Google posts stellar results. Earnings were $1bn, up 69%, and record revenues of $3.7bn, +63%. Batelco (Bahrain) reported its 1Q07 net profits reached $66m, up 7%, on revenues of $176m, up 26%. 2006 earnings were $237m, up 4.4%, while revenues grew 11%...

H. von Pierer, Siemens ' chairman is stepping down. Vivendi names Philippe Capron as new CFO.

FMC is announced as a big market; but execution remains essential. Take the BT example. BT has just 40k subscribers to its BT Fusion FMC offer after 18 months of operation. It is rather disappointing. The system is a dualmode GSM/ Bluetooth service, based...

NA is certainly the only region in the world where GSM is not the dominant technology. With about 252m mobile users at the end of 2006, NA is the least mobile-equiped region, overtaken by MEA (Middle East +Africa), CALA, CEI, EU and APAC. The home-grown...

Another hurdle has been cleared when the European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee voted in favor of roaming caps to cut fees by about 70% . Two steps remain before the regulation comes into force in about July. First the European...

According to Gartner, almost 63m PCs (+9%) were shipped in 1Q07. HO is in pole position with 11m units shipped (+29%), ahead of Dell with 8.6m (-8%), then Acer with 4.3m units (+46%) and Lenovo with 3.9m (+16%). Toshiba is fifth with 2.5m units shipped...

Over the past six months, hundreds of thousands of honeybees died in the USA and Europe, threatening both honey production, and fruit and vegetable pollination. Scientists have discovered that cell phone radiation was interfering with their internal navigation...

Many analysts believe THE solution for Vonage is to sell to Sprint Nextel. Whatever happens in the Verizon- Vonage case (Vonage was ordered to pay $66m to Verizon and barred from recruiting new customers), Vonage has entered in a survival status, and...

A few set of market information released this week: According to eMarketer, more than 123m Americans would download or stream video at least once a month this year, from 52m in 2003 and the number could reach 157m by 2010. In-Stat found that US consumers...

Broadcom is again launching new litigation against Qualcomm for misconduct relating to industry standards bodies. Qualcomm has bought some assets of WiMAX chipset maker TeleCIS Wireless. Nortel is building a procurement center in Shanghai, its first Center...