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...experiment to take the device another step further by transmitting images over broadcast airwaves rather than mobile-phone networks. The TV industry has already recognized the growing importance of mobile content; earlier this month, the U.S. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences gave an Emmy for technical achievement to telecom Sprint and tech company MobiTV for funneling shows over cellular networks. With 2 billion mobile phones in the world and TV viewing a ubiquitous part of modern life, the commercial potential of marrying the two is enormous. TV on the phone could even help win back the eyeballs of a younger...
...Rajiv Dutta, eBay's chief financial officer, did not exactly clarify matters by posing the rhetorical question, "How do we make 1+1 equal to greater than 2?" Tech blogs are atwitter trying to figure out what's really behind this. Internet telecom pioneer Jeff Pulver hailed it as a new frontier in marrying e-commerce with communications. But longtime Web observer and Business 2.0 writer Om Malik, suggests that the deal is a desperate attempt by eBay to find new subscribers and to stem fraud. EBay is not alone on the internet phone bandwagon. In the past few weeks...
...that - except that the Cisco-supplied handset that Stefanou and some 100 other airport employees use never touches a mobile network. Instead, it wirelessly taps into the airport's internal network, which transmits the call for free anywhere in the 16-sq-km airport. "It bypasses any mobile or telecom network,'' says Fotis Karonis, the airport's director of information technology and telecommunications. "It's an advantage, because you don't have to call with your mobile and pay.'' Using this system helps save airport workers as much as €163,000 per year. It might seem like little more...
...most profitable operations," says Sawiris, 50, sprawled on a leather chair in Orascom Telecom's ornate Paris office. "I take a lot of risks, but calculated risks." Now Sawiris stands on the edge of his biggest gamble, and it's not in an unstable country. This month he closed a massive $15.6 billion deal with the Italian utility Enel to acquire a 62% stake in its mobile-phone network, Wind. Sawiris borrowed more than $12 billion...
Naguib seems to have inherited his father's golden touch. Over the past six years, Cairo-based Orascom Telecom Holding has grown into an increasingly profitable company, with more than $4 billion in revenue and 17.1 million subscribers in Muslim countries, including Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia...