India IT Roundup Arab News | Arab News | India Overtakes the US | Back in February, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder, Chairman and Group CEO of India's Bharti Enterprises was presented with the GSMA Chairman's Award — the GSM Association's most prestigious honor. This award, established in 1995, recognizes outstanding contributio...
New internet that's 10,000 times faster The Times Of India | The internet could soon be made obsolete by "the grid". The lightning-fast replacement will be capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. | At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, the grid will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalog...
Consumers ditching land-line phones USA Today Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY Traditional land-line phones, once the bedrock of communications in the USA, are quickly going the way of eight-track tapes as consumers go wireless or choose Inter...
ISPs may get TRAI nod for Net telephony in India The Times Of India | NEW DELHI: In what is the first step towards full-fledged internet telephony in India, telecom regulator TRAI on Monday launched a consultation process to put guidelines in place to pave the way for the opening up of the sector. Curre...
Wireless - the new world order Sydney Morning Herald | Mobile phone technologies are poised for a fight over radio spectrum, writes Garry Barker. | Mobility is the great new horizon in technology, as the IT soothsayers have been telling us for the past half-decade and more. | But how it will work - wha...
Power of SaaS: VoIP Call Centers for a Fraction of the Cost Newsfactor The software as a service (SaaS) trend is revolutionizing the call center industry, as companies of all sizes are now discovering the advantages of going with hosted versus on-premise solutions. | With SaaS for the call center, applications such as F...
Geodesic to launch VoIP services on landline phones The Times Of India | | MUMBAI: Remember how calling your daughter in the US used to be a real event? You would head down to the nearest ISD booth and dial a complicated sequence of numbers, hoping you hadn’t got it wrong. | When the call finally went th...
BT launches iPhone-style mobile device The Times div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } | BT Group has dived back into the mobile market with an offering squarely aimed at the BlackBerry and the iPhone. | Like the popular smartphones from RIM and Apple,...
Emergency officials issue VoIP warning Canada Dot Com | EDMONTON - Edmonton's emergency services have issued a warning about the use of voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) phone service following the death of a Calgary toddler. | Eighteen-month-old Elijah Luck died after his family called 911 over a VoI...
Canadian toddler dies after VOIP 911 call The Register | A Canadian toddler has died after a VOIP-based 911 call sent an ambulance to the wrong address. | Last week, as reported by the , a Calgary family dialed 911 via their internet phone service when 18-month-old Elijah Luck went into medical distress....
Liberty Global revenue boosted by business abroad The Business Review | The weak U.S. dollar helped revenue at international cable and broadband company, , jump 24 percent to $2.6 billion in the first quarter, a $505 million increase over what the company reported in 2007. | The Englewood-based company Liberty Global (...
China relaxes grip on internet and media after quake The Australian | AMID a national outpouring of grief over Monday's earthquake, China has relaxed its grip - perhaps only briefly - on the internet and some media. | Chinese witnesses to the devastation in Sichuan province have flooded websites with homemade videos, filled chat rooms with commentary and let text messages fly from their mobile phones. | The disaste...
Richmond installs 'smart' crime cameras Infowars | Seeking to thwart crime and keep terrorists and copper thieves away from its aging seaport, Richmond unveiled a squadron of surveillance cameras Wednesday said to be blessed with an unusual intelligence. | The 82 cameras at the port and 34 at crime hot spots can be programmed to recognize certain movements known as exceptions - a crowd gathering,...
