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RSS china in newsFemtocell market hotting up
News And it has boosted its tally of members - adding the likes of AT&T, China Telecom, Nortel, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. Femtocells - aka mobile base stations which piggyback off DSL to boost mobile reception indoors - could have inched a little... [21 May 2008]
Google Android - winning apps are location-based
News Speaking with silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia, Huang Liang, one of the competition hopefuls, based in China, said his application, Follow Me, would tag user feedback to points on Google Maps using the device's GPS chip, allowing users to "share... [20 May 2008]
'Hyperconnected' world grabs mobile over wallet
News The country with the highest percentage of hyperconnected respondents in the study was China. More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for... [14 May 2008]
Skills slump eroding UK's top tech talent
News It must tackle a slump in technology teaching and employer training to avoid being forced to buy in top level talent from China and India. He said: "I am worried that unless we have these entry-level jobs in the UK the real skills in project... [14 May 2008]
UK should 'abandon' software market to China
News UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60bn behind China this year fuelling high-level calls for Britain to abandon the low-cost end of market. Sean Finnan, president of the UK trade association for technology Intellect and UK country... [14 May 2008]
Google lays out mobile future
News In addition to European and US giants such as Vodafone, Telefonica and Sprint, Google also has partnerships with Japanese operators NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, India's Airtel and China Mobile. The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile... [13 May 2008]
Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds
News The US remains the top contributor of spam, followed by Russia, Turkey, China including Hong Kong and Brazil. Released Wednesday, Sophos said in its Security Threat Report that an average of more than 15,000 web pages were compromised daily between... [24 Apr 2008]
Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned
News Buoyed by a $401m non-cash gain on a stake in China's Alibaba.com, Yahoo! posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday but failed to deliver the outstanding results its shareholders hoped might force Microsoft to raise its takeover bid. [23 Apr 2008]
China key to Indian IT growth
News China will be a key part of Indian outsourcing giant Satyam's plans to create 15,000 new jobs worldwide and grow revenue to $2.69bn this year. China will take centre stage for this growth, with Satyam planning to boost its 1,000-strong employee... [21 Apr 2008]
Mobile banking set for boom time
News Juniper predicts the biggest region for mobile banking services will be China and the Far East, followed by Western Europe and India. The number of people accessing banking services via their mobile phones will increase tenfold over the next four... [16 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News While the report found that most attacks continue to occur and originate in the US, China is becoming increasingly important as a source of malicious code. That dropped off in 2007 but [security threats] have recently re-emerged in China. [09 Apr 2008]
Open source owes popularity to anti-US vibe?
News Open source is seen as a fundamental good outside the US, with countries like Russia and China moving to a model free from US intellectual property laws, said Whitehurst. Anti-US feelings are boosting the international market for open source... [27 Mar 2008]
UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis
News China, for example, will have almost 750,000 engineering graduates this year. Western economies such as the UK and US are "seriously underestimating" the scale of the technology skills shortage they face, according to one of India's most... [18 Mar 2008]
Invest in staff training, businesses told
News It said in a statement: "It is regrettable that in a time when our international competitors like India and China are investing heavily in skills and education in technology, our government is not. Tackling the skills shortage is key to turning the... [17 Mar 2008]
Security skills top IT chiefs' wish-lists
News The security gap is even wider in China, India, Poland, Russia and South Africa where the emergence of a strong IT industry is relatively recent, said CompTIA. 'Safety first' is still the motto written in sweat above the door of IT departments... [13 Mar 2008]
