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28/6/2007
JERSEY AIRTEL LAUNCHES SERVICES Jersey Airtel, a subsidiary of the Bharti group, today announced the launch of its mobile services in Jersey (Channel Islands). The Company will offer market-leading products and services under the Airtel -Vodafone brand to customers on the Island over its full 2G, 3G and HSDPA enhanced network. more... |
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26/6/2007
BT APPOINTS GANESH VANAPALLI AS CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER FOR ASIA PACIFIC BT today announced the appointment of Ganesh K Vanapalli as Chief Security Officer (CSO) for the Asia Pacific markets, based in New Delhi. The appointment is effective immediately. Ganesh will join a global team of security specialists focused on the internal protection of BT’s corporate infrastructure, with Ganesh's attention specifically on the BT’s assets in the region. His appointment comes in the wake on BT’s commitment to the region and its sharp focus on supporting the regional strategy and being part of the strong growth trajectory that Asia is currently riding high on. India is an important geography and BT is committed to the exponential growth story and is armed with substantial expansion plans. more... |
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26/6/2007
BT LAUNCHES GLOBAL DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAMME IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BRITISH RED CROSS Investing £300,000 in essential IT and communications technology needed to deliver Proactive disaster relief worldwide BT today announced a three-year partnership with the British Red Cross in support of disaster relief worldwide. BT, the first global communications company ever to partner with the British Red Cross in this capacity, will provide support through a three-year programme, providing £100,000 each year. This partnership will directly benefit communities across the globe that have been impacted by natural disasters, human conflict and other social, political and economic factors, through proactive disaster relief. more... |
| Date:
25/6/2007
BT TO SUPPORT NDTV’S GLOBAL EXPANSION WITH MEDIA IP NETWORK DEAL BT’s Media and Broadcast sector has inked an agreement with India’s largest private broadcaster of news and current affairs television, New Delhi Television (NDTV) to be its global network supplier, enabling them to distribute to BskyB and Direct TV in the UK and US respectively. This is part of NDTV’s global growth strategy. BT will carry the live NDTV news bulletins to multiple platforms on its state of art network specially rolled out for television and media companies. more... |
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22/6/2007
Sony Ericsson announces product development unit in India Sony Ericsson today announced that it is establishing a research and development unit for mobile phones in Chennai, India.The move follows closely on the company’s January announcement of sourcing local manufacture of phones in Chennai with EMS partners Flextronics and Foxconn; with a production target of 10 million units by 2009. Today’s announcement is part of Sony Ericsson’s global strategy to strengthen its capabilities within the world’s fastest growing telecommunications market and generate the growth required to reach a top three position in the global handset market. more... |
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20/6/2007
ValueFirst launches SMS pull service for Stock Brokers ValueFirst launched SMS pull service for stock brokers using which they can send stock tips to their clients remotely. Imagine a scenario, when a Stock Broker is away from his computer and he receives a call on a stock tip. Now, if he has to inform it to his 100 clients; he can just send a SMS at a special number which will then be forwarded to his 100 clients automatically. Further, the stock broker can also create a group and choose the group to which a particular message has to be forwarded. more... |
| Date:
18/6/2007
O2 Launches Multimedia Marvel Xda Atom Life Everyone is familiar with the term "road warrior", someone who travels frequently on business. With the launch of their latest PDA-phone, the Xda Atom Life, O2 introduces the concept of a "life warrior", someone who charges at life and live it to the max, who place a premium on not only productivity but also creativity.
