Another news item from the floor of the Mobile Money Summit. This time, we’re talking about Brazil’s biggest mobile operator – Vivo, which plans to expand its mobile financial service portfolio and launch new services during the year. According to the operator’s vice president of marketing and innovation, Hugo Janeba, they [Vivo] are teaming up…
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Renesas joins Symbian Foundation
Symbian Foundation is one member stronger, as we have Renesas Electronics Corporation announcing its decision to join the Nokia-led group. As part of the deal, Renesas will make sure its chipsets support the Symbian platform to enable OEMs worldwide to create Symbian-compliant devices that fully meet the needs of network operators. Renesas has a track…
India’s Uninor expands to 13 telecom circles
India’s Uninor, which BTW is 67.25% owned by Norway’s Telenor, is increasing its coverage to 13 telecom circles. As a result, its population footprint now reaches 900 million people across India! The latest launch includes the following telecom circles: Mumbai, Maharashtra and Goa, Gujarat, Kolkata and West Bengal. On launch day, Uninor connections in these…
Ultrabrief: Nokia to cut 100 strategy positions out of a total of 330
This ultra short update about Nokia hit the wire yesterday: The world’s largest cellphone maker Nokia will cut globally 100 strategy jobs out of a total 330 jobs across its operations, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday. That’s 30% of the strategy team. Gone. Blink of an eye. Change is in the air.
Nokia launches their first dual SIM capable mobile phones: C1, C2, plus two more low end devices
Say what you will about Nokia’s smartphone strategy, and how much damage the N97 and N900 have done to the Finnish brand, because when it comes to the low end market, no one compares. Nokia is all about connecting the next billion, and a feature that those next billion people in emerging markets have been…
AT&T proves tiered data pricing is inevitable, but are the new plans a rip off?
AT&T earlier today announced that they will be completely revamping their wireless data plans and bringing in the DataPlus and DataPro pricing tiers to essentially assassinate the current unlimited data plan altogether. Starting June 7th, Big Blue will become the first US wireless carrier to pull the trigger on tiered wireless data plans in preparation…
Unlocking Off-Contract Canadian Phones Forced by Bill C-32
Woah, didn’t see this one coming. Today, the Canadian government has been chewing through some new digital copyright laws that would basically institute the DMCA of the U.S. north of the border. Although the most direct result of it will be a lot of online pirates grumbling about being held legally responsible for breaking digital…
Motorola Shadow/Xtreme spotted being ‘very metal’ in the wild
The Motorola Xtreme (or Shadow) has just been spotted in the wild and its looking sexy as all hell in its ridiculously thin metallic casing. If, for some reason you’re still not convinced that Android is the next big thing in mobile, just look at the number of high-end Android smart phones headed to market…
AdMob rolls out iPad SDK, new tablet ads
Fresh off its official acquisition by Google, AdMob is rolling out a software development kit for developers to create better mobile ads for Apple’s iPad. Our new SDK is unified across all devices running the iPhone OS, which means that developers can download one binary for development across all Apple iPhone OS devices – iPhone,…
Did the HTC Droid Incredible just get rooted? Nope.
To gets our hopes up, someone impersonated a developer to say that they have successfully rooted the HTC Droid Incredible. Well, we’re here to tell you that there is no root for the Verizon Droid Incredible just yet, but it shouldn’t be too long until we see the real thing. Yep, some loser decided to…