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Samsung Shows off its First Android Phone

Samsung Electronics has shown off its first Android-powered mobile phone, the I7500. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone.  more

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Handset Manufacturers Aiming to Design Their Way out of Recession

.. handset manufacturers clearly see music playback as de rigueur. 85% of handsets logged into our database had mp3 capabilities." They are also determined to undermine the standalone digital camera market. 50% of mobile handset models released  more

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Turning Soldiers' Helmets into a Wireless Mesh Network

..ed out how to make it work!" Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Albert Sciarretta, who assesses new military technologies in urban environments for DARPA, is one of the experts who is impressed by the ISIS system: "It's strong points more

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Global PND Shipments Will Stagnate at 39 Million Units in 2009

The once booming personal navigation device market is grinding to a halt in 2009 with little or no growth expected in most regions. With the european PND market forecast to decline and the North American market remaining flat, Asia-Pacific remains the only growth market.  more

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European Operator Taps Handset Data for Network Monitoring

Mobile network optimisation vendor, Arieso has announced that am unnamed european operator will be rolling out ariesoGEO across its network. ariesoGEO uses data transmitted by mobiles in the normal course of conducting a call and requires no additional hardware, such as GPS in handsets, to operate in real time or historical analysis mode. more

Related Tags: ict, itu, iden, customer-care, network-optimisation, arieso, churn


North America overtakes EMEA as largest satellite navigation market

North America overtook EMEA (europe, Middle East and Africa) as the largest regional market for PNDs (portable navigation devices) in the final quarter of 2008, according to the latest research from Canalys. In Q4 2008, the US alone accounted for 52% of the worldwide PND shipment total, compared to 36% for EMEA.  more

Related Tags: nokia, itu, garmin, pnd, pnds, asus, smart, tomtom, tomtom, navigation, telenav, nokia,


Digital Proximity Marketing: Short-Range Wireless Technologies Potential

..e consumers can get information about artists and even download music. Museums and art galleries offer the opportunity to channel specific interactive forms of learning directly to those attending. Even bars and clubs offer a place to run a f more

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Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?

The market for Western european converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to IDC's european Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007.  more

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Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08

The global economic downturn had a significant impact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Manufacturers continued to struggle against low consumer confidence in both emerging and mature markets.  more

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LG Offers More Details of Flagship Touchscreen Phone

LG has given more details of the LG ARENA (LG-KM900) phone, which was previewed last week. ARENA, LG's new flagship model for 2009 features a totally new 3D user interface, which in some regards reflects how some Linux based computers can be configured to work. It is also the first and currently the only multimedia phone for the global market to use Dolby Mobile from Dolby Laboratories.  more

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