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The Qtel Group announces Exciting Mobile Social Networking Services
The Qtel Group today unveiled another major innovation at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with the announcement of a new service to manage social networks and blogs through a single address book. The new service will enable customers to unify all their accounts, contacts and details for a full range of microblogging, blogging and social media services onto one platform, which can be accessed via their mobile phone or the Internet. Dr. Nasser Marafih (Photo), Chief Executive Officer, The Qtel Group, commented: "Social networking has made a major impact on society, changing the way that people are networking within their communities, sharing information and interacting. We will provide a service which could simplify the way people can manage the full range of social networks, with a particular focus on providing one-touch access via their mobile phones. This new service delivers a simple unique customer experience in a way that is flexible enough to cater for the uniqueness of our diverse markets, and really demonstrates how mobile technology is changing the way we stay in touch with the world."
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Top-5 Mobile Phone Vendors Lost Market Share in 2009
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 1.211 billion units in 2009, a 0.9 per cent decline from 2008, according to Gartner. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the market registered a single-digit growth as mobile phone sales to end users surpassed 340 million units, an 8.3 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2008. "The mobile devices market finished on a very positive note, driven by growth in smartphones and low-end devices," said Carolina Milanesi (Photo), research director at Gartner. "Smartphone sales to end users continued their strong growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, totalling 53.8 million units, up 41.1 per cent from the same period in 2008. In 2009, smartphone sales reached 172.4 million units, a 23.8 per cent increase from 2008. In 2009, smartphone-focused vendors like Apple and Research In Motion (RIM) successfully captured market share from other larger device producers, controlling 14.4 and 19.9 per cent of the worldwide smartphone market, respectively."
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Verizon Wireless and Skype join forces
At the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Verizon Wireless and Skype announced a strategic relationship that will bring Skype to Verizon Wireless smartphones in March. The new Skype mobile product enhances Verizon Wireless’ smartphones for users who have data plans by offering a new way to call around the globe, while also giving hundreds of millions of Skype users around the world the opportunity to communicate with friends, family and business colleagues in the United States using Verizon Wireless. John Stratton (photo), executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless, said, "Skype mobile on Verizon Wireless changes the game. For Verizon Wireless’ more than 90 million customers, Skype mobile adds great value because we’re effectively giving customers with smartphones and data plans the option to extend their unlimited calling community to hundreds of millions of Skype users around the globe. And you’re not limited to using a single type of phone; we’ll have nine smartphones ready right at launch in March."
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Huawei launched World’s First HSPA+ Android Smartphone
Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, showcased the world’s first HSPA+ smartphone powered by Android at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The U8800 smartphone will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2010, and able to support high-speed Internet access, which is faster than existing 3G smartphones.
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iPhone Sales Reach 100,000 In First Week On Vodafone
In the week since the launch Vodafone have sold 100,000 iPhones. Even though this figure includes pre-orders, it’s still a hugely impressive number. Considering the iPhone has already been on the market for over a year the sales are even more impressive. The iPhone will be moving onto Pay As You Go on Vodafone in the coming weeks and it’s anticipated that this will bring another increase in sales. The iPhone is now offered on O2, Tesco and Orange which means that competition is now intense. However, so far we haven’t seen a competition on price but seen them trying to differentiate with applications and other extras. Amazingly, the latest predictions suggest that global iPhone sales will reach over 80 million by the end of 2012.
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Omnifone and HP bring unlimited music to PCs with MusicStation
Omnifone, the leading independent provider of unlimited music services globally, announces on 25th January a partnership with HP to distribute the MusicStation Desktop unlimited music service on over 16 HP models across 10 European countries. The service will provide unlimited access to millions of tracks from all four major music labels and leading independent labels, and will be preloaded on the entire range of new HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario and HP Envy models, featuring up to 14 days free trial of unlimited music access for every purchaser of HP PCs.
