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After Google incident, Wi-Fi data collection goes on
Four months ago, amidst a backlash from government regulators and privacy advocates, Google stopped collecting Wi-Fi data with its Street View cars. But that doesn’t mean Google has stopped collecting wireless data altogether, and neither have other companies such as Apple.
Instead of sending out cars to sniff out wireless networks, Google is now crowdsourcing the [...]
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US operators get creative due to spectrum crunch
The spectrum shortage is forcing mobile operators to experiment more with pricing models, new technologies and partnerships, executives speaking at the Mobile Future Forward event in Seattle said Wednesday.
“There is a spectrum shortage, and demand will exceed supply, and something has to be done,” said Mike Sievert, chief commercial officer for Clearwire.
To read this IDG [...]
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Predicting the Future of Phones is Unpredictable
Bad news, Apple: The iPhone’s market share is poised to take a tumble over the next few years. Between now and 2014, in fact, iOS devices will fall from 14.7 percent of phones sold to 10.9 percent, a 25.9 percent drop. Android phones, meanwhile, will boom, going from 16.3 percent market share to 24.6 percent, [...]
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3G hopes in Thailand face new legal hurdle
Thailand’s hopes for third generation mobile phone services face another potential legal obstacle after CAT Telecom’s labour union said it will pressure the company to file a lawsuit with the Administrative Court to stop the auction of 3G licences on Sept 20.
The court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit by the union to stall the process on [...]
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Kenya mobile price war cuts calling costs
Mike Mutuha is the master of cheap talk. He has two mobile phones, both holding two sim cards. By subscribing to each of Kenya’s four mobile providers, Mutuha ensured he never had to pay the exorbitant off-network rates that have long frustrated consumers here.
But his thrift may now be redundant.
In recent weeks a brutal price [...]
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Vodafone selling China Mobile stake for £4.3bn
Vodafone is selling its 3.2 per cent shareholding in China Mobile for £4.3bn ($6.6bn), in a move that highlights the UK mobile phone group’s determination to dispose of its minority stakes.
Vodafone said on Tuesday that 70 per cent of the proceeds from the sale would be returned to shareholders in the form of a share [...]
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Google TV to launch this year
The new Google service will bring the web to TV screens - the announcement comes a week after a new version of Apple TV was unveiled
Google will launch its Google TV service, which it intends will bring the web to TV screens, in the US this autumn and around the world next year, its chief [...]
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Aid groups using mobile phones to reach the world’s poor
For the world’s poorest, cellphone technology carries opportunity, aid groups say, as text messages and other mobile applications have created a new platform to reach the most remote farms and crowded urban slums of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The Grameen Foundation, a Washington-based group known for helping women with the smallest of business loans, has [...]
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Taiwan to spend over $200 million on 4G telecom
Taiwan will spend around seven billion Taiwan dollars (US$219.3 million) over the next four years to boost the development of cutting-edge telecom technologies, an official said Tuesday.
The project to give the island an edge in fourth-generation (4G) technologies was approved Monday by the Council for Economic Planning and Development, the island’s top economic planning body.
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Indian regulator to issue guidelines on unsolicited calls soon
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will soon issue guidelines to address the problem of unsolicited mobile calls and SMSs.
“We have held consultation on that (unsolicited calls and messaging). We issued consultation paper also and held open house discussion. We are finalising our regulation on unsolicited commercial communication. It should be out during the course [...]
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