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June 30 - Saturday, South Korea’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom said, will be the No. 1 U.S. wireless business dealers to sell Virgin Mobile’s U.S. wireless services business Helio.

According to foreign media reports, Helio with SK is the world’s third largest Internet service operators Earthlink Inc. The joint venture. 2006, Helio formally established in the United States. But after the establishment of Helio is not the way to go smoothly, it is learnt that, Helio has been at a loss over the past two years, about 200,000 users. And Virgin Mobile has more than 500 million users.

Helio in the company after the acquisition of Virgin Mobile will be included under, Virgin Mobile promised to retain Helio brand after the acquisition. Sources said the two sides have reached an agreement, is expected to be the first in this week announced the agreement.

Virgin Mobile is expected to complete this transaction will require 50 million U.S. dollars, the deal after SK Telecom will retain a 20% stake.

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June 30 - Saturday, South Korea’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom said, will be the No. 1 U.S. wireless business dealers to sell Virgin Mobile’s U.S. wireless services business Helio.

According to foreign media reports, Helio with SK is the world’s third largest Internet service operators Earthlink Inc. The joint venture. 2006, Helio formally established in the United States. But after the establishment of Helio is not the way to go smoothly, it is learnt that, Helio has been at a loss over the past two years, about 200,000 users. And Virgin Mobile has more than 500 million users.

Helio in the company after the acquisition of Virgin Mobile will be included under, Virgin Mobile promised to retain Helio brand after the acquisition. Sources said the two sides have reached an agreement, is expected to be the first in this week announced the agreement.

Virgin Mobile is expected to complete this transaction will require 50 million U.S. dollars, the deal after SK Telecom will retain a 20% stake.

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Known as "the father of black phones," said the joint of the Branch, has been quietly been  global flat-panel TV chip shipments, "Gangster."

The day before yesterday, professional research firm DisplaySearch announced the first quarter of the global flat-panel TV chip shipments data, overtaking the United States Bureau of the Trident (Trident), boarded leading global provider of the throne. Its market share as high as 19.53 percent. Trident and the first quarter market share of only 15.73 percent, while shipments to 4.2 million, behind the Bureau of 1 million.

The Bureau of the reasons for the increased shipments, the success of last year, Samsung suppliers into the system, and received many orders in Taiwan. And the Trident dropped with the Sony, Samsung and other major customers of the volume decline.

However, this is only the Bureau of the global market position in mainland China so it does not scenery. Professional bodies isuppli semiconductor research analyst at GU Wen-Jun "First Financial Daily" said that the Bureau of the mainland has not been able to really open the market.

At present, mainland China flat-panel TV chip market mainly by the Taiwan region Morningstar, the U.S. Trident, GeneSIS and Pixelworks, and other master. Morningstar volume of which almost occupy more than half of image control chip share. CCID Consulting semiconductor industry analyst told this newspaper that Yueting, TCL, Konka, etc. More than 60 percent of products using the chip Morningstar.

Analysts said the snatch by the global flat-panel TV chip market is intended to dilute the over-reliance on low-end phones, especially the "cottage phone," the development of the market risks, to open up new growth channels. CCID Consulting report showed that the mainland market only driver with two types of image control of the main chip LCD TV, 2007 sales has been more than 5 billion yuan. TCL, Changhong, Hisense and other local enterprises have already set foot in the color TV, but its own small number of chips shipped.

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Google yesterday announced that 30 partners, will do its utmost to ensure that Android phones available on time in November.

Similarity with the iPhone, Android use WebKit browser engine, with touch-screen, high-level graphics and the Internet, users can check e-mail on mobile phones, search web site and watch video programs, and other than the iPhone and other mobile phones more emphasis on search, more interface Powerful, can be said to be a full integration of Web applications of a single platform.

But the most stirring of the Android phone system is open and free services. Android is a completely open for third-party software platforms, developers in the development process for a greater degree of freedom to break through the iPhone, and so can only add one of the few software fixed the shackles at the same time with Windows Mobile, Symbian, etc. Different manufacturers, Android operating system provided free of charge to developers, such costs can be saved nearly 30%.

Android project is from a mobile phone operators, handset manufacturers, developers and consumers receive strong support. Google mobile platform for Andilubin (Andy Rubin), and software development partners in close contact in progress. From November last year, Google started to service providers, chip makers and handset vendors to provide Android platform, and has organized an "open mobile alliance", and its members over 30.

Android the impact will be enormous, other mobile phone giant to continue to survive, we must keep up with the pace of opening up.

Yesterday, Nokia announced that 264 million euros acquisition of Symbian (the world’s largest mobile phone operating system company) shares. The acquisition means that Nokia and Sony Ericsson, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo together, the integration of the current Symbian OS, S60, UIQ, MOAP system, the establishment of a new Open Mobile software platform Symbian. At the same time, would also jointly AT & T, LG, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone, the formation of a non-profit Foundation for Symbian, to the global promotion of the platform.

The acquisition is expected to be completed before the end of the new Symbian Foundation will also start operation early next year.

