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Mobile substitution to have bigger impact than credit crunch on fixed voice spend in enterprises

The financial crisis may be putting the squeeze on business budgets, but mobile substitution will be a far bigger threat to fixed enterprise voice spend in Western Europe in 2009. Analysys Mason predicts a decline of 15% in fixed voice spend next year as a result of mobile substitution.  more

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Nokia getting on top of handset media portability

Opinion by Tony Cripps, principal analyst at Ovum

Nokia has greatly extended the range of its multimedia codec support in the fifth edition of its S60 platform for Symbian OS, in an effort to overcome the problems of multimedia portability arising from codec proliferation. An important addition to the core is microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format, which largely completes Nokia's audio codec support. However, some gaps still remain, notably the DivX Internet video codec and the popular, and free, Ogg family.  more

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Mobile Advertising Worth $12 Billion by 2011 - report

Telecom carriers around the world are turning their attention to advertising as a potential source of revenue, according to Gartner. The research firm forecasts that the worldwide mobile advertising market alone will be worth over US$12 billion by 2011 but advised carriers that they will need to rise to some key challenges if they are to realize their advertising ambitions.  more

Related Tags: google, mms, sms, analytics, privacy, gartner, compete, mobile-advertising, mobile-internet, nokia,, television


Apple's iPhone Must Avoid the Razr Trap

SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- The maker of a hot-selling revolutionary phone cuts its price to spur more mass-market demand.  more

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Mobile Rich Media Advertising to Near $2.8 Billion by 2012

Media Analyst Screen Digest has just published its latest report and says that it believes the market for rich media advertising on mobile will reach US$2.79 billion by 2012, with global mobile TV advertising accounting for the lions share at US$2.44 billion. In terms of the formats that will deliver this revenue, there are those that will deliver, and those that will disappoint.  more

Related Tags: google, mobile-tv, compete, screen-digest, mobile-games, mobile-advertising, weather, nokia,, global-mobile, mobile-web


UPDATE: Tempered Optimism Greets Apple's iPhone Push

SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Apple made a big splash this week by unveiling a new software upgrade for the iPhone meant to make the device more attractive to the corporate market and more accessible to its community of developers, but investors didn't flock to the company's stock on Friday.  more

Related Tags: cisco, steve-jobs, blackberry, compete, walt-disney, sdk, piper-jaffray, email, microsoft-exchange


Wireless E-Mail Set for Prime Growth in Europe

Wireless e-mail is one of the largest segments in the mobile enterprise application market and its installed base continues to grow as new customers deploy the solution and those with deployments expand their footprint. Transitioning from a 'nice to have' to 'must have' application, there is a growing market momentum among end users to formulate mobility strategies centred on wireless e-mail.  more

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