Articles tagged with: Texas and Wind

Handango Publishes Top Mobile Applications Chart for 2008

Mobile applications retailer, Handango has published its 2008 Handango Yardstick. For the first time, Handango is releasing 'Handango's Top Ten' list identifying the top ten downloaded applications across all operating platforms and devices and sold through Handango's multiple distribution channels. more

Mobile Internet Usage on WiFi Widespread Across the USA

Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has highlighted widespread mobile Internet usage on WiFi in the United States and strong growth in Western Europe in its January 2009 Mobile Metrics Report. more

InterDigital Unveils SlimChip Embedded HSPA Modules for NetBook Markets

InterDigital has unveiled its SlimChip Half-Mini PCIe module and the SlimChip MID module. These compact wireless modules, which use InterDigital's SlimChip HSPA baseband IC, are optimized to be embedded in a growing category of mobile broadband devices, such as Smartphones, Mobile Internet Devices or MIDs, and consumer electronics. more

D2 Tech Shows Off WiMAX Mobile Phone Reference Design

VoIP applications developer, D2 Technologies says that it is offering private demonstrations of a complete reference design for the creation of WiMAX mobile phones. Built around the company's mCUE converged communications client, the reference design provides manufacturers with a turnkey software solution for developing and delivering WiMAX handsets and similar portable devices to market. more

Building a More Resilient Telecoms Network

Hurricane Katrina helped University of texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, formulate a new plan for the U.S. telecom system: a de-centralized power architecture that would have kept the lights and phones on in New Orleans. Kwasinski maintains that a microgrid-based power plant with its own local power sources and independent control would be more dependable, efficient, and cost effective than traditional telecom power systems. Microgrids would also be a quick and inexpensive way to include renewable energy sources for both existing and developing systems. more

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Use Wind Power to Recharge your Mobile Phone

Orange UK has shown off a mobile phone charger prototype which is powered by wind energy. The Orange Mobile Wind Charger is the result of months of research into a viable alternate energy source to power mobile phones during summer music festivals, where attendees more commonly live in tents for several days. more

Related Tags: phone-charger, display, charger

Tim Hellas - Seasonality Continues as Weather Moves In

With the mobile community's focus on Vodafone's multi-billion dollar acquisition of Hutch in India, which was confirmed on Sunday 11th February, it might have been easy to miss the news a few days earlier that Weather Investments - the vehicle of Orascom's owners the Sawiris family, which also owns Wind in Italy - had agreed to acquire Greek operator TIM Hellas from the private equity funds Apax Partners and texas Pacific Group (TPG) which purchased it in June 2005 from Telecom Italia. more

Orascom CEO Interested In TIM Hellas Via Weather Fund

CAIRO -(Dow Jones)- Orascom Telecom Holding Chief Executive Naguib Sawiris is exploring the possibility of bidding for Greek wireless operator TIM Hellas, a spokesman for Sawiris' telecommuncations unit said Tuesday. more

France Telecom Sells 27% MobilCom Stake To Texas Pacific

PARIS -(Dow Jones)- France Telecom SA (FTE) said Monday it has sold 27.3% of German mobile phone operator MobilCom AG (MOB.XE) to texas Pacific Gruop (TPG.YY) for EUR265 million. more

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