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SIM Card Market Defying the Downturn

The latest data from ims Research shows that the SIM card market continues to defy the economic downturn that is currently hitting the mobile market. Total shipments of SIM cards in 2008 grew to reach the record number of 3.07 billion. This is in marked contrast to the numbers from manufacturers which showed handset shipments declining sharply in the second half of the year.  more

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Silent Revolution of Speech I/O in Mobile Phones

Not long ago, speech I/O was heralded as the "idealistic" way to interact with mobile phones and the next great technology revolution. Like many of the initial technology leaps in mobile phones, the truth did not live up to anywhere near the expectation. This resulted in inefficient I/O, frustration with the technology and a terrible user experience. The reasons for this are manifold, but the initial limitations can be distilled down to a combination of the unrealistic expectations of end-users, the limited memory and processing capabilities of handsets and the speech I/O technologies themselves. more

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