List of All Telecom News
| Netflix Offers ABC Shows as Streaming Online Videos
29/07/2009
As internet technology has improved in recent years, telecommuting has become an increasingly viable option for modern businesspeople. Voice and video conferencing have become technologies of choice for meetings and negotiations, and have been used to facilitate countless high-stakes business deals.Today, this same type of technology is being used to educate the business leaders of tomorrow. One... |
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| Teleconferencing Technology Used to Facilitate Live Online Education
28/07/2009
Rogers Communications shares took a hit today after the Canadian cable and wireless giant reduced its sales growth projections.Rogers expects overall revenue to increase by 2 to 4 percent this year, rather than the 5 to 9 percent that it predicted back in February. The company attributes the change to slowing advertising sales at its media business, which accounts for 13% of total revenue, as... |
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| Apple Excludes Google Voice from iTunes App Store
25/07/2009
Wi-Fi-enabled televisions will be widely available by the end of this year, and should be selling briskly by 2011, according to a new report by ABI Research.“North America, Western Europe, and select Asian countries are seen as the next growth markets, and the 2009 holiday season and 2010 will be the watershed periods when vendors will see whether networked TV should trickle down to... |
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| ABI Research Predicts Surge in Networked TV Sales
24/07/2009
Apple’s popular iPhone device continue to consolidate its leading position in the mobile web browsing market last month, according to AdMob’s latest Mobile Metrics Report.iPhone and iPod Touch users accounted for over 47% of traffic on AdMob’s wireless advertising network during the month of June.Google’s open source operating system, Android, is also becoming more popular... |
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| iPhone Continues to Dominate Mobile Web Traffic; Android Posts Gains
23/07/2009
America’s leading telecom carrier, AT&T, has reported a 15.2% drop in second quarter earnings, resulting primarily from an ongoing decline in the wireline telecom market.AT&T generated $3.2 billion in earnings during the second quarter of 2009, compared to $3.7 billion in the same period a year earlier. The company’s wireline division saw a 36% decline in profits, generating... |
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| Declining Landline Revenue Pulls AT&T Profit Lower
22/07/2009
Canadian wireless operator, Bell Mobility, has begun training its employees in how to sell and service the Palm Pre.Bell will hold Pre training seminars in Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal over the next week, and is expected to launch the new smartphone around the end of this month.The Pre is Palm’s latest attempt at a comeback in the mobile device market. It was released in the... |
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| Bell Mobility Prepares to Launch Palm Pre in Canada
17/07/2009
Western Canada’s biggest cable company, Shaw Communications, is expanding eastward with the acquisition of Mountain Cablevision Ltd., an independent carrier based in Hamilton, Ontario.Bidding for Mountain Cablevision was reportedly very competitive, with nearby cable giants, Rogers Communications and Cogeco, both attempting to scoop up the smaller company. Ultimately, however, an unexpected... |
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| Verizon Eases Exclusivity Agreements in Compromise with Smaller Carriers
15/07/2009
Cogeco Cable has launched Ontario’s first 50-Mbps residential broadband service.The new package, called HSI Ultimate, offers 50-Mbps downloads, 1.5-Mbps uploads, and a monthly download capacity of 150 Gigabytes. It costs $149.95 per month, including the rental of a Docsis 3.0 cable modem.HSI Ultimate is initially available in Burlington, Oakville, Milton, and Halton, Ontario, and will be... |
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| Cogeco Begins Offering 50-Mbps Cable Broadband in Ontario
13/07/2009
Canada’s biggest cell phone operator, Rogers Wireless, has launched what will likely be the first in a new class of products: web-ready netbooks with built-in 3.5G (HSPA) mobile broadband chips.The HP Mini 110, manufactured by Hewlett-Packard, offers true broadband speeds of up to 7.2-Mbps, in markets where Rogers’ HSPA network is available. The growing list of HSPA markets includes... |
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| Rogers Communications Warns Against Traffic Shaping Ban
08/07/2009
Palm’s new smartphone, the Pre, will be available in the U.K., Ireland, and Germany in time for the holiday shopping season, thanks to an exclusive deal with British wireless giant, O2.The Palm Pre, which became available in the U.S. last month, is now in a good position to compete with Apple’s popular iPhone device, according to industry analysts.“The Pre is a really impressive... |
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