The ITU recently decided that two wireless technologies will be worth the 4G title: WiMax 2 and LTE-Advanced. Regardless of the decision, however, Sprint continues to call its WiMax network “4G,” and surprisingly around that point T-Mobile chose to launch an enormous campaign calling its HSPA+ network “America’s Largest 4G Network.” Now, in a meeting in Geneva, the ITU formally accepted LTE-Advanced like a true 4G technology.

So why do the U.S. carriers insist upon calling its WiMax and LTE networks “4G” networks? Ask Sprint or T-Mobile and they’ll both tell you just how it’s really by pointing out consumer experience. WiMax and LTE deliver download, upload and latency speeds which are a lot better than 3G, hence generation x label. However, these new networks deliver real-world speeds as high as 3-9Mbps download contributing to 3-5 upload-the ITU says that true 4G technologies will deliver speeds of 1Gbps localized, or more to 100Mbps mobile. That's a far, long way away from what WiMax, HSPA+ and LTE is going to be offering in the USA inside the coming months.

Global earnings from social media websites like Facebook are on way to make $10 billion this year. That is up forty one percent from year 2010, based on the technology research company Gartner. These numbers are set to go off in the upcoming few years, estimated to grow by fifty percent forthcoming year and almost triple to $29 billion by year 2015.

How organizations speak about themselves on Twitter feeds or Facebook profiles is to be policed like adverts. From 1 March, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) gets powers to police the claims companies make on internet websites and social networks.

Chinese internet search engine Baidu, which holds more than 70 percent of China’s internet search engine market has more than trebled as its supremacy in its homeland continues. Net profit between October and December was 1.16bn yuan ($175.9m; £110m), up from 427.9m yuan a year earlier.

The quantity of 3G users in the Middle East area is anticipated to go beyond the 4 m mark by the end of year 2010, which symbolizes a 60 percent CAGR, as per the statement from RNCOS, number one market research and data analysis organization.

Given that newest worldwide internet dispersion studies have also exposed that major Middle East nations like Bahrain, UAE and Qatar have posted lofty domestic broadband diffusion, and Saudi Arabia, the areas biggest country, can also be beginning to post development in broadband diffusion, the order for the newest services are placed to carry on.

South Africa Thursday launched it is space company on which continues to be referred to as a historical day for that country. Science Minister Naledi Pandor as well as expert in the space companies of other nations Thursday went to the release from the Southern Africa Space Agency (SANSA).

Southern Africa right now ties a choose number of nations which feature having a space agency, the actual state run BuaNews company documented. Outlining SANSA's role, the minister said it will put into action a national space programme as well as advise her about them.It will have the duty associated with acquiring, assimilating as well as disbursing room data to various state entities.Pandor said the national space technique may market research in the regions of astronomy, planet declaration, marketing communications, navigation and room physics.

Chilean telco Movistar is actually anticipating a complete commercial launch of its IPTV service within the first quarter of the coming year, the organizations manager associated with digital TV and content, Sebastian Slelatt, recently said.A good IPTV initial task has already been underway and as Movistar proceeds using its three-year investment plan within fibre, IPTV will become much more common.

In September, Movistar began deployment of a US$2.5bn fibre optic system due to reach 700,000 homes before 2014.According to Slelatt, this year has been the very best year with regard to Movistar Chile when it comes to pay-TV sales, since the 2006 launch of the service that is provided over a DTH system."It started very strong since it was a novelty, after that levelled away and now is growing strong once again, and we think that is going to continue, the executive stated.

The United States Supreme Court has refused a request by Microsoft against a $290mn verdict for infringing a small Canadian firm's patent. The firm, i4i, sued Microsoft in year 2007, saying it possessed the technology behind a text manipulation tool used in Microsoft's Word application.