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Turquoise trading platform begins to settle
News Colt Telecom said it has connected 10 large banks and market data customers to the platform. However, the platform was forced to delay launch because it had difficulty in acquiring a suitable trading engine, according to reports. [19 Aug 2008]
Nokia retains smart phone crown
News Nokia keeps its market lead by some margin but other vendors in the top five posted much higher than average year-on-year growth, with second-placed BlackBerry-maker RIM closing the market share gap by several points, and HTC, Motorola and Samsung... [19 Aug 2008]
Brits spending record time online
News The telecoms regulator has released its fifth annual communications market report, which shows people in the UK are spending more time than ever consuming a variety of comms and media services. Ofcom's Communications Market 2008 (August) can be... [14 Aug 2008]
More businesses turning to VoIP?
News Business customer share of worldwide hosted VoIP service revenue will increase from 26 per cent in 2007 to 41 per cent in 2011, market research company Infonetics Research predicts. Infonetics said hosted VoIP services continue to far outpace... [14 Aug 2008]
Indian outsourcing takeover is imminent
News Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) or Wipro will augment, or in some cases surpass, "mega-vendors" Accenture, EDS and IBM by revenue in the strategic services market, it says. The market capitalisation of the Indian providers is significantly... [14 Aug 2008]
Indian outsourcing giant builds £154m site
News The expansion follows sluggish growth in the Indian outsourcing market, with Infosys reporting revenue of $1.16bn in its first quarter - up 24.5 per cent on the same period last year but falling short of the 40.6 per cent growth in the first... [11 Aug 2008]
European satellite services are green for launch
News On Thursday, the Commission launched a competition for service providers that want to address the whole European market. Companies that offer satellite-based services including mobile data, mobile TV, disaster relief and remote medical services... [11 Aug 2008]
Virgin Mobile breaks into mobile broadband
News As a result, the operator says it now "will also be able to price more competitively in the growing mobile data usage market". The move comes about due to a recent renegotiation of the virtual mobile operator's agreement with its network supplier... [08 Aug 2008]
Cisco looks to the future with investment plans
News This means the company will invest in new markets that are adjacent to existing product lines in all its major customer segments from the home network to the data centre, from small and medium businesses to the enterprise, and from its commercial... [06 Aug 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News These new uses have expanded the open-source database market to $850m this year, a figure Forrester sees rising to $1.2bn by 2010. Yuhanna wrote in the Forrester market update: "Open-source databases have come a long way in delivering reliable... [24 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News ORTG CEO Brian Kelly said in a statement: "Being first to market means the opportunities are endless. It is a market that is growing rapidly and we are echoing this currently with our expansion into new ebusiness sectors. [23 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News Pointing to mobile applications and technologies such as the mobile office, field sales automation and telemetry, White said the idea of a single European business market needed to be supported by a single European telecoms market. [22 Jul 2008]
UK youths going mobile web crazy
News Professor Leslie Haddon of the Media and Communication Department at LSE said the lower figure for mobile social networking use compared to email reflects the latter's longer established presence in the market. [17 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News The GSMA points to tailored roaming packages as evidence of a competitive market, and says operators have introduced data roaming transparency measures - such as software that monitors data usage, text message alerts when customers reach a... [16 Jul 2008]
EC to outline slash in roaming rate
News The text market is mature but data roaming is still in its infancy. Mobile-phone industry officials said the price of roamed data and texts was falling fast, while the voice-roaming regulation introduced last year "has given consumers little... [15 Jul 2008]
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