Google to cut 4,000 jobs at Motorola Mobility
August 14th, 2012 - 3:00 am ICT by BNO News
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -- Internet giant Google, Inc. on Monday said it plans to cut approximately 4,000 jobs at telecommunications company Motorola Mobility, which it acquired last year, according to ... Read more...
Posted in Technology Industry News |
Etisalat posts $517 mn profit
July 26th, 2012 - 1:13 am ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, July 25 (IANS/WAM) UAE's Etisalat telecommunications company has posted a net profit of 1.9 billion dirhams for the second quarter of 2012 ending June 30.The figure represented an ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Latin American firm gains control of Dutch telecom
June 29th, 2012 - 11:31 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 29 (IANS/EFE) Latin American wireless giant America Movil has gained effective control over KPN after increasing its stake in the Dutch telecom to 27.7 percent.This latest move ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Etisalat advises subscribers to ‘port out’
March 9th, 2012 - 9:49 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, March 9 (IANS) Following the Supreme Court's order cancelling 122 telecom licenses, Abu Dhabi-based telecommunications company Etisalat Friday advised its customers to shift to other telecom operators via mobile ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Etisalat sues Indian joint venture partners for fraud
February 23rd, 2012 - 8:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Abu Dhabi-based telecommunications company Etisalat Thursday launched legal proceedings against its Indian joint venture partners for fraud and misrepresentation.Following the Supreme Court's order last month ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Three killed, 118 injured in Thailand explosions
September 17th, 2011 - 6:56 pm ICT by IANS
Bangkok, Sep 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A series of explosions Friday night in Thailand's town of Sungai Kolok left three people dead and 118 injured, media reports said Saturday.
Three bombs placed ... Read more...
Posted in Thailand |
Chinese city tracks officials through GPS-enabled phones
April 13th, 2011 - 9:36 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, April 13 (IANS) The local government of a major Chinese city now tracks down the whereabouts of its officials using GPS-enabled phones. An official is asked where he is ... Read more...
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UAE’s Etihad Rail, Etisalat sign agreement for IT service
April 13th, 2011 - 12:31 am ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, April 12 (IANS/WAM) Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of the UAE's first railway network, Tuesday signed an agreement with Etisalat, a telecommunications company, to provide better services ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Italy may freeze 3.6 bn euros of Libyan assets
March 2nd, 2011 - 12:35 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, March 2 (IANS/AKI) Italy may follow the lead of its allies and freeze billions of euros of Libyan assets, according to Italian news reports.Business daily Il Sole 24 Ore ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Zardari’s quiet UAE visit to find solution to Pak’s economic woes
February 24th, 2011 - 2:36 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Feb 24(ANI): As Pakistan was busy watching the Raymond Davis saga unfold, President Asif Ali Zardari quietly took an unannounced trip to Dubai to explore options to solve the country's economic ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Assange’s hacking offences revealed in Oz court documents
January 17th, 2011 - 12:16 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 17 (ANI): New documents revealed in an Australian court have revealed how WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange created a program that allowed him to access about 11,000 computers belonging to the ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Four held for cheating telecom company Uninor (Lead)
January 1st, 2011 - 9:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Four people accused of cheating telecommunications company Uninor of Rs.95 lakh have been arrested, police said Saturday.Manoj Pahwa, 34, Varun Mittal, 23, Rahul Sharma, 33, and Nitin ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
S Tel launches WAP-enabled services in Himachal
November 1st, 2010 - 8:22 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Nov 1 (IANS) Mobile service provider S Tel Monday launched WAP and GPRS-enabled services for its subscribers in Himachal Pradesh.The services are available under brand name 'S Tel e. Life' and ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Everest Connected Via 3G
November 1st, 2010 - 6:49 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
November 1, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The world’s highest peak is in news once more. This time for reasons electronic in nature. A certain telecom company has now ensured that ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
UAE firm launches voice communications service aboard aircraft
August 11th, 2010 - 10:09 pm ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, Aug 11 (IANS/WAM) UAE's Thuraya Telecommunications Company has launched its first satellite aeronautical service, offering cost-effective voice communications on board all types of aircraft, it was announced Wednesday.
The initial service ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Bombings kill 40 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq
July 27th, 2010 - 2:33 am ICT by IANS
Karbala/Baghdad, July 27 (DPA) At least 40 people were killed and 68 injured in two bomb attacks Monday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala as large crowds gathered for a religious ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Love it or hate it, PowerPoint does shape strategy making: Study
May 27th, 2010 - 12:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 27 (ANI): Like it or not, but Power Point-the computer software that presents business cases like a slide show-is indeed effective in shaping idea generation and build corporate strategies, says ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Etisalat starts high speed virtual private network in UAE
May 10th, 2010 - 5:20 pm ICT by IANS
Dubai, May 10 (IANS/WAM) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) based telecommunications company Etisalat introduced the virtual private network service with connection speed of 10 Gbps in the country Monday.
