Facebook Beefs Up Patent Arsenal Ahead of IPO Jakarta Globe San Francisco. Facebook struck a $550 million deal Monday to get its hands on hundreds of AOL patents from Microsoft as the social network hardened its defenses before it goes public on the Nasdaq. | Facebook will pick up around 650 of the 925 patents Microsoft bought earlier this month in an auctio...
Skype app officially launches on Windows Phone Digital Spy The official Skype app has finally rolled out on selected Windows Phone handsets, following a beta of the Microsoft-owned internet telephony service. | Users of a range of handsets running Windows Phone 7.5 ("Mango") can now download the Sky app from the Windows Phone Marketplace. | This includes ow...
Upcoming Mozilla Marketplace lacks Linux support; open-source fix in the works Crunch Galaxy S III | HTC One | The New iPad | Engadget Distro | Galaxy Tabs | News Hubs Galleries Videos Podcasts The Recap Authors Store FOLLOW US ON TWITTER SUBSCRIBE ABOUT / FAQ TIP US Internet, Upcoming Mozilla Marketplace lacks Linux support; open-sou...
MTN launches WACS in Cape Town Joy Online The much awaited ultra high-capacity West Africa Cable Systems (WACS) undersea cable has been launched in Cape Town, opening the way for MTN operations across Africa to begin to offer commercial services on the back of the fibre cable. | This sets th...
Thuraya, GTNT say in one voice 'Hello Russia' Gulf News | Dubai Thuraya Telecommunications Company, a UAE-based international mobile satellite operator, has announced the launch of its mobile satellite services in Russia in partnership with GTNT. | The announcement was made at a press conference at the Co...
Cellcom Israel Announces First Quarter 2012 Results Seeking Alpha | NETANYA, Israel, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- | Cellcom Israel (CEL) implemented efficiency measures, which led to a decrease of approximately NIS 80 million in expenses and contributed to improved results in the first quarter 2012 compared with th...
Delivering the promise of the Internet The Hindu This week, amid much fanfare, telecom major Airtel launched its 4G services in Bangalore, making it the second 4G-enabled city in the country after Kolkata. | Airtel's fourth generation mobile broadband services are rolled out on the high-speed TD-LT...
VOIP calls just as off-limits in-flight as cell phone service The Examiner | No cell phones are to be used on planes, but what if you are using a VOIP service, which is leveraging your flight's wi-fi? That should be OK, right? You might think so, but apparently the answer is no. | Follow me on Twitter and on Facebook and...
The joy of txt: 20 years of SMS NZ Herald | The humble SMS is 20 years old ... and a far more important invention than the flashier inventions that have followed it, writes John Naughton | Here's a question: what's bigger and far more important than Facebook? Hint: it's very low-tech and doe...
BillSoft fills a taxing niche with software, service for online business The Business Review Kansas City Business Journal by James Dornbrook, Reporter Date: Friday, May 11, 2012, 5:00am CDT Related: , , (2 photos) Dave Kaup | KCBJ | Tim Lopatofsky, CEO of BillSoft Inc., says that given how fluid taxes can be and how rapidly Internet-related ...
KeKu Promises Cheap, High-Quality Calls To Any Phone Number Worldwide Crunch Apple Facebook Google Android Disrupt NYC Hackathon news | Comment KeKu Promises Cheap, High-Quality Calls To Any Phone Number Worldwide | Frederic Lardinois posted 10 mins ago Comments View Staff Page Follow me on twitter | KeKu is a VoIP telep...
Study sees social media growth falling in India Zeenews New Delhi: India may be embracing latest technologies like mobility and cloud, but factors like privacy concerns and cultural fabric could restrain social media growth in the country as compared to other nations, a report by research firm Gartner today said. | The report suggests that four significant forces that will shape businesses during the ne...
Paying the price of rhino poaching Independent online Assets worth about R55 million have been seized from an alleged rhino poaching kingpin and two vets alleged to be his accomplices in an 11-person syndicate, the members of which are currently facing more than 1 800 charges. | This was announced by the National Joint Operation Centre in Pretoria on Wednesday, which also revealed that the Hawks’...