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The first Gifted Education Center in Romania launches Consultative Project in collaboration with CEU Business School and Johns Hopkins University
IRSCA Gifted Education invites all media representatives and all interested stakeholders in the project to participate on April, 16th, 2009, at 15.30, to the press conference to cover the final presentation with the final conclusions and recommnedations of the audit. The meeting has the purpose to make visible the center and draw the attention to it from the insitutional, private and business sector and to launch the necessary collaborations to set it up. (continuare)
Roland KOHLER, Vice PreÅŸedinte REICHLE & de MASSARI: Our mission is to be number one for layer one
Roland KOHLER, Vice PreÅŸedinte REICHLE & de MASSARI, talked about building 99,99 availability in next generation networks at the Communications Day in Bucharest, on 10th of May 2007. (continuare)
Andrew LUND, Communications Sector Director, Microsoft CEE: Software as a Service is really taking effect in telecoms
Andrew LUND, Communications Sector Director, Microsoft CEE, introduced the services Microsoft has to offer to telecommunications operators, at the Communications Day in Bucharest on May 10, 2007. (continuare)
Dieter ANGERER, Country Director, Nokia Siemens Networks Romania: Global presence with a strong regional focus
Dieter ANGERER, the newly appointed Country Director of Nokia Siemens Networks in Romania, introduced the new brand of the combined companies at the Communications Day conference in Bucharest, on May 10, 2007.
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Nikolaos TSOLAS, CEO Cosmote Romania: i-mode is the true mobile Internet technology that worked to date
Nikolaos TSOLAS, CEO Cosmote Romania, introduced for the first time in Romania the business concept behind the i-mode service, at the Communications Day, on May 10, 2007 (continuare)
Richard MOAT, CEO Orange Romania: Orange currently offers the widest wireless broadband network in Romania
Richard MOAT, CEO Orange Romania, announced the launching of HSDPA at 3.6 Mbps and HSUPA by Orange Romania this year, at the Communications Day conference, on May 10, 2007 (continuare)
Arun Sarin, Chief Executive Officer Vodafone, visits Romania and Connex
High numbers of university graduates working at Connex, entrepreneurship at company level and the launching of 3G were key points highlighted by Arun Sarin about Connex. (continuare)
Are News Releases from Organizations a Form of Paid Advertising? The Former Soviet Union Says Yes. The West Says No.
An Interview with Dennis L. WILCOX, Ph.D. Director, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, San Jose State University, California"This is a major problem in the countries of the former Soviet Union where newspapers struggle for sufficient revenue (from subscriptions and advertising) to survive in a capitalistic, market economy. As a consequence, newspaper and magazine editors often ask companies and organizations for payment to publish a news release about a product, an event, or a particular situation. Thus, the idea is firmly established that a news release is just another form of paid advertising". (continuare)
Microsoft is embracing IMS as a core network architecture
Interview with Andrew STEVEN, Director, Microsoft Communications Sector EMEA
"From a business development perspective, 3GSM 2005 was a successful event for us. Most notable was the number of new discussions which arose with telecom companies in Central and Eastern Europe. As media businesses are starting to grow in the region, they are beginning to focus on how to open up new revenue streams by distributing this new content".
Airspan Presents the AS.MAX Portfolio at Omnilogic Event in Bucharest
Interview with Henry Jindrich Muska, Country Manager, Airspan Czech Republic and Sales CEE, Airspan Networks"Based on the meetings with the key players on Romanian telecommunication market we believe, that WiMAX will be adopted by both fixed and mobile operators. In some cases the mobile operators will prioritize UMTS deployment in time. The mobile operators seem to be more active at the moment as far as WiMAX is concerned." The list of existing Airspan traditional FWA customers in Romania includes AccessNet, 2KTelecom, Connex and Idilis. (continuare)
September 11 anniversary ceremonies
A dozen international broadcasters covering the September 11 anniversary ceremonies in New York turned to Medialink Worldwide Incorporated for production and transmission services from Ground Zero and the company’s midtown Manhattan Global Broadcast Center. (continuare)Baudrillard on the New Technologies: Mankind face to the machine and to its own reflection
Jean Baudrillard deals with the universe of virtuality, the consequences of which are not so virtual. An interview by Claude Thibaut. (continuare)Pagini: 1