Tuesday, 5 July 2011

ZTE ranked first in PTN market revenue share

ZTE Corp., China’s own telecommunications equipment and network solutions provider, announced that according to the Dell’Oro Group, they (ZTE) ranked top in the Packet Transmission Networking (PTN) market for Q1 of 2011 when it comes to revenue. Read more...

Alibaba devises its own NFC system

China’s online business portal, Alibaba, has introduced an ‘Alipay’ app that will help customers make their purchases using their mobile phones. Read more...

More Chinese browse the mobile web on Nokia

Nokia is still the favored choice of mobile phone users in China. If you ask the question, which is the most popular mobile brand for web browsing in China, the answer is not the iPhone, it’s the Nokia 5230. Read more...

Accused Chinese spy (Huawei) now fighting cyber spies in India

Huawei has teamed up with the Indian Government to help them fight cyber attacks and espionage from other nations done through mobile-phone technology. The company recently set up a lab in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore to search smartphone and telecom devices imported to India for spyware or malware. Read more...

Half a million Android devices every day, says Andy Rubin

The Android number game started in May 2010 with 100,000 daily activations, and then reached 200,000 by August, 300,000 in December and finally 400,000 in May this year. Android world domination still isn’t slowing down. The proud dad Andy Rubin tweeted the pretty amazing figures for Android this week—500,000 activations every day. That’s not every week or month, it’s half a million activations daily! Read more...

More US adults own an eReader rather than a tablet

Last week fans with their owls waited eagerly for Rowling to reveal the mystery of Pottermore. And then Harry Potter finally made an appearance with a magical wand in one hand and an eReader in the other! Yep, Harry Potter will soon fly over your eReaders on his broom and this is sure to boost eReader ownership. But according to Pew research, eReaders are already quite popular and have outpaced tablets with US adults. Read more...

A Cloud hovers over the Great Firewall of China

China is building a Cloud Computing region called the ‘Special Administrative Region’ (SAR), in Chongqing, a major city in SouthWest China, in order to gain market share in cloud computing. Read more...