01 December 2009 – The Nokia 6760 slide will be commercially available in Singapore from this week onwards at the recommended retail price of SGD$319, excluding operator plan and GST. Read Full Story
Germany just dropped Blackberry devices as their high security devices for VIP conversations, over concerns that sensitive data was being transmitted back to Canada. Now, Germany has appointed Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary T-Systems to get hold of ‘several thousand’ customised handsets with high end encryptions. But seriously Canada?! Really Germany? What’s Canada going to do to you except hike up maple syrup prices? Read Full Story
30 November 2009 – Newly-listed Malaysian mobile group Maxis Communications is to pump billions of dollars into its Indian subsidiary, Aircel, over the next few years. According to the Financial Times, Maxis expects to hit 50 million connections in total this year with Aircel – its 74 percent-owned Indian subsidiary – accounting for the bulk of the growth. Aircel is only the seventh-largest mobile operator in India but is expected to hit 30 million connections by January. ... Read Full Story
Gizmodo is reporting that a trusted source tipped the Android operating system will be running on Google developed/branded hardware in the near future. Google will be making its own hardware but the Android software will be unseen, unheard of version. Read Full Story
Short Messaging Services (SMS) and mobile voice services are proving resilient even during financial crisis, as SMS in Asia/Pacific and Japan are on pace to reach 1.9 trillion messages in 2009, a 15.5 percent increase from 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2010, SMS volumes are forecast to surpass 2.1 Trillion, a 12.7 percent increase from 2009. Read Full Story
