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SARS Ko's
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8th April 2003 |
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The event would have brought together senior executives and government officials to promote 3G wireless and highlight problematic areas. The event will be rescheduled later in the year. As the SARS claims nearly its 90 victim worldwide many wireless companies and attendees are canceling overseas travel which is not essential. |
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the UK's number one stocks and shares Web site, is providing live stocks
and shares information to investors on the move. The first advertiser
of this new service is Intel. |
The
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS virus outbreak has forced the
event organizers of the TD-SCDMA conference in Beijing this week to cancel. |
Visa
International, Nippon Shinpan, OMC Card and AEON Credit today announced
the start of a pilot program, together with NTT DoCoMo, Inc., to test
a service for making credit card payments at bricks and mortar merchants
via DoCoMo 504i and 504iS series mobile phones, which are equipped with
infrared transmission (IrDA) ports. |
Ericsson
has been chosen by América Móvil as main supplier for the
Core Infrastructure and one of the principal suppliers for the Radio Infrastructure
for a GSM and EDGE Network to complement the existing TDMA network of
its Brazilian subsidiary Telecom Americas. |
The
development follows a European wide agreement to distribute the games
via retail packs announced today between Digital Bridges, a world leader
in mobile entertainment solutions and Namco Europe |
SM
increased its digital cellular subscriber base in the Americas by 54%
in 2002, the largest percentage gain of any wireless technology in the
region. In Latin America, GSM increased its subscriber base by 90% in
2002, largely in the second half of the year when several new GSM networks
were commercially launched. |
All
four of the 3G licence holders in Sweden has applied for a 2 or 3 year
delay to the full rollout of 3G in Sweden. This is based on problems getting
approval for the siting of telecom masts and the scarcity of the handsets. |
The
number of NTT DoCoMo 3G FOMA subscribers increased to 320,000 subscribers
up to March 2003. This means that DoCoMo hit the targets they had previously
stated. |
The
multimedia composer and transaction engine made available by Liquid Air
Lab, combined with the mBill billing platform, enabled mBill to integrate
an existing SMS chat application with a multimedia messaging component.
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n
top of all the other challenges facing MMS before it can become the success
that the mobile operators are hoping for and boost non-voice revenues
to new heights - one issue stands out that is crucial for the content
providers before they even think about publishing and selling content
via MMS - Digital Rights Management (DRM) |
Response
to Californian Congressman Darrell Issa’s letter to the Honorable
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence from Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM
Association and Member of its Board. |
LG
will launch a rotational camera-fitted GPRS phone on the Italian market,
the largest in Europe. The camera phone model is fitted with 65,000 -color
TFD-LCD and 40 poly and intended for export to Europe. |
All
European telcos can learn valuable lessons from i-mode and Vodafone live!,
according to a new brief by Forrester Research. Europe's i-mode gets the
services right and the marketing wrong, while Vodafone live! does the
opposite. |
The
PA-Manager allows operators to enforce the priority access policy at cell
level without compromising Quality-of-User Experience (QoE) for all other
services sharing the same media space, and also to monitor application
performance on a cell-by-cell basis. |
To
their disappointment, some operators now find it nearly impossible to
recover their investments and most have delayed their plans to deploy
3G, according to a new study by research firm Allied Business Intelligence
(ABI). |
DTAC
announced cooperation with world’s leader in mobile communications
Nokia to strengthen its position as the leading wireless data services
provider. |
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China
: The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS virus outbreak has
forced the event organizers of the TD-SCDMA conference in Beijing this
week to cancel.