Cloud service providers will seek out partnerships to offer a wider breadth of services that customers are increasingly demanding, a new report …
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US Congress agrees to share user web searches with ISPs
US politicians have voted to abolish privacy rules that are designed to prevent internet service providers (ISPs) from selling users’ web browsing histories and app usage histories to advertisers.0 3461
IBM and AT&T collaborate on cloud services
IBM has struck up a partnership with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather …
NFC-enabled phone sales top 35mn in 2011
35 million Near Field Communications (NFC)-enabled phones were shipped in 2011, in what has been described as a “breakthrough year” …
Analysts predict bumper sales for Apple in Q4 2011
Apple could sell as many as 30 million iPhones in the final three months of 2011. Analyst Maynard Um at …
Clearwire plans $300 mn stock offering for LTE
Clearwire plans to raise as much as $345 million in stock transactions to help fund its LTE (Long Term Evolution) …
Alcatel promises better clouds for carriers
Alcatel-Lucent is developing a cloud computing platform for carriers that aims to take full advantage of their networks to deliver …
Apple: It’s the iPhone 4S, not the iPhone 5
Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook and other company executives introduced the new iPhone 4S, an upgrade to the existing iPhone …
A week with the Droid
At a Glance Droid Bionic Motorola Mobility Price: $299.99 (with two-year contract at Verizon Wireless) Pros: Slim and lightweight, fast …
Mobile payment security apps coming to NFC-ready smartphones
Four major credit card companies are working with the Isis mobile wallet venture to install mobile payment security applications on …
Amex, Verizon Wireless to offer mobile payment
Verizon Wireless and American Express will integrate the Serve online payment system over mobile phones and tablets in coming months, …