MICRO-BLOGGING sensation Twitter says it is making progress on ways to pump cash from the free service.

It's been over a year since Apple inaugurated its App Store but it has finally shed some light on how the approval process works. Apple has been reluctant to publicly discuss how developer-created applications get approved but the US government forced its hand by sending an official query regarding the rejection of Google Voice several weeks ago. On Friday, Apple answered a series of questions posed by the FCC regarding the App Store and its evaluation policies, and there were several interesting revelations.

(Telecompaper) The Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT), in cooperation with the Federal Telecommunications Commission (Cofetel) and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), has granted licence extensions, additional services concessions and new communications licenses for telecom operators on the local market. SCT has awarded seven licence extensions covering trunking services for convergent networks, and a partial licence extension for provision of mobile telephony services. The licence extensions are in the 53.5 MHz frequency band and the operators will have to pay a fee of MXN 905 million prior to the delivery of the concession titles. The ministry also granted nine concessions for provision of telecoms services, four public telephony licences covering ten provinces, and five concessions for provision of local fixed and mobile telephony and national and international long distance services. SCT has also awarded seven authorisations for installation and op

(Telecompaper) Deutsche Telekom has acquired 17 percent of the shares of Indian telecommunications operator Devas Multimedia, which will provide mobile video services in India from 2010, according to German magazine WirtschaftsWoche citing confirmation from Deutsche Telekom. Devas's majority shareholders are financial investors Columbia Capital and Telecom Ventures, who jointly own 49 percent. On 18 August, Indian business daily Economic Times wrote that Deutsche Telekom will pay USD 75 million for the stake, which values Devas at USD 443 million. Bangalore-based Devas is a niche satellite-based multimedia services company with plans to deliver content via a hybrid satellite-terrestrial network to mobile devices. It works in the area of software development and research & development (R&D) for multimedia content creation and transmitting content using internet, satellite and terrestrial broadcasting. Devas is currently working with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on provi

The traditional nine-to-five office day is ebbing away, with techies seemingly unable to resist checking their email before breakfast. The majority of IT workers are now checking their email, either on a PC or a mobile device, before 9am, according to a poll of silicon.com readers.

A FIBRE-OPTIC cable will link Centrelink's data centres.

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CUSTOMERS are up in arms about having to wait two hours for a service phone call.

(Telecompaper) Apple's iPhone now has a 1.7 percent market share in the Netherlands. Nokia remained the manufacturer with the largest market share at nearly 34 percent, followed by Samsung at 25.4% and Sony Ericsson at 8.9%. This is shown by research from Telecompaper's Consumer Panel in the month July 2009. However, split for age groups in the period February - July 2009, Apple had a market share of 2.5 and 2.9 percent in the age groups of 15 - 18 and 19 - 29 year olds. This share then decreased again with the older age groups. Nokia remained the favourite with the 30 plus age groups but has to concede Samsung as number one manufacturer for the youngsters with mobile handsets.