Articles tagged with: Mobile Email and Rim

More Tussles Over India's BlackBerry Security Dispute

The ongoing dispute between the Indian government and BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion took another twist when, in a submission to the Department of Telecom (DoT), the company claimed that there are four other companies with equally secure email platforms. The company said that targeting BlackBerry handsets and ignoring the others would not solve the security concerns that the Indian government says are behind its demands for access to BlackBerry emails. more

A Democratisation Process will Bring Wireless E-Mail to the Masses

Once the preserve of the business elite, wireless e-mail is undergoing a democratisation process that will bring it to the masses, according to Gartner. Not only is wireless e-mail spreading ever-wider across the enterprise but consumers will increasingly access their email on mobile devices. There are currently fewer than 20 million business users of wireless e-mail worldwide, representing just two percent of all e-mail accounts. more

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Mobile Office Market Will Cease to Be a Major Enterprise Driver- Leaving Few Survivors

The 451 Group believes that over the next 12-24 months the mobile office market will converge and, aside from Research In Motion (RIM) and a small number of overall survivors, will cease to be a significant direct driver of mobile deployment activity in the enterprise. 451 analysts believe the opportunity has gone (or is going), at least for the technology 'pure plays.' more

Related Tags: text-messaging, ibm, research-in-motion, email

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

Worldwide PDA and Smartphone Shipments Market Grew 57 Percent

Worldwide shipments of PDAs and smartphones combined totaled 42.1 million units in the first half of 2006, a 57% increase from the same period last year, according to Gartner. Smartphone shipments bolstered the market growing 75.5% to reach 34.7 million units, more than four times the size of the PDA market. PDA shipments increased by 5.7% totaling 7.4 million units. more

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Open Push Email Standards Starting to Hurt Blackberry

Strategy Analytics reports that while RIM's market share in the first half of 2006 dipped 5 points to 59 percent, the installed base of mobile email users is set to double this year. The hottest future growth areas will be driven by two forces: Traction among the 'Hosted Exchange Server' providers that control nearly a third of the business email market, and the emergence of mobile email standards given the demonstrated ability of technology standards to build sustainable, innovative and highly competitive markets. more

Enterprise Wireless Data Revenues Set to Top $22 Billion

Strategy Analytics has released a report that is predicting that business use of wireless data will step into the early mainstream market in 2006, growing over 20 percent to a market worth over US$22 Billion in North America, Western Europe and Asia/Pacific. While casual SMS use will continue to dominate users and revenues, email will govern enterprise-sanctioned adoption. The race to supply email beyond the corner office will pit email specialists against industry heavyweights from both the IT and mobility worlds who threw their hats into the ring in 2005. more

Related Tags: analytics, strategy-analytics, symbian

BlackBerry Loyalty Study Shows Opportunities for Competitors

iGillottResearch has carried out a study detailing the loyalty of RIM BlackBerry users in North America. Fielded in November 2005, the basis for the study was a survey of 803 BlackBerry users in the US and Canada. The survey identified the type of BlackBerry device used, where the device was acquired, strengths and weaknesses of the device, and user demographics. A series of questions also determined the current loyalty to the BlackBerry platform, the level of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, and the level of awareness and interest in competing smartphone designs. Critical success factors for email solution vendors and device OEMs looking to compete with RIM were also identified. more

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)--Mobile email startup Visto Corp. has sued Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) for allegedly infringing on three of its patents related to how information is handled between servers and handheld devices such as cellular phones. more

Related Tags: patents, research-in-motion, rogers, visto, ntp

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