- TELECOMMUNICATION: 24 mobile operators link up for single platform handset deal
24 mobile phone operators, including AT&T, Vodafone and China Mobile, announced at the Mobile World Congress Monday an alliance to build a single platform for the popular applications that allow users to play games and read news on their handsets. AT＆Tは、ボーダフォンとチャイナモバイル、Mobile World Congressでは13日、同盟の一般的なアプリケーションのためにユーザーがゲームをプレイすると読み取りニュースは携帯電話でできるように、単一のプラットフォームを構築する発表を含む24の携帯電話事業者
- Vodafone's earnings up, but takes hit in India
Vodafone Group, the world's second largest mobile operator by revenue, posted full-year earnings in line with forecasts yesterday, and raised its dividend policy despite taking a hit on its key Indian business.
ボーダフォングループは、売上高で世界第2位の携帯電話事業は、昨日、予測に沿って通期の業績を掲載し、その配当政策を提起したキー、インドのビジネスでは、ヒットを取るにもかかわらず
- I-T dept seeks Rs 12,000cr from Vodafone
Income-tax (I-T) department has asked telecom major Vodafone to pay nearly Rs 12,000 crore on its $11 billion acquisition of Indian telco Hutchison Essar three years ago 所得税は（IT）部門インド電話会社ハチソンエッサールその110億ドルの買収に3年前にほぼルピー12,000ルピーを支払うことを通信の主要なボーダフォンを求めている
- Apple iPhone4: an object of rare beauty that leapfrogs the competition
Jonathan Ive has designed his masterpiece, says Stephen Fry. And there's video-calling and the crispest display everJust as the frenzy of the iPad launch subsides, it is time for anti-Apple frothers to have a new device waved in their angry faces and for pro-Apple droolers to get verbally bitch-slapped in the blogosphere for falling once more for Steve Jobs's huckstering blandishments.A year ago, iPhone 3GS was released with a new operating system and now iPhone 4 arrives with iOS 4.0, offering an array of long-awaited functions. Since that 2009 3GS launch, the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC in particular has upped its game and risen to Apple's challenge, producing handsets for the Android OS that offer slews of features, including free turn-by-turn navigation, multi-tasking, removable batteries and highly customisable interfaces. What can Apple do to wrench back the crown?The iPhone 4 is an object of rare beauty. Noticeably slimmer but a trifle heavier than predecessors, its new heft only adds to the profound feeling of quality and precision that the device exudes. Sharper edged, it is girt by a stainless steel band which cleverly houses all the antennae required by a modern smartphone. Jobs himself made a comparison between iPhone 4 and a classic Leica. With this device in my hand, I feel that I am holding its designer Jonathan Ive's personal prototype, hand-machined as a proof-of-concept model. Ive is surely one of the most influential and gifted designers Britain has ever produced and the iPhone 4 may well be his masterpiece.The phone is available unlocked in the UK. Mine came with a Vodafone mini-SIM which I swapped for an Orange, the network change working perfectly straight away. On the front can be discerned the lineaments of a forward-facing camera and, in the glor ジョナサンアイブ氏は、彼の傑作を設計したスティーブンフライ氏は言う
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