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Today, Europe’s leading professional business social networking platform XING operators XING AG announced the preliminary results the first half of 2008, compared to the same period last year, Sales increased nearly doubled, reaching 15.91 million euros. In particular the second quarter was on sales of 8.41 million euros, while the same period last year was only 4.29 million euros. Deducting interest, taxes, depreciation and the amortisation before the earnings (EBITDA), the profits were 5.76 million euros, profit margins reached 36 percent, more than three times as the first half of 2007. In particular, it is worth noting that this performance is achieved under the condition that the company stopped purchasing which cost 768, 000 euros in the second quarter. At the same time as this is non-recurrent costs, it is not included in EBITDA. Register in part, because the strong growth of paid senior members, XING shares in the first half of 2008 reached a total of 12.64 million euros in sales, while last year the figure was 7.86 million euros. Only in the second quarter of this year, paying members added to 50,000 people, the new paying members of XING platform won 10.8 million people the first half of 2008. Until June 30, 2008, a total paid membership reached 470,000 people. Since the development of enterprises and mergers and acquisitions (M & the first quarter of 2008 cember.net), XING platform in the world has a total of 6.14 million members.

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According to foreign media reports, in order to expand market share in RFID, the U.S. chip RFID tags and readers leading provider Impinj acquired Intel’s UHF RFID reader chip operation. But did not disclose financial details of the transaction.

Impinj reader chips vice president said Kerry Krause, our high-performance Speedway RFID reader for a wide range of applications, Intel’s chip reader product line has become a complex RFID design and the main component of the integrated into the R1000 chip. 2007 Intel released a R1000 chip, integrated wireless reader the necessary 90 percent of the components, after the acquisition will enable access to all of Impinj RFID market and to create all the specifications of the RFID reader.

Impinj said, we provide the fixed, mobile and embedded reader will face a wide range of applications, including manufacturing, asset tracking and entry control and certification. Intel R1000 chip’s performance so that readers can be more compact, use less energy, more cost-effective.

Market research firm ABI Research, research director Mike Liard said the acquisition of Intel’s business can greatly help Impinj develop RFID tags.

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Apple in the UK mobile phone operator O2 this week two partners said that their site can not cope with consumer demand, the highest per second when it accepted the 13,000 3 G iPhone version of the online booking. O2 later said that their Pei Huo has been sold out.

Carphone Warehouse said that the consumer version of the 3 G iPhone interest is the first generation iPhone 10 times.

The two companies did not disclose specific sales figures.

Apple introduced the first generation iPhone to take an exclusive sales, it hopes to 3 G version of iPhone occupied a bigger market. Apple to allow mobile phone operators 3 G version of the iPhone subsidies, many mobile phone operators have to provide iPhone 3 G version of the high subsidies, improve its consumer appeal.

A spokesman for O2 said, we have taken all the measures taken to meet the demand, but our site has been unable to cope with such a high demand. Book online consumer experience as smooth as we expected.

In addition to supporting the 3G version of iPhone 3 G network, also support the functions and GPS navigation companies such as Outlook e-mail service.

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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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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.