Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Supercharge Your iPhone With icloud and 100 GB Storage

icloud, the Online Computer, Today Rolls Out icloud Premium -- a Massive 100 GB of Secure Cloud Storage for Only $39.99 / Year

Everybody Can Now Access All Their Content Anytime and Anywhere

icloud Basic With 3 GB is Available for Free, and Open for Sign-Ups at http://icloud.com

Today's launch of icloud Premium and the 100 GB Super Drive will greatly extend all the amazing capabilities of icloud to the iPhone. The new premium service lets everyone store, access and easily share files through any smart phone or browser. It gives you 100 GB of storage right in your pocket. You will never again feel that you have forgotten to bring important files with you. icloud securely stores files like music, photos, videos, documents, and provides a full management interface and virtual desktop through a browser to organize and share all your content.
icloud launch movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQgdceh66EQ

Daniel Arthursson, icloud's Founder and CEO, says, "Having 100 GB directly accessible in your pocket through an iPhone or smartphone will definitely change how we use and interact with data. With the massive storage of the icloud Super Drive, everything will always be accessible, no need to bring your computer to do a quick PowerPoint presentation, just present it straight out of the cloud."
Facts about the icloud online computer:
* Secure cloud storage with backup accessible from any computer,
iPhone, Android or Windows Mobile phone
* Free basic version includes 50 applications like Office, Mail,
Music, Video, Instant Messaging and Games
* icloud Premium with 100 GB Super Drive now available for $39.99/year
* Community (my.icloud.com) and email @icloud.com
* Zero installation, runs within browsers
* Available worldwide in 26 languages and used in 170 countries
About icloud

Founded in 2001 by Daniel Arthursson, Xcerion provides the free icloud.com service, the world's leading "Cloud OS", a groundbreaking technology with 22 pending patents. Developers have API and tools to build their own cloud applications.

Xcerion is based in Sweden, privately held and funded by Northzone Ventures. Investors include Lou Perazzoli, architect of Windows NT and former Manager Microsoft Core OS and John Connors former CFO Microsoft. Xcerion is a Red Herring Global 100 winner.

TeliaSonera and Huawei Launch World’s Fastest Commercial Mobile Broadband Network with Huawei’s 4G/LTE Solutions

TeliaSonera and Huawei Launch World’s Fastest Commercial Mobile Broadband Network with Huawei’s 4G/LTE Solutions


Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, and TeliaSonera, the largest telecoms operator in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, today jointly announced the deployment of the world’s first LTE commercial network in Oslo, Norway. These 4G services offer maximum speeds of up to 100 Mb/s and are approximately 10 times faster than existing 3G networks.

TeliaSonera’s customers will be the first in the world to enjoy simultaneous mobile broadband services such as high definition (HD) video conferencing in mobile environments and a variety of HD video programs via multiple terminal devices; applications that cannot be realized in current 3G networks.

Mr. Kenneth Karlberg, President and Head of Mobility Services TeliaSonera, said: “We are very proud to be the first operator in the world to offer our customers 4G services. Thanks to the successful cooperation with Huawei, we can offer 4G to our customers in Oslo earlier than originally planned.”

As a leading provider of end-to-end 4G/LTE solutions, Huawei delivered both network infrastructures and services to TeliaSonera, such as access network, core network, operation support system, and network planning and optimization. Its field proven fourth-generation base stations and SAE (System Architecture Evolution) solution ensure the stability of the network and enable fast deployment.

Yu Chengdong, President of Huawei Europe, said: “In partnership with TeliaSonera, Huawei began this journey eleven months ago to introduce the world’s most advanced mobile broadband technology to the residents of Oslo. This milestone, which was achieved in a short period of time, reflects Huawei’s unwavering commitment towards accelerating the commercialization of LTE/SAE solutions. Operators such as TeliaSonera, are now able to to fully realize economic benefits from the many new applications that can only be made possible with ultra broadband services.”

To date, Huawei has constructed over 25 LTE commercial and trial networks and has made more than 3,300 LTE/SAE contributions to 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project).
About Huawei

Huawei is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks, and now serves 36 of the world’s top 50 operators, along with over one billion users worldwide. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth potential for its customers.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

AIS LAUNCHES THAILAND’S FIRST “FACEBOOK &TWITTER ALERT” CUSTOMERS “MENT” AND “TWEET” RIGHT ON AIS MOBILE PHONE

AIS connects the world of social network smash, Facebook and Twitter, to every AIS mobile phone, introducing Thailand’s first Facebook &Twitter Alert on mobile phone service in response to the popularity among new generation, receiving and posting messages online (“Ment” and “Tweet”) through quick and convenient real time SMS. Never miss any movement of the communities, expanding the territory of online social network to wireless world on mobile phones obviously accessing every user group (Mass)


Mr. Pratthana Leelapanang, Assistance Vice President – Value Added Service of AIS, disclosed “Now the surge of Social Network becomes the remarkable phenomenon in the online world, especially on the sizzling websites Facebook and Twitter occupying a multitude of members resulting in exponential increase of Internet connects and breaking limit to access mobile phone service. During the past 2-3 years, the growth of Social Network has caused the increase of data use. There are over 65 million worldwide users of Social Network on mobile phones at present. However, the Social Network access through mobile phone has been restricted to only the Smart Phone group.

To expand Social Network to every user group (mass) for unlimited connection to community groups anytime and anywhere, AIS develops the latest service, Thailand’s first “Facebook &Twitter Alert” on mobile phone via SMS allowing users of every handset registered on AIS network to receive “Ment” messages from friends or “Tweet” from the ones you follow on a real time basis and post messages, images and other functions such as Comment, Status Update, Add Friend and Update Tweet through SMS from your mobile phones to online world immediately. Users can identify friends’ name or their follows.

Besides, check out the highlight Twitter Express service that enables AIS users who are not Twitter members to “Follow” the one they want to follow, simply from the recommended Twitter list of interesting persons and top follows including various gurus, artists, stars and celebrities.

We are convinced that the service “Facebook &Twitter Alert” will complete lifestyle of mobile phone users from new generation to stay tuned to their society even more closely.”

AIS customers may see more details and apply for the service through Wap Portal by pressing *900*9# and calling out to get URL link to the Social Network page and select Facebook or Twitter service as desired for the following service rates;
Facebook* Twitter
Member fees Free Trial 7 days Free Trial 7 days
(Receive message) 9 Baht / week 9 Baht / week
(for unlimited messages) (for 10 received messages / day
and 1 Baht/message for excess messages)
Status Update fees 2 Baht / SMS 2 Baht /SMS
(Send message) 6 Baht / MMS
* Service on December 15, 2009

- According to the statistics, there are about 1.34 million Facebook members in Thailand with over 5 million viewers. Thailand is in the 4th ranging of Facebook growth (1st Taiwan, 2nd Vietnam and 3rd Philippine). Regarding Twitter, there are 600,000 members with over 1.2 million followers.
- There are over 6 million AIS Mobile Internet users at present.
- There are about 100,000 users of Facebook on mobile phones.
- There are about 30,000 users of Twitter on mobile phones.