German phone giant Deutsche Telekom is looking to jump into the 4G wireless market in the U.S. through partnerships with U.S.-based service providers, according to a report by Bloomberg News.Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Deutsche Telekom is looking to beef up its presence in the U.S. wireless market by investing in Clearwire, a company that is building a 4G wireless network using a technology called WiMax. Sources also told Bloomberg that Deutsche Telekom is also talking to Metro PCS, which recently acquired spectrum to build its 4G wireless network.Deutsche Telekom already owns T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S.…
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Report: Deutsche Telekom looks for 4G partners in U.S.
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Fake IMEI Numbers Worry DoT
The government has asked mobile operators to comply with national security norms by not carrying calls from fake mobile equipment identification numbers (IMEI) embedded handsets latest by November 30.As cases of false and no IMEI number embeded handsets pile up, an worried Department of Telecom in a directive has asked all mobile operators to reject calls coming from those handsets with IMEI numbers which are not on the database of the Global Systems for Mobile Communications Association.The GSMA maintains a worldwide database of genuine IMEI numbers. This is activated and updated every 15 days in the Equipment Indentity Register of…
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Emergency text system goes live
The system is aimed at people who cannot make normal voice calls to the 999 service due to disability. The service sends the text to a voice relay assistant who then speaks the text message to the emergency service and then texts back their reply. If successful, the government initiative, which is backed by Ofcom, would become permanent in early 2010. The scheme is a joint venture between various UK telecom firms. The live trial involves people sending text messages in a real emergency. Administrators are looking for several thousand volunteers, with a preference for disabled users. In an emergency,…
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Retail majors bet big on business intelligence
Branded retail giants in the Rs 40,000-crore organised retail sector are betting big on adopting business intelligence (BI) software as a service (SAAS) model on monthly rent basis. With the move, the retailers plan to discontinue expensive software licences such as SAP, Oracle and Business Object. This is to counter a major challenge on how to save the time and cost in implementing BI solutions as a cost-effective measure, according to retailers and industry experts. Sunil Mehta, chief executive officer, Next Retail India Ltd from the belt of Videocon Industries Ltd (VIDEOIND.NS : 233.75 -2.4) said , “We first need…
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Opera Unite 10.10 Build 1729 Beta
Discover the new standard in Web browsing Opera lets you surf the Internet in a safer faster and easier way One of the most full featured internet power tools on the market it includes pop up blocking tabbed browsing integrated searches and advanced functions like Opera 39 s groundbreaking E mail program RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat You can customize the look and content of your browser with a few clicks of the mouse Opera started out as a research project in Norway 39 s largest telecom company Telenor in 1994 and branched out into an independent development company named…
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Opera 10.00 Build 1615 Beta
Discover the new standard in Web browsing Opera lets you surf the Internet in a safer faster and easier way One of the most full featured Internet power tools on the market it includes pop up blocking tabbed browsing integrated searches and advanced functions like Opera 39 s groundbreaking E mail program RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat You can customize the look and content of your browser with a few clicks of the mouse Opera started out as a research project in Norway 39 s largest telecom company Telenor in 1994 and branched out into an independent development company named…
