, February 25, 2011 — Fujitsu Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd (FSAL) announces the …

Fujitsu | February 28, 2011 | Press Release First region outside Japan to roll out standardized cloud platform Tokyo, February 28, 2011 — Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT business solutions …

The Australian | February 28, 2011 | Ian Grayson Optus chief executive Paul O’Sullivan said tenders for operation of the giant fibre network should be issued on a state-by-state basis …

TeleGeography | February 28, 2011 Pacnet, which was formed from the operational merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet and which describes itself as Asia’s leading independent telecommunications service provider, …

Harris Corporation | February 28, 2011 | Press Release MELBOURNE, FL/ROCHESTER, NY, February 28, 2011 — Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has received $14 million …

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. appears ready to try just about anything to break into the U.S. market in a more meaningful way. While the company sits very much in the …

Korea IT Times | February 25, 2011 SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced today that SK China has established a KRW 19-billion joint venture called “SKMtek” in partnership with MtekVision, Korea’s leading …

BBC News | February 25, 2011 Business networking site LinkedIn says access to its services appears to have been restored in China, a day after it was blocked there. “We …

Bangkok Post | February 28, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo of Japan are expressing an interest in proposing business models to carry Advanced Info Service’s mobile …

News reaches us this afternoon of a small legal storm brewing in Europe between Japanese electronics giant Sony and even-more-giant Korean rival LG, centred around Sony’s apparent use of patented Blu-Ray playback technology inside the Playstation 3.

Intel believes it knows what developers are –and are not – looking for in mobile platforms and plans to use the knowledge to win them over as part of its long term MeeGo strategy.