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Articles tagged with: Eu
Fitch Downgrades Deutsche Telekom on Guidance Revision, Weak Operating Results
Fitch Ratings has downgraded Deutsche Telekom's (DT) Long-term Issuer Default rating (IDR) to 'BBB+' from 'A-' (A minus) and assigned a Stable Outlook. This follows DT's downward guidance revision for 2009 as operating pressures continue apace in key markets. more
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Electricity Meters to Transmit Usage Data over T-Mobile Network
Echelon Corp. and T-Mobile USA have announced an alliance to accelerate the adoption of the smart grid in the North American market by reducing the communications cost of smart meters through the deployment of Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) system over T-Mobile's GSM network. As part of the agreement, Echelon will utilize an embedded T-Mobile SIM within a cellular radio module to enable all the Echelon smart meters on a given low voltage transformer to communicate back to the utility over the smart grid, and T-Mobile will offer users of Echelon's NES system and pricing plans for data usage. more
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Orange to Offer Mobile Version of Wikipedia
Orange has announced a deal to port the Wikipedia internet encyclopedia into its own mobile internet portal - both as a stand-alone product but also integrated into its existing content services. The service will be initially launched in France, the UK, Spain and Poland. more
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Nokia Shows Off 3rd NFC Capable Mobile Phone
Nokia has shown off its third fully integrated Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile phone, the Nokia 6216 classic. The new arrival is Nokia's first SIM-based NFC device which enables operators to build NFC services on to the SIM card. The Nokia 6216 classic is expected to start shipping in the third quarter of 2009 in select markets with an estimated retail price of euR 150 before taxes and subsidies. more
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Soft hardware for a flexible chip
..n reuse the component for another application." Several different types of reconfigurable building blocks have been integrated into the chip to increase the range of possible applications. "The flexibility we have in the chip is even higher becau more
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New digital signal processor is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient
..i Landge, Michael Meeuwsen, Christine Watnik, Anh Tran, Zhibin Xiao Jeremy Webb, Eric Work, Jeremy Webb and Paul Mejia. Support for the work came from STMicroelectronics, Intel, Inc., University of California MICRO, the National Science Foundati more
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Huawei Full-Year Profits Jump 20 Percent
China's Huawei Technologies has bucked the economic downturn and reported a 20% rise in full year profits for 2008 to US$1.15 billion. Revenues rose by 43% to reach $18.33 billion - slightly above the unaudited figures offered earlier this year. more
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European Parliament Votes to Approve Cuts on Roaming Charges
The european Parliament, in its plenary session in Strasbourg, has voted to approve new rules on SMS and mobile data charges when roaming. The Parliament also voted for further cuts in the price of mobile phone calls while roaming in another eu country. The present cap for a mobile phone call made abroad will progressively drop from euR0.46 to euR0.35 per minute by July 2011, and from euR0.22 today to euR0.11 for mobile calls received while roaming abroad. more
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P2P mobile messaging to reach $106bn by 2014 - but revenues to decline in some sectors
Mobile messaging revenues are set for measured growth over the next five years, as market forces take effect. SMS, MMS, mobile email and IM traffic volumes will continue their inexorable rise, but the IP evolution is resulting in disruptive business models, increased competition from the Web and commoditisation of established services. more
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Nokia Working on "Augmented Reality" for Mobile Phones
..isual recognition techniques for use on mobile devices," said Ulrich Neumann, professor in the Computer Science Department in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. "It's exciting to work with Nokia a more
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