26/11/2009 - bnetTV.com to Continue Covering Emerging Technologies Conferences

INTERVIEW. Leading online broadcasting company bnetTV.com (Business Network Television) will continue taking the most of the events such as conferences to reach out to its focus market of emerging technologies.

bnetTV.com will also keep to its mission to deliver compelling and insightful content, says Michelle Sklar, vice-president of Programming and Content Management.

28/10/2009 - Interview with Robert Lang of TechTour Web & Mobility Summit

TechTour is nonprofit organization that puts on many events and they either have a country focus or they are industry focus, but both welcome investors, startups, and innovators to come together. Each of them repeat themselves every 3 or 4 years providing a cycle between each event and summit.

"More specifically, the Web & Mobility Summit, which takes place on November 18-19, 2009. It is during these events that we pull together a committee from the industry, venture capitalists, and business angels," said Robert Lang, President of the TechTour Web & Mobility Summit, in an interview with Biz-News.com.

26/10/2009 - Mobile Internet in Africa: Interview with Jose Henriques, Vodacom

Mobile internet is no longer luxury in Africa as it has become a valuable tool of global development, this according to Jose Henriques, Vodacom executive head of internet services.

Henriques was speaking to Biz-News.com in Johannesburg last week during the Mobile Web Africa conference whose focus was looking at ways of harnessing the potential of internet and applications on mobile devices.

15/10/2009 - Thumbs Up For SA's "Call Me Back" Technology

South African mobile cellular phone companies have been praised for implementing a free “Call Me Back” short messages (SMS) information technology.

The two-day Mobile Web Africa conference was mainly focusing on harnessing the potential of the internet and applications on mobile devices aimed at improving people’s standards of life through affordable and readily accessible technology.

02/09/2009 - Nokia Launches X6 ‘Comes With Music’ Device

NOKIA WORLD 09. Nokia announced the launch of the new Nokia X6, the latest edition to the company’s Xseries touch-screen device portfolio.

This very slim (14mm) handset features stroke-sensitive, 3.2 inch 16:9 nHD widescreen, that enables to fit 20 shortcuts onto a home screen, 32GB internal memory, 5 megapixels with Carl-Zeiss optics and dual LED flash, built-in features to edit videos and show them on TV or online, GPS with Assisted GPS support, compass and Nokia Ovi Maps.

21/08/2009 - 4G: Network For Real Mass Market Activity

INTERVIEW: Erik Hallberg, Senior Vice President and Head of TeliaSonera Mobility Services in Sweden, tells smartphone.biz-news how this telecom is changing the face of mobile technology with its innovative 4G network.

18/08/2009 - West & Central African Com: Infrastructure Sharing on the Sub-Saharan Market

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Fazal Hussein, CEO of Helios Towers, was interviewed at the West & Central African Com conference held in Abuja, Nigeria.

He talks about the Sub-Saharian market and he thinks the only way for the operators to go forward is to develop a lean architecture.

13/08/2009 - West & Central African Com: Rolling Strategies on the African Telecom Market

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Christian De Faria, Regional Vice President - WECA region of MTN Nigeria, was interviewed at the recent West & Central African Com conference held in Abuja, Nigeria.

He unveils what areas MTN Nigeria will be focusing on over the next few years. He also discusses the evolution of the Nigerian telecom market.

11/08/2009 - West & Central African Com: The Complexity of African Markets

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Osondu Nwokoro, Director of Regulatory Affairs of Zain Nigeria, was interviewed at the recent West & Central African Com conference held in Abuja, Nigeria.

He explains the complexity of Nigerian and other African markets.

05/08/2009 - West & Central African Com: Global Crisis Affects African Market

VIDEO INTERVIEW: William Saad, Managing Director of IHS Nigeria, was interviewed at the recent West & Central African Com conference held in Abuja, Nigeria.

He talks about the infrastructure sharing and explains how the operators can reach the rural areas in a cost-effective way.

17/07/2009 - Wireless Broadband World Africa 2009: South Africa to Allocate WiMax This Month

Paris Mashile, chairman of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), has said that WiMax spectrum in the country will be allocated within 30 days with operators getting 30 MHz each.
ICASA published its final decision on the awarding of radio frequency spectrum.

16/07/2009 - Successful IFA Business Model Drives Markets in 2009

ADVERTORIAL: Product debuts and important industry topics such as ecology, lifestyle, HDTV & wireless communications the main features at IFA 2009.
For the second time, and with an even more comprehensive show, the leading brands of the consumer electronics and electrical home appliances industries will be jointly represented on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds at IFA 2009.

15/07/2009 - Wireless Broadband World Africa 2009: Conference Starts

The 1st Wireless Broadband World Africa 2009 Conference opened yesterday in Cape Town Convention Centre with over 60 delegates in attendance.
By all measures, the conference is proving to be a great success.

06/07/2009 - Nokia Quashes Android Smartphone Rumor, What About Netbook?

Nokia has denied that it is developing a handset based on Google's Android operating system.
The response came after reports in the UK that the Finnish phone maker would announce an Android-based smartphone in September at the Nokia World Conference.

19/06/2009 - HiT Barcelona: Telecoms Industry Has To "Reinvent Itself"

Telefónica's Carlos Domingo provided an interesting glimpse of the corporate navel-gazing underway at one of the largest fixed-line and mobile telecommunications companies in the world.
The giant Spanish giant isn't renowned - amongst its customers, anyway - for being at the cutting edge of innovation.
But Domingo, Telefónica's director of internet & multimedia and director of its R&D center, showed that it is grasping the nettle of change required if the challenges facing itself and the industry generally are to be met.

16/06/2009 - HiT Barcelona: Android Marketplace To Overtake Apple's App Store?

INTERVIEW: Android's Market will be at least as successful as Apple's hugely popular App Store - and could prove even more of a hit.
That's the view of Florian Seiche, vice president of HTC Europe, who believes app downloads for the open-source software platform developed by Google could well emulate Apple's success.

16/06/2009 - West&Central AfricaCOM'09: African Mobile Growth Opportunities Attract Record Numbers

While the African teleco market may not capture the headlines as much as other parts of the world, that's not to say it's being overlooked by the industry.
So it's good to see the organisers of West & Central Africa's largest telco event announcing record pre-registered attendance for the AfricaCOM event in Abuja, Nigeria.

04/06/2009 - ADVERTORIAL: WiMAX Forum MENA '09 - Explore and Resolve the Commercial and Strategic Challenges

Operators in Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) markets are starting to make progress with acquiring spectrum and finance for WiMAX networks.
At the same time they are beginning to encounter challenges associated with identifying profitable business models and the practicalities of operating a WiMAX network.
So it's a crucial time for the region's operators - which makes attending this year's WiMAX Forum MENA on 23-24 June in Dubai all the more essential.

30/03/2009 - ADVERTORIAL: Record-breaking Attendance Expected At East Africa Com

More than 600 telco leaders are due to attend East Africa's premier learning and networking event which gets underway on Wednesday.
East Africa Com is a two-day, multi-streamed conference with a 40+ stand networking exhibition.
The conference is the only event to represent the East African region and evolved from the highly successful GSM>3G World Series.