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TelecomPaper Your One-Stop Source for Telecoms Information!" Telecompaper (Telecompaper) CHINA MOBILE LIMITED. Vodafone wil belang in China Mobile verkopen. China Mobile. China Mobile Communications Corporation (Chinese: 中国移动通信集团公司) is a Chinese state-owned[4] telecommunication company that provides mobile voice and multimedia services[5] through its nationwide mobile telecommunications network.[2] The company is one of the largest mobile telecommunications companies by market capitalization today, and it was named as such in March 2011.[6] China Mobile Limited (Chinese: 中国移动有限公司) is listed on both the NYSE and the Hong Kong stock exchange.[2] As of July 2013, China Mobile (Chinese: 中国移动) is the world's largest mobile phone operator by subscribers with about 760 million.[7] History[edit] A state-owned enterprise directly controlled by the government of the People's Republic of China[4] and also a public company that is listed on the NYSE and the Hong Kong stock exchanges,[2] China Mobile has dominated Chinese mobile services since its inception.

China Mobile

Vodafone Group - corparate website. Vodafone. Vodafone Group plc /ˈvoʊdəfoʊn/ is a British multinational telecommunications company headquartered in London and with its registered office in Newbury, Berkshire.[2] It is the world's 2nd-largest mobile telecommunications company measured by both subscribers and 2013 revenues (in each case behind China Mobile), and had 453 million subscribers as of June 2013.[3][4] Vodafone owns and operates networks in 21 countries and has partner networks in over 40 additional countries.[5] Its Vodafone Global Enterprise division provides telecommunications and IT services to corporate clients in over 65 countries.

Vodafone

Vodafone has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of approximately £89.1 billion as of 6 July 2012[update], the third-largest of any company listed on the London Stock Exchange.[6] It has a secondary listing on NASDAQ. Vodafone 360. PocketLife vodafone. iPhone app. Ad: Prepaid Millionaire. Vodafone Foursquare Partnership Expands to Australia, Portugal. The Vodafone – Foursquare partnership expanded under-the-radar beyond the UK in June, with the geolocation startup now featured by Vodafone in Australia and Portugal.

Vodafone Foursquare Partnership Expands to Australia, Portugal

As in the UK, the partnership isn’t about new features or deep integration, it’s about Vodafone showcasing Foursquare to its millions of subscribers. In the Portugal deal announced last week, Foursquare is now featured on Vodafone Portugal’s mobile portal (My Portal or Vodafone live!) And users can get a link to foursquare.com/mobile by sending a free text message with the text ’4square’ to 12345.

Information and resources for Location Based Open Source Software from Vodafone Wayfinder. Vodafone plots course for Wayfinder by giving it away free! Vodafone’s purchase two years ago of Wayfinder for 230 million Swedish crowns (roughly $31 million USD) to backbone its location services is now, brace yourself, being given away!

Vodafone plots course for Wayfinder by giving it away free!

Your eyes don’t deceive, Vodafone has made almost all Wayfinder code available via open source. According to Vodafone’s internet director Pieter Knook, “Given our decision to stop developing turn by turn location based services as part of our core business, it seemed an obvious choice to make the code we own open source. We look forward to seeing its continued use in all sorts of different applications in the future.” Pocket Life wins race to bring real-time location-based social networking to Facebook. Pocket Life , the geo-location social network initially created out of Vodafone’s Innovation lab in Australia, has released its new Facebook app, bringing real-time geo-location integration to Facebook.

Pocket Life wins race to bring real-time location-based social networking to Facebook

The release, just in time for the f8 Facebook developer conference which starts this Wednesday, is a market first according to the makers, Pocketweb. The app was actually released quietly today and will be officially launched later on in the week. The way the app works is simple and intuitive. It allows users of Pocket Life to share all their location information with their friends on Facebook no matter whether it was added via the Pocket Life web site, the Pocket Life iPhone app or the new Facebook app. That information includes: Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless. Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless and branded and referred to as Verizon, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc..

Verizon Wireless

VZW is the largest mobile network operator in the United States, providing wireless services to 102.8 million subscribers as of Q4 2013.[4] Headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, the company was formed as a joint venture of American telecommunications firm Bell Atlantic (renamed Verizon Communications) and global British telecommunications company Vodafone.[5] Verizon Communications holds 100% percent ownership; Vodafone previously held 45% of what was a joint venture.[6][7] On February 21st, 2014, Verizon purchased Vodafone's 45% stake in the joint venture for $130 billion.[8] History[edit] On April 3, 2000, Verizon Communications began operations as the result of the merger between Bell Atlantic Mobile and GTE. At the end of 2006, Verizon Wireless acquired West Virginia Wireless, a regional GSM cell phone company. Droid from Verizon Wireless. Mobile Exciting!! - Samsung Mobile.

