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The 8th Mobile Monday Beijing will take place on Dec. 18 at Rain Club, an up-and-coming ‘fusion’ restaurant and lounge in Dongsishitiao. They invited speakers from Europe, Japan and South Korea to tell us their 3G story and see if 3G is the holy grail that Operators and SPs seem to expect.
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Personalisation and interactivity will be the key drivers of mobile TV according to a new report commissioned by Nokia and conducted by Dr Shani Orgad from the London School of Economics. The report, titled ‘This Box Was Made For Walking’, examines the future impact of mobile TV on the broadcasting and advertising industries.
The report predicts […]

3G is the future of the music industry

Published Date: November 10th, 2006
Category: 3G, Cell Phone, Tech Idea, Business Briefing, News

The future of music industry will rely on mobile phone and 3G technology will be a great enabler for it.
The mobile phone is set to become the retail channel of the future for music fans according to a report published by 3.
The report investigates how young people are using new technology to revolutionise the way […]

Malaysia’s biggest mobile firm, Maxis Communications Bhd, will spend a total of RM2.2 billion over the next three years to expand its third generation (3G) network and wireless broadband Internet services. The company expects a break- even period of about three years.
Maxis aims to make broadband available to three quarters of all households by 2010. […]

Mobile softswitch ideal to combine 2G and 3G services.
Nokia has signed a nationwide supply contract with the Philippine telecommunications company Globe Telecom Inc. This network modernization deal includes an upgrade of the Globe Telecom circuit switched core network, also enabling fixed mobile convergence.
Under the agreement Nokia will renew the core network of Globe Telecom including […]

Nokia has proved that its Communicator brand has successfully shaped a significant milestone in the contemporary marketing history of Indonesia as well as the world.
Nokia Indonesia conducted the Communicator Community Gathering today to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Nokia Communicator’s presence in Indonesia. More than 2,000 Communicator users attended the gathering at Grand Hyatt […]

Cellular Reaches 2,5 Billion Lines

Published Date: September 10th, 2006
Category: 3G, Report, GPRS, Cell Phone, GSM, Consumer, UMTS, Business Briefing

Geekzone reported a very interesting statictic on cellular industry milestones. Mobile phone industry has become a spectacular industry: it took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in a period of just over two years.
According to estimates from Wireless […]

Espoo, Finland - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) recently announced that Yahoo! Search has become a more integral part of the Nokia Mobile Search application, a simple, convenient, and fast way to find and connect to local services, websites, images, and mobile content - all from the palm of your hand.
This cooperation allows […]