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The UAE's Telecoms Regulatory Authority (TRA) has limited access to BlackBerry's Enterprise Server (BES) to businesses with 20 or more mobile subscriptions, The National has reported. From May 1, small businesses will be entitled to use only the BlackBerry Internet Service, which does not rely on private servers. However, they will still be able to use encrypted messaging services under BlackBerry Internet Service. "Qualifying organisations must have a valid UAE trade licence and a minimu

New CEO Larry Page is more of a product and technology guy Web giant Google turned in a decent set of results for the first quarter of 2011, yet with the company still in growth mode and hiring staff at an incredible rate, there were some concerns over the company’s high spend. Net income for the quarter came in at $2.3bn, compared to $1.95bn last year, against revenues of $8.6bn, up from $6.7bn last year. However, the quarter, which was marked by the departure of Eric Schmidt and the ins

Vodafone Europe has confirmed that, for the first time, mobile internet revenue for the carrier has exceeded SMS revenues......

 

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By John Letzing, Dow Jones Newswires Friday 13 August 2010 EMarketer estimates rival MySpace likely to see ad revenue of $347 million. Online social-networking service Facebook Inc., which recently said it topped 500 million users, will pull in an estimated $1.28 billion in advertising spending this year, according to a report published Thursday by eMarketer.EMarketer estimated that Facebook's rival in the online social-networking market, News Corp.'s MySpace, will s

August 2, 2010 Written by James Middleton UK internet service provider TalkTalk, which recently demerged from the Carphone Warehouse, said Monday it had struck a deal with Vodafone wholesale over the launch of an MVNO. TalkTalk will now be able to offer mobile telephony and internet alongside its fixed line broadband offerings in the UK. The first offerings will be available in the autumn, the company said. Carphone Warehouse already has an MVNO set up with Vodafone under the TalkMobile bra

August 12, 2010 Written by Mike Hibberd Vodafone’s UK operation has been forced to re-issue a software update for Android phone users after a wave of complaints that the update they were expecting contained a range of Vodafone 360 applications that they neither wanted nor were told about. Owners of the HTC Desire handset were expecting the Android OS update dubbed �Froyo’. But what they got, according to angry forum posts, was a variety of Vodafone graphics, applicatio

August 13, 2010 Written by Mike Hibberd The Indian Government has threatened to shut down Research In Motion’s Indian BlackBerry operation at the end of August if RIM does not provide a solution allowing the state “lawful interception” of the firm’s Blackberry email and instant messaging services in India. Conciliatory moves by RIM last week “failed to enthuse” Indian security services, the Government said in a statement released on August 12th. The u

August 13, 2010 Written by Mike Hibberd Global mobile data traffic almost tripled in the past year, growing ten times faster than voice traffic, according to statistics released by Swedish vendor Ericsson on Thursday. The firm said that, based on measurements it has made of real network traffic around the world, global mobile data traffic stands at 225,000 terabytes per month as of the second quarter of 2010. Earlier this year the firm reported that total data traffic exceeded total

June 23, 2010 Written by Mike Hibberd After a year following its favoured, invite-only beta test pattern, Google has made its Google Voice service available to anyone from the United States who wants to sign up for it. The service is Google’s latest bid to shake up the establishment, and offers a single number that can be applied to existing accounts, be they home, work or mobile, as well as a number of other web-based features. It also offers free national calls and text messag