Telecom operator considering equity participation, M&As over next five years China Mobile, the country's largest telecom operator, will invest several hundreds of billion yuan into 5G-related industries through equity participation and mergers and acquisitions over the next five years, the company said on Friday. Yang Jie, chairman of China Mobile, said that together with a fund of funds that hit several tens of billion yuan, the company is set to leverage both direct investment and funds to create a 5G ecosystem. "Next year, China Mobile is expected to achieve sound 5G coverage in cities, counties as well as key towns and countryside, while increasing the installed capacity to 1.08 million," he said at this year's China Mobile Global Partners Conference. With the opening of 385,000 5G base stations, Yang said that China Mobile finished its annual 5G target ahead of schedule and has built the world's largest 5G stand-alone network. Though this year's COVID-19 pandemic … [Read more...] about China Mobile to ramp up 5G investments
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Intuit releases Quicken Online Mobile for iPhone
Intuit has released Quicken Online Mobile [iTunes link], an iPhone companion app to the company’s free Quicken Online personal money-management Web service. previewed at this year’s Macworld Expo , Quicken Online Mobile focuses on a forward-looking view of your money, showing you how much you have left until your next paycheck, for example. It lets you set budgets and keep track of them while you’re out and about, and you can enter cash purchases on the go to track spending, among other features. When you set up a free account with the online Quicken service, you enter the login and password information for your various financial account Web sites (Intuit says its online service works with more than 5,000 financial institutions for checking, savings, investments, loans, and credit cards). Quicken Online—and the Quicken Online Mobile app—then lets you see and tracks all of those accounts, downloading your financial data once a day. (Wells Fargo accounts, however, don’t … [Read more...] about Intuit releases Quicken Online Mobile for iPhone
AT&T buys mobile development company Plusmo
AT&T has acquired mobile-application development company Plusmo and plans to use its technology to more quickly build applications and widgets for mobile phones as well as PCs and TVs. Privately held Plusmo sells a platform for building widgets and applications using common Web development standards, which allows them to be deployed across multiple operating systems and devices. The company will become part of AT&T Interactive, and its development platform will be used by multiple AT&T subsidiaries, the carrier said in a press release on Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AT&T has already developed some of its own mobile applications, including the YPmobile derivative of its YellowPages.com service. Wednesday’s acquisition will help the carrier develop new applications more quickly and at lower cost and allow for over-the-air updates of its applications, the company said. AT&T said it also aims to use the technology to develop applications and … [Read more...] about AT&T buys mobile development company Plusmo
CNN Mobile for iPhone
CNN Mobile for the iPhone and iPod touch is a massively impressive news app. CNN Interactive Group’s app combines articles, videos, and photos to offer a completely immersive news experience, featuring breaking news headlines from a wide variety of topics, all navigated through a smart and intuitive interface. When you launch the app, you’re presented with an image-laden list of news stories. A thin, scrollable tab bar at the top of the screen lets you choose from a long list of categories—World, US, Politics, Crime, Entertainment, Health, Travel, Tech, and Living—as well as Top Stories. You can scroll through the list of stories in each category, and tap into one to read it. Turn the phone to landscape orientation, and you’ll get a Cover Flow-esque view of news stories. While that view is eye-catching, it isn’t that functional; headlines are harder to read, you must top an icon to see story highlights, and you have to rotate the phone back again anytime you want to read an … [Read more...] about CNN Mobile for iPhone
Box.net iPad app offers mobile access to shared documents
The iPad will be in your hands soon enough. And when it is, important documents, files, and folders you’ve stored in the cloud won’t be too far away, thanks to Box.Net. The cloud-based content management company plans to release an iPad-optimized version of its Box.net mobile app that’s already available for iPhone and iPod touch users. The free app should hit the App Store this weekend about the same time that the iPad arrives on retail shelves. Like its iPhone counterpart, Box.net for the iPad lets users access and share content stored with Box.net’s online storage service. iPad users will be able to browse through personal and shared files folders, view documents and media on their tablets, and share files and folders with others. Users will also be able to leave comments and feedback on files, while seeing updates on what’s been edited or revised with shared content. Box.net on the iPad sports a two-pane interface. A navigation panel lists all the folders and files you … [Read more...] about Box.net iPad app offers mobile access to shared documents
Path tightens mobile app security
Social networking service Path has upgraded the security of its mobile application in apparent response to a recent outcry over its data gathering practices. In a brief blog post , Path said that a newly released 2.1.1 version of its software automatically hashes all user contact information in order to protect the privacy of the data. All phone numbers, email addresses, Twitter handles and Facebook IDs that Path collects in order to connect users with their contacts, will in future be hashed the statement said. “We hope our actions set a new standard in this field as we strive to serve you, our users, first,” the note added. Path’s move comes a few weeks after the company found itself in the middle of a major privacy row after a Singapore-based programmer published a blog post describing how Path’s journaling application for iOS and Android-powered phones, used by over 2 million users, was secretly collecting user address book data. The Feb. 8 disclosure drew … [Read more...] about Path tightens mobile app security