Webwire: Qualcomm grows Q2 profit; iPhone stores location data

Qualcomm lifts guidance on strong Q2

Qualcomm grew its quarterly profit 29% to $999 million, on record revenue of $3.88 billion, and raised its earnings forecast for the current financial year.

Dow Jones

iPhone found to secretly keep location records

Two security researchers have found a file in Apple's iOS 4 that stores location information on everywhere a user has traveled, although the data doesn't seem to be sent to Apple itself.

The Guardian

CAT to spend $40m on Wi-Fi, cloud

Thailand's CAT has allocated 1.2 billion baht ($40.1 million) toward expansion, with 700 million set to go towards new Wi-Fi hotspots and the balance to cloud computing.

Bangkok Post

Etisalat Q1 profit, customer base shrinks

The UAE's Etisalat has reported an 8.5% slump in Q1 profit to 8 billion dirhams ($2.18 billion), in a result analysts attribute to declining subscriber numbers.

The Nation Online

BT, TalkTalk lose piracy bill court challenge

UK operators BT and TalkTalk have failed in a legal bid to block parts of an antipiracy bill that will put the onus on them to send out warning letters to infringing users, and may later require the companies to disconnect repeated offenders.

Financial Times

DoT to decide on operator licenses soon

India's DoT has received replies for the 119 show cause notices it sent to various operators last year for failing to meet the eligibility criteria for their licenses, and will now make a decision in the next few weeks.

Economic Times

Incentive download apps rejected from App Store

Apple has started to reject from the app store applications that offer users virtual currency as an incentive for downloading and installing other apps, perhaps because it doesn't get a cut of incentive transactions.

TechCrunch

Putin quells rumors of internet crackdown

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has no plans to restrict the internet in the lead-up to the 2012 elections, despite the concerns held by the nation's security services.

Reuters