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Articles tagged with: Instant Messaging and Mobile Email
Mobile Internet, multimedia and mapping capture 40% of smartphone face time
Hannu Verkasalo, who has the public examination of his doctoral dissertation at Helsinki University of Technology on April 17th, says that "the usage of new smartphone applications, including the mobile Internet, games, multimedia and map applications, has been increasing among smartphone users and reaches already 40% of total face time". However, most of the usage is still based on voice and text messaging. more
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Samsung Shows Off Touch Screen WiMAX Phone for the US Market
Samsung Mobile has announced the upcoming availability of its WiMAX enabled mobile phone, the Samsung Mondi. The touch screen Mondi, which takes its name from the Latin word for "world," is designed for use with the Clearwire WiMAX network. more
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Global Consumer Mobile Messaging To Exceed $88 Billion By 2012
Total spending on mobile messaging services by consumers will rise 15% from $65 billion in 2007 to over $88 billion by 2012, according to a new Strategy Analytics report. Although SMS will continue to contribute to the vast share of consumer messaging spend, the availability of low-cost flat-rate data plans will enable rapid growth in usage of traditional PC based messaging services, such as email and instant messaging via mobile. more
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Instant Messaging Via Mobile Set to Challenge SMS Traffic
Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) is set to cannibalise SMS (texting) and eventually email from PC, a survey from TNS Technology has found. The TNS Global Telecoms Insight (GTI) study, which interviewed 17,000 respondents across 30 countries, has found that once mobile users adopt MIM it overtakes other messaging tools to become the primary non-voice method of interacting - with potentially dramatic consequences for service and network providersÃ' revenue. more
Mobile Working Killing The Office Romance
Traditionally, the office environment has been the target of Cupid's arrow with many people meeting their partners at work, especially in the approach to the festive season. But while the rise of mobile working may well see the end of the traditional office romance, the signs are that mobile devices are in fact improving both peoples' personal and working lives. more
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Business Use of Wireless IM to Exceed $2 Billion
A new report from Strategy Analytics finds that a number of supply and demand side catalysts are aligning to accelerate business use of mobile Instant Messaging (IM) into a US$2 billion-plus opportunity in Western Europe and North America by 2010. From wireless access, to secure and fully auditable enterprise IM platforms, to public mobile IM services such as MSN Messenger, AIM and Yahoo! - both IT-sanctioned and rogue use of mobile IM is set to grow significantly. more
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UK & Germany Set the Pace of Wireless Enterprise Adoption
Strategy Analytics has released an updated forecast of business mobility revenues in W. Europe, which predicts that recurring operating expenditures on wireless data solutions in W. Europe will approach US$12.7 billion annually by 2010, up from US$7.9 billion in 2005. Messaging-centric productivity tools including SMS, Instant Messaging and email will continue to take the lion's share of revenues, holding steady at 90 percent throughout the forecast period. more
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Smartphone Forecast: Shipments to More Than Double in 2006
Smartphones' premium prices and "supersized" form factors have historically combined with a limited demand for advanced data services to restrict them to "niche market" status. But 2006 will bring a growth spurt in the smartphone market that will see worldwide shipments more than double. The 123 million units that ABI Research forecasts will be shipped this year will give smartphones nearly a 15% share of the mobile phone market, according to its recent study. more
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Vodafone To Confront VoIP Threat With Data Bundles - CEO
BARCELONA -(Dow Jones)- Vodafone Group Chief Executive Arun Sarin Tuesday said the mobile phone operator will look to offer large mobile data bundles in the future to counter the potential threat from Voice over Internet Protocol telephony. more
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Mobile Messaging in Europe to grow by 92% over 5 years
Forrester says that it predicts that total traffic from all mobile messaging types will grow by 92% over the next five years. Person-to-person short message service (SMS) will drive most of this growth, both this year and at the end of 2010. However, revenues from SMS, mobile multimedia messaging service (MMS), video messaging, instant messaging presence services (IMPS*), and mobile email will only grow by 10% - to US$27 billion by the end of 2010 - as unit prices drop. more
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