Crypto Expert: Moore's Law fuels app obesity epidemic   19 Feb 2007 11:00 GMT
Cryptography is no mean field. After all, the science was invented by humans for the purpose of concealing information from other humans. That means that the best cryptographers have to be blindingly smart, with a mastery of mathematics but also a firm grasp of human psychology and, these days, fields such as computer science.
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India is the new China at world's biggest wireless fair (Reuters)   19 Feb 2007 10:25 GMT
Reuters - The mobile telecoms industry turned its focus on India at this year's 3GSM trade fair and away from China, after years of talking about little else but China's huge market and potential third generation licenses.
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India's Bharti to invest 2.5 billion dollars in deal with Wal-Mart (AFP)   19 Feb 2007 09:03 GMT

AFP - Mobile phone firm Bharti Enterprises, which aims to start a chain of retail stores in India with US-based Wal-Mart, said it will invest up to 2.5 billion dollars in the project by 2015.

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Chinese to send 14 billion holiday SMSs (Reuters)   19 Feb 2007 02:51 GMT

Reuters - China's cellular operators estimate Chinese customers will send around 14 billion Lunar New Year text messages on their mobile phones during the week-long holiday, the Xinhua news agency said on Monday.

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Phone and fun industries connect in Barcelona (AFP)   18 Feb 2007 04:07 GMT

AFP - The mobile phone industry buzzed with talk of the "next billion" and closer ties with the entertainment business last week as more than 1,000 companies gathered here for one of the biggest telecom trade shows.

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MIT improves analog circuit for consumer devices   16 Feb 2007 21:12 GMT
Future models of consumer goods, from digital cameras to MP3 players, could take a leap forward with a new type of analog circuit demonstrated at a trade show Thursday by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Dell hires Motorola executive (Reuters)   16 Feb 2007 20:38 GMT

Reuters - Dell Inc. said on Friday it hired the head of Motorola Inc.'s mobile phone unit to oversee a new global consumer division, making him the second high-profile executive hired since Michael Dell returned as CEO to the company he founded.

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Telus sees opportunity in deregulation and number portability, CEO says (Canadian Press)   16 Feb 2007 19:14 GMT
Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - A move by Ottawa to open up local phone service competition and allow mobile phone users to keep their number when they change companies is being undervalued by investors, Telus Corp. (TSX:T) chief executive Darren Entwistle said Friday.
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Fring aims to cut cellphone costs with VOIP (InfoWorld)   16 Feb 2007 15:53 GMT
InfoWorld - Avi Shechter, co-founder and CEO of Fringland (Fring), could be on to something big with the launch of a cheap Internet-based phone service that runs over mobile networks. But the Israeli entrepreneur could also be in for the fight of his life with mobile phone network operators determined to protect their cash-cow voice business from virtual service providers.
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Fring aims to cut cellphone costs with VOIP   16 Feb 2007 15:30 GMT
Avi Shechter, co-founder and CEO of Fringland (Fring), could be on to something big with the launch of a cheap Internet-based phone service that runs over mobile networks. But the Israeli entrepreneur could also be in for the fight of his life with mobile phone network operators determined to protect their cash-cow voice business from virtual service providers.
Source: InfoWorld