Nokia said Monday it is to acquire Plazes a social-activity service provider. The deal will see the communications colossus gain access to Plazes context-aware social activity service that consumers use to plan, record and share their activities...

Huawei Technologies confidently stated last week that it expects its sales contracts in Asia Pacific (AP) excluding China to reach USD 3.9 billion by the end of this year. The Taiwan based telecommunications network provider...

China and Thailand have been identified as two key markets showing growing interest in location-based services (LBS) and GPS navigation offerings on their mobile phones. A study conducted by market research firm Profacts...

Internet behemoth Yahoo said Tuesday that it has entered into strategic mobile advertising partnerships with Maxis Communications Berhard in Malaysia and Idea Cellluar in India. The deal will see both mobile operators carry a variety of graphical advertisements, sold and served by Yahoo...

CommunicAsia 2008 and BroadcastAsia 2008, Asia’s largest ICT (Information and Communication Technology) event kick started its annual week-long conference today in Singapore, serving as a global platform for networking and...

Avaya officially unveiled its first finished goods distribution center for Asia Pacific (AP) in Singapore last Thursday. The new facility, which is part of Avaya’s supply chain management strategy for AP, will be tasked with consolidating and shipping software...

Yahoo and Google made headlines Thursday as they entered into an agreement that will see Yahoo run ads supplied by Google alongside its search results and on some of its web properties...

Wireless broadband in all its forms---fixed, portable, and mobile--gives operators a way to grow revenues as voice revenue growth slows, reports In-Stat. Based on survey data collected by the high-tech market research firm...

Revenue from consumer telecommunication network services will grow at a steady annual clip of about 5.7%, on average, over the next five years, reports In-Stat. The strongest growth will be in the broadband and pay TV sectors, but 60% of total revenue will...

Speculation about what Apple's new iPhone will look like is over. The widely anticipated 3G iPhone was the centerpiece of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference Monday in San Francisco - it is thinner, faster, more open, location aware and even less expensive...