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Articles tagged with: Asia Pacific and Driving
Contactless Smart Card Market Expected to Weather the Storm Caused by Economic Uncertainties
With Asia Pacific being a highly diverse geographic region with dissimilar market conditions, participants in the contactless smart card market should be prepared for varied reactions to the economic downturn. While countries that have not yet achieved mass deployment of contactless smart cards could experience further delays, more advanced countries such as Japan and South Korea that possess strong contactless infrastructure and high penetration rates are unlikely to slow down drastically. more
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80% of Healthcare IT Executives Placing Increased Reliance on Mobility
More than 80 percent of global IT decision makers within the healthcare industry stated that mobile technologies are more important to their organizations today than they were in 2008, according to a recent research study commissioned by Motorola. Respondents cited key benefits such as increased order fulfillment accuracy, reduced manual errors and increased employee productivity due to the utilization of mobile technologies within various clinical settings. more
Related Tags: rfid, motorola, eu, itu, tim, ovi, iden, vas, personal, fixed-mobile-convergence, USA
Mobile broadband to be worth $137 billion by 2014
Users of mobile broadband services (3G and 3G+ technologies) will grow from 181 million in 2008 to over 2 billion in 2014, growth of 1024%, according to Ovum's latest research. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, eu, arpu, lte, ovi, ovum, iden, usb-modem, vas, mobile-broadband, opex, laptop
Survey: Mobile Sector Expects to Buck Economic Trend in 2009
New research, commissioned by OSS vendor, Comptel has found that mobile service providers are surprisingly upbeat about the mobile sector's potential in the year ahead. The research found that over half expect mobile operators to be less affected than the wider economy and the majority think that mobile operators face less of a challenge than service providers from other sectors of the communications industry. more
Related Tags: eu, itu, revenue-assurance-, oss, comptel
Ericsson Announces Plans to Cut 5,000 Jobs
Ericsson has reported that its net income for the fourth quarter fell by 31% due to restructuring costs and lower profit margins - and announced plans for a further 5,000 job cuts. Net income in the three months to Dec. 31 was SEK3.89 billion (US$460.8 million), down from SEK5.64 billion (US$671 million) in the year-earlier period. Sales in the quarter increased by 23% year-over-year and by 11% for the full year. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, ict, 3g-license, ericsson, mobile-broadband, sony, 3g-licenses
Mobile security market to hit $889M in 2011, driven by backhaul and data center upgrades
Security appliances and software sold to service providers to protect their mobile networks will total $889 million in worldwide sales by 2011, says a new report from market research firm Infonetics Research. more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, iphone, smartphone, smartphones, wind, capex, symbian, windows
Ethernet microwave spending surges as operators upgrade mobile backhaul networks
In the cutthroat mobile world, in today's economic climate it is more critical than ever that mobile operators protect their revenue and hold on to their subscribers, which is why many operators are turning to newer mobile backhaul solutions, particularly Ethernet microwave, says Infonetics Research in a new report. more
Related Tags: ethernet, iphone, hspa, infonetics-research, microwave, 3, backhaul
EV-DO Mobile Broadband Tops 100 Million Subscribers Worldwide
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) says that CDMA2000 and 1xEV-DO technologies have surpassed 450 million and 100 million users, respectively, worldwide. The total cumulative cdmaOne and CDMA2000 subscriber base has reached 463 million, growing by 12 million net subscribers during the second quarter of 2008. more
Related Tags: cdma, cdma-development-group, cdma2000, cdg, 1xev-do, ev-do
Enterprises harness the power of unified communications
Unified communications has altered the way business communication takes place today. Unified communications or commonly known as UC, is a productivity tool which results in increased responsiveness and time savings. It enables to improve the way companies, individuals and groups interact, significantly. more
Related Tags: contact-center, unified-communications
3G to Triple Mobile Advertising in Australia This Year
The mobile advertising market in Australia is very much in its infancy with total revenues reaching just $2.5 million in 2007. However, this figure is set to grow more than 300 per cent in 2008 and be sustained into next year driven by the growing consumer take-up of 3G data services coupled with attractive campaign pricing to entice advertisers. more
Related Tags: mms, mobile-data, mobile-advertising, hutchison, Australia