Nokia’s Symbian full acquisition of the company, which will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokia. Symbian Foundation eventually will operate the various technology integration, the use of unified UI framework, to all members of the Foundation provided free of charge authorization system. At the same time, members of the Foundation will open platform for the continuous development of the follow-up, and published the source code of some components.

In the first quarter of the global smart phone sales amounted to 32.3 million, an increase of 29 percent. Gartner said global mobile phone ownership has more than 3.3 billion, in 2010 this figure will grow to 4 billion, equivalent to three times the PC; Nokia, RIM first quarter of this year the smart phone market share has reached 58.6 percent, Apple iPhone the third place in market share to 5.3 percent. The Standard & Poor’s analyst (Scott Kessler) said that the Google phone ads for several decades as sustainable management of the new business opportunities, as soon as possible in the hope that the mobile phone advertising market was a considerable share. Android market, Nokia, RIM and so will face no small challenge.

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By comparison, China Mobile after the merger of CRC, has not yet introduced integration business. Prior to attending the General Assembly at the opening of cadres company, China Mobile chairman Wang Jianzhou openly stated that the CRC will serve as an independent subsidiary of China Mobile’s existence, and will be taken into account in the entire mobile business development strategy, but China Mobile " Maintain its own characteristics, focused, unique to the whole business. "

However, with the whole business of stable compared to China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA have already begun expanding the market.

Statistics show that by April, the total opening of TD-SCDMA base stations has reached 14,119. Among them, China Netcom in Qingdao City, the construction of the 413 TD-SCDMA base stations, China Telecom in Baoding construction of the 300 TD-SCDMA base stations, the two sides for a total of 2 billion yuan investment. "After the reorganization of the two cities of TD-SCDMA network will be transferred to China Mobile." June 21, the source revealed. This news has not been officially confirmed operators.

China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA has been in business on April 1 formally Fanghao test business, and again in early June to increase 60,000 user friendly to start the second batch of TD terminals tender, the introduction of the new TD handset subsidies, increase sales TD Office of the number of mobile phone business, CCTV and other media to advertise a lot to promote the commercial TD-SCDMA test progress.

"China Mobile on TD-SCDMA’s attitude has changed fundamentally, from the pilot to actively promote the wait and see." Industry analysis, the reasons for the one hand, from 3 G’s established pattern, the other from the ministries of the TD-SCDMA.

June 10 afternoon, the letter Li Yizhong, minister of telecommunications and digital TD experts to discuss future development strategy, saying "TD only succeed not allowed to fail" and recently the community has not confirmed the news, asked departments in charge of China Mobile 8 To submit a TD on the next stage of construction technology of the business plan and detailed budget report, China Mobile is expected as early as October this year, the TD network building for the next round of bidding, valuation of 30 billion yuan.

But no matter what the reasons for China Mobile TD-SCDMA operations of the force, China Unicom and China Netcom joint promotions, all indicate that after the reorganization of the telecommunications market increased competition. "In the telecommunications access to CDMA, the whole business product launch, the three major operators of the market角逐will become more intense." Industry said.

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Registration of new operators and industry-based top-level domain (sTLD). Tel Telnic Limited to the launch will be announced in the ICANN meeting in Paris on the start-up activities in detail. 2008, (Wednesday), the organization will be accepted first come first served basis national trademark owner’s priority application for registration.

. tel allows you to direct its own unique domain name on the Internet to store, update and publish your contact information, Web links and keywords. . tel easy and quick, you can access from any device, for the overall management of the people you contact your way and place to provide a new Internet standards. . tel have the following features:

— Integration of any means of communication (for example: telephone number, instant messaging, Internet telephony, e-mail, social media)

— On the Internet, real-time post your contact information

— Complete with your published data

— Protect your private data, you only authorized people can view

— A simple structure of the navigation can easily obtain the most relevant information

— For mobile devices optimize the global high-speed access

— Multi-language search engine-friendly structure of information and Keywords

Telnic public relations director Justin Hayward said: "Because. Tel a rich feature set and open specifications, it is registered, resellers and developers of new opportunities. Over the past few years, we have to work hard to ensure that We provide all the industry sectors can take advantage of this new ecosystem. "

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Intel is expected to be launched Atom promote micro-processor notebook computer market have grown significantly. If Intel’s competitors missed in this new market to compete with Intel the opportunity, it would be surprising that the. A few days ago, on the Internet there is a slide disclosed AMD’s a processor. According to reports, this AMD processor is Intel’s Atom and Granville wins, "Delicate" processor No. 1 competitor.

AMD’s new 64-bit single-core processor equipped with 128 KB (64KB + 64KB) a cache, 256 KB L2 cache, a support DDR2-400 SDRAM DIMM or SO-DIMM memory of the integrated memory controller. The processor equipped with 800 MHz frequency for the HyperTransport bus, the clock speed of 1 GHz, thermal design power of 8 watts. This processor chip using 812-pin BGA package, Dimensions for the 27 x 27.

