BARCELONA, Spain—The world’s largest operators, handset makers, infrastructure providers and chip makers used the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to show off their latest wares and discuss industry trends. This year, the 60,000 or so attendees seemed focused on cross …
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Google Inc. may finally be nearing its Microsoft Corp. moment — at least in terms of government interest and intrusion.Other deals for acquired companies have run up against regulatory hurdles in the past, but this time around it could be …
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Movers & Shakers: Facebook hires Google VP; Maxcom announces new CEO; and more
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaAppia, open app marketplace, announces that it has launched its global expansion plans with the hiring of three new Sales Executives in key international markets. Juan Carlos Belair will oversee sales in Latin America (LATAM), with Sid Mahajan heading up …
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Just last week we brought you word that a company had developed a software solution to allow Android apps to run on MeeGo devices, now it appears similar forces are at work in the world of Blackberry. Several revelations in …
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Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in RCR Wireless News’ January Special Edition: “Unwrapping the Opportunities, the next generation of smart devices. To see all of the articles from that issue, click here.Every year we sit back and marvel at …
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Monday mornings are hard at the best of times. Imagine how much tougher they’d be if you were to wake up and discover that all your emails were gone. Well if you’re amongst the 0.8% of GMail users that this …
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Have you ever wondered what you would look like as an android? Wonder no more! Because Google is holding up a magic green mirror, giving us possibly the most useful app for Android so far: Androidify.
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Bits & Bytes: Huawei releases open letter, Google launches Cloud Connect; and more
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaCarlson Wireless announced the launch of LongHaul ST, the next generation of wireless microwave connectivity for multiple Applications.The LongHaul ST is the newest product series to be added to CWT’s lineup of wireless microwave connectivity solutions. The ST was designed …
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It’s an irrefutable fact that there’s nothing more crowd-pleasing on the internet than mashing up otherwise mundane numbers into swanky visualisations. Be it infographics, flowcharts, or, in this case, videos, you’re bound to attract eyeballs if you can turn boring …
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The Washington Post | February 22, 2011 | Joe McDonald BEIJING — China’s main government news agency launched an Internet search site Tuesday, giving its own sanitized view of the Web following Google’s closure of its China-based search engine last …
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The Washington Post | February 22, 2011 | Joe McDonald BEIJING — China’s main government news agency launched an Internet search site Tuesday, giving its own sanitized view of the Web following Google’s closure of its China-based search engine last …
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New York Times | February 22, 2011 | Miguel Helft The fight for talent between Google and Facebook — or more precisely, the flow of Google employees to Facebook — is not just a Silicon Valley affair. Facebook has hired Alexandre Hohagen, the …
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It wasn’t 3D stealing the show at this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, but near field communication (NFC), a technology thought to settle, once and for all, the “mobile wallet” and “mobile payment” discussion.
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How embarrassing for poor old Microsoft. First they were late to the whole smartphone party, and now Windows Phone 7’s first firmware update since the OS’s launch has obviously gone awry, as users of Samsung’s Omnia 7 have been taking …
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Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. The tablet market is exploding, ignited by Apple Inc.’s iPad …
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It looks as though all that whining may have finally paid off. In a tweet sent out by the @GoogleNexus twitter account, the big G announced to thunderous applause “Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3) update now rolling out to Nexus S and …
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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 insights into the marketplace. In meteorology, clouds on the horizon may portend stormy weather. But in …
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It would seem that digital publishing, the messiah many publishing houses have been pinning their hopes on to stem the losses paper magazines are making, is finally taking off.
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BARCELONA, Spain — In most respects, the dream and even idea of walking by a shop and getting bombarded by mobile advertising is dead. That kind of advertising is spam, no matter how you slice it.The onus on the mobile …
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Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.What a week for revolutions: Egypt has changed from a dictatorship …
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BARCELONA, Spain – HTC Corp. used the global stage here at Mobile World Congress to announce three updated versions of existing smart phones, two new devices targeting the social media savvy and its first tablet.The HTC Flyer, which marks the …
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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 insights into the marketplace.Sprint Nextel Corp. reported earnings last week, and it looks like the four …
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We don’t know what they’re drinking over there at the Google Inc. campus, but the search giant has been acting very amorously in the last few days.
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There’s been a lot of cool stuff shown off at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, over the last couple of days. At this year’s event we’ve seen dual-core smart phones, 3D displays, and caught peeks at the …
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BARCELONA, Spain – Step aside Apple Inc.(AAPL), Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. claims to have the world’s thinnest smart phone on the way.As the weekend came to a close, Samsung held a standing-room only event where it announced the Galaxy S …