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Articles tagged with: Driving and Ovi
Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipments Down by 15.8% in First Quarter
The worldwide mobile phone market began 2009 with an expected sequential downturn, exacerbated by the challenges of the ongoing worldwide recession. According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 244.8 million units in the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09), approximately 15.8% lower than the 290.8 million units shipped during 1Q08. The first quarter of a new year is typically characterized by seasonally lower shipment volumes following a busy holiday quarter with channels clearing out excess inventory. But the 1Q09 decline was especially sharp due to weak end-user demand, currency volatility, and lack of credit for merchants as consumers and the supply chain adapt to the recession. more
Related Tags: motorola, idc, nokia, samsung, lg, sony-ericsson, ericsson, smartphones, rural, sony, sharp, oem, sanjay-jha, pace, africa, feature-phones
Strong Consumer Interest in Wireless Power Charging
..ss Power Consortium. "It is this obvious need with consumers that is driving our goal of providing the specification for low-power devices." Established last December, the Wireless Power Consortium's mission is to create and promote wi more
Related Tags: frost-&-sullivan, wireless-power-consortium, micro-usb, texas, iden, tim, lte, rsa, semiconductor, texas-instruments, philips, national-semiconductor, shenzhen, charger
Electricity Meters to Transmit Usage Data over T-Mobile Network
..onnection among all the meters on a given low voltage transformer, driving down the per-point connection cost and eliminating the need for the utility to build and maintain a dedicated private wireless network for their meters. When used on the more
Related Tags: echelon, t-mobile-usa, electricity-meters, smart-grid, eu, sim, t-mobile, , tim, iden, backhaul, gsm, smart, operating-system, billing, security, smart-meters, health, embedded-sim,
New digital signal processor is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient
..d in chip design. With the need for increasing speed driving the industry, designing high-speed processor chips has become a daunting task due to several factors, including complexity of design, but also because the faster a processor works, more
Related Tags: university-of-california, semiconductor, digital-signal-processor, , edge, eu, intel, wi-fi, tim, battery, ieee, testing, students, cmos, planning
Beceem Raises US$20 Million for Mobile WiMAX Chip Development
..significant expansion of WiMAX deployments in regions around the world is driving a steep ramp of WiMAX device shipments. The additional capital will allow us to remain focused on executing our WiMAX product initiatives, to support our customer more
Related Tags: beceem-communications, wimax, mobile-wimax, motorola, samsung, intel, , clearwire, tim, iden, catalyst
Emerging Markets Cautious About Telecoms CAPEX for 2009
Debt ratings agency, Fitch Ratings said today that the challenging macro-economic outlook is driving emerging market telecoms to adopt a more cautious stance on capital spending for 2009. In a new report, Fitch compares technology development and investment trends across Emerging Asia, Latin America, Russia/CIS and Africa, and examines currency risks stemming from the recent devaluation of most emerging market currencies. more
Related Tags: , 3g, fitch-ratings, tim, capex, pt-excelcomindo-pratama, xl, telefonica, sharp, excelcomindo, fitch, africa
Mobile Internet Usage is Driving a New Wave of Mobile Banking Services
..easingly sophisticated telecommunications expectations. There are four specific areas driving the development of next generation mobile banking, all of which have scope to increase banks' revenue, customer retention, and brand equity. These a more
Related Tags: sim, iphone, sms, near-field-communication, itu, tim, arthur-d.-little, iden, call-centre, personal, mobile-internet, mobile-banking
Consumer Demand Steady for iPhone, BlackBerry - But What About the Palm Pre?
..driving this Palm uptick, as we'll see in a moment. Going forward RIM planned purchases remain strong - an accomplishment considering RIM recently completed a wave of new product launches, which normally results in a slowdown in the aftermath. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, iphone, apple, steve-jobs, tim, rcom, verizon, palm-pre, palm, htc, blackberry, compete, rim, sanyo, research-in-motion, blackberry-bold, sprint, apple-iphone, smart, operating-system, california, life, wave, health, os, cell-phone
80% of Healthcare IT Executives Placing Increased Reliance on Mobility
.. Motorola Enterprise Mobility Healthcare Barometer identified that the key applications driving investment in healthcare include electronic health records (EHR) driven by increasing regulations, computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and med more
Related Tags: rfid, asia-pacific, motorola, eu, itu, tim, iden, vas, personal, fixed-mobile-convergence, health, bar-code,
Sun Dial uses mobile phones to alert Muslims to prayer
..onal uses in office settings. "Efficiency and productivity tend to be driving forces when designing technology for offices, but these are not as central when designing applications for the home or religious settings. Why would you design a more
Related Tags: sim, iphone, atlanta, itu, tim, personal, seven, sun, georgia-tech, life, georgia
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