Promoties - News&Events - Samsung Mobile Nederland. Nieuws - News&Events - Samsung Mobile Nederland. Search superswypers. T Wireless. T-Mobile. Sherpa. Geodelic. Brings Serendipity to Location – GigaOM. From chip makers to mobile phone giants to tiny upstarts, location-based services are seen as the wireless world’s pot of gold.

Brings Serendipity to Location – GigaOM

Among those looking to dip into that pot is Geodelic, a Santa Monica, Calif. -based startup that this week announced $3.5 million in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. Even more impressive is the fact that Geodelic has partnered with T-Mobile to offer an LBS application known as Sherpa on the the company’s myTouch phone. Unlike other mapping applications, Geodelic’s technology customizes your location search according to your interests and preferences. According to Geodelic: Sherpa uses a learning engine called GENIE (Geodelic Engine for Interest Evaluation) that automatically learns a user’s favorite locations and lifestyle behavior. When you launch the Sherpa application on your phone, it assigns you a random number that’s stored at Geodelic’s data center. Geodelic (geodelic)

Skyhook Wireless Powers Location on Sherpa App Available in Andr. Connect and share with friends, family, and T-Mobile. Android 2.0 Coming to T-Mobile G1 [RUMOR] HTC. HTC Corporation. History[edit] Cher Wang (王雪紅), H.

HTC Corporation

T. Cho (卓火土), and Peter Chou (周永明) founded HTC in 1997.[9] Initially a manufacturer of notebook computers, HTC began designing some of the world's first touch and wireless hand-held devices in 1998.[10] The company is credited with creating the first Android smartphone, the first Microsoft-powered smartphone (2002) and the first Microsoft 3G phone (2005). Their first major product, one of the world's first touch-screen smartphones, appeared in 2000. As an ODM for HP and Palm, HTC built the HP iPAQ and the Palm Treo 650.

In 2007 HTC acquired the mobile-device company Dopod International.[11] In October 2009, HTC launched the brand tagline "quietly brilliant", and the YOU campaign, HTC's first global advertising campaign.[12] On 6 July 2011, it was announced that HTC would buy VIA Technologies' stake in S3 Graphics, thus becoming the majority owner of S3.[18][19] On 6 August 2011, HTC acquired Dashwire for $18.5M. Nexus One: The Google Phone Has a Name. KPN.com - informatie, service en online winkelen. WaarZitWie HiKPN. KPN Acq- uires iBasis For $93.3 Million. Dutch telecom group KPN has agreed to acquire the 44% of U.S.

KPN Acq- uires iBasis For $93.3 Million

-based operator iBasis that it doesn’t already own for $3 a share, or $93.3 million in cash. A special committee of the iBasis board has approved the terms put forward a couple of weeks ago, and is urging company holders to accept KPN’s tender offer. KPN says it intends to complete the acquisition of iBasis through a merger no later than today. The deal price is more than double the $1.30 closing price of iBasis shares on July 10, the last trading day before KPN announced an offer for the company, and about a third more than the closing price on Friday of $2.26. KPN adds that all iBasis shares not validly tendered into the tender offer will be converted into the right to receive $3.00 per share, net to the holder in cash without interest.

As part of their agreement, KPN and iBasis have now agreed to drop the litigation. The company has its headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts. Sprint: Cell-Mobile Phones,Wireless. SingTel leads Asia's telecommunications with offers on Mobile, B. Property Buddy itunes.apple. Go! Shopping for Android. Carriers worldwide ramping up their support for geolocation apps. More indications that carriers worldwide are taking an active role to leverage the growth in popularity of location services and augmented reality today came from Singapore carrier SingTel, which is releasing two apps to the public (and a third app for subscribers only that is a price comparison app) today. Property Buddy The first app is a called Property Buddy and is available for the iPhone 3GS (and we’re assuming the iPhone 4), with an Android app in the works. The augmented reality app allows users to point their camera phones at residential properties for real-time overlays of property information from Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority, including prices and available properties.

Go! Shopping The second app (for iPhone and Android) called Go! A worldwide trend So back to our first point about carriers really getting into the location/augmented reality app space. So is this a case of just showcasing cool apps? Why Gmail’s New Phone Service Scares Mobile Providers. Google announced a new communication service this week – you can dial up your friends and talk to them on their phones through your computer.

Why Gmail’s New Phone Service Scares Mobile Providers

The service joins Gmail’s other capabilities – like instant chatting, videochatting and of course e-mailing – and is probably not a function that mobile providers are rejoicing over. While many are calling the Gmail phone a competitor to Skype, mobile providers across the board may have cause for jealousy.