Germany is the last European market to have an exclusive iPhone carrier but complaints have surfaced from T- Mobile that Apple has been slow to get them new iPhones.

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MasterCard today announced it has agreed to acquire DataCash, a European payment service provider, for $520 million in a transaction expected to close by this October.

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Hungry For Mobile E-Commerce, MasterCard Drops $520M on DataCash

iPLATO Healthcare is a European innovation company dedicated to mobile health since 2006. iPLATO’s evidence based mobile health solutions have proven to improve patient access to healthcare, to enable powerful health promotion targeted …

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All portable devices will be connected to the internet in the future, creating a new stage in the evolution of the mobile internet, according to the European president of chip manufacturer Qualcomm.

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‘Connected intelligence’ next stage in mobile development

Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel Corp., has launched the 2010 Intel Challenge, a competition for university students who are asked to submit business plans for the chance to win $150,000. Otellini launched the competition during a speech at the World Congress on IT in Amsterdam.

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The Smart Grid’s eco- and money-saving powers may be a bit of a media-darling topic at the moment, but did you ever ponder what tech makes this all work? ARM is leading the game. Which may mean Apple could play too

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ARM’s Smart Meter Market Stirs Apple-ARM Speculation

When some 300 participants gather for the annual meeting of the European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds, and other Early Stage Market Players’ annual conference in Istanbul from April 15 to 16, they will hear about hot Turkish ventures in sectors ranging from the Internet to …

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Turkey: The New Venture Capital Hot Spot

Squeezed into a SIM chip The ZigBee Alliance has published a guide to using the standard in telecommunications, based around fitting a ZigBee node inside a SIM chip.

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ZigBee searches for a new home

Company road show canvasses the country

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Mobile Meetings: Company Road Show Reaches Farmers

HERNDON, Va.—-The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative today announced Dick Martin as its director of Utility Sales. With more than 35 years in utility metering , communications and control systems, Martin will lead the Regional Business Manager team dedicated to finding solutions for NRTC electric members as they seek to implement smart grid technologies and other mission-critical …

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Dick Martin to Direct NRTC’s Utility Sales Effort