AT&T Buys out T-Mobile

The U.S. operator AT & T participates in the consolidation of the American mobile market by buying out T-Mobile USA (Deutsche Telekom). The transaction Amount is observed as $ 39 billion.

It’s a brilliant stroke on the part of AT & T in the landscape of mobile telephony in the United States.

On Sunday night, the U.S. operator has announced the acquisition of T-Mobile USA, owned up by its German counterpart, Deutsche Telekom.

AT & T is willing to pay $ 25 billion in cash form and the remaining as the stock in the netted $ 39 billion deal.

According to the statement, the boards of both companies have agreed to this merger which is expected to be completed by March 2013. But the merger must be approved by the concerned regulatory authorities.

The external expansion of AT & T would be placed under the sign of the business of mobile telephony in particular with the promising 4G being deployed in the United States.

Rival Verizon also displays inclinations in that direction.

The U.S. operator, which boasts a base of 95.5 million mobile customers, intends to cover 95% of the U.S. population with this new generation network enabling the mobile broadband Internet.

“This will improve the quality of our network and will expand LTE coverage to a pool of 294 million people,” said Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T.

Also according to the purchasing group, this consolidation will raise the sales of its mobile activities of $ 58.5 billion to 80 billion.

T-Mobile is considered as the fourth mobile operator in the U.S. with 33.7 million customers. It displayed a turnover of 21.3 billion dollars in 2010.

According to Reuters, the withdrawal of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA will reduce group debt of 13 billion Euros.

A first calculation of return on investment shows that the German operator does not generate added value through this agreement with AT & T.

Apple has launched production of iPad 2

According to the WSJ, Apple has launched the production of the second version of the iPad, thinner, lighter but more powerful. The selling price should remain the same.

The iPad 2 – return of the iPad in new powerful format. According to “sources familiar with the matter, Apple has already begun to launch production of the second version of the iPad”, reveals Wall Street Journal. The first version of iPad has sold at least 14.8 million units worldwide since its release in less than a year.

Thinner and lighter than the first version, the iPad 2 includes a front camera dedicated to video conferencing, the tool used by FaceTime house, already accessible from the iPhone and iPod Touch, and a faster processor, powerful dual core Samsung A5, clocked at 1GHz.

The latest rumors are Apple’s new tablet should also have a graphics processor and optimized with a capacity of storing more than the first model.

Nevertheless, the Cupertino company has decided to keep its iPad 2 the same display resolution as the first draft.

Distributed by AT & T and Verizon in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal understands that the sale price of this new tablet should match those of the first iPad including the new fee for private copying.

Apple does not count to fall behind on the booming market of touch pads. Having launched the movement in the spring of 2010 with its new iPad, the Cupertino company is now faced with the arrival of a plethora of competitors: Samsung, HP, Dell, RIM, Lenovo, LG, Toshiba, Asus, Acer or Motorola.

After the launch of iPad, the production of iPad3 will be started, revealed by trusted sources.

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Asus releases surf plate – with the Android 3.0

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Asus today announced that the company releases a new surf rolled this week that runs on Android 3.0.
On Friday, the Asus start accepting pre-orders on the company’s surf pad that goes under the name Eee Pad. Initially there will only be possible to order the surf board in Taiwan, but a global launch comes shortly thereafter says Asus.

Asus Eee Pad has a display of 10.1 inches and comes in models with either 16 or 32 gigabytes of storage space. The processor consists of an Nvidia Tegra two dual cores. In addition, surf board offer two USB connectors and a card reader for micro-sd card.

The operating system is Android 3.0, like Motorola’s Xoom, which was released last month.
Starting in March, the second manufacturer to release surf boards with Android 3.0. Surf Boards with older versions of the operating system will be phased out, said Helen Chiang at IDC.

Asus Eee Pad will cost $ 399 (about 2500 dollars) for the cheaper model and $ 699 (about 4400 dollars) for the more expensive model in the U.S.. The more expensive model also has the capability to be an external keyboard that makes surfing the plate to a notebook.

Amazon's Cloud Drive faces music industry backlash

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While ostensibly beating Apple and Google to market with its music locker service, Amazon's new Cloud Drive online music streaming service was launched before licenses from music owners were in place, threatening a new legal battle. 

According to a report by Reuters, Sony Music spokeswoman Liz Young said her company "was upset by Amazon's decision to launch the service without new licenses for music streaming."

"We hope that they'll reach a new license deal, but we're keeping all of our legal options open," Young said.

Sold before the deal was struck

The report cited a source "close to the discussions" between Amazon and the music labels as saying that "music labels were alerted of the plans last week," and that Amazon only addressed "the issue of negotiating licenses" after the fact.

Amazon's move was described as "somewhat stunning," leaving some media industry members to view the service as illegal.

