Articles on Telecom

SLOW Internet speed across Asia - Aug 18, 2009

Blogs Following the hit of Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan last week, certain Asian countries have been experiencing very slow Internet speeds even as we go into the second week after the disaster.  ... Read story »

Philippine Senate investigates cellphone billing system - Jun 3, 2009

Blogs The Philippines is a prepaid mobile phone service dominated country. Almost 90% of our mobile users here are prepaid users. Although telecommunication providers are offering prepaid credits at 100, 300, and ... Read story »

Tracking the iPhone 3GS in Asia - Jul 9, 2009

Crave The iPhone 3GS became available in the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on June 19. That's two days after the official release of the 3.0 software ... Read story »

Testing five VPNs that'll get you back on YouTube, Facebook in China - Nov 11, 2009

Blogs Living and working in China may bring many cultural pleasures, but trying to use the Internet here is a daily headache. It's not just nearly every English-language social-networking and video-sharing site ... Read story »

Panasonic and NEC announce new open source LiMo phones - Aug 12, 2009

Crave Panasonic and NEC announced nine new cell phones on Tuesday that use the open-source, Linux-based mobile operating system called LiMo. As the mobile phone market evolves, software is becoming more crucial ... Read story »

Is Sony planning a PSP phone? - Jun 29, 2009

Crave The newest version of Sony's PlayStation Portable isn't even on sale yet, but the company is already looking ahead to what's next, according to Reuters. The electronics giant is looking into ... Read story »

CAT & TOT launch pre-emptive strike - Dec 1, 2009

Blogs Feeling the pressure from the oncoming 3G auctions, TOT and CAT, Thailand's current wireless concessions holders, have joined forces. AIS, DTAC and TrueMove are licensing TOT and CAT concessions and are ... Read story »

Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement - Oct 23, 2009

Crave Nokia is suing Apple for infringing on its patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN standards. In a press release, the Finland-based company said "10 patents… are infringed by all Apple ... Read story »

Knock, knock--brand new Web site for the Indian Army - Nov 10, 2009

Blogs Looks like the Indian Army has finally taken a leaf out of other government departments' books in India. The IT/Telecom Ministry has asked all government departments to maintain an online presence ... Read story »

BlackBerry fever spreads like wildfire in Thailand - Dec 6, 2009

Blogs First it was AIS with their BB unlimited service for just shy of US$20 per month. Now, number 2 and 3 telecoms carriers DTAC and True Move are getting in on ... Read story »

Two 'App Stores' for China Unicom's iPhone - Nov 4, 2009

Blogs China Unicom's iPhone launched last weekend (though only 5,000 were sold nationwide over those two days), the first official release for the Apple smartphone. One big reason for the huge delay ... Read story »

Why is Apple saying NO to Adobe Flash on iPhone? - Oct 5, 2009

Blogs Recently, Adobe paraded its Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, Netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they ... Read story »

Android invasion of China - Sep 28, 2009

Blogs Google's mobile platform, Android, has had a bit of a slow start, but 2010 is shaping up to be the year that Google's OS will appear on well over a dozen ... Read story »

Apple iPhone launched in South Korea - Nov 30, 2009

Crave A month after Apple started selling its iPhone in China, the device expanded its Asian reach Saturday with a much-heralded launch in South Korea. In keeping with the tradition of waiting ... Read story »

[Update]Apple iPhone 3GS has landed in Korea and sells well but there's more to it. - Dec 6, 2009

Blogs KT, Korea's second largest mobile carrier screams with release of Apple iPhone 3GS. Many of you just heard or read that its sales is going very well here in Korea but, ... Read story »

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