Taipei, Sept. 11, 2012 (CENS)--The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has agreed to allow banks buying into mobile payment platform company organized by five major telecom carriers and EasyCard Corp, so as to tap the massive ...
Tags: Taiwan, FSC, mobile payment, EasyCard Corp, mainland China
Avago Technologies has announced its new active optical cable (AOC) family, high-density SFP+ QSFP+ and CXP solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) and data-center applications. The firm says that the active optical cable assemblies ...
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Out with the old Delivering the “near-impossible” The agenda for 2013 Focus on Apple The next funding period Susan Cooklin has had an eventful 2012. The CIO at Network Rail delivered major technology upgrades, while driving ...
Tags: Apple, Susan Cooklin, technology upgrades, cycle of transformation
Hewlett-Packard, ZTE and mobile operators such as AT&T and SK Telecom have pooled their LTE patents under a program led by Via Licensing, aiming to provide a one-stop shop for companies to license their technology. Via Licensing organized ...
Tags: LTE Patent, Technologies, ZTE, HP
Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo's subscribers will be able to make mobile payments when travelling abroad next year, thanks to a collaboration with MasterCard. Together the two companies will expand DoCoMo's iD mobile credit payment ...
Tags: NTT DoCoMo, mobile payments, MasterCard, NFC
The US has confirmed it will resist efforts by China, Russia and their allies to put the internet under the control of the United Nations. The confirmation came in a statement issued by the US Department of State on US proposals to be ...
Tags: internet, telecommunications, network, IT industry
Sprint Nextel will spend $2.2 billion to take complete ownership of Clearwire, a move that will help it expand its network capacity. Clearwire's board of directors has accepted the latest bid allowing Sprint to purchase the nearly 50% of ...
Tags: Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, network capacity, phone, mobile spectrum
With an extensive portfolio of services, dished out with a self-service portal, and priced with charge back mechanism, the Siva group is operating arguably one of the most mature private clouds in the country. Organization: The US$3 ...
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Apple has the all clear to launch the iPad mini and iPad 4 in China after the regulator there cleared China’s regulatory hurdles. To date only the WiFi versions of the devices are available in China. However, the iPad remains ...
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A free webinar hosted by Mindsharp and Apptix will take place October 10, 2012. Mindsharp, a SharePoint education company, and Apptix, a provider of hosted business communication, collaboration, and IT solutions will be joining together to ...
Tags: webinar, SharePoint education, IT solutions, software
The upper house of the Russian Parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that the nation's IT industry believes has high potential to lead to Internet censorship. The bill, including amendments to several laws, was adopted by the upper house ...
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Cameleon Software, announced today that Cable ONE, a major operator of cable systems, has implemented Cameleon CPQ configure, price, quote software for Salesforce CRM to streamline its sales processes. Cable ONE delivers cable television, ...
Tags: Cameleon Software, cable systems, software, Internet services
A report by Gartner analysts Robert P. DeSisto and Praveen Sengar titled 'Hype Cycle for CRM Sales, 2012'* (published: 18 July 2012) highlights the impact of iPad-based applications on sales force automation (SFA) and the role configure, ...
Tags: iPad apps, CRM system, Cameleon Software, sales force automation
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
Tags: AWS, Disaster Preparedness Questions, Cloud Services Provider, IWGCR
Reuters reported that Dubai listed Drake and Scull helps lift the emirate's bourse after the firm's JV won a new contract in Saudi Arabia valued at SAR 2.7 billion. Shares in DSI rise 1.6%. The contractor and engineering firm along with ...
Tags: Etisalat recovers, telecom operator, telecom, Etisalat