A Chinese man looks at his cellphone as he stands at the entrance of a shop in Beijing on April 14, 2013. China's economic growth likely picked up slightly in the first quarter of this year, according to an AFP poll of analysts, but they say the rebound is fragile and key data unreliable.
A man talks on a cellphone as he waits for dispatch at a customs port in the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeastern Liaoning province on April 11, 2013. The biggest border crossing between North Korea and China has been closed to tourist groups, a Chinese official said on April 10 as nuclear tensions mounted, but business travel was still allowed.
A native uses his cellphone inside the former Indigenous Museum --aka Aldea Maracana-- next to the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 21, 2013. Indigenous people have been occupying the place since 2006, which is due to be pulled down to construct a parking lot for the upcoming Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup.
New Delhi: As cellphone operators continued disconnecting inactive SIM cards, India's total telecom subscriber base declined by 25.97 million to 895.51 million in December, sectoral regulator Trai said.
In November, the country had 921.47 million telecom subscribers.
Total wireless subscriber base decreased from 890.60 million in November 2012 to 864.72 million at the end of December 2012. This decline is majorly due to large scale disconnections of inactive SIMs by some of the service providers, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said in a statement
Las Vegas: Three of the top US cellphone carriers signaled this week that they would support Research In Motion's BlackBerry 10 products, the first of which are due to be unveiled 30 Jan, offering a hopeful sign for RIM's comeback effort.
Executives at Verizon Communications , AT&T Inc and T-Mobile USA all said they are looking forward to the devices, which will be crucial for RIM's chances of regaining lost ground from rivals such as Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics.
We're hopeful its going to be a good device, Lowell McAdam, chief executive of Verizon Communications, majority owner of the biggest US mobile service Verizon Wireless.
Pune: A city-based software company has launched a cellphone application, which can send a distress message to a specified contact group in an emergency situation confronting a woman.
The application 'Nirbhaya', which can be downloaded for free, will send an alarm by way of an SMS text message denoting woman's location to the configured group through the Global Positioning System (GPS), said Gajanan Sakhare, the CEO of Smart Cloud Infotech, which has developed the application.
