Brussels: Companies including Microsoft and Nokia have stepped up pressure on EU antitrust regulators to take action against Google, accusing it of blocking competition in mobile telephony. The complaint comes as Google attempts to resolve a two-year long investigation by the European Commission into its internet search practices and avert a possible fine that could hit $5 billion, or 10 per cent of its 2012 revenue. More than a dozen...
08:38 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Shenzhen: China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's No.2 telecom equipment maker, said on Monday it expects a compound growth rate of 10 per cent in annual sales over the next five years, lifted by cloud computing and smartphone sales. Rotating Chief Executive Officer Guo Ping was speaking at the company's headquarters in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen where he confirmed a 32 per cent rise in Huawei's 2012...
01:33 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Hyderabad: A mobile phone application that helps combat film piracy designed by Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber of Commerce with the support of the US Consulate General, was launched by US Ambassador to India Nancy J Powell on Sunday. The application called 'Indian Movie Cop'(IMC), available as a free download on Mac's App Store, provides movie fans with a one-stop shop of movie trailers, plot synopses, theatres and show times and...
09:24 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: One kilogram. That's what it weighed, the bulky prototype used for a wireless phone call by a Motorola engineer in 1973. For the real milestone 10 years later, a 790-gram Motorola DynaTAC made the first call from a commercial mobile phone, in a Mercedes in 1983. That makes the mobile 30 years old, and not the 40 that's being reported. Since then, it's been a long road to...
01:39 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday lifted a stay order that had allowed telecom giant Bharti Airtel to continue 3G services across circles where it did not hold spectrum. The move will affect the company as it will have to shut down its 3G mobile services in seven circles across the country, primarily in Haryana, Maharashtra, UP East, Kolkata, Gujarat, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh. In a long-running dispute,...
07:16 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Back in 1973 Motorola was very categorical in rejecting the assumption that mobile phones cold replace landlines. ...
04:59 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The Motorola DynaTAC is the world's first mobile phone - that Motorola termed as a portable radio telephone. ...
04:14 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Exactly 40 years ago, on April 3, 1973, Motorola demonstrated the world's first portable cellular telephone and system. ...
03:35 PM, Apr 03, 2013
A video running viral on Youtube which reportedly shows a woman speaking on a wireless device in a 1938 film could be the proof of the world's first mobile phone. ...
07:55 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Mobile handset sales in India grew 20.8 per cent to 221.6 million units in 2012, driven by a strong growth in the smartphone category, according to a study. ...
12:29 PM, Apr 02, 2013
A ruling Congress party MLA on Monday climbed on a mobile tower to demand shifting of three mobile towers from Badi Sadri locality in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan, police said. "Prakash Chandra Chaudhary climbed on the tower in the morning to press for his demand that the towers be shifted to elsewhere and descended after five hours on assurance by district administration," Circle Officer Jagdish Narayan said. ...
04:35 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music. That might sound precisely like Facebook, but hundreds of millions of tech-savvy young people have instead turned to a wave of smartphone-based messaging apps that are now sweeping across North America, Asia and Europe. ...
10:04 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Japan's NEC Corp is in talks to sell its struggling mobile phone unit to its personal computer venture partner Lenovo Group Ltd, a source familiar with the discussions said, confirming media reports of the negotiations. ...
03:33 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Videocon Mobile Services, which operates in seven of the 22 telecom circles, said it intends to cover the entire country within 2-3 years. ...
01:31 PM, Mar 30, 2013
The majestic Queen's Necklace - Marine Drive- in the southern tip of the megapolis is all set to host a mobile restaurant where visitors can dine atop an open-air bus. ...
08:39 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Twitter will generate nearly $1 billion in ad revenue next year due to a surge in mobile advertising on its Web microblogging service, according to a report released on Wednesday. ...
10:43 AM, Mar 28, 2013
Yahoo Inc has snapped up mobile news aggregator Summly, the latest in a string of small acquisitions intended to bolster the Web portal's mobile services. ...
10:17 AM, Mar 26, 2013
