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India Telecom news
13th of September to 12th of October 2007 Vodafone to connect all West Bengal villages by 2009 Vodafone Essar East would connect all villages in West Bengal by 2009, a top company official said. Vodafone to set up its foundation in India Vodafone Group...
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Google in talks with Verizon Wireless
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is in active talks with number-two U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless about putting Google applications on phones it offers, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. "There are good useful talks going...
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Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news
November 15th to November 22nd 2007 AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST: Mobile TeleSystems considering investment options in MEA region AFRICA: Etisalat looking at Africa as next investment destination PT to sell minority stake in Africa holding CAMEROON: MTN Cameroon...
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Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors for 3Q07
Nokia and Samsung Continue Gains as Mobile Phone Volume Rises 13.8%, According to IDC FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The worldwide mobile phone market grew at a healthy pace during the third quarter of 2007 with vendors shipping a total of 289.1...
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India Telecom news
6th of September to 13th of September 2007 Vodafone to Invest $1.8 Billion in Indian Network Expansion British mobile phone giant, Vodafone Group, is set to spend approximately US$1.8 billion to expand its wireless networks in India Juniper to invest...
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iPhone unlocked
A group of anonymous software developers called iPhoneSIMFree team ( http://www.iphonesimfree.com/) said they will soon start selling a program that will allow iPhone owners to use the hugely popular device on cell phone systems around the world and not...
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Top 100 Chinese electronics companies
Company Net revenue (US$ millions) Gross margin (US$ millions) Net income (US$ millions) Net income as % of revenue 1 Legend Holdings (Lenovo) 17,819.4 52.0 -122.2 -0.7% 2 Haier Group 13,852.6 192.7 -132.2 -1.0% 3 Huawei Technologies 8,448.9 530.4 -423.4...
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Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news
6th of September to 13th of September 2007 AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST: MTC commences re-branding of operations AFRICA: Celtel International elects Simon Cairns as chairman of board BAHRAIN: Zain Bahrain’s WiMAX network enters final phase of deployment BENIN:...
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WiMax Blooms in Paris
Paris will have two competing WiMax networks by the end of this year, after Bolloré Telecom announced plans for a pilot network in the French capital. The recent WiMax moves make Paris a hotbed of wireless broadband activity in Europe. (See AlcaLu Deploys...
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Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news
September 4th to September 11th 2008 AFRICA: Essar eyes telecom investment in Africa BURKINO FASO: Must try harder says Regulator EGYPT: Mobinil introduces 3G service OT buys back 587,530 GDRs; in acquisition talks with Telekom Austria Second fixed-line...
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Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news
May 8th to May 15th 2008 AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST: MEA firms join to build Europe India Gateway Vodafone for iPhone in three major markets BAHRAIN: Batelco considers other regions for acquisitions Six firms interested in third mobile licence BURKINO FASO:...
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Symbian S60 running with a touch interface
Today at the Symbian Smartphone Show Nokia showed S60 running with a touch interface. The touch interface will support both finger and stylus input, has full multi lingual support, has support for tactile feedback (haptics) and is backwardly compatible...
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IBM and Second Life to build 3D internet
IBM and Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, say they’ll work together and with others to allow avatars to move easily from one virtual world to another. Avatars are the graphical personae of people in virtual worlds, universes that exist...
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Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news
16th of August to 23rd of August 2007 ALGERIA: LACOM plans to close Algerian operations Portugal Telecom shows interest in Algerie Telecom stake BAHRAIN: Batelco trade union organises for higher wages TRA director proposes adoption of number portability...
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Microsoft Excel 2007 needs Maths lessons
Microsoft Excel Calculation Issue Yesterday msdn blog team was alerted to an issue in Excel 2007 (and Excel Services 2007) involving calculation of numbers around 65,535. The Excel team would like to provide a description of the issue and explain what...
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Orange/Nokia to Collaborate on services
Orange and Nokia to form strategic international partnership on mobile services May 22, 2008 Co-operation in the areas of music, mobile gaming, maps, advertising and location based services Paris, France and Espoo, Finland - Orange and Nokia today announced...
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SkyFire Announces New Mobile Browser
Skyfire unveils downloadable mobile browser that delivers the PC Web experience on your phone Skyfire features full Ajax and Flash to bring the “real Web” to smartphones – users can now experience sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Last.fm at record speeds...
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Microsoft Extends Sales Availability of XP
Responding to feedback from its customers, the company decides to give small businesses and customers in emerging markets more time and flexibility to test and prepare for the operating system upgrade. REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 27, 2007 – In an effort to...
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Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news
February 21st to February 28th 2008 AFRICA: Vodacom in acquisition talks with LAP Green BAHRAIN: Government plans sale of Batelco shares Zainalabedin appointed as new Zain Bahrain CCO EGYPT: NTRA to auction second fixed-line licence on 19 June 2008 Orascom...
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Chinese Telecom Weekly news
January 12th 2007 to January 19th 2008 Jan 18 Intel aiming to almost double notebook CPU shipments by 2011 Fitel to initially purchase 88 WiMAX base stations from Motorola Orise and Sitronix share prices see sharp correction on sluggish handset and small-size...
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Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news
December 20th to December 27th 2007 AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST: VSNL intends USD 250 million TGN-Eurasia cable system DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Tellumat to supply GSM community payphones to Vodacom GHANA: Ghana Telecom to repay Alcatel-Lucent’s EUR 34 million...
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Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news
12th of July to 19th of July 2007 AFRICA: MTL and TDM collaborate to enhance cross-border telecommunication BAHRAIN: Batelco posts improved 1H 2007 results EGYPT: Vodafone Egypt ties up with Visto to enhance mobile email service GHANA: GLU urges Diasporan...
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10 Japanese automakers to develop an OS
The Yomiuri Shimbun The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry will start developing jointly with 10 automakers an operating system for automotive electronics, it has been learned. The decision will be announced this week, a ministry source said. European...
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Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news
20th of September to 27th of September 2007 AFRICA: Hits confident it can turn Libercell MTC postpones plans to re-brand Celtel ALGERIA: Nedjma rolls out new Internet service BENIN: MTN gets 30 days to pay 50 percent licence fee GHANA: MTN working to...
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Shift in Motorola Strategy
By BLOOMBERG NEWS Published: September 8, 2007 They had no new products to unveil at the company’s annual analyst meeting in New York, but promised some announcements next month. On the defensive after a year of turmoil and subpar sales, Motorola’s leaders...