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Cell phones have cut dramatically the number of women dying during childbirth in Amensie village in south-central Ghana, according to local health officials. It was horrifying to be pregnant here before this project came along…Mothers used to bleed to...
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When Telenor decided to upgrade its mobile phone network in Norway, the job drew bids from the companies that had built its original grid: Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks. Instead, Telenor this month chose Huawei Technologies, a Chinese equipment...
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Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it is axing 220 jobs at research and development units in Japan as the world's largest mobile phone maker continues to cut costs. Last week it announced 330 job cuts in Finland and Denmark at its R&D operations that globally employ...
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The popularity of video, Twitter and Facebook on cellphones and the need for faster wireless networks is giving Bridgewater Systems (TSX:BWC) growth opportunities and making it a potential takeover target. When consumers use their cellphones, Bridgewater...
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Sony Ericsson said on Thursday that a second of its new smartphones, key to its strategy for returning to profit next year, had been hit by software problems in Britain. A spokesman for the world fourth largest mobile phone maker said a number of users...
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The Canadian dollar rallied by more than a cent against the U.S. currency Wednesday. Federal mediators have called a meeting between Canadian National Railway and the union for its 1,700 locomotive engineers in a move to avert a strike that could come...
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LM Ericsson and another European company on Wednesday won the auction for Nortel Networks' GSM wireless technology business. New U.S economic data shows a slowly improving job market but weak sales of big-ticket items. Homeownership in Canada became...
Tags: Canada, Toronto, Business Finance, Nortel, Technology Internet, Ericsson
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore says he's optimistic that a global climate treaty will follow the Copenhagen conference next month. Bob Thirsk, the Canadian astronaut with the longest time in space, is eagerly anticipating seeing his family again....
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Another piece of the former Nortel Networks Corp. empire hit the auction block Tuesday as the Global System for Mobile (GSM) business was offered to interested bidders. The delayed auction got underway Tuesday morning, but a winner had yet to be announced...
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