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Articles tagged with: Ims and Smart
Giesecke & Devrient Holds Off Challenge from Oberthur Technologies
Number three smart card manufacturer Oberthur Technologies (up 1.4% YOY in 2008) closed the gap on Giesecke & Devrient in second place last year to less than one percent market share difference following its acquisition of XPonCard. However, the latest market analysis from ims Research shows that the German company, after reporting record turnover and profits in 2008, maintained its position as the second largest manufacturer of smart cards globally, behind market leader Gemalto. Sagem Orga (up 1.3%) and Watchdata Systems (up 1.5%) were the other two companies calculated to have made the biggest gains last year. more
Related Tags: oberthur-technologies, giesecke-&-devrient, xponcard, smart-card, security, smart-cards, mifare
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
Related Tags: sim-card, ims-research, mobile-banking, memory, oberthur-technologies, accelerometer, smart-card, bluesky-positioning, catalyst, option, bluesky
Survey finds smartphones transforming mobile lifestyles of college students
Once reserved for busy business executives, smartphones are now being incorporated into the mobile lifestyle of college students, says new research from Ball State University. A recent survey of about 300 college students found that 27 percent own a smartphone as compared to the national average of 19 percent for working adults. more
Related Tags: sim, smartphone, eu, text-messaging, edge, smartphones, tim, personal, instant-messaging, target, students, cell-phone, texting,
Nokia Siemens Networks gives voice to LTE
With a simple upgrade to their circuit switched core network, over 220 of Nokia Siemens Networks' customer operators can smoothly start offering Voice over LTE much sooner than they thought. Nokia Siemens Networks says that they have developed a smart approach for providing voice service over LTE networks that operators can implement with simple and cost-effective software and hardware upgrades to their existing 3GPP circuit-switch core network. more
Related Tags: 3g, nokia, sim, voip, lte, core-network, nokia-siemens-networks, 3gpp, mobile-softswitch, siemens, nokia-siemens, ip-multimedia-subsystem, voice-over-lte, volte, softswitch, msc, circuit-switched
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