Articles on Telecom

StarHub offers IP services for a flat world - Aug 10, 2007

Features A billion people all connecting online through Singapore. That is the vision of telecommunications company StarHub in a city-state with a domestic population of just over four million. Read story »

Cisco sues Apple over use of iPhone trademark - Jan 11, 2007

Features The company claims Apple used a front company to obtain the rights to the iPhone name for its newly launched iPod cell phone. Read story »

Clearer picture for IPTV tech? - Jun 19, 2007

Features Microsoft has tuned up its software for service providers, but consumers shouldn't expect much in the near future. Read story »

Selecting a phone that matches your needs, personal or business - Feb 5, 2007

Features Confused by all the choices available? We help you prioritize your needs to pick the best phone. Read story »

Wireless demystified - Apr 21, 2003

Features Always wanted to know what EDGE is but too scared to ask? What about 3G and WLAN? We decipher the rapidly thickening alphabet soup of mobile technology. Read story »

Google does not keep information nearly as long as Hong Kong telecoms - May 25, 2007

Blogs In the FT today, there is an article about European data protection officers asking Google to clarify why it keeps personal data gatehred from its users for as long as two ... Read story »

And the survey says: Taiwan is a 3rd-world country! - Feb 4, 2008

Blogs The Institute for Information Industry, which besides having a grammatically challenged name, is apparently a Taiwan government department that does something... commissioning surveys and not much else. A branch of this ... Read story »

Comba bets on China WiMax in uncertain 3G future - May 14, 2007

Blogs The Standard today interviews Tony Fok, the Hong Kong-based CEO of Guangdong-based Comba. We learn that Comba is interested in selling WiMax technology to China telecoms because of the uncertainty surrounding ... Read story »

Private telecoms party - Jan 31, 2007

Blogs Was at a luncheon called "Telecommunications and Media--Trends and Prospects for the Telecommunications Industry in Taiwan". This was hosted by the European Chamber of Commerce here. While it sounds like a ... Read story »

iPhone 3G gets priced in Japan - Jun 24, 2008

Crave According to a Reuters report, the 8GB iPhone 3G will cost 23,040 yen (US$213), while the higher-capacity 16GB model will retail for 34,560 yen (US$319). Subscribers will need to sign a ... Read story »

Or does the dog have legs? - Feb 14, 2007

Blogs Was chatting over drinks with a highly placed telecoms executive friend and a consumer or two last night. We were talking about this whole WiFly (Taipei-centered Wi-Fi company) concept and what ... Read story »

Giving good headset - Jan 28, 2007

Blogs %IMAGE=baby_g.jpg% While I currently rock the nanoscopic Nokia BH-800, I'm always on the lookout for new, non-dorky mobile headsets. Likewise I'm stuck in a vicious cycle of continuous headphone upgrading (Grado's, ... Read story »

Quick roundup of Korean mobile TV landscape - Oct 9, 2007

Blogs Ride on the Seoul metro or take a bus around the city's streets and you will see passengers gazing at their mobile phones with rapt attention, earplugs firmly in place. They ... Read story »

"3 Hong Kong" confirmed carrier for 3G iPhone in Hong Kong & Macau - May 29, 2008

Blogs Following my last post on Newsbreak--3G iPhone launch date confirmed, Hutchison Telecom, better known for its trade name "3 Hong Kong", announced today that it has signed an agreement with Apple ... Read story »

Indonesia's CDMA subscribers surpass 10 million - Jun 3, 2007

Blogs Over four years ago, CDMA2000 1x was still considered a new kid on the block in Indonesia's telecommunications market due to the high number of GSM subscribers at the time. Today, ... Read story »

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