"I've never seen a company of their size make an announcement, launch a service and simultaneously say they're trying to get licenses," the source said, who was described as a music executive requesting anonymity.

Amazon appears to have jumped the gun in a bid to get ahead of Apple. While Amazon entered the music download market in late 2007, offering both slightly lower prices on MP3s and bargaining with the labels to offer DRM-free music before Apple, its music service still hasn't significantly encroached upon Apple's dominant position with iTunes. 

Online storage held up by music negotiations

Amazon's Cloud Drive provides users with 5GB of free storage (or 20GB for $20 annually) that can be used to upload music for playback via an Android app or through Amazon's Cloud Play website, which organizes music into playlists. 

Since last July, Apple's iDisk feature of MobileMe has similarly enabled users to upload their music (and other files) to the cloud for streaming playback (even in the background) from mobile devices via Apple's free iOS iDisk app, but the company doesn't promote the feature due to ongoing negotiations with the labels. 

iDisk is also not depicted as a music cloud service, and does not provide any special display of metadata; music files simply play in place from the online storage just as they would from any web server. Music files can also, like other iDisk documents, be shared with other users.

Music labels have long insisted on special "streaming licensing" for users that want to copy their own music to the cloud for their own mobile playback, something that has held up efforts by Apple, Google, and others to deliver legally legitimate cloud music services.

Apple could double IBM and HP in terms of business.

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According to Research based on the recent reports, Apple could achieve a turnover of more than IBM or HP in the next two years.

It’s an interesting comparison on the rise of Apple, made ​​by George Colony, founder and CEO of Forrester Research.

In an interview with Bloomberg, he believes that “sales of Apple could exceed that of IBM and HP over the next two years.” Specifically, George Colony believes that Apple would exceed IBM and HP in 2012 and 2013.

Steve Jobs’ firm could reach 200 billion dollars in sales, posting a sales growth of 50% over the next two years. It will just take a little peek on the latest available quarterly results of three U.S. IT groups.

Apple has achieved a turnover of 26.7 billion (first quarter of fiscal 2011 ended December 25, 2010). IBM shows a turnover of 29 billion dollars over the same period (corresponding to the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2010). While HP has posted a turnover of 33.3 billion (first quarter of fiscal 2011 ended January 31, 2011).

According eWeek.co.uk, the entire range of Apple and its whole ecosystem is part of this growing insolent. This is particularly the software environment and convergence proposed by the “Apple brand” that attracts consumers.

The launch of the iPad 2 at the international level is not done yet as it will increase the sale dramatically.

http://jummyhotipad2.blogspot.com

When! China denies blocking Gmail

China accuses Google of lying to the authorities of blocking e-mail service Gmail. China denies Google reports that the country is behind the e-mail service Gmail has been blocked. The Chinese foreign ministry is now to counterattack.

It is unacceptable, “said Jiang Yu, spokesperson of the ministry, the news agency BBC News. The statement came after Google on Monday reported that many users had difficulty using Gmail, as a result of the Chinese authorities’ blocking. Google’s data came after the company found that the service was not working as it should, but that it still could not find any technical problems.

Previously, Gmail suffered from attempts by hackers to steal accounts used by Chinese dissidents, attacks, traced to China. Google now claims that China is blocking Google in a way that makes it look like the service have access problems.

There are no technical problems on our side. We checked that very carefully, “said a spokesperson from Google, which concludes that the blocking by the Chinese authorities are structured such that it will look like a problem with Gmail.

In the past, inter alia, YouTube and Blogger have been blocked, as well as including Twitter and Facebook. This is in contrast to Chinese social media, on the other hand, closely monitored by authorities.

A user from China, which CS has been in contact with the state that Gmail for him is only accessible through specific URL-hacking, or via a VPN connection, not over the regular Internet. Lots of foreign VPN vendors have been blocked last few days, finds the user, who wishes to remain anonymous.

Google to Delay Releasing Honeycomb Android as Open Source

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According to the Wall Street Journal, “said a Google representative that source code for the latest version of Android will not be awarded because the software is not ready to be adapted for different mobile devices.

- We look forward to offering new features to the plate with Android, but more work is needed before we can offer it to other devices, including phones. Before then, we have decided not to release Honeycomb as open source, “said Representative to the Wall Street Journal. The decision shall not affect partners such as Samsung, Dell, HTC and Acer, are expected to soon release touchpads with the new operative.

Earlier versions of Android for mobile phones are available and can be modified by third parties. This resulted in a number of Android-based products that received a worse reception in the market.

Google says that Honeycomb will be available as open source as soon operative is ready for it. The decision to wait, however, goes contrary to the support that Google has given to the software based on open source. The promise of open source support was evident last fall in connection with Oracle’s atmosphere by Google for patent infringement on the Java platform.

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