SingTel looking to buy Cable & Wireless Worldwide
The long-awaited and much-vaunted "reorganisation" of Cable & Wireless into its constituent parts back in March this year initially did little for C&W's image or share price. However, in recent weeks interest in the company that, once upon a time, was often referred to as the "Provider of telecommunications services to the British Empire", has re-ignited. Only a few months ago C&W was in the doldrums and there was widespread speculation that it would soon fall out of the prestigious FTSE 100 share index, with potentially disastrous effects on its share price and finance-raising capabilities.
Telecom TV
Scotland Yard defends investigation into News of the World phone-hacking claims
Detectives have asked the New York Times to hand over the transcript of an interview with former reporter Sean Hoare, who claims that Andy Coulson, then editor of the newspaper, personally asked him to eavesdrop on private calls. The development came as the News of the World accused the US newspaper of being motivated by commercial rivalry by publishing the story.
The Daily Telegraph
Ousted Hewlett-Packard chief, Mark Hurd, in talks to join Oracle
Mark Hurd, who resigned as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard a month ago following a sexual harassment and expenses scandal, is reported to be in talks to join Oracle's senior management. Hurd, 53, abruptly quit as chairman and chief executive of HP following an investigation into his relationship with a marketing consultant, Jodie Fisher, a former actress, who accused him of sexual harassment. While the board's investigation found no violation of its harassment policy, it found that he had violated the company's code of conduct by filing inaccurate expense claims.
The Guardian
Google faces first US competition inquiry
Regulators in Texas have launched the first broad anti-trust review of Google's search and advertising practices in the US. While federal regulators in Washington have investigated the impact on competition of Google's business deals in the past, Greg Abbott, Texas attorney general, is the first regulator to look more broadly at its core search business, amid growing concerns about the power the online business wields.
The Guardian
Windows Phone 7 packed off to manufactures
Microsoft has packed off its last great hope for the mobile market off to the manufacturers. According to Microsoft's Terry Myerson, the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7 was a big thing. While the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with partners' hardware, software, and networks was underway, the work of our internal engineering team is largely complete. He said that Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released.
Tech Eye
Mobile Gambling Revenues to Top $48bn by 2015
Juniper Research has released its report, Mobile Gambling Markets - Casinos, Lotteries & Betting 2010-2015. The report forecasts that a combination of mobile casino, lottery and betting services will see the scale of annual wagers on mobile gambling exceed $48bn (£31bn) by 2015. These service launches in major emerging markets are led by China, allied to liberalisation of remote gambling legislation across the US and Europe.
Mobile Marketing Magazine
Allot and BroadHop Solution Offers Operators More Control
Allot Communications and BroadHop have successfully completed integration and interoperability testing between the Allot Service Gateway, acting as an intelligent Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) and BroadHop’s Quantum Network Suite, a fully virtualized Policy Management application, acting as the Policy & Charging Rules Function (PCRF).
Mobile Marketing Magazine
Orange and T-Mobile offer combined network access
Everything Everywhere (EE), the combined entity formed from the merger of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK, has said that from October it will offer users access across the combined footprint of both networks. From 5th October, 30 million customers – the combined customer base of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK - will be able to access both networks. Customers will have to register for access to the "other" network and EE's plan is for registered to customers to be able to automatically be authenticated on the "other" network, if signal is lost on their existing network. Tom Alexander, CEO, said that the operators would also include access to WiFi and fixed network assets within one "super network".
Mobile Europe
UK music calls for truce with technology
The British music industry has called for a truce with the technology firms with whom it has till now fought a bitter battle over rights, royalties and file sharing. Feargal Sharkey, CEO of lobby group UK Music, told a conference in London this week that it was time for the music and technology industries to set aside their differences and strive instead toward a common goal: nothing less than the total global domination of British music. Sharkey, a campaigner against people copying music on the internet and the technology they use, said it had become apparent that technology and creativity were inseparable.
Thinq
BT reveals fiber funding plan
UK ISPs can now nominate which BT exchanges they want upgraded to fiber, but only if they agree to strict penalty clauses.
BT’s Openreach wholesale division will trial the nomination scheme until December, allowing rival firms to choose six exchanges to be upgraded during a future phase of BT’s fiber rollout. However, only 24 exchanges are included in the trial, and only firms running BT’s Generic Ethernet Access product can participate.
TelecomsEurope
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