Archive for August, 2009

Apple iPhone faces Android threat in UK

August 30, 09 by David Goldstein

The battle to dent the dominance of Apple’s iPhone will intensify next month. Orange and T-Mobile are expected to unveil exclusive deals to stock the latest touchscreen phones that use Google’s Android software to British gadget fans.

Orange is understood to have secured the...

Belize nationalises telecoms to protect from ‘predatory’ Lord Ashcroft

August 30, 09 by David Goldstein

The Prime Minister of Belize has nationalised the country’s main telecommunications service, claiming that he was removing it from the control of the “predatory” Lord Ashcroft, reports The Times.

Dean Barrow accused the billionaire peer of striking deals with the previous ruling party, ...

Kerre Woodham: It’s tough work if you can get it, so lay off

August 29, 09 by newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz
News of the Telecom's CEO's $5 million pay package has been met with howls of outrage from the company's striking lines engineers. Shameless greed, their union rep called it, and there are probably a few Telecom shareholders who...

Anthony Doesburg: Enforcing new phone laws will be a hard cell

August 29, 09 by newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz
As cellphones become satellite navigation devices and sat-navs become phones, there's potential for plenty of confusion when the police begin enforcing the ban on handheld cellphone use while driving. In Australia, where the law...

Court rejects cap on cable market share — again

August 28, 09 by PHYSorg.com: Telecom News
(AP) -- An appeals court overturned a rule that said a cable TV company could not serve more than 30 percent of the nation's subscribers. The verdict Friday was a victory for the largest cable company, Comcast Corp., which has 25 percent share and sued to block the rule.