Microsofts Windows Phone 7 has shipped 2 million units to carriers, but the number of those sold to consumers remains unclear. – So, how many Windows Phone 7 devices have sold to consumers?
Thats the multibillion-dollar question without an official answer. During this Januarys Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a Microsoft executive told eWEEK that the company had never made a regular habit of releasing comprehensive sa…
That Samsung reportedly wants to charge carriers for Android updates is the latest rumor in a story that its forcing T-Mobile to withhold updates to the Vibrant. – Samsung is making news of late, and its not for the extraordinary
sales figures on its line of Galaxy S handsets. Rumors are being traded
across the Internet about the Vibrant, T-Mobiles Samsung Galaxy S handset, have put the phone maker in the hotseat.
AndroidSpin
first reported Jan. 12 that…
A new mobile VOIP report from In-Stat expects spending in the space to reach $6 billion in 2015, as enterprises, and even carriers, get on board. – The successful transition of voice over IP technology from
fixed-line phones to the mobile world is expected to encourage spending in the mobile VOIP space to rise to $6
billion by 2015, according to a report from In-Stat.
The growth, added the firm, will create “significant opportunity” for equi…
Cosco Corporation (Singapore) says subsidiaries Cosco (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co. and Cosco (Guangdong) Shipyard Co. have each delivered a 57,000 dwt bulk carrier, the Almeria and Agria, to their European buyers. The two 57,000 dwt bulk carriers measure 189.99m in length, 32.26m in breadth and 18m in depth.
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The FCCs net neutrality rules go relatively easy on wireless carriers, which face unique constraints and have taken steps “toward openness,” such as the deployment of Android. – After months of debate over “net neutrality,” the Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 21 approved enforceable rules
preventing broadband companies from giving preferential treatment to
various traffic on the Internet or discriminating against rivals
content and services. The rules vary, how…
Google’s Android engineers defend the open source platform, arguing that carriers and handset makers who lock down their Android smartphones beg for rooting exploits. – Google’s Android team prefers that carriers and handset makers provide
unlocking mechanisms for Android smartphones so application developers can
tweak the operating system without circumventing Android’s security.
Android, which is aggressively challenging Apple’s iPhone in the U.S.,
is by natu…
As all eyes turn to the Federal Communications Commission as they prepare to vote on the net neutrality proposal, a leaked presentation outlines how cellular carriers can roll out a fee-based tiered Internet. – In a leaked presentation, two companies that
sell their services to cellular carriers showed off a wireless product
that appears to achieve the opposite of the net neutrality rules
proposed by the Federal Communications Commission.
In the PowerPoint presentation, available on Wired,
Allot Com…
Singapore Airlines (C6L.SG) +0.9% at $15.84, Tiger Airways (J7X.SG) +1.1% at $1.87, faring better than the broader market though with both stocks are trading in low volume.
DBS, which rates the former at Buy, the latter at Hold, says there are “plenty of reasons to buy into regional airlines,” with the earnings rebound they enjoyed in 2010 likely to continue into 2011, albeit at a slower pace.
Cosco Corporation (Singapore) says its subsidiaries have delivered a 80,000 dwt and 57,000 dwt bulk carrier to its European buyers.
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The next Apple iPhone wont have a SIM card, Apple has reportedly assured untrusting European carriers that are worried such a development would damage their bottom lines. – Apple has told several European carriers that the iPhone 5, due out
in mid-2011, will not include a subscriber identity module, better
known as a SIM card, the Financial Times reported Nov. 22, citing “people close to the operators.”
It was first reported by GigaOm in October that Apple was work…
Microsoft is making its Bing for Mobile Android app available to all major U.S. mobile operators, even as its Windows Phone 7 competes with Android for users. – Microsoft is expanding the reach of its Bing for Mobile Android app to all major U.S. mobile operators, even as it gears up its own Windows Phone 7 platform for battle against Google Android.
“Since the launch of the Bing for Mobile Android App in the Verizon Wireless Android Market, many of you as…
STX Pan Ocean said in a filing to the Korea Exchange that the investment
Cosco Corporation (Singapore) says Cosco (Dalian) Shipyard, the subsidiary of the company’s 51% owned subsidiary, Cosco Shipyard Group, has secured contracts valued over US$87 million ($112 million) to build three bulk carriers of 57,000 dwt each. The contracts are effective following receipt of the initial deposits from the Asian ship owner.
The bulk carriers which will be built at Cosco (Dalian) shipyards are scheduled for deliveries from May 2012 to March 2013.
Meanwhile, Cosco says it has received initial deposits for two out of the 15 shipbuilding contracts announced made by the company on June 15.
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Cosco Corporation (Singapore) says Cosco (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., a unit of the company’s 51% owned subsidiary, Cosco Shipyard Group Co., has secured contracts valued over US$51 million ($68 million) to build two bulk carriers of 57,000 dwt and 35,000 dwt. The contracts are effective following receipt of the initial deposits from the European ship owner.
The bulk carriers which will be built at Cosco (Guangdong) shipyards are scheduled for deliveries in August 2012 and December 2012 respectively.
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News Analysis: Major wireless carriers treat Hurricane Earl as a serious threat to their infrastructures, even though significant damage to the U.S. mainland is unlikely. – Wireless carriers are marshalling their forces at a series of mostly
undisclosed locations in the mid-Atlantic as Hurricane Earl works its
way up the East Coast. Theyre on standby with trucks, mobile cell
towers, generators, fuel and portable switching equipment staged to go
anywhere the storm m…
Cosco Corporation (Singapore) says Cosco (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., a unit of the company’s 51%-owned subsidiary, Cosco Shipyard Group Co., has secured contracts valued over US$55 million ($74.4 million) to build two bulk carriers of 57,000 dwt each. The contracts follow initial deposits made by the unidentified Asian ship owner. The bulk carriers will be built at Cosco (Guangdong) shipyards and are scheduled for deliveries in September 2011 and March 2012 respectively.
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Cosco Corporation (Singapore) says Cosco (Dalian) Shipyard Co., a subsidiary of the company’s 51%-owned subsidiary, Cosco Shipyard Group Co., has secured contracts valued over US$70 million ($94.5 million) to build two bulk carriers of 92,500 dwt each from a Hong Kong ship owner. The bulk carriers will be built at Cosco (Dalian) shipyards and are scheduled for deliveries in November 2011 and January 2012.
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Cosco Corporation (Singapore) says Cosco (Dalian) Shipyard Co. and Cosco (Guangdong) Shipyard Co. the two subsidiaries of the company’s 51% owned unit Cosco Shipyard Group Co. have today signed 11 contracts and 4 letters of intent totalling over US$440 million ($616 million) with four European shipowners to build 15 units of bulk carriers.
Four units of the bulk carriers are 82,000 dwt each and 11 units of the bulk carriers are 57,000 dwt each.
Deliveries of the vessels to the shipowners are expected to take place between the end of 2011 and the middle of 2013.
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Apple will launch the iPad in the United Kingdom market May 28, with some in that country reporting their preordered iPads arrived a day early. The U.K. edition of the iPad features 3G connectivity through multiple carriers, unlike in the United States, where that service is only available through AT&T. The iPad proved a massive success in the United States, selling more than 1 million units within a month of its April 3 general release, but that demand put pressure on Apples production channel and apparently slowed the international rollout. – Apple will officially launch the iPad in the United Kingdom May
28, with some devices reportedly delivered early. Apples U.K. Website
suggests, however, that those now preordering an iPad will need to wait until
June for their purchase to ship.
According
to the Telegraph.co.uk, some British rep…
