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Internet phone market heats up in China

Beijing (China Daily/ANN)- The book peddlers in Beijing are busy seeking underground channels to purchase pirated copies of Steve Jobs’ biography. Selling at 20 yuan (US$3.15) a copy, they say it’s probably the last chance to exploit the memory of Jobs, the founding father of Apple Inc – the world’s most valuable company in...

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Apple accepts payment in China’s yuan currency

Apple has started accepting payment in China’s yuan currency through its online store, opening it up to the biggest Internet market in the world, company officials said Monday. (here is the story…) Related items Research and Markets: Asia Fixed Broadband and Internet Market and Forecasts: a Paul Budde Communication report China's online shopping to...

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Asia’s cell phone healthcare seen at $7 billion by 2017

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Mobile technologies will be increasingly deployed to enable people in Asia to monitor and manage their health, with the market expected to hit $7 billion by 2017, an industry official said. In parts of Europe and the United States, diabetics can now have doctors monitor their blood sugar levels by...

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Asia’s mobile tech-driven healthcare market seen at $7 billion

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Mobile technologies will be increasingly deployed to enable people in Asia to monitor and manage their health, with the market expected to hit $7 billion by 2017, an industry official said. In parts of Europe and the United States, diabetics can now have doctors monitor their blood sugar levels by...

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GSMA: Dual-Mode a Must for LTE Devices

“That won’t drive the market to scale. The key requirement for success is dual-mode chipsets for TDD and FDD LTE,” she told a packed lecture hall here in Hong Kong on Tuesday, a day ahead of GSMA’s Mobile Asia Congress event. (read the story…) Related items Motorola Launches Dual Mode Smartphone for China Taiwan...

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Bharti Airtel: telecom market needs consolidation

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Competition in India’s mobile market will remain intense, with the overcrowded 15-player sector in need of consolidation to lift margins, a senior executive at market leader Bharti Airtel Ltd said on Wednesday. (read on…) Related items Bharti confident of data, Africa as profit falls for 7th quarter Bharti confident of...

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Samsung to remain top smartphone vendor in Q4

Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) – Samsung Electronics will continue to edge out Apple Inc to stay on top of the ever-fierce smartphone market in the fourth quarter, a US market research firm said. (read the story…) Related items Apple's new iPad – Review: The best tablet money can buy An in-depth analysis of China’s...

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Africa’s mobile industry ‘booms’

Africa is the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, and is the biggest after Asia, an association of worldwide mobile phone operators says. (more here….) Related items An in-depth analysis of China’s mobile phone market Industry says Africa fastest growing mobile market In four years, India will leapfrog the US mobile market Unnecto TAPs...

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Industry says Africa fastest growing mobile market

Sure, 24-year-old Gertrude Kitongo cherishes a cell phone as a link to family and friends, from her grandmother in a Ugandan village to former schoolmates in Zimbabwe. (more here….) Related items Africa’s mobile industry ‘booms’ An in-depth analysis of China’s mobile phone market Unnecto TAPs into dual-SIM market, lets you do double GSM duty...

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Bharti confident of data, Africa as profit falls for 7th quarter

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Bharti Airtel is confident of growing its high-speed mobile data business and turning around its struggling African operations after the Indian mobile market leader reported a bigger-than-expected fall in fiscal second-quarter profit that was its seventh consecutive quarterly profit drop. (more here…) Related items Bharti confident of data, Africa as...

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