FASTTAKES: China Telecom, TCL,Google, Facebook, SingTel, ACCC

Staff writer
01 Nov 2010
00:00

China Telecom and Taiwanese vendor HTC have announced a partnership to jointly develop phones and unveiled the first product, a dual-chip cdma2000-GSM device.

Chinese handset vendor TCL doubled revenue and posted earnings 15 times higher than the same period last year in Q3. Handset shipments were 124% to 9.5m units, the Hong Kong-listed company said.

Malaysian broadband penetration has reached 53.5% from 22% in 2008, on track to meet the government's target of 75% penetration by 2015.

Google has pulled an app, Secret SMS Replicator, that allowed users to spy on texts received on Android smartphones.

Lars Rasmussen, one of the developers behind Google Maps and the aborted Wave project, has left Google to join Facebook.

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley and AdMob founder Omar Hamoui have also announced their departures from Google.

SingTel will start selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab on November 13.

Australia's ACCC said it had “hit a brick wall” in a bid to convince the rental financing arms of Cisco, MacquarieBank and CapitalFinance to be lenient to customers caught by scammers fraudulently on-selling telecom equipment rental contracts.

Microsoft has agreed the first deployment of its HealthVault technology in China, offering users online access to medical information. Domestic IT services firm iSoftStone Information Technology will launch the service in Wuxi, Jiangsu province.

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