FASTTAKES: Nokia, HTIL, Twitter, China Mobile, StratCom, NTC

Staff writer
23 Feb 2010
00:00

The US International Trade Commission it has agreed to investigate Apple’s patent infringement complaint against Nokia and Motorola’s complaint against RIM.

Hutchison Telecom International Limited (HTIL), which last week delayed the issue of its annual result pending a US SEC inquiry into its accounting treatment of a tower sale and leaseback deal, has announced it will release the full-year and Q4 results on March 4.

Twitter is now delivering 50m tweets daily, up from 2.5m in early 2009, the company said on its blog.

China Mobile added 5.12 million mobile net adds in January, followed by China Telecom with 3.05 million net adds. Third placed China Unicom took on 1.7 million net adds. China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA users stand at 3.9 million, ahead of Unicom’s WCDMA count of 3.6 million.

A micro-blog account for Chinese President Hu Jintao appeared on the People’s Daily website yesterday and gained 16,000 followers before suddenly vanishing, scmp.com reported.

The US Strategic Command has lifted its ban on the use of thumb drives and other removable media on military networks. A cyber defense specialist said it was because it was unable to enforce the ban.

Philippines regulator the NTC will allow incumbent mobile operators bid for the 10MHz of 3G spectrum it is auctioning.

Optus has installed a pilot cloud service for the Curtin University of Technology in Perth – its first. The cloud platform, using Cisco, EMC and VMware technology, delivers on-demand access to a virtualized private data center.

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