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| Date:
15/6/2007
HTC and Airtel brings to India - HTC Touch™ - The World’s First Mobile Phone With TouchFLO™ technology High Tech Computer Corp. (TAIEX: 2498; "HTC"), the world's leading provider of Microsoft® Windows Mobile®-based smart devices and Bharti Airtel today introduced The HTC Touch™ - India’s first mobile phone with TouchFLO™ technology. This handheld device operates on the intuitive touch screen navigation technology and is now exclusively available to Airtel Mobile users in India. more... |
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| Date:
14/6/2007
SAMSUNG LAUNCHES WORLD’S SLIMMEST SLIDER METAL SERIES PHONE IN INDIA
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| Date:
14/6/2007
QUALCOMM Named Mobile TV Technology Winner at Meffys in Europe MONTE CARLO, Monaco — June 14, 2007 — QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, was honoured for its MediaFLO™ System – an open, mobile broadcasting technology – at the annual Meffy Awards dinner held in Monte Carlo. The Meffys, announced each year by the Mobile Entertainment Forum, are industry awards that recognise technological success and innovation in mobile entertainment and are judged by a panel of independent experts. more... |
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| Date:
12/6/2007
STYLE REDEFINED-Pratham telecom introduces new Sagem- Bleu my411x, a phone that is a class apart
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| Date:
28/5/2007
Tegic Introduces XT9™ Mobile Interface on the New O2 Xda Zinc Tegic Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL, today announced that O2 - a leading manufacturer of converged mobile devices - has launched the new Xda Zinc with an XT9™ mobile interface in India. With this joint announcement O2 becomes the first Microsoft® Windows Mobile® device manufacturer to launch a product featuring the XT9™ application in India. more... |
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| Date:
23/5/2007
Bharti Airtel breaks into the 40 million Mobile Customer Club Bharti Airtel today announced that it has crossed the 40 million-mobile customer milestone. With this, Bharti Airtel becomes the first Indian mobile services provider and the 10th in the world to join an exclusive list of global telecom operators with more than 40 million customers from a single-country. This landmark customer base was achieved in just 12 years, making Bharti Airtel one of the fastest companies to make it to this exclusive list. more... |
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| Date:
23/5/2007
BT to serve Nestlé with global infrastructure BT has today announced a new global services agreement with Nestlé, the world’s leading Food Company. This very significant deal will see BT deliver, develop and manage Nestlé’s global wide area network services for another three years. The scope of the contract is to deliver and manage a global VPN (Virtual Private Network) using MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) services connecting more than 1,000 sites worldwide. The service includes multimedia voice and video running across the network as well as the roll out of managed audio conferencing services. more... |
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| Date:
22/5/2007
Webaroo launches free group SMS Webaroo™ today announced the launch of SMS GupShup, a free group messaging service in India. SMS GupShup offers a simple way to create groups of any size and communicate with them. Messages sent by the group creator are forwarded by Webaroo, at no charge, to all members of the group. more... |
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| Date:
21/5/2007
CONFERENCING HELPS REDUCE BT’S CARBON FOOTPRINT The use of conferencing by BT staff worldwide has reduced BT’s carbon footprint by at least 97,000 tonnes of CO2 and eliminated more than 860,000 face-to-face meetings, the results of a survey announced today revealed. The February 2007 survey
by the University of Bradford and SustainIT looked at the economic, environmental
and social impact of conferencing at BT. A sample of 6,000 BT staff from
across the company were surveyed on their use of conferencing, with the
findings extended to BT as a whole and annualised. The use of conferencing
and collaboration services enable people to conduct meetings with colleagues
via telephone, video or web, facilitating speedier decision making, increased
productivity and a reduction in associated travel costs. more...
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| Date:
21/5/2007
Bharti Airtel reduces ISD rates to USA and Canada Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom services provider today announced a 39% reduction in International Long Distance Tariffs to USA and Canada for its mobile users in India. With this, all Airtel mobile users can call USA and Canada at Rs 1.99 per minute. This is in line with the company’s endeavour to make International calling more affordable and deliver greater value to its growing number of mobile users. The revised tariff is applicable on the Airtel STD & ISD Calling Card worth Rs 2245/- only. more... |
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| Date:
17/5/2007
Airtel introduces Lifetime Prepaid at a lower price point of Rs 495 Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom services provider today introduced its popular Lifetime Prepaid at a lower price point of Rs 495/- only. Airtel is the first mobile services provider in the country to offer Lifetime Prepaid at this price point. This is a significant initiative that further reinforces Airtel’s commitment to make mobile more affordable and provide greater value to the Airtel prepaid customer. The
495 Lifetime Prepaid offers an Airtel user full talk time on all future
recharges. Under the new Lifetime Prepaid, the customer can stay mobile
by paying just Rs. 495 and using a minimum of Rs 200 every 180 days to
continue enjoying lifetime validity benefits. With effect from May
18, 2007, Lifetime Prepaid 495 is available to all existing as well as
new Airtel mobile users. more...
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| Date:
17/5/2007
Samsung Develops Mobile Phone Memory Card with Record Storage Capacity Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, today announced that it has developed an 8Gigabyte (GB) microSD (Secure Digital) memory card, a size optimal for today’s multimedia mobile phones. Featuring the highest capacity today for a microSD card, the new fingernail-sized card is capable of storing 2,000 MP3 music files, 4,000 digital photos, or approximately 5 DVD-quality movies. more... |
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| Date:
17/5/2007
BT Q4/final results announcement BT Global Services, the division in charge of BT's operations in India, continues its journey to be the global leader in the digital networked economy, increasing revenues outside the UK in Q4 at a 17 per cent market beating year on year growth rate and signing £9.3 billion of ground-breaking contracts for the full year, spanning all geographies and services. BT Global Services also achieved
its 20th successive quarter of year-on-year EBITDA growth (pre-leavers).
