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Oct 24, 2011

Slim sees telecoms capex up to $10 bln

GENEVA, Oct 24 (Reuters) – America Movil (AMX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) owner
Carlos Slim expects his Latin American telecoms empire to make
capital investments of up to $10 billion annually in the region
for the next years, he said in an interview on Monday.

“We need to go with very important investments for broadband
access for the people by way of landline, but mainly it will be
from mobile new technologies and new strong investments,” he
told Reuters at the ITU World telecoms fair in Geneva.

Oct 24, 2011

Carlos Slim sees telecoms capex up to $10 billion

GENEVA, Oct 24 (Reuters) – America Movil (AMX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) owner
Carlos Slim expects his Latin American telecoms empire to make
capital investments of up to $10 billion annually in the region
for the next years, he said in an interview on Monday.

“We need to go with very important investments for broadband
access for the people by way of landline, but mainly it will be
from mobile new technologies and new strong investments,” he
told Reuters at the ITU World telecoms fair in Geneva.

Oct 12, 2011

RIM scrambles to end global BlackBerry outage

LONDON/TORONTO, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Research In Motion said on Wednesday it was working frantically
to end a three-day global disruption of BlackBerry services
that has frustrated millions of smartphone users and put more
pressure on the company for sweeping changes.

The Canadian company, in a hastily announced conference
call, vowed to deliver all email and instant messages to the
tens of millions of customers who have been affected by the
outage. It later told some clients the huge backlog may not
clear until Thursday morning on the U.S. East Coast.

Oct 12, 2011

BlackBerry outages spread to North America

LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) – A three-day disruption to
BlackBerry services spread to North America on Wednesday,
frustrating users of the Research In Motion devices
just two days before rival Apple’s new iPhone 4S goes
on sale.

RIM advised clients of an outage in the Americas and said it
was working to restore services as customers in Europe, the
Middle East, Africa and India continued to suffer patchy email
and no access to browsing and messaging.

Oct 12, 2011

Millions of BlackBerry users cut off for third day

LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Millions of BlackBerry users
around the world were left without text communication services
for a third day on Wednesday as Research in Motion
struggled to fix what it said was a switching failure in its
private network.

Users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India suffered
patchy email service and no access to browsing and messaging,
ratcheting up negative sentiment towards a company already
losing market share to Apple and Samsung .

Oct 12, 2011

Millions of BlackBerry users cut off for third day

LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Millions of BlackBerry users
around the world were left without text communication services
for a third day on Wednesday as Research in Motion
struggled to fix what it said was a switching failure in its
private network.

Users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India suffered
patchy email service and no access to browsing and messaging,
ratcheting up negative sentiment towards a company already
losing market share to Apple and Samsung .

Oct 11, 2011

SecurID maker says single nation behind data breach

LONDON (Reuters) – Two groups acting on behalf of a single nation state were behind a March attack on RSA, the maker of SecurID keys used by tens of millions of employees worldwide to access their corporate computer networks, Chief Executive Art Coviello said on Tuesday.

The hackers stole information later used in an attack on U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin, forcing RSA, the security division of data storage firm EMC, to offer replacement SecurID keys to all its customers.

Oct 11, 2011

BlackBerry problems hit four continents

LONDON (Reuters) – Disruptions to BlackBerry services spread to Latin America on Tuesday, more than a day after users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India suffered extended outages.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd, which is losing share of the corporate email market it once took for granted, said it was working on the problem but gave no details of the cause.

Oct 11, 2011

Marketers struggle to harness social media: survey

LONDON (Reuters) – Marketing chiefs feel overwhelmed by the growing volume of customer data on websites like Facebook and Twitter, and while they realize its potential value they consider themselves ill-equipped to harness it, an IBM study found.

Only 26 percent of chief marketing officers track blogs and just 40 percent track any online communications, while 82 percent still rely on traditional market research to shape marketing strategies, according to the study.

Oct 6, 2011

BBC to shrink as it shares in government spending cuts

LONDON (Reuters) – The BBC said on Thursday it was set to become “significantly smaller” after the cash-strapped government imposed deep spending cuts on the world-renowned, publicly funded broadcaster.

The world’s biggest broadcaster set out the changes in response to a 20 percent cut to its annual 3.5 billion pound budget imposed by the government a year ago as it planned the deepest public spending cuts in decades.

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      "Currently based in London, with particular responsibility for professional publishers and the European activities of global technology, media and telecoms firms. Previously European technology correspondent based in Frankfurt. Began career in local radio in Glasgow and then worked in TV news for many years for Reuters, the BBC and Sky News in London and Moscow."
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