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September 7, 2010

Not happy in China: EU chamber complains

Filed under: Alibaba,Amazon,Baidu,Blogs,Business and managed services,China,EU,Google,Groupon,Operator Services,Tencent — fmmonteverde @ 6:13 am

Two views on prospects for foreign tech firms in China.
 
First, former Google China chief Lee Kaifu has dispensed some advice for western tech firms about how to succeed in the mainland China market.
 
He told the Financial Times that a te

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September 2, 2010

Apple, Amazon join web TV war

Filed under: Amazon,Apple,Daily News,Entertainment,IPTV and Video on Demand,Internet TV,Mobile Apps and Content,Public,mobile phones — fmmonteverde @ 8:32 am

Apple has upped the stakes in the web loungeroom battle by slashing the price of its TV device and announcing 99-cent downloads for shows.
 
Hours after Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s new pitch Wednesday, online retailer

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Amazon joins online TV craze

Filed under: Amazon,Apple,Blogs,Fixed Access,Fixed Broadband,Google,Hulu,IPTV and Video on Demand,Internet TV,Operator Services,Public — fmmonteverde @ 6:53 am

Online retailer Amazon has become the latest to jump on the online TV bandwagon.
 
It has been pitching its planned subscription service to major media companies including NBC Universal, Time Warner and News Corp, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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July 23, 2010

FASTTAKES: Huawei, PCCW, Microsoft, Amazon, STMicroelectronics

Filed under: Amazon,Daily News,Fixed Access,Huawei,Microsoft,Mobile Apps and Content,Operator Services,PCCW,Public,STMicroelectronics,Wireless Access — fmmonteverde @ 6:01 am

In a statement issued to media, Huawei Technologies has denied it stole Motorola company secrets via a third company, Lemko.
 
With the iPad due to launch in Hong Kong and Singapore today, mobile operators

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May 26, 2010

Apple facing online music probe?

Filed under: Amazon,Anti-trust,Apple,Daily News,Entertainment,Mobile Apps and Content,Online music,Probe,Public,iTunes,mobile phones — fmmonteverde @ 6:08 am

The US Justice Department is in the early stages of a possible anti-trust probe into Apple’s behavior in the online music market.
 
DoJ staff have talked to music labels and other web music companies, the New York Times reported

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April 30, 2010

Amazon looks to widen lead in cloud computing

Filed under: Amazon,Business and managed services,BusinessWeek,Microsoft and IBM,Operator Services,Public,cloud computing — fmmonteverde @ 6:01 am

To widen its lead in the cloud computing market, Amazon.com is working to make its Web services compelling to more customers as computing giants such as Microsoft and IBM attack the same territory.

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April 23, 2010

FASTTAKES: Sumitomo, Dell, Amazon, Samsung

Filed under: Amazon,Daily News,Dell,Fixed Access,Mobile Apps and Content,Operator Services,Public,Samsung,Sumitomo,Wireless Access — fmmonteverde @ 6:04 am

Sumitomo president Susumu Kato and KDDI boss Tadashi Onodera have agreed to work together to boost the value of cable TV firm Jupiter Telecom, the Nikkei said.
 

April 14, 2010

The advantages of selling Everything as a Service

Filed under: Amazon,Business and managed services,EC2,Features,IaaS,OSS and BSS,OTT,Operator Services,PaaS,SaaS,cloud computing — galaxiav @ 5:35 pm

The momentum behind cloud computing in all its forms — from Software as a Service (SaaS) through Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) — has grown dramatically and continues to accelerate.

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April 13, 2010

Broadcom says operators will offer free tablet computers

Filed under: Amazon,Apple,Broadcom,Business and managed services,BusinessWeek,Kindle,Mobile Apps and Content,Operator Services,Public,iPad,mobile phones,tablet computers — fmmonteverde @ 6:50 am

Broadcom Corp., the biggest supplier of chips for television set-top boxes, said phone companies around the world will soon offer free or subsidized tablet-style computers to retain customers.
 
Broadcom’s Persona Tablet design and chips are the basis for the Hikari iFrame, a tablet distributed by Japan’s Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Broadcom Vi

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March 18, 2010

Cloud providers must sell IT services to survive

Filed under: Amazon,Features,Google,OSS and BSS,SaaS,cloud computing — galaxiav @ 12:20 am

Today’s cloud computing providers come from a variety of industries. Companies like Google and Amazon have adjacent businesses (search, e-commerce) and expertise in running computing at scale that fit well with selling IT services. Here are some of the major providers:

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