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Articles tagged with: Ofta and Microsoft
Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate in Q3 '08
In the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per cent increase from the same period in 2007. more
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Facebook-Twitter talks break down
Opinion piece by Madan Sheina, principal analyst at Ovum
What would have been the first major consolidation between two social
networking giants has failed to materialise, as FacebookÃ's attempts to woo
Twitter with an all-stock offer fell on deaf ears. FacebookÃ's valuation seems
to have been the sticking point. But with neither company as yet able to
demonstrate that it can make money on a scale that matches its number of users,
the outcome might not be a bad thing.
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Related Tags: google, sms, social-networking, twitter, ovum, yahoo, compete, text-messages, facebook
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 MicrosoftÃ's Windows Media Audio (WMA)
format, which largely completes NokiaÃ's audio codec support. However, some
gaps still remain, notably the DivX Internet video codec and the popular, and
free, Ogg family.
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Pantech Offers Free Windows Mobile Upgrade to AT&T Subscribers
Pantech Wireless has announced the US availability of MicrosoftÃ's Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system on all new Pantech duo handsets running on AT&TÃ's network. The upgrade is also available free to existing AT&T customers owning a Pantech duo via an internet download. more
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Enterprise FMS Market to Reach $50 Billion by 2012
A new Strategy Analytics report predicts that the market for Enterprise Fixed-Mobile Convergence solutions will grow to be worth over $50 billion by 2012. Strategy Analytics research has found that new factors are pushing the enterprise market towards a tipping point at which companies can see the business process benefits of Fixed-Mobile Convergence, resulting in unreserved implementation. more
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Technology Merger and Acquisition Activity Bodes Well for 2008
While the headlines are dominated by the negative implications of the global credit crunch, the global technology merger and acquisition (M&A) market is proving to be a very resilient beast. Q1 2008 has already seen numerous landmark deals announced, including the pending bid for Yahoo by Microsoft, and in the UK the $1 billion leveraged buy-out (LBO) of Northgate Information Solutions by KKR and the recently announced £190m recommended offer by 3i for Civica. more
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