There was continuing strong growth throughout the year in continental Europe,
as well as in emerging regions such as Latin-America, Central & Eastern
Europe and MEA. Europe grew at 15 per cent in Q4 (10 per cent full year),
Asia Pac grew at 20 per cent in Q4 (more than 15 per cent full year), North
America grew more than 30 per cent in Q4 (more than 20 per cent full year).
more...
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| Date:
16/5/2007
QUALCOMM and DigiBee Sign CDMA2000 Subscriber Unit and Modem Card License Agreement SAN DIEGO — May 16, 2007 — QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA ) and other advanced wireless technologies, today announced that it has signed a CDMA2000® subscriber unit and modem card license agreement with DigiBee Microsystems Inc., a Delaware corporation. Under the terms of the worldwide, royalty-bearing agreement, QUALCOMM has granted DigiBee Microsystems a patent license to develop, manufacture and sell CDMA2000 subscriber units and modem card products. DigiBee will initially focus on products for the Indian market. The royalties payable by DigiBee Microsystems are at QUALCOMM's standard worldwide royalty rates. more... |
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| Date:
15/5/2007
Sagem-BLEU MY214X- Elegant, Functional, Affordable
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| Date:
8/5/2007
HTC Signs Acquisition Agreement with Dopod International Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.- May 8, 2007 - High Tech Computer Corp. (TAIEX: 2498; "HTC"), the world’s leading provider of Microsoft® Windows Mobile® smart handheld devices, announced today that it has signed an acquisition agreement with Dopod International, one of the leading PDA Phone and smartphone distributors in Asia, to purchase the assets of nine Dopod International’s subsidiaries, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Thailand, India, and Philippines. more... |
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| Date:
3/5/2007
NOKIA EMPOWERS CONSUMERS IN EMERGING MARKETS TO STAY CONNECTED
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| Date:
24/4/2007
LG Extends the Chocolate Family: Chocolate Card Phone
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| Date:
24/4/2007
Bharti Airtel is the “Best Emerging Market Carrier” - Telecom Asia Awards 2007 Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom services provider has been awarded the “Best Emerging Market Carrier” in the Telecom Asia Awards 2007. The Awards now in its tenth year are the most prestigious honours program in the Asian telecommunications sector. Bharti Airtel was selected amongst an impressive list of 30 telecom companies from the Asia Pacific region. In the past Bharti Airtel had won the ‘Best Indian Carrier’ for two consecutive years - 2005 & 2006 respectively. more... |
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| Date:
19/4/2007
Airtel introduces India’s First “0” Processing Fee Prepaid Bharti Airtel today introduced India’s First range of "0" Processing Fee Prepaid Products that is set to redefine the country’s entire mobile prepaid category. Airtel “Happy Recharge” will enable the Airtel prepaid customer to get the benefit of Full Talk Time without having to pay any processing fee. This innovative product will thereby increase the users talk time by over 140%. The launch of happy recharge reiterates Airtel’s continuous endevour to further drive affordability in the Indian telecom market and bring greater value to all Airtel mobile users. more... |
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| Date:
19/4/2007
Texas Instruments Goes Beyond 3G with New LTE Offering for Wireless Infrastructure As Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) deployments continue to expand worldwide, Texas Instruments is now looking beyond 3G – to Long Term Evolution (LTE). An initiative of the Third Generation Partnership Program (3GPP), LTE encompasses higher data rates and flexibility in frequency allocations needed to support IP-based applications set to deploy between 2008 and 2012. In order to accelerate original equipment manufacturers’ (OEMs) time to market with LTE technology, TI has created a development ecosystem, combining its wireless infrastructure optimized digital signal processors (DSP), software libraries and ATCA/AMC cards from leading systems developers Mercury Computer Systems and Silicon Turnkey Express (STx). more... |
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| Date:
11/4/2007
GSM Subscriber Additions over 6 million in March’07 GSM Subscriber Additions higher by 85% in the financial year ending March 07 COAI is delighted to report a subscriber addition of over 6.13 million during the month of March’07 the highest ever subscriber additions since inception of service. The cumulative All India GSM subscriber base has now grown to 121 million in March 2007, up from 115 million in February 2007, a growth of about 5% during the month of March 07. Mr Ramachandran, Director General, COAI stated, “COAI is delighted at the pace of subscriber growth which has been primarily driven by ever increasing subscriber demand for the GSM service.” more... |
| Date:
3/4/2007
Pratham telecom launches BLEU Mobile phones in India
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| Date:
2/4/2007
Texas Instruments invites IISc as one of Top 4 Leadership Universities in the world Texas Instruments, a leader in the semiconductor industry, today announced Indian Institute of Science (IISc) as one of the top four Leadership Universities in the world. Under this program, IISc will join TI’s premier research network as the first university outside of US. This partnership furthers TI’s commitment to education and advanced research in India. more... |
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