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• Vodafone and Nos agree to share sports content

  18-05-2016 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Vodafone Portugal and Nos announced a content distribution agreement that includes all national and international sport content rights currently owned or to be acquired by either of the parties. This deal, covering several sports seasons, ensures that both companies will make available to each other all football transmission rights, as well as all transmission and distribution rights to sports and/or club channels that each party holds at any point in time. This deal was designed
  
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• Netflix launches ad-free internet speed checker

  18-05-2016 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Netflix has announced the launch of a simple ad-free website under the domain name fast.com that allows users to instantly check their current internet speed on mobile or broadband anywhere in the world. "Using Netflix servers, fast.com works like other globally available tools including speedtest.net, and the results should be similar in most cases," said the company in a blog post announcing the service. The website even comes with a link to speedtest.net so that users can compa
  
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• Tencent revenues up 43% in Q1, warns of possible ad slowdown

  18-05-2016 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Chinese internet services provider Tencent reported total revenues in the first quarter up 43 percent year-on-year to CNY 31.995 billion (USD 4.952 billion). Operating profit was CNY 13.398 billion, an increase of 43 percent year-on-year, and the operating margin was unchanged at 42 percent. Net profit rose 33 percent to CNY 9.183 billion. Basic earnings per share were CNY 0.981 and diluted earnings per share were CNY 0.970. Tencent's popular messaging app WeChat and its rela
  
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• Perfecto Releases Ultimate Digital Testing Toolkit to Guide Data-Driven Testing Decisions

  18-05-2016 14:02
  
  New set of free resources helps enhance mobile and web testing strategiesLONDON – May 18, 2016 – Perfecto Mobile, the market leader in empowering enterprises to deliver high-quality digital experiences, today announced the availability of their Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit, a free “starter package” that guides Test, DevOps and Product Development teams to make better-informed decisions about their web and mobile test strategies across devices and geographies. Th
  
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• ETL to showcase new RF distribution technologies at CommunicAsia 2016

  18-05-2016 11:09
  
  RF equipment designer and manufacturer’s latest developments make far-east debutETL Systems, a global designer and manufacturer of RF equipment for satellite communications, is showcasing its new technologies in RF distribution at this year’s CommunicAsia at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. ETL has designed new functionality and increased benefits into a series of advanced products, including reliability in its StingRay RF over Fibre range which now includes redundancy configurations
  
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• SpeedCast Selected by Airbus Defence and Space as its partner to build and manage anchor ground station for protected X-band Satcom Services in Asia-Pacific

  18-05-2016 10:53
  
  Sydney, Australia, 18th May 2016 – SpeedCast International Limited (ASX: SDA), a leading global satellite communications service provider, today announced that it has partnered with one of the largest global Defence companies, Airbus Defence and Space, to design, build and provide onsite management for the ground anchor station for the Skynet 5A satellite in Asia Pacific, following its relocation in 2015, to provide extended coverage to the region, including the Indian Ocean and Western Pa
  
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• Microsoft exits feature phones, HMD to relaunch Nokia brand

  18-05-2016 10:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Microsoft has agreed to sell its feature phone business to FIH Mobile, the contract manufacturer owned by Hon Hai/Foxconn Technology Group, and Finnish company HMD Global for USD 350 million. Microsoft said it will remain present in the smartphone market, selling its own Lumia devices and licensing Windows 10 Mobile to other manufacturers. HMD Global will take over the right to use the Nokia brand for making phones, under a ten-year licence with Nokia. It plans to invest USD
  
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• Motorola introduces new Moto G smartphones

  18-05-2016 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Motorola has unveiled the latest additions to its Moto G family at an event in Sao Paolo. The thinner fourth-generation Moto G comes with a 5.5-inch full HD display, 13MP camera, 3,000 mAh battery and octa-core processor. The TurboPower features gives the phone six hours of power after just a 15-minute charge. The new Moto G Plus has all the features of Moto G, plus a somewhat better camera with 16 megapixels, laser focus and phase detect autofocus. The Moto G and M
  
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• ARM acquires UK imaging firm Apical for USD 350 mln

  18-05-2016 08:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Chipmaker ARM has announced the acquisition of UK imaging products company Apical for USD 350 million in cash. ARM described Apical as one of the UK's fastest-growing technology companies, whose advanced imaging products are currently used in more than 1.5 billion smartphones and around 300 million other consumer electronics devices, digital cameras and tablets. The acquisition is intended to support ARM's long-term growth strategy by enabling new imaging products for next generat
  
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• YouTube Red expands to Australia

  18-05-2016 07:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) YouTube Red, the ad-free subscription service to the video portal, is available now in Australia and New Zealand, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The service costs AUD 11.99 per month, including access to YouTube Originals and the ability to keep videos playing in the background on mobile devices and saving videos for offline playback. YouTube Red members will get automatic premium access to Google Play Music, and existing Play subscribers will get YouTube Red at no extra cost.
  
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• Apple to open iOS development centre in Bangalore

  18-05-2016 06:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Apple announced plans to open a Design and Development Accelerator in Bengaluru, India in order to support local iOS developers. In a visit to India, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the initiative will provide additional, specialized support for the "tens of thousands" of iOS developers in India. At the new centre, Apple experts will lead briefings and provide one-on-one app reviews for developers. The facility will also provide support and guidance on Swift, Apple's programming
  
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• Vodafone Australia trials NB-IoT

  18-05-2016 02:00
  
  Telco plans further trials over coming months; aims to deploy technology at every 4G base station by 2020.
  
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• Two in race for Hungarian mobile spectrum

  18-05-2016 02:00
  
  Regulator is examining bids from Vodafone, Digi for 3.4-GHz, 3.8-GHz airwaves.
  
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• Nokia back in mobile phone business

  18-05-2016 02:00
  
  Finnish firm brokers brand licensing deal with HMD Global, while Microsoft sells feature phone assets to related Foxconn unit.
  
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• Carrier SDN market to reach $8.7bn in 2020

  18-05-2016 02:00
  
  Analyst firm predicts 98% growth in market for SDN hardware, software and services over five years.
  
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• Broadband gets almost top billing in Queen's speech

  18-05-2016 02:00
  
  Annual state opening of parliament provides opportunity to get excited about proposed legislation we already know about.
  
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• Android Pay launches in UK

  18-05-2016 02:00
  
  Google planning to launch m-payment service in Australia, Singapore next.
  
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