EC Reaffirms Fine on Telefonica
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The European Commission (EC) has reiterated the rationale behind the 152-million-euro (US$208 million) anti-trust fine it imposed on Spanish telecoms group Telefonica in July this year, ahead of an appeal planned by the Spanish government. Significance: Telefonica was punished for abusing its dominant position in the...
Vodafone Eyes Tele2 Fixed-Line Operations in Italy and Spain
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Global mobile giant Vodafone is considering buying the fixed-line units of Tele2 in Italy and Spain in a move to become a truly converged services provider according to reports in the U.K.-based Guardian newspaper. Significance: With Tele2 seemingly interested in selling off much of its fixed network across Europe, its assets in...
MINO Targets Enterprises with Mobile VoIP Solution
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MINO Wireless is another example of a company started by somebody trying to solve their own problem. Jing Liu, CEO and founder of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based mobile VoIP service provider says he got the idea for MINO in late 2004 when he was doing a lot of travel in Asia. At the time, Liu says, he had difficulty cost-effectively...
Many iPhone Owners Relish Being First
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- They're the guinea pigs willing to pay top dollar for cutting-edge gizmos, whether the gadgets are half-baked, potentially doomed or harbingers of a revolution. The customers who bought Apple Inc.'s new iPhone know the pain and the pleasure. They're early adopters. And in many cases, the group can...
Will Your BlackBerry Replace Your Office Phone?
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Earlier today at an analyst meeting at Research in Motion's (RIM's) Waterloo, Ontario, headquarters, President and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis began promoting the BlackBerry combined with VoIP and Wi-Fi as the means of replacing the traditional office phone. According to Lazaridis, the BlackBerry fulfills a dream of converged ...
ITC to Investigate Nokia Handsets
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has said it will begin investigating certain 3G handsets made by Nokia, based on a complaint filed last month by InterDigital. InterDigital filed a compliant in August with the ITC saying that Nokia was engaging in unfair trade practices involving two InterDigital patents related to...
Google: Thinking Bigger Than Phones?
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It's hard not to get worked into a lather over the prospect of a Google phone. In so many ways, Google's entry into the space would change the competitive landscape. Symbian Ltd. currently dominates the smartphone market with a 67 percent share, thanks to its strength in Europe. Microsoft Corp. commands a 14 percent share...
Verizon Makes FiOS More Mobile
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In one of its first steps towards fixed/mobile convergence for residential customers, Verizon Communications Inc. has added more features to its FiOS service. The features include increasing email storage capacity to 4 GBytes, the ability to check email from different computers, and the ability to check email from certain Verizon...
EMC Offers Avamar De-Dupe as Virtual Machine
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Casting its weight behind the latest data protection trends, EMC has unveiled a version of its de-duplication product that runs as a virtual machine within VMware. The vendor has also introduced a turnkey version of Avamar's software running on EMC hardware. First, the virtual machine: Dubbed the EMC Avamar Virtual...
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