Vodafone announced an agreement to bundle Microsoft's online services with its fixed and mobile voice and data services for businesses. The services hosted by Microsoft and available on a subscription basis include Microsoft Exchange Online for e-mail and calendars, Microsoft SharePoint....
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Swedish group Ikea will launch fixed, mobile telephony and internet services on the Spanish market in the coming weeks. The services will be launched in partnership with Telefonica, British Telecom and Vodafone, local newspaper El Economista reports. Leveraging Vodafone Spain's....
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The E-Plus Group, Ericsson and the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will launch their mobile broadband pilot using digital dividend frequencies on 1 March. From that date, 50 selected businesses and residential customers around Grabowhoefe will be able to access internet....
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Communications market research firm Infonetics Research released the fourth quarter edition of its WiMAX report this week, noting that the overall WiMAX equipment and device market held steady in 4Q08 over 3Q08 at $275 million, as the 802.16e mobile WiMAX segment increased....
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Deutsche Telekom has reported a surprise fourth-quarter loss on an impairment charge and shaken up its management team to focus on regions as opposed to industry segments. The company reported a loss of €730 million (US$920 million), compared to a loss of €750 million a year....
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Due to its recent agreement with Nokia, Qualcomm is likely to solidify its lead in the global market for mobile-handset baseband semiconductors, according to iSuppli Corp. Based on iSuppli’s preliminary estimate, Qualcomm in the fourth quarter accounted for 40.6 percent....
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Credit card merchant, Visa is being sued by a small US firm for allegedly infringing a patent which covers the use of SMS to alert spenders of transactions. Charge Notification Services Corporation is a relatively young company in Miami, Florida, that offers information processing services....
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Ericsson says that it has been chosen by the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) to help establish a city-wide, high-speed broadband network. The first phase of the ‘Joburg Broadband Network Project’ (JBNP), the rolling out of the network’s fibre core, which will take around three years to....
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Ericsson has issued an update on its Sept 2007 contract win from India's BSNL - and says it achieved the country's biggest simultaneous launch of 3G services to date, across 11 major cities. As part of its roll-out strategy, BSNL plans to launch 3G services using WCDMA/HSPA technology....
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Anadigics, a provider of semiconductors for the broadband wireless and wireline markets, has reported fourth quarter 2008 net sales of US$45.2 million, a decrease of 22% sequentially and a decrease of 33% from the fourth quarter of 2007. Revenue for the year ended 2008 was....
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Professor Malcolm Sim, a researcher at Australia's Monash University has joined a major new international study into mobile phone use and brain cancer risk in young people. Professor Sim, based at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, said the study would assess any potential brain cancer....
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The Strategy Analytics report,MWC 2009: Touchscreens Take Center Stage for User Experience, highlights the five top devices which provide the most compelling user experience showcased at Mobile World Congress, as determined by analysts from the Strategy Analytics Wireless....
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MTN Sudan has inaugurated a new Mobile Switching Center (MSC) that will serve MTN’s network in the Southern Sudan region. The network currently covers five cities in the region and is expanding its network to five more this year.Chief Executive Officer for MTN Sudan, Mr. Hassan....
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Singapore - Nokia today announced that its Comes With Music service is now live in Singapore, making it the first market in Asia where it will be available, after the service was launched in the United Kingdom last October. Local music lovers will now be able to enjoy unlimited downloads....
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Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. announced today that the LG Versa will be available on the nation's largest and most reliable wireless voice and data network beginning March 1. With its elegant chrome border on a bar design, animated 3-inch touch....
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Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile version of Firefox, is coming in for a final release. WMExperts has learned that the browser will simply be titled Firefox. Fennec is reportedly just a codename and will retain the desktop version.That is not the only thing that will be borrowed from the PC....
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According to surveys conducted by ABI Research in 2007 and 2008, 70% of respondents who used their mobile phones to access the Internet sought information through mobile search engines last year. That represents a substantial 14% increase over 2007. The consumption....
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Mobile phones are taking centre stage in the lives of Japanese teenagers, who often send or receive dozens of emails a day while eating, attending school or even taking a bath, according to survey.Around 46 percent of middle school students aged 13 to 14 and 96 percent of high....
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GeoTEXT is quick and easy to set up, taking about 2 minutes from subscribing to sending the first SMS. Set up is free and users only pay for the SMS they send, buying messages by the “bundle”. The system can manage unlimited groups of mobile numbers, import numbers and details....
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Having seen monthly gains averaging 8.9m in the first six months of 2008, the Chinese market did not manage to post a figure above 7.9m in the second six months of the year. This was because of the impact of Unicom’s sale of its CDMA network: in July-September, Unicom saw monthly....
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A new trade body has been formed in the USA to promote mobile broadband services in rural areas - just as the government is looking at boosting the same through its economic stimulus package. The agencies involved are the National Telecommunications and Infrastructure Administration....
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Turkish telco, Turkcell has reported that its full year revenues increased by 10.1% to US$7 billion due to higher usage, subscriber growth, tariff increases and the positive contribution of the consolidated subsidiaries. Net income grew to US$1.8 billion, up by 36.0% on an annual basisHowever....
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First responders could boost their radio communications quickly at a disaster site by setting out just four extra transmitters in a random arrangement to significantly increase the signal power at the receiver, according to theoretical analyses, simulations and proof-of-concept experiments....
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Debt ratings agency, Fitch Ratings says in a new report, that notwithstanding the impact of the current recessionary environment, the overall Outlook for the Asia Pacific telecoms industry is Stable, and most operators are well-placed to defend their credit profiles. The report explores....
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The increasing globalization of business has caused enterprises to seek new ways to improve the productivity and efficiency of their workforce while performing multiple tasks (either at their desks or on-the-go). This has placed the spotlight on unified messaging (UM), the technology....
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