Engineers Voice

The anticipation of the launch of Apple’s iPhone has created plenty of buzz. A new survey from Harris Interactive takes a deeper look on what American think about the mother of all mobiles. They found that the iPhone is not yet a household word but that 47
percent of respondents were aware of the product and 17 percent had an interest in buying it, which they noted was impressive for a product that has not yet been released. Read more »

At the heart of the sprawling corporate campus, in a hilltop building overlooking the immaculately shorn lawns, the sports fields and the modern theater complex, young engineers crowd into a classroom. They are India’s best and brightest, with stellar grades that propelled them into a high-tech industry growing at more than 25 percent annually. And their topic of the day? Basic telephone skills. Read more »

Creators of the peer-to-peer VoIP network Skype and the controversial file-sharing site Kazaa have unveiled their latest startup: Joost, an Internet TV company that they claim will revolutionize Internet-based television. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom formally announced Joost Tuesday, after months of speculation about the duo’s latest creation, which had been known as The Venice Project. Read more »

Nokia is set to launch the first WiMAX capable mobile in 2008. The company is also ready to offer its services as a technology partner to Indian cellular operators wishing to set up WiMAX networks. Currently, Nokia has a portfolio of over 20 3G (third generation) handsets and now plans to make several handsets of the NSeries category capable of tapping into a WiMAX network for broadband Internet. Tablet devices such as Nokia N770 are expected to be among the first devices to support WiMAX.

Google has announced that it would purchase a small state in Chinese web site Xunlei.com. The company, located in Shenzen, allows users to download music and video from the Internet. Read more »

Cisco’s latest moves in China include opening a Urumqi representative office and expanding the Shanghai research and development center. The Shanghai center will start with the telecom sector and expand to other areas in future. Built at a cost of $32 million, it is recruiting around 100 Chinese engineers to work better in the local market and cut costs. Read more »

It may be some kind of old news. But it is a fact that Nokia is dominating China’s and India’s handset market. Read more »