Reuters | August 9, 2011 | Devidutta Tripathy
Reliance Communications, India's second-biggest mobile phone carrier by subscribers, on Tuesday said it has launched a tablet computer priced at 12,999 rupees ($288).
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Reuters | August 10, 2011 | Devidutta Tripathy
Samsung Electronics, which has been locked in a patent infringement battle with Apple Inc, on Wednesday said a German court order to temporarily bar its flagship Galaxy tablet in the European Union would not affect its launch...
Qualcomm’s executive vice president, Steve Mollenkopf, has said the mobile app space will change computing forever.
Speaking at an event marking the opening of Verizon Wireless’ Application Innovation Center in San Francisco Wednesday, Mollenkopf spoke of his firm’s “rich history of innovation” and collaboration with...
HTC will be investing $300 million in Beats Electronics, to incorporate the firm's digital sound technology into upcoming phones it was revealed this evening.The Taiwanese phone maker had told press earlier on Wednesday it would be making an announcement Thursday morning in Los Angeles,...
Indian mobile phone manufacturer Micromax said it is investing R$ 20 million (US $12.6 million) to begin selling its devices in Brazil. The expectation, according to Mauro Federici, Micromax's country manager in Brazil, is to reach 1 million units sold in the first year...
Indian mobile phone manufacturer Micromax said it is investing R$ 20 million (US $12.6 million) to begin selling its devices in Brazil. The expectation, according to Mauro Federici, Micromax's country manager in Brazil, is to reach 1 million units sold in the first year...
The Brazilian government's recent announcement to cut taxes (called Brazil Maior) in order to push forward some sectors may be the weapon needed to prevent the country from entering an international economic crisis, said Minister of Communications Paulo Bernardo, speaking at the ABTA Congress...
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...
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,...
RIM is preparing to unleash its BlackBerry Colt running a QNX operating system but without BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) in Q1 of 2012.According to Boy Genius Report, the 1Ghz Single core phone is about ready to bolt the BlackBerry coop, but not without...
Do you think your personal devices are more useful at work than those provided by your company? If you said yes, you fit in recent survey, “Consumerization of IT,” sponsored by Unisys Corp. and conducted by International Data Corp. (IDC). The study makes clear...
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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In a deal that is uniformly being labeled as a patent portfolio purchase, HTC Corp. has acquired Dashwire Inc. for $18.5 million. The Seattle-based company offers cloud services for operators, device makers and retailers with support for BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile.HTC said...
Sprint Nextel Corp. has teamed up with Samsung Telecommunications America to offer consumers a sub $100 Android phone running on Sprint Nextel's WiMAX version of 4G.The Samsung Conquer 4G boasts some fairly decent specs for its price, including Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), a 1GHz processor,...
Intel Corp. aims to play in wireless and device markets, introducing digital signage and machine-to-machine solutions. “We are working with some players to validate our chips to tablets and smartphones,” said Carlos Kokron, Intel’s Latin America’s director of carriers business, in an interview with...
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...
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...
Google Inc. (GOOG) is fighting back in a war of words over its patent position. There's a side effect of Android's success, David Drummond, the company's chief legal officer and SVP lamented in a blog post.
"Android and other platforms are competing hard against each...
The governments of Mexico and Colombia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for Cooperation on Telecommunications and Information Technology that cover actions both countries are taking to prevent illegal trade in stolen phones.
At the meeting in advance of the pact, Colombian ICT Minister Diego Molano Vega and his...
