UCILIA news digest: stories you may have missed in January 2012
- Details
- Published on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:00

Welcome to UCILIA monthly news digest, a place to find a summary of the hottest news from telecoms industry, high-tech companies and cloud providers.
We have rounded up all stories we covered in January 2012 and placed them right here for your enjoyment and convenience...
Telecommunications
- China Telecom reveals upcoming launch of iPhone 4S
- Verizon launching a family data plan
- Technology firms create DMarc to fight phishing
- North Korean government labels cell phone users as war criminals
- How Wi-Fi could squeeze wireless carriers
- Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi
- Nokia fined for spam texts in Australia
- Samsung suffers German court setback in Apple battle
- AT&T hikes data prices, caps for smartphones
- CY.SEND: Recharge Orange Uganda cell phones online
- Visa Europe: By 2020, half of all Visa payments will be mobile
- Cellphone makers can expect poor reception in 2012
- Samsung seeks to merge smartphone operating platforms
- iPhone sales halted after shoppers pelt Apple store
- Samsung promises all-day battery life on phones
- Ofcom boosts 4G coverage plan in rural 'not-spots'
- Intel Medfield chip on Motorola and Lenovo smartphones
- New ViewPhone 3 accepts dual SIM cards
- China next in line to sue Apple, illegal App store sales
- Mobile carriers: Five predictions for 2012
Innovations
Technology
- Amazon Fire skips preloaded Google apps
- iPhone, iPad apps for children with learning difficulties
- World's biggest tech show searching for "wow"
Cloud technology
- States allow voting via cloud for citizens overseas
- 10 ways big data is remaking energy
- Securely upload data to the AWS cloud
- SoundCloud reaches 10 million registered users
- Cloud provider Joyent gets $85 million for global expansion
- Quantum computing could head to 'the cloud'
- Cloud computing democratizes digital animation
- Personal cloud computing to launch in Kenya
- Bank signs up for cloud computing
- Cisco powers video in the cloud with new Videoscape products
- Dropcam takes home video monitoring into the cloud
- 10 cloud startups to watch in 2012
- Microsoft to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012
Phishing scam
To be the first informed and kept up to date about the latest news in telecommunications, technology and cloud computing, follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

