THE WRAP: A clash over Flash, as users flock to free maps

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Created 05/02/2010 - 5:01pm

THE WRAP: A clash over Flash, as users flock to free maps

Robert Clark | February 05, 2010

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This week Apple and Adobe clashed over Flash, while U-Mobile hoped to get third time lucky with ST Telemedia.

Apple and Adobe engaged in a war of words [1] over Adobe Flash, with Steve Jobs describing the player – which is not installed on the new iPad – as broken.

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A teardown revealed that Apple stands to make $208 [3] – a 42% margin – on each entry level iPad, priced at $499.

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Users downloaded 1.4 million Ovi maps [5] in the first two weeks after Nokia made them available for free.

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ST Telemedia [7] could become the latest foreign investor in Malaysian cellco U-Mobile. NTT DoCoMo and KTF sold their stakes last year. The company is reported to be taking a one-third stake in the struggling carrier.

Potential buyers of Reliance’s global unit are being turned off by the $3 billion price tag [8].

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Cisco shrugged off the recession as it beat forecasts with a 23% higher Q4 net [10]. Sales rose across the board, the company said.

China Unicom warned of a 50% dive in profit [11] thanks to high 3G costs.

Softbank Mobile boosted operating income 60% [12], thanks to demand for the iPhone, while lower costs helped NTT DoCoMo to a 48% higher net profit. [13]

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France Telecom boss Didier Lombard will step down as CEO [15], but remain as chairman, after months of crisis at the carrier over low morale and a spate of employee suicides.

Google asked US spy agency NSA to probe into cyber-attacks [16] that it said originated in China.
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China Telecom plans to roll out 4Mbps broadband [18] in urban areas to help stem the continued loss of voice lines.

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Analysts tipped Alcatel-Lucent as the frontrunner to win the contract [20] to manage Bharti Airtel’s national fiber backbone network.

The Modi group plans to merge its telecom businesses [21] into a single entity, Spice Mobility.

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Australian ISP iiNet won a copyright case against major movie studios [22], with the court ruling carriers could not be held responsible for illicit file sharing by their customers.

Qualcomm will open an R&D center in Korea [23] – its second in Asia and its fourth worldwide.

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Deutsche Telekom weighed an IPO or a spinoff [24] of its US mobile arm T-Mobile.

Yahoo sold its HotJobs employment [25] website to Monster Worldwide for $225 million.
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Amazon bought touchscreen firm Touchco [26] and plans to integrate its technology into the Kindle.

Whistleblower website Wikileaks, which has suspended operations after running out of cash, says it has raised enough money [27] to continue operating, though not enough to pay its staff.

A man lost on the ice on the German coast was saved by a woman 500km away [28] who saw his signal for help on a webcam.
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And a 19-year-old New Zealand student auctioned her virginity [30] for NZ$45,000 ($31,000) to help put her through university.
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[1] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/apple-adobe-clash-over-flash
[2] http://www.telecomseurope.net/../../../../../../../content/ipad-teardown-apple-makes-least-208-each-unit
[3] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/ipad-teardown-apple-makes-least-208-each-unit
[4] http://www.telecomseurope.net/../../../../../../../content/ovi-map-downloads-top-14-million-two-weeks
[5] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/ovi-map-downloads-top-14-million-two-weeks
[6] http://www.telecomseurope.net/../../../../../../../content/st-telemedia-take-184m-u-mobile-stake-report
[7] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/st-telemedia-take-184m-u-mobile-stake-report
[8] http://www.telecomseurope.net/content/globalcoms-€22b-price-tag-driving-buyers-away
[9] http://www.telecomseurope.net/../../../../../../../content/cisco-beats-forecasts-23-profit-hike
[10] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/cisco-beats-forecasts-23-profit-hike
[11] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/unicom-warns-50-profit-dive
[12] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/softbank-mobile-soars-iphone-sales
[13] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/docomo-profits-48-lower-costs
[14] http://www.telecomseurope.net/../../../../../../../content/france-telecom-ceo-bows-out-over-suicide-crisis
[15] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/france-telecom-ceo-bows-out-over-suicide-crisis
[16] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/science/05google.html?hp
[17] http://www.telecomseurope.net/../../../../../../../content/china-telecom-plots-4mbps-broadband-rollout
[18] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/china-telecom-plots-4mbps-broadband-rollout
[19] http://www.telecomseurope.net/../../../../../../../content/alca-lu-frontrunner-bharti-1b-outsource-tender
[20] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/alca-lu-frontrunner-bharti-1b-outsource-tender
[21] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/modi-merge-spice-telecom-businesses
[22] http://www.telecomseurope.net/content/aust-isp-wins-landmark-piracy-case
[23] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/qualcomm-open-rd-center-korea
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[25] http://www.telecomseurope.net/content/yahoo-sells-hotjobs-monster-225m
[26] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/technology/04amazon.html?ref=technology
[27] http://gigaom.com/2010/02/04/wikileaks-raises-enough-to-keep-the-lights-on/
[28] http://www.telecomasia.net/content/webcam-saves-life-man-lost-ice
[29] http://www.telecomseurope.net/../../../../../../../content/webcam-saves-life-man-lost-ice
[30] http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/new-zealand-teenager-auctions-off-her-virginity-for-36000-20100203-nbkq.html
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