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Articles tagged with: Idc and Wave
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, google, t-mobile, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, iphone, smartphone, samsung, eu, cisco, cisco, apple, itu, vodafone, smartphones, gps, ibm, wind, ericsson, lg, htc, blackberry, compete, rim, blackberry-storm, touchscreen, blackberry-bold, oem, omnia, operating-system, windows, storm, os, feature-phones, barcelona
Mobile Phone Market Poised for Slowdown in 2009
The impact of the global economic crisis will spread to the mobile phone market resulting in a downturn in shipments in 2009. According to idc, total mobile phone volumes will be 2.2% lower in 2009 than 2008 levels, the first downturn in annual shipment volumes since 2001 when shipments declined 2.3%. Over the past several years, the mobile phone market has enjoyed double-digit annual growth due to an increased emphasis on emerging markets. However, emerging market growth has been steadily slowing as these markets mature. idc now expects worldwide growth to be just 7.3% in 2008 before slipping into negative growth in 2009. more
Related Tags: nokia, texas-instruments, social-networking, smartphone, qualcomm, smartphones, lte, texas, chipset, mediatek, pace, option
UPDATE: TeliaSonera Snubs $42 Billion France Telecom Approach
LONDON (Dow Jones) -- Swedish-based TeliaSonera on Thursday rebuffed a $42 billion cash-and-share approach from France Telecom, throwing up a roadblock to the French group's ambition to become Europe's largest telecoms company. more
Related Tags: google, orange, deutsche-telekom, teliasonera, china-telecom, verizon-wireless, verizon, alltel, gartner, france-telecom, chief-financial-officer, telekom, paris, Sweden
Canadian businesses ready to adopt wireless technology
Research from Canada's TELUS and idc shows Canadian business is on the cusp of a new wave of adoption in wireless business technology as firms move beyond the basics of mobile email and web access. More than 90% of Canadian firms now have mobile email and web access and idc Canada reports that businesses will make changes in the coming year that improve business performance such as replacing paper forms with wireless solutions. more
Related Tags: mobile-email, telus, email, wireless-business-solutions
Feature Phones Fight Back as European Mobile Phone Market Grows
According to the latest market data from idc, the Western European mobile phone market, consisting of traditional mobile phones and converged devices, grew by 7% year on year in the second quarter of 2006 as shipments reached 41.4 million units compared to 38.5 in the corresponding quarter of 2005. more
Related Tags: prepay, linux, os, motorola,, feature-phones
IDC's 2006 Top 10 Telecommunications Predictions
According to idc's latest research and insights on the top 10 trends in the Asia/Pacific Telecommunications Industry, 2006 will be a year where several game-changing technologies and services will enter the marketplace and redefine the rules of the game. more
Related Tags: skype, ict, mobile-music, iptv, digital-rights-management, mobile-gaming, digital-rights, triple-play, managed-services, interconnection, mobile-wallet
MMS interoperability coming to Canada
Canada's wireless service providers will introduce inter-carrier multimedia message services (MMS) to wireless phone customers across the country from this Friday. Until now, sharing of MMS messages was limited to customers using the same wireless provider. Until now, a customer on a different network would see a Web link on their mobile phone through which they could then view the message from a PC. more
Related Tags: text-messaging, mms, rogers, sasktel
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