Monday, May 20, 2013
What’s happened?
Google has launched a music-subscription service to complement the sale of music downloads from Google Play.
The strangely titled Google Play Music All Access will go up against the likes of Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody and Xbox Music in the US, with overseas rollouts expected soon.
 
Cisco reported a 14.5% year-on-year surge in its net income in its fiscal third quarter to $2.5 billion.
Net sales rose 5.4% to $12.2 billion, which Cisco chairman and CEO John Chambers said represented the company’s ninth consecutive record revenue quarter.
“Cisco is executing at a very high level in a slow, but steady economi
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Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) estimates its 1H profit grew 29% year-on-year to HK$177 million ($22.8 million), thanks to solid broadband gains.
The company's unaudited interim results also show a 13.4% increase in ebitda to HK$347 million, and a 9.7% increase in revenue to HK$974 million.
Broadband subscriptions grew 8.7% year-on-year
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Industry bodies GSMA and i3forum have launched a new initiative aimed at making IP exchange (IPX) services available to all operators.
The groups will co-ordinate on live-commercial pilots for voice IPX, to be conducted by mobile and fixed operators including Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, TeliaSonera.
GSMA an
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Nicholas Tan to take over as CFO at StarHub in July
StarHub said Kwek Buck Chye will retire as the company’s CFO at the end of September. He will be replaced by Nicholas Tan from Singapore Technologies Tel
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SingTel said its full-year net profit fell 12% to S$3.51 billion ($2.82 billion), due to one-time losses and a decline in group revenue.
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What is the biggest problem most of us face today using our digital devices and services? Too much of a good thing.
Email and other messaging systems are wonderful inventions, but we spend too much time going through irrelevant or marginal messages.
Japan's NTT Communications posted a 12% jump in profit for the year ending in March, as subsidiary NTT DoCoMo announced a management shake-up.
NTT Com recorded a full-year net profit of 65.3 billion yen ($643.1 million). But group operating revenues fell 1.5% to 1.19 trillion yen.
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China Mobile said it had bolstered its internal management and accounting standards, after a review by the National Audit Office identified weaknesses in current procedures.
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