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Nokia W7 and W8 will lead the Windows Phone 7 march
Posted by vishal on 11:17
Mobile Review's one-man Nokia rumor mill Eldar Murtazin has pushed out some details regarding the first fruits from the 'Microkia' (Microsoft/Nokia) team up, in the form of two new devices bearing the names W7 and W8.
Not only are they not exactly the most original names but the devices in question will apparently resemble the Nokia X7 and the N8 respectively.
Nokia apparently already has one working Windows Phone prototype in their possession, the W7. This X7 lookalike differs from it's Symbian sibling by its WVGA display, 8MP camera with autofocus and a Qualcomm QSD8250 Chipset. This (or something very similar to this) is most likely going...
Windows Phone 7 browser aces the HTML5 drawing test
Posted by vishal on 11:15
Mangoes are apparently good for mobile web browsers – the Internet Explorer 9 that comes with the Mango update for Windows Phone 7 beat Mobile Safari and the Android Browser at a hardware-accelerated graphics rendering test, demonstrated at MIX11.
The test at hand is HTML5 Speed Reading – it uses a Canvas element to draw an animation. The Canvas element gives JavaScript a lot of flexibility when it comes to drawing and is often used in HTML5 games (ones that often claim to be as good as Flash but with no actual Flash required).
The test offers a framerate counter, which reveals a startling difference. The test was run simultaneously on an...
Here's the Symbian Anna web browser, finally improved
Posted by vishal on 11:12
reportedly brings improvements in both performance and usability. And the company seems pretty eager to show that it has done a good job with it, dedicating a whole post on its blog to revealing its strong points.
In unison with the rest of the refreshed interface, the new web browser has been equipped with a streamlined UI that has seen the removal of the double rows of icons at the bottom of the browsing window and has instead replaced them with a small overlay back arrow and an options icon that can call up various different tasks such as bookmarks, history or the exit button. That makes for some extra room up top to include a convenient...
Apex court asks I-T department to hold off Vodafone penalty
Posted by vishal on 11:08
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the income tax department not to impose penalties on Vodafone until an order is passed in this case after hearings in July. The court also allowed the tax office to continue with the case. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia asked the telecom major to appear before the income tax department to explain its position on the department's notice seeking imposition of penalty for its alleged failure to deduct tax at source on its stake purchase in Hutchison-Essar.
"No steps would be taken to enforce a penalty if imposed on the petitioner (Vodafone)", the court said. It, however, asked...
Friday, 15 April 2011
DoT U-turn: will consider Tata telecom’s seniority plea
Posted by vishal on 10:41
The Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has taken a U-turn from its earlier stand on the 2G spectrum allocation policy and has decided to take a fresh look at Tata telecom’s claim regarding seniority in spectrum allocation. In an affidavit before TDSAT in December 2010, the DoT has agreed to
re-co
nsider Tata’s case as an existing licence holder and re-position it
in the list of seniority.
This means as and when DoT has spectrum for allocation, Tata would be considered first.
The DoT’s shift in stand, which came after Kapil Sibal took over as telecom minister in November 2010, is likely to affect other telecom players including Swan Telecom...
Govt seriously mulls BSNL, MTNL merger
Posted by vishal on 10:37
Aiming to optimise resources and give customers a nationwide footprint, the Union government is considering the merger of state-run telecom public sector undertakings (PSUs), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL).
“The merger of BSNL and MTNL makes sense. Today, telecom operators need to be present across India for better coverage and services. At this stage, we have not taken any decision but there are valid arguments in the favour of merger and we are considering it,” Telecom Secretary R Chandrasekhar told Business Standard.
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Govt bans Nokia pushmail service
Posted by vishal on 10:35
The government has asked telecom service providers to bar Nokia’s proposed -- pushmail or powermail -- service until it puts in place a legal monitoring system.
The Home Ministry, in its communication to Department of Telecom, has requested it to advice telecom service providers not to launch Nokia's proposed pushmail/powermail service till the company set up facility to allow security agencies to intercept it.
Messaging services from hand set maker Nokia involve push email for companies and consumers and enables mobile users with compatible Nokia cellphones to manage multiple email accounts from widely used email services like Yahoo!, Gmail,...
TRAI bats for domestic tele gear makers
Posted by vishal on 10:33
Despite being the fastest growing telecom market in the world, domestic manufacturers account for only 12% of the total equipment required in a network. Now, in a boost to domestic firms, the Telecom
Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out with a policy to boost home production. TRA
I has
recommended mandating mobile companies to source 80 per cent of equipment from domestic manufacturers, a R3,000-crore Telecom Manufacturing Fund (TMF) and subsidy to offer equity capital for all domestic manufacturers that have sales of less than R1,000 crore.
The regulator has also proposed limiting excise duty and VAT (value-added tax) on indigenously...
Intel goes all-out to compete with ARM in tablets
Posted by vishal on 10:30
Intel is speeding up the release of tablet chips in an attempt to close the power and performance gap with ARM, which dominates the tablet market, analysts said this week.
Intel said this week that it was accelerating the release of its Atom chips for tablets, breaking a traditionally long wait cycle to upgrade the low-power processors. In 2013, the company will release an Atom chip for tablets that an Intel executive said will put the company's offering on par with ARM processors in performance and power consumption.
ARM Holdings, which licenses processor designs and architectures, virtually dominates the tablet market as well as the smartphone...
