Asia powers home with fiber deployment
Region continues to surpass Europe and North America in adoption of fiber-to-the home, with Asian economies in top four positions of global rankings.
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SMBs in S'pore, India to spend US$1B on Net
Growth is driven by Singapore's need to support increasingly mobile workforce and India's intensifying dependence on the Internet, study finds.
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Brocade to acquire Foundry Networks
Brocade makes bid to be a leading enterprise storage and networking provider.
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EC cool on data-roaming regulation
The European Commission's director general of telecoms says data usage should be easier for roaming consumers to measure, but says data-roaming price caps "should be avoided".
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China to issue 3G licenses
China plans to issue 3G mobile licenses and certificates after the reorganization of its six big telcos.
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Nokia sees boost in handset sales
The Finnish mobile-phone maker beat analysts' expectation for second-quarter earnings, increasing its market share to about 40 percent.
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Motorola sues iPhone sales executive over trade secrets
Michael Fenger, a former Motorola executive now working at Apple, has been sued by his former employer for allegedly revealing trade secrets to Apple.
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Sony Ericsson to cut 2,000 jobs as profits tumble
Gartner fears the company's management has "given up" for the remainder of the year, after the handset maker barely broke even in the second quarter.
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NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
The market for contactless mobile payments using near field communications (NFC) is set to reach a tipping point over the next three to five years, according to a new report by Juniper Research.
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BT rolls out a massive fiber network
The telecom giant announced a network investment expected to connect as many as 10 million homes to the superfast broadband service by 2012.
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Why Korea's SK Telecom wants Sprint
news analysis With its home market nearly saturated, Korea's No. 1 mobile-phone operator seeks an acquisition to become a big player in the lucrative United States.
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Mobile to drive 3.8B voice connections
New study shows mobile will account for 83 percent of voice market in Asia, boosting connections from 2.2 billion this year to 3.8 billion by 2017.
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iPhone manufacturing costs down from last year
iSuppli estimates that Apple cut more than US$50 from manufacturing costs per unit since the phone made its debut last year.
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EC to cap text-roaming costs
Operators gave mixed reactions to the move, which is likely to be formalized in October, possibly along with restrictions on data-roaming prices
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WiMax wait for Centrino 2 users outside US
Intel says it will launch its integrated WiMax module for the Centrino 2 soon, but for now, the platform will support only 2.5GHz deployments.
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BlackBerry PDF flaw threatens corporate networks
A flaw in how BlackBerry Enterprise Server opens PDF attachments could be exploited to compromise corporate networks, RIM has warned.
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Users want mobile video, for free
Freely available video is among the top three applications desired by mobile phone users, reveals Ovum survey.
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The 15-petabyte network and the atom smasher
Work being done to prep CERN's Large Hadron Collider for operation is paving the way for future lightning-speed networks.
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Malaysian 'resort' town gets mesh Wi-Fi
Residents of Bandar Sunway can now access over 100 Wi-Fi hotspots in six major areas, spanning some 70 percent of the Malaysian town.
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Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
Brits are still not satisfied with broadband speeds and with good reason, since actual line speeds are still on average 50 percent less than the headline speeds advertised.
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