2011

At today’s big Nokia / Microsoft announcement, Nokia’s ballsy new CEO Stephen Elop dished some details about the Finnish phone maker’s plans with regard to the OS future handsets will be running. Obviously, Window Phone 7 featured heavily, however more interesting were the plans for Nokia’s own platforms.

QuePasa | February 10, 2011 | Press Release WEST PALM BEACH, FL–(Marketwire – February 10, 2011) – Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex:QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social network and …

Business News Americas | February 10, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Luxembourg-based mobile operator Millicom International Cellular (Nasdaq: MICC) has forecast capex of US$800mn for 2011, which does not include potential investments …

Telefonica | February 10, 2011 | Press Release Telefonica announced today that it has launched a developer community, BlueVia, which will operate across Telefonica’s global footprint. BlueVia will build upon the …

BBC | February 9, 2011 Cuba has welcomed the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela as a blow to the US economic embargo. The cable will …

The Jakarta Post | February 9, 2011 | Esther Samboh Indosat, the nation’s second largest telecommunications company, is considering spinning off its CDMA (code division multiple access) unit, StarOne, to …

Wall Street Journal | February 10, 2011 | Gaurav Raghuvanshi SINGAPORE—Higher revenue in its core markets of Singapore and Australia led Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. to post a small but better-than-expected increase …

Wall Street Journal | February 8, 2011 | Matt Jarzemsky International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE, SSNHY) have agreed to license their respective patent portfolios to …

Korea JoongAng Daily | February 10, 2011 | Kim Hyung-eun SK Telecom announced yesterday that it joined forces with two Japanese wireless operators to conduct a field test today on …

Bloomberg | February 10, 2011 | Robert Fenner and Chan Sue Ling Telstra Corp., Australia’s largest phone company, posted earnings that missed estimates as it accelerated spending to win back …

Norwegian software firm Opera has announced it has pushed past the 100 million mark in terms of mobile users.

While the Internet is rife with rumor surrounding what embattled Nokia Corp. plans to do next, cross platform app store GetJar has thrown its hat in the ring with the opinion Nokia should go Android and not Windows Phone 7.

I did it again. I bought another iPhone. This time it’s the same iPhone that I already own. Less exciting. Nothing new. Just the same old iPhone 4, but this time with Verizon Wireless. Instead of waiting in line for maybe 10 grueling hours to get my hands on Verizon’s iPhone 4 today, I decided that having it in my hands before Mobile World Congress wasn’t worth it, so I pre-ordered online.

As you may (or may not) have heard, the United Kingdom has recently seen a series of protests aimed at reversing the government’s controversial spending cuts, which have lopped a massive £7 billion from the budget of public services across the country.