Year: 2010

Vodafone Essar to sell the iPhone 3GS in India

Posted by | Mar 27, 2010 | , |

Vodafone Essar, India’s third-largest mobile operator says it will begin selling the iPhone 3GS in the country, effective immediately, reports “Reuters” (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE62P09C20100326?feedType=RSS&feedName=technology-media-telco-SP&rpc=22).

India’s top mobile firm Bharti Airtel also said earlier this week it would start selling iPhone 3GS in the country as of today. The company has previously sold the iPhone 3G, but not the faster version of the Apple smartphone.

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Apple juggles panel makers to avoid iPad delays

Apple juggles panel makers to avoid iPad delays

Posted by | Mar 27, 2010 | , |

Taiwan-based TPK Touch Solutions has seen Apple shift orders for iPad-use projected capacitive touch panels to fellow maker Wintek because of TPK’s delayed shipments, according to “DigiTimes” (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100326PD213.html), which quotes industry sources” on the news.

Wintek has recently announced a plan to set up a touch panel module production line in Dongguan, southern China. The company is evaluating another plan to expand the capacity for front-end touch panel production, adds “DigiTimes.”

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Central and Eastern Europe could be growth areas for Apple

Posted by | Mar 27, 2010 | , |

It sounds as if there’s a potential market to be taped by Apple: Central and Eastern Europe, where the number of personal computers is expected to grow significantly over the next four years.

Uptake of fixed and mobile broadband services will grow at a compound annual rate of 20% in the regions through 2014 as governments roll out more aggressive Internet connectivity policies in the wake of new guidelines covering expansion of telecom services, according to a new report from Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com), according to a new report from the author.

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Apple plans third Italian retail store, this one in Turin

Posted by | Mar 27, 2010 | , |

Apple has begun to search for employees for its third retail store in Italy. It will be in Turin (Torino), a city in northern Italy.

Turin was the site of the 2006 previous Winter Olympics. The story there will be the third after the one in Rome, which opened three years ago, and the one in Carugate (Milano), which opened last September. You can read more (in Italian) here: http://www.setteb.it/?p=8494 .

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