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Articles tagged with: Paris
Digicel Jamaica Seeks Arbitration over Interconnection Fees
Digicel Jamaica has filed an Arbitration claim with the International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC") in paris against Cable &Wireless in relation to allegations of significant unpaid interconnection fees. Cable &Wireless recently rebranded its Caribean mobile networks with the "Lime" brandname. more
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NFC Reader Module Expands Access to MobiNear Kiosk and Platform
NFC chip vendor, Inside Contactless has signed a contract to supply its NFC reading capabilities to enhance the MobiNear Box kiosk deployed around paris. The kiosk enables customers to access MobiNear's PayGO platform for a broad range of payment, loyalty, access control and identification services. more
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Bell Labs breaks the 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company's research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). This transmission experiment involved sending the equivalent of 400 DVDs per second over 7,000 kilometers, roughly the distance between paris and Chicago. more
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Bell Labs breaks the 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company's research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). This transmission experiment involved sending the equivalent of 400 DVDs per second over 7,000 kilometers, roughly the distance between paris and Chicago. more
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Mass-Produced 'Bulk Apps' Account for App Store Sales Volumes
Location based services provider, Skyhook Wireless has looked at the Android Marketplace and Apple App Store, and found that in both stores, $0.99 is the most popular paid category, and only a handful of apps sell for $6.00 to $8.99. Some location apps sell for $9.99 or higher in both stores. Most of these high-priced apps are navigation or sports-related like golf and sailing. more
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Mass-Produced 'Bulk Apps' Account for App Store Sales Volumes
Location based services provider, Skyhook Wireless has looked at the Android Marketplace and Apple App Store, and found that in both stores, $0.99 is the most popular paid category, and only a handful of apps sell for $6.00 to $8.99. Some location apps sell for $9.99 or higher in both stores. Most of these high-priced apps are navigation or sports-related like golf and sailing. more
Related Tags: app-store, skyhook-wireless, ovi
No Escape for Global Chip Suppliers in Miserable First Quarter
From paris to Tokyo, from the biggest broad-line suppliers to the most modest boutiques, from high-fliers serving hot markets to low-profile players plodding away in slow-growth segments - virtually no semiconductor company was immune from the miserable conditions in the global semiconductor industry during the first quarter, according to iSuppli Corp. more
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London - Top City for Getting Lost and Misdirected by the Locals
Getting lost in London is inevitable. According to new research commissioned by Nokia, there are more people getting lost in London than anywhere else in the world, including cities like Bangkok and Beijing, which are nearly twice the size of London. more
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French Mobile Operator Scraps Paper Based Contracts
French mobile operator, SFR is switching from paper based customer contracts to an electronic version - using an electronic signature service from Cryptolog. The company says that it will be able to make considerable savings in storing and archiving contracts, whilst retaining the possibility of consulting these documents at any given time, even decades after their creation and with a guarantee of validity - something which it believes will prove particularly reassuring for SFRÃ's clients. more
Asian Bank to Boost Rural GSM Service in Afghanistan
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to provide a US$55 million loan to the Afghanistan based mobile operator, Roshan so it can extend its coverage to parts of the country that have little or no telecommunications infrastructure in place. The loan to Telecom Development Company Afghanistan, which trades under the name Roshan, will also support the rollout of a mobile banking system called M-Paisa. more
Related Tags: solar-power, rsa, rural, mobile-banking, roshan, Afghanistan