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Huawei has announced that it recently has signed a Global Master Agreement with Telenor Group to supply Mobile Broadband Modems.
Under the agreement, Huawei will involve to deliver 1.2 million Mobile Broadband Modems in the coming 12 months for Telenor’s 13 operating companies in Europe, CIS and Asia, including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Russia, [...]

What Google Chrome OS Means for Computing

Posted by: Bappy on: July 14, 2009

I don’t often write about tech issues, but so much is being written about the Google Chrome OS announcement I thought I’d weigh in.
On the surface, the announcement of a Google operating system seems to many like a shot at rival Microsoft, an attack at MS’s core business. But those who have been following Google’s [...]

Operators should rethink mobile broadband pricing

Posted by: Bappy on: March 1, 2009

For once the telecoms industry has found a 3G application that works: mobile broadband take-up has been swift in the last 12 months and has shown that access is important again, said Didier Bonnet, global head of consulting services, telecom media and entertainment at Capgemini.
But like many, Bonnet fears that the industry has rushed too [...]

More on Google ‘G’ drive (Is it to counter Microsoft?)

Posted by: Bappy on: February 2, 2009

The Internet is abuzz these days with speculation over the launch of a new online storage offering from Google said to be dubbed GDrive. The service would apparently be bundled with Google Pack, the company’s software download offering that includes products such as Picasa and Google Earth. With no official word, many questions remain unanswered [...]

The number of people on the Internet surpassed one billion in December, according to comScore. The actual number is probably higher than that (Internet World Stats counted nearly 1.5 billion Web surfers worldwide as of June 30, 2008). In any case, only between 15 and 22 percent of the world’s population is on the Internet. [...]

Mobile broadband set to soar in Asia

Posted by: Bappy on: November 13, 2008

THE number of subscribers to High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) services – a technology that enables broadband access on mobile phones and other computing devices – will more than double next year in Asia, according to a forecast by telco industry group GSM Association (GSMA).
In an interview with BizIT, Jaikishan Rajaraman, GSMA director of product [...]