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Nokia wins initial US ruling in Qualcomm case
A United States International Trade Commission (ITC) judge has issued an Initial Determination in favour of Nokia in an action brought by Qualcomm against Nokia alleging patent infringement. The judge found no infringement or violation by Nokia ofStarhub going global with converged comms product
pfingo launched to take on Yahoo! Google, MSN
Singapore operator Starhub wants to become a global brand with the launch of a converged, web based, communications service backed by white label services provider Outblaze.
The operator has launched a combined email, mobile and VoIP service under the brand name pfingo, which stands for Phone, Fingers, Internet,On the Go.
Richard Bye, vp sales and corporate development, EMEA, Outblaze, said that the service
Orange releases data services stats
Orange has release its Digital Media Index - detailed stats of user numbers, by service, for its UK subscribers.
The Index lists 15.5 million customers caross pre-pay and contract, with 1.6 million Internet customers and 420,000 Livebox customers.
Messaging: More than a billion texts were sent each month, with over seven million picture messages. Paul Jevons, Products and Innovation Director for Orange, said the MMS numbers represented a surge
Happy 15th birthday, SMS. Now grow up.
What viable opportunities exist for the expansion of SMS? It seems impossible that SMS could be any more widespread, but at a panel event held last night in London, held to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the sending of the first ever GSM text message (the Crystal Anniversary, we reckon), industry figures each iterated their vision for increasing usage of SMS services.
First ever fall in European voice revenues
Rate of data growth slows, too
The European mobile industry suffered its first ever quarter of decline in voice revenues during the third quarter of 2007, according to Credit Suisse (CS) research analysts Justin Funnell and Paul Sydney.
Cut my losses? Sorry, it's the weekend, mate.
Operators still missing out on customer experience management
If you were made aware that your business was losing €100,000 a day because you were not charging for downloads you should have been charging for would you A) Act immediately to rectify the situation making sure the revenue losses were stopped as soon as possible, or B) Say, “Sorry, it’s nearly the weekend, we haven’t got time to fix it now.” and head off for
Nokia Siemens Networks aims to compete on intelligence
Mobile operators are now beginning to see a 'torrent' of mobile data across their networks, but still face the challenge of how to commercialise that data flow, according to Petri Poyhonen, Head of Nokia's Mobile Internet Connection business line.Poyhonen, whose business line includes sales of software and services around the connection between the mobile network and IP networks and the internet, said that by adding service awareness and control on top of the
Google goes for Jaiku
Jyri Engestrom and Petteri Kopone, the founders of mobile social network company Jaiku, have sold their company for a undisclosed amount to Google.
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