Recent efforts with Apple’s latest iPhone 3G and Google’s Android platform have created a groundswell of support that will ultimately help mobile operators and handset vendors, reshaping the wireless industry in the process...
Yahoo! has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company's 2008 annual meeting of stockholders. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, eight members of Yahoo!'s current Board of Directors will stand for re-election...
Apple’s second-generation iPhone is expected to play a vital role in shaking up the world’s mobile handset market in 2008 says ABI Research. “2008 should still be a very good year for the global mobile phone market...
The European Union's consumer chief, this week, announced a crackdown on websites offering mobile phone services such as ring tones ring-tones and wallpapers...
Yahoo, Thursday introduced a new open Web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which gives third parties an opportunity to access to Yahoo! Search Technology...
Only 3% of people recycle their mobile phones despite the fact that most have old devices lying around at home that they no longer use according to a global consumer survey released by Nokia Tuesday. As part of this study, Nokia survey some 6,500 people...
According to Gartner, an information technology research and advisory firm, Software AG is now the third largest vendor globally for both business process management suites (BPMS)...
Serena Software Monday launched a new Business Mashup designed specifically for the application release process. Hailing it as the first Business Mashup to solve the classic problem associated with traditional application...
Over the next few years the growing cost of bulk diesel fuel, coupled with wholesale electricity price increases, are likely to offset significant gains in cellular base station power efficiency. This will result in a collective...
Location Based Services (LBS) in Asia Pacific (AP) are set to see a spike from 11% in 2007 to 27% in 2013 says an ABI Research report. Within the same period, a similar rise can be expected in Western and Eastern Europe...
Nokia this week announced that Warner Music Group will make its diverse catalog of new stars and legendary artists available through Nokia Music Stores globally as well as through Comes With Music—Nokia’s latest music offering...
Microsoft Corp. will today officially stop selling Windows XP, the operating system (OS) that animates millions of personal computers around the world. However this is hardly great news to the masses that are resisting forced migration to XP’s successor, Vista...
Big news broke Tuesday when Nokia announced that it will purchase the remaining stock it doesn't own in Symbian and then migrate the solution to an "Open" platform. "This is a significant milestone in our software strategy" said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia in a statement. The Finnish communications giant...
Nokia said Monday it is to acquire Plazes a social-activity service provider. The deal will see the communications colossus gain access to Plazes context-aware social activity service that consumers use to plan, record and share their activities...
Huawei Technologies confidently stated last week that it expects its sales contracts in Asia Pacific (AP) excluding China to reach USD 3.9 billion by the end of this year. The Taiwan based telecommunications network provider...
China and Thailand have been identified as two key markets showing growing interest in location-based services (LBS) and GPS navigation offerings on their mobile phones. A study conducted by market research firm Profacts...
Internet behemoth Yahoo said Tuesday that it has entered into strategic mobile advertising partnerships with Maxis Communications Berhard in Malaysia and Idea Cellluar in India. The deal will see both mobile operators carry a variety of graphical advertisements, sold and served by Yahoo...
CommunicAsia 2008 and BroadcastAsia 2008, Asia’s largest ICT (Information and Communication Technology) event kick started its annual week-long conference today in Singapore, serving as a global platform for networking and...
Avaya officially unveiled its first finished goods distribution center for Asia Pacific (AP) in Singapore last Thursday. The new facility, which is part of Avaya’s supply chain management strategy for AP, will be tasked with consolidating and shipping software...
Yahoo and Google made headlines Thursday as they entered into an agreement that will see Yahoo run ads supplied by Google alongside its search results and on some of its web properties...
