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Articles tagged with: Ict and Social Networking
2009 Will Be Year of the Mini-Notebook in Asia Pacific
..ted with vendors, models and price points, Gartner predicts. From 2010, Gartner expects the mini-notebook market to stabilise and carve out a sustaining segment, especially in the 8.9-inch to 10-inch "sweet spot" screen size. Threats s more
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UK Motorists Using Twitter While Driving
The increasing functionality of mobile phone technology and growing addiction to social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook are driving motorists to distraction now more than ever before, with motorists openly admitting to breaking the law by 'tweeting' whilst driving. more
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Gartner Says: Carriers Will Struggle Without Major Innovation and Change
..s' market positioning domestically and globally as the economic crisis both restricts access to capital and reduces consumer demand, and as government policies - designed to soften the impact of the financial crisis - mitigate market forces. T more
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Batteries Need Charging More Often to Cope with Smartphone Power Demands
.. sufficient to offset the growth in feature penetration and application usage. This report predicts that web browsing, navigation and social networking will see the biggest increase, growing from a combined 9% of the battery budget in 2008 to 3 more
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Social Networking Usurping Mobile Messaging as Communications Tool
..nsight to better understand and confidently predict user behavior patterns, as well as position themselves as important players in the mobile value chain." more
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Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
..s remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million more
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Mobile entertainment industry confident in face of economic downturn
..stry is confident it will continue to grow despite the economic downturn, with MEF members predicting an average revenue growth of 27% in 2009. The MEF BCI, compiled in collaboration with KPMG, is the first of its kind and was undertaken to ga more
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Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn
..tunities for service providers. Based on the 2008/2009 New Year SMS figures alone, Acision predicts messaging and its associated revenues will continue to soar globally despite the economic downturn. Acision has compiled its mobile predictions more
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Telecoms Transactional Services Getting a Big Boost From Wireless Roaming
..ile roaming will play a significant role in driving transaction services. The study predicts that worldwide roaming retail revenues for transactional services including SMS, MMS and application-to-person will hit $968 million in 2009, and will more
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Mobile users want more interactive social networking experience on the move
..target. With recent predictions from Informa stating that global revenues from mobile social networking will be between $29b and $52b by 2012, mobile social networking appears set to grow in 2009. Lars Kristian Roland, CTO of Colibria, commented more
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