In fact, this is the AMD processor chips used in mobile and integrated solution of the old Athlon 64 chip simpler modified products. Overall, the processor Let us recall the use of the core Athlon AMD Geode NX processor family. However, if the past is K7 Geode NX-based micro-architecture, the new processor is likely to adopt 64 of the K8 core.

Obviously, though AMD in the high-end desktop and notebook computers with Intel to market competition, but, AMD and Intel will be directly in the emerging mobile Internet equipment and mini-notebook market competition. AMD and Intel solutions Atom processors different. AMD’s processors to support 64-bit extensions and is integrated memory controller.

However, the people of this slide on the competitiveness of AMD processors are still skeptical, because the 8-watt thermal design power too much. Atom Intel processor thermal design power of only 2.5 watts, even with the Intel chip i945GSE Group 4 watts of thermal design power, the overall thermal design power consumption is only 6.5 watts. Incidentally click, AMD’s processors this has not been integrated graphics chip core.

Said the industry, AMD in the low-end market so far has not achieved great success. AMD Geode GX processor based on the PIC (Personal Internet Communicator) AMD plans to bring the huge losses. OLPC XO students laptop (targeting AMD Geode LX processor) delay the launch. AMD has just from Asus PC-benefit. AMD’s new solution will be successful? «This depends entirely on the chip’s performance and price.

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Southeast Asia’s largest phone company Singapore Telecommunications said that China is currently working with telecom operators to discuss cooperation matters, hope to enter the world’s largest mobile phone user market.

Singapore Telecommunications chief executive officer Chua Sock Koong in an industry conference, said: "We are carrying out consultations, but has not yet reached any agreement." She did not disclose the names of objects in consultation. However, there are media reports earlier this month, Singapore Telecom is considering to invest in China Telecom, but the two sides have not started formal negotiations.

Chua said: "We are not financial investors, just want to strategic partnership status with the local operators. We want to obtain the necessary investment and control of the board of directors and management of enterprises involved in the right." Last month, China’s telecommunications industry With the reorganization plan, then China Telecom said in a statement, and 45 companies were contacted, a hope that the introduction of strategic investors.

DBS CD-up Corporation (DBS Vickers Securities Ltd.) Analysis analyst Steven Liu said: "For foreign operators, If you want a piece of the Chinese market, the best option is to buy shares of local operators . While the future of China’s telecommunications market will open many, but also difficult to achieve the near future. "

Singapore Telecom is Singapore’s largest listed companies, which hold a number of countries over the shares of mobile operators, also owns Australia’s second largest telecommunications company Optus; acquisition of the company is considering the development of the market operators, the company increased profits At least 10%.

Last month, the company has actively participated in the Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel and South Africa’s MTN Group and the acquisition negotiations; Bharti Airtel and hold about 30 percent of the shares. In the end because the two sides unable to Bharti and MTN in the combined company shares to reach a consensus on the distribution and the breakdown of negotiations.

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Three years ago, News Corp. (News Corporation) acquisition of MySpace’s parent company Intermix Media, in the hope that the 16 million users on the basis of the use of the growing number of households - each user constant increase of new friends, share photos and exchange messages, This advertising revenue will come rolling. Now, the social site users worldwide has increased to 118 million, but revenue slow, did not meet company expectations.

In two weeks after the end of the fiscal year, News Corp. said that MySpace will not be able to reach 1 billion U.S. dollars revenue target. When News Corp. announced in April with the expected revenue shortfall, shares fell 5 percent.

Wednesday, you can see that MySpace redesigned the home page, not before gimmicky, the ads are more friendly. The new website includes: navigation, search engines and video player, will be completed early fall. Social change is to address the issue of the value of your site.

In the past few months, the community website showed one group prosperity. MySpace with the main competitors Facebook, and Bebo, has ambitious plans to make money, but did not have sufficient evidence to prove that the plan is feasible.

In a conference call last month, News Corp. president and chief operating officer Peter Chernin said, reducing the social web site advertising expectations, recognition of individual pages and pages of advertising sales group is not easy.

MySpace natural agree more optimistic view. April, MySpace promoted to the President of marketing Jeff Berman said, we see the revenue come. It is said that compared to last year’s revenue per user increased by 50 percent, but the site each year per user to make 6-7 U.S. dollars.

However, it is worrying is that no matter what position on the ad, the social site users do not visit the ads. For most social networking sites, users become the most attention of scarce resources. Facebook Vice President of Product Market Chamath Palihapitiya said, a successful advertising products in seizing the attention of users to participate in the relevant ads in the past.

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Gates, the "sheep’s clothing"

Harvard dropout from more than 30 years later, Gates finally brought a degree cap. In college, Gates love than love poker and programming classes. June 2007, Gates received the honour of the Harvard Law Doctorate. The same day with this degree of access is also available in Boston Seerdisi team of NBA players Bill Russell. It seems that this day is Bill’s lucky day. Children, remember, good in school. If you can not complete their education, schooling of his uncle Bill, founded his own software empire, to lead the world in 30, is also a good way out.