THE WRAP: iPhone 4 mania, RIM unveils tablet

THE WRAP: iPhone 4 mania, RIM unveils tablet

THE WRAP: iPhone 4 mania, RIM unveils tablet

Robert Clark  |   October 01, 2010
telecomseurope.net
This week iPhone 4 mania hit China and RIM jumped into tablets
 
China Unicom stopped taking orders for the iPhone 4 even before it officially went on sale, selling out of its initial stock of 200,000.
 
RIM unveiled its first tablet, the PlayBook, and a new dedicated tablet operating system, BlackBerry Tablet
 
Apple and Nokia took a long-running patent suit to the UK.
 
The European Commission called off an anti-trust inquiry into Apple after it revised its app development rules.
 
Nokia fulfilled its pledge to ship its N8 by end-September, but still wouldn’t say which markets will see the device first.
 
India set new rules requiring independent audits on imported telecom gear.
 
A France Telecom-led consortium announced a $76 million (€55.5 million) Indian Ocean cable, while Hibernia Atlantic planned the first new trans-Atlantic cable since the dotcom bubble ten years ago.
 
Alcatel-Lucent warned botnet wars could claim thousands of innocent victims.
 
UAE telco Etisalat weighed a bid for Kuwaiti-based Zain.
 
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