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Nationwide WiMax in next two years?
News On Wednesday, a joint venture in the US was announced, involving Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, with $1bn in funding from Intel and similarly large amounts from other players like Comcast, Google and Time Warner. [09 May 2008]
India edgy about outsourcing newbies?
News He added: "The latest set of quarterly results from India's top services suppliers disappointed investors but they also showed that they are winning larger, more complex deals and are now genuine international players. [06 May 2008]
EC: Oracle-BEA gets the go-ahead
News The Commission looked at potential effects on the European middleware market, focusing specifically on application servers, portals, enterprise service bus software and applications-integration software, and concluded it had no... [01 May 2008]
Kids flocking to Blyk to bag free calls and texts
News In six months we have built up a deep knowledge of our member base which now exceeds many established youth media players and with over seven million 16- to 24-year-old phone owners in the UK there is huge potential for... [25 Apr 2008]
Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?
News Other players remain in the discussion, with reports Yahoo! In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! takeover bid, the software maker has set a Saturday deadline for Yahoo! to come to the bargaining table or else face a... [22 Apr 2008]
BBC's Highfield hops off to Kangaroo
News Channel 4 CEO Andy Duncan said Highfield is "one of the most influential players in digital media" making him the ideal CEO to drive Kangaroo forwards. BBC director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield, is to... [15 Apr 2008]
WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?
News Another panelist, Scott Wickware, vice president of carrier networks for Nortel, said the exchange of knowledge is also beneficial to current players in the market in helping them in areas such as establishing business... [11 Apr 2008]
3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth
News In addition, there are seven personal media players with HSDPA-connectivity and even one 3.5G-enabled camera. There are now 637 high speed downlink packet access products on the market, with almost half (303) of them... [07 Apr 2008]
UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown
News Benn said: "We have now got to a stage where people are replacing those first-generation MP3 players and if they are unable to listen to their recordings because they are bound to a particular DRM they are going to get... [27 Mar 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Major players like Bebo, LinkedIn, MySpace and Plaxo, along with a host of smaller social networks and many that are unknown in the US, all opted to participate in the new initiative. and News Corp's MySpace.com have... [26 Mar 2008]
'iPhone effect' ripples through smart phone market
News Separate research from MultiMedia Intelligence calculates that 500 million music phones were shipped worldwide last year - outnumbering shipments of personal media players such as the iPod by almost 300 million units. [25 Mar 2008]
Fibre connectivity set to change, says EC
News He said: "When looking at the transition, we will be confronted with the strategies of players on the market who will try to foreclose the market and [shut out competitors]," referring to such tactics as "rational". [28 Feb 2008]
Power shortages squeeze London's data centres
News BT leases 6,000 square metres of data centre space within London, and 27 data centres across the UK, where it processes information for government departments and major players in the finance, telecommunication and... [27 Feb 2008]
The mobile industry in its own words
News Here's a flavour of the topics on the minds of some of the industry's biggest players. The world's biggest mobile phone trade show - Mobile World Congress 2008 - took place earlier this month in Barcelona. [22 Feb 2008]
Vodafone CEO warns of Apple, Google threat
News In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, Sarin said: "We must as an industry learn to both partner and compete with these new players because our customers want to experience... [12 Feb 2008]