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Innovations in International Calling: MAXroam SIM Cuts Costs

October 03, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 16 vote(s) | No comments yet

Cubic Telecom MAXroam Sim popular in Europe is on its way to North America. The MAXroam SIM card is inserted into an unlocked mobile phone with GSM network capability. MAXroam provides easy instructions on ...


Satellite debacle hits India's DTH plans

July 11, 2006 | User rating: 1.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s) | No comments yet

The failure of the launch of the Indian Space Research Organization's communications satellite INSAT-4C that was made to explode since it veered off course soon after launch Monday has come as a major setback for the country's ...


Balsillie: BlackBerry Shutdown Will Never Happen Again

May 13, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie said the BlackBerry shutdown last month was caused by a process error and the problem has been "unambiguously solved."


New Technologies That May Save Lives

October 19, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

As part of the M-Taiwan project, NEC and Tatung will demonstrate life saving technologies at the WiMax Forum next week. The forum will display the efforts of NEC in providing ambulance to hospital large file ...


Ubiquitous broadband, more than optical illusion

February 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Better access to ultra-fast broadband networks in Europe is driving development of a host of new web services, promising everything from video conferencing to internet protocol (IP) television. But “ultra-broadband” like ...


Globe Talk: Don't brush off satellite radio

June 09, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

How does one decide on whether a risk is worth taking? There's obviously no set formula to that question that is asked by any shrewd investor or entrepreneur. At first blush, the risk in putting money into satellite radio ...


AT&T: In Cell Phones, Simple Is the New Sexy

March 28, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

ORLANDO -- The new killer app for wireless is ease of use. That's the word that Randall Stephenson, chief operating officer of AT&T, delivered in his keynote speech at the 2007 CTIA Wireless conference here.


Globe Talk: Mobile banking as aid tool

June 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

Mobile phones are becoming commonplace enough in some of the remotest parts of the world, much to the delight of both private companies and public policymakers. For phone manufacturers and service providers, some of the globe's ...


Get mobile, get promoted

April 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Without that five minutes chat by the watercooler, the open-ended lunch break, or a boss's beckoning door, homeworkers can often feel isolated from colleagues and the opportunities for informal networking and mentoring that ...


Building a better telecom system

July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

Hurricane Katrina helped University of Texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, formulate a new plan for the U.S. telecom system: a de-centralized power architecture that would have kept the lights and phones on in New Orleans. ...


Optical fibre: secure in all the chaos

January 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

Secure messages hidden in chaotic waveforms, transmitted at up to 10 gigabits per second, is the vision behind a group of dedicated European researchers. Now they are prototyping the equipment that could make the vision a ...


San Diego Supercomputer Center director urges academia to make cyberinfrastructure 'real'

July 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Comprising the "infrastructure" for the Information Age, cyberinfrastructure – the organized aggregate of information technologies, organizations, and human resources – is essential for future research advancement ...


Globe Talk: Intel's WiMax push

May 26, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

From being able to go online at the local Starbucks to surfing the World Wide Web from an airport, there's no denying that once you get connected wirelessly, there's no going back.


Indian broadband market could explode

July 06, 2006 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | No comments yet

The telecom world may still be marveling at India's mobile telephony growth, which at 100 million connections has emerged as the fastest growing in the world, but the other scorching growth story in the country's telecom ...


Text messaging partners mobile and TV

May 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | No comments yet

With more than 64.5 million text messages throughout Fox's fifth season of "American Idol," LogicaCMG gave United Press International a behind-the-scenes look at how text messaging is uniting the mobile and television industries.


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