South Korean operator SK Telecom said it launched an LTE-Advanced network on Wednesday, offering speeds of up to 150Mbps on an upgraded version of Samsung's Galaxy S4 handset. The operator said the service is the first in the world and ...
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The complexity of existing IT systems is acting as a major barrier to the adoption of cloud, with many CIOs unsure as to how to adapt to the technology, warns a report by ICT services provider NTT Europe. Based on the views of 300 CIOs ...
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Sales of Sony's Xperia A smartphone have doubled those of the Samsung Galaxy S4 at Japan's main carrier, after a nationwide sales campaign that exclusively promoted the two handsets side-by-side. A screen shot from the website of NTT ...
Shipments of new Symbian smartphones from Nokia are rapidly dying, less than three years after the last time it topped the list of the world's most-used mobile platforms. The rapid and stark decline of Symbian serves as a warning about ...
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A major Japanese telecommunications provider will stream 4k video over the Internet to set-top boxes this week, in what it is calling the world's first public test of the technology. NTT West said Tuesday it will conduct a three-day trial ...
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Hitachi said Monday it will officially support Amazon Web Services as part of its cloud solution offerings, a victory for Amazon over rival Microsoft Azure. Amazon and Microsoft have long been locked in competition for the Japanese cloud ...
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Momentum is building as leading companies engage in the first round of 5G technology development, according to Strategy Analytics, which recomends that companies start planning now to influence the definition of the requirements for the new ...
Safaricom expects to increase its data market share in Africa after reporting an increase in both voice and data revenue for its latest fiscal year. For the ended March 31, after-tax profit jumped 39 percent year over year to 17.5 billion ...
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IT services provider NTT DATA Inc has expanded its customer agreement with GaN-on-GaN LED technology firm Soraa Inc. Challenged with providing rapid real-time reporting to executives, as well as better interaction with their back-end ...
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Existing 4G networks for mobile devices still have limited global reach, but that's not going to keep 5G technology waiting in the wings. Samsung announced Monday that?it has developed some transceiver technology that can deliver 5G ...
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Samsung Electronics plans to use advanced antennas to boost the bandwidth in mobile networks by what it said was "several tens of Gbps per base station," but the improved bandwidth won't be commercially available until 2020. The company ...
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NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, will use location data from its 61.5 million subscriber devices to build a platform that monitors traffic conditions across the country. DoCoMo said it will leverage its access to massive ...
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Pioneer will soon launch a new car navigation system in Japan that uses dashboard cameras to scan the road ahead for approaching street signs and other cars, and will share images of road conditions with other vehicles. The company's new ...
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Within the U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill is a proposal to create a database that may shed new light on H-1B hiring. The intent of the database is to help improve the odds that a U.S. worker may get hired over a foreign ...
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Salesforce.com, the cloud-based customer relationship management service provider, is to open a new European data centre in the UK to support its fast expansion across the continent. The company claims that sales across Europe are ...
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