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Entries for January, 2008

CSIR advocates policy to protect mobile phone consumers

Professor Emmanuel Owusu-Bennoah, Director-General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), on Wednesday advocated the formulation of a policy and creation of a regulatory environment that would protect the interest of mobile phone subscribers.
He said “It is equally important that we develop a good policy that will ensure fair play, promote competition, protect […]

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No Interconnection For PNG Mobile Phone Users

Papua New Guinea mobile phone users failed to interconnect today despite assurances by government-owned Telikom PNG Ltd it would open its lines today to users of rival network Digicel.
Telikom CEO Peter Loko assured mobile phone users their fixed lines and mobile customers of their subsidiary B-Mobile will be ready to interconnect and call Digicel customers […]

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Nokia Facing Massive $17.7 Billion Patent Lawsuit

A German company, IP-Com has sued Nokia for US$17.7 billion over claimed patent infringements. The lawsuit was filed at the end of last year in Mannheim, but was only confirmed yesterday after it was revealed in the Handelsblatt newspaper.
IP-Com holds around 160 patents, and the lawsuit is understood to involve six families of patents related […]

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Lenovo retires from Mobile Phone and Windows Mobile business

China’s Lenovo Group has signed a conditional sales and purchase agreement to sell its entire interest in its mobile handset business to a private equity group led by Hony Capital, the private equity arm of Legend Holdings, for US$100 million.
The business sells mobile handsets and related equipment predominantly in China, but has seen sales drop […]

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PCMobilizr: Access your PC from a mobile phone

Rove Mobile introduced PCMobilizr, which lets users have complete access to the files and applications on their home and office PCs. With the PC becoming a peripheral to smartphones (especially those with bright, big screens), PCMobilizr makes a lot of sense. It provides have access to the screen of your desktop and control of the […]

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