Etisalat has introduced four ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Two BSNL engineers injured in Maoist blast in Chhattisgarh
April 28th, 2010 - 1:17 pm ICT by ANI
Bijapur (Chhattisgarh), Apr 28 (ANI): Suspected Maoists triggered a pressure bomb blast in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur District, which caused serious injuries to two engineers of the Central Government owned telecommunications company Bharat Sanchar ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Tiger woods to return to golf course
March 20th, 2010 - 8:38 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
March 20, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Here is good news for sponsors who have been waiting for Tiger Woods to return to golf course. Woods who was dropped out ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
Former official of the Republic of Haiti pleaded guilty to money laundering
March 13th, 2010 - 2:53 am ICT by BNO News
MIAMI, FLORIDA (BNO NEWS) – A former official of the Republic of Haiti’s state-owned national telecommunications company pleaded guilty to a money laundering conspiracy, prosecutors said Friday.Robert Antoine, 62, of Miami and ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Miami businessman pleads guilty to foreign bribery scheme
February 20th, 2010 - 5:31 am ICT by BNO News
MIAMI (BNO NEWS) – A Miami, Florida businessman pleaded guilty on Friday to engaging in monetary transactions involving property derived from a scheme to bribe former Haitian government officials, prosecutors announced.Jean Fourcand, ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Facebook, Twitter users endangering their right to privacy, says expert
January 8th, 2010 - 2:22 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 8 (ANI): Facebook and Twitter users might be undermining their right to privacy, warns an expert.Employers and the authorities have started keeping a track of the social networking sites ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Iraq to connect to India, Gulf on fibre optic network
January 7th, 2010 - 9:46 pm ICT by IANS
Doha, Jan 7 (DPA) Iraq Thursday signed a $445-million deal with the telecommunications company Gulf Bridge International to link the country to the Gulf and India via a high-speed fibre optic cable.
Announcing ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Brooklyn cyclists to go nude in snow to protest bike lane removal
December 19th, 2009 - 1:40 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 19 (ANI): Angered by the removal of a cycling lane, Brooklyn bicyclists are planning to protest nude in snow.The "Freedom Ride" is a move to protest against the removal of ... Read more...
Posted in World |
S Tel launches its mobile services from Shimla
December 17th, 2009 - 8:02 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Dec 17 (IANS) S Tel, a mobile and Internet access services provider, Thursday launched its GSM mobile services in the country from the Himachal Pradesh capital, a company official said.
S Tel ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Andriod Phone On An Expansion Spree
October 19th, 2009 - 8:43 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Oct 19, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The launch of the first android enabled phone HTC G1 in September 2008 created quite a rage among a variety of users but at the ... Read more...
Posted in Technology Industry News |
Plan to build fiber-optic line between US and Cuba
October 15th, 2009 - 4:09 pm ICT by IANS
Miami, Oct 15 (EFE) A Miami-based telecommunications company has said it plans to build an underwater fiber-optic cable linking the US and Cuba.
TeleCuba Communications Inc. said Wednesday it had authorisation from the ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
How to cut waiting time for on-call services
August 27th, 2009 - 1:24 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 27 (ANI): Hate holding the phone while waiting for a customer support executive to listen to your grievance? Well, researchers in Kuwait have claimed that adding just one more representative ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Cellphones may soon form peer-to-peer network to broadcast disaster alerts
June 8th, 2009 - 12:36 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 8 (ANI): Mobile phones of the future would be able to form a peer-to-peer network to sound an alarm in the event of a disaster, and pass on the alert ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Former Telstra boss terms Australians as racist
May 26th, 2009 - 2:26 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 26 (ANI): Sol Trujillo, former boss of telecommunications company Telstra, has said that being in Australia was like "stepping back in time" as it was a racist country.According to a ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Teenage whiz-kid hacker gets a straight job
March 25th, 2009 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
Wellington, March 25 (DPA) A New Zealand teenage whiz-kid who admitted developing software that infected a million computers around the world has been hired by telecommunications company TelstraClear to advise companies how ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
BSNL selects Dilithium for Mobile Video Services
November 25th, 2008 - 6:26 pm ICT by ANI
California, Nov 25 (ANI/Business Wire India): Dilithium, the global leader in high-quality multimedia delivery over mobile and broadband networks announced today that BSNL, India''s largest telecommunications company, has selected Dilithium solutions ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
$20 million Stanford match to go as scheduled
October 9th, 2008 - 8:15 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 9 (IANS) In a heartening news for England cricketers, the legal row between sponsors Digicel and West Indian Cricket Board (WICB) that threatened to cancel $20 million Stanford match has ... Read more...
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Eight in fray for Oman telecom firm stake
August 18th, 2008 - 8:08 pm ICT by IANS
Dubai, Aug 18 (IANS) Eight telecom operators from Asia, Europe and the Middle East have been selected from the pre-qualification process for the sale of a 25 percent stake of Oman's leading ... Read more...
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