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10 Reasons Why iPhone 5 Doesn't Stand a Chance Against Motorola Droid Bionic (the actual click-bait headline)

via International Business Times / IBT

Some retail locations have received all the tools necessary to sell the much-anticipated Motorola Droid Bionic. With a surprise Verizon Korean-translated commercial showing an additional frame revealing a Sept. 8 release date, expect droid Bionic to be launched on Thursday.

Motorola Droid Bionic has undergone several changes in terms of design. It looked like the Motorola ...

via BangkokPost

The Senate elected the 11 members of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) on Monday, ending a 14-year saga of legislative indifference and political and business interference.

The Senate, by secret ballot, chose the following 11 commissioners from the list of 44 finalists:

The NBTC members have a six-year, non-renewable term. They will later elect a commission chairman and two deputy chairmen.

1. Col Natee Sukolrat, from the telecom sector
2. Election Commission secretary-general Suthiphon Thaveechaiyagarn, from the legal sector
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The UN's International Telecommunication Union predicted last fall that the number of internet users worldwide would hit two billion by the end of 2010, and it's now issued its full report that confirms just that -- 2.08 billion, to be specific.

As the ITU's Hamadoun Toure notes, that number represents a huge leap from the mere 250 million internet users that existed a decade ago, and it means that roughly one third of the world's population now has internet access of some sort -- of those, 555 million have a fixed broadband subscription, and 950 million have mobile broadband.

Just as impressive as that ...