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Articles tagged with: Google and Compete
Smartphones to Account for 23% of All New Mobile Phones by 2013
Rising demand for complex multimedia-centric applications is forcing handset manufacturers to design increasingly ‘smart' and highly personalised mobile devices. A new smartphones report from Juniper Research forecasts that these so-called ‘smartphones' will account for 23% of all new handsets sold per annum by 2013. more
Related Tags: nokia, iphone, juniper-research, smartphone, apple, smartphones, driving, app-store, operating-system, andrew, nokia,, rooted
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
Related Tags: android, t-mobile, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, iphone, smartphone, samsung, eu, cisco, cisco, apple, itu, vodafone, smartphones, gps, ibm, wind, ericsson, idc, lg, htc, blackberry, rim, blackberry-storm, touchscreen, blackberry-bold, oem, omnia, operating-system, windows, storm, wave, os, feature-phones, barcelona
Microsoft must fight back in mobile market
Media Analyst Screen Digest has just published its latest company report, which examines the challenges facing Microsoft in the highly competitive and challenging mobile market. According to Screen Digest research, Nokia, google, Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple pose potent challenges to Microsoft's mobile ambitions. more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, iphone, apple, wind, lte, blackberry, screen-digest, zune, windows, nokia,, backup
Industry Big Guns with no Bullets to Fire
After a devastating end to 2008, the future is looking bleak. At the start of 2009 the mobile industry is starting to implement strategic job cuts and closing of overseas offices. This is just the beginning. The New Year started with Nortel Networks filing for Chapter 11. Many companies are not far behind. The question remains: how will some of the largest blue chip companies fare this year? Based on recent findings, Frost & Sullivan expects several firms to have a tough time fighting this year's projected internal and external challenges. more
Related Tags: android, sony-ericsson, 3g, microsoft, nokia, iphone, intel, samsung, wimax, mobile-wimax, motorola, eu, apple, ict, edge, wind, ericsson, nortel, netbooks, ovi, sony, touch-screen, wimax,, operating-system, windows, 700mhz, chipset, ces, target, razr
Facebook-Twitter talks break down
Opinion piece by Madan Sheina, principal analyst at Ovum
What would have been the first major consolidation between two social
networking giants has failed to materialise, as Facebook's attempts to woo
Twitter with an all-stock offer fell on deaf ears. Facebook's valuation seems
to have been the sticking point. But with neither company as yet able to
demonstrate that it can make money on a scale that matches its number of users,
the outcome might not be a bad thing.
more
Related Tags: microsoft, sms, social-networking, twitter, ovum, ofta, yahoo, text-messages, facebook, target
Telecom Carriers Should Consider Partnering With Google
google's influence and market power with key telecommunications industry stakeholders is having a significant impact on the industry, according to Gartner. more
Related Tags: android, microsoft, skype, open-handset-alliance, gartner, dell, mobile-internet, 800mhz, fcc, operating-system, linux, 700mhz, presence, downlink, wired, cloud-computing, os, cloud
Financial Crisis Hits Mobile Phone Sales as Q3 Shipment Growth Slows
The worldwide mobile phone industry felt the impact of the global financial crisis in the third quarter of 2008 (3Q08) as total handset shipments were down significantly over previous quarters. Mobile phone manufacturers shipped a total of 299.0 million handsets in 3Q08, up 3.2% from last year, and down -0.4% over 2Q08. The third quarter of the year has historically been a ramp-up quarter as manufacturers load their sales channels with handsets in preparation for the holiday season, producing year-over-year growth rates as high as 20% as a result. This year has not witnessed a similar ramp up, largely due to the current economic situation. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, iphone, smartphone, samsung, motorola, apple, apple, qualcomm, smartphones, ericsson, idc, lg, htc, touchscreen, sony, oem, apple-iphone, sanjay-jha, xperia, pace, music, true
Mobile Advertising Worth $12 Billion by 2011 - report
Telecom carriers around the world are turning their attention to advertising as a potential source of revenue, according to Gartner. The research firm forecasts that the worldwide mobile advertising market alone will be worth over US$12 billion by 2011 but advised carriers that they will need to rise to some key challenges if they are to realize their advertising ambitions. more
Related Tags: microsoft, mms, sms, analytics, privacy, rcom, gartner, mobile-advertising, mobile-internet, nokia,, television
Google Calls on Public to Back Opening TV White Space
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- google on Monday launched a campaign aimed at drumming up public support for opening unused TV spectrum bands for a new generation of wireless Internet access. more
Related Tags: rural, analog, federal-communications-commission, white-space, health,
TomTom's Tele Atlas Gets 5-Year Google Map Deal
AMSTERDAM (Dow Jones Newswires)--Dutch digital map maker TeleAtlas Monday signed a five-year deal with google that will see its maps included on new google services, including cellphones based on its Android operating system. more
Related Tags: android, gps, apple, symbian, tele-atlas, tomtom, tomtom, maps, navigation
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