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U.S. smartphone adoption is expected to surge to 175 million devices by 2015, but even in a booming market, many mobile OS vendors have an uphill battle ahead. Recent Yankee Group data reveals that while Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android are sitting pretty with two-thirds of the mobile OS market, HP’s webOS, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and [...]
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Unified Communications Can Bolster a Company’s Disaster Recovery Plan
by: Zeus Kerravala on February 9, 2012
IT executives looking to maximize their UC investments or searching for a way to gain budget approval should make UC a core component of a company’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans. When I interview current or potential deployers of UC, the conversation typically focuses on cost savings and how to measure productivity gains. However, [...]
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The Big Game has become the “Super†event for new mobile and social promotions. The challenge for advertisers and brands is to create a virtual social environment within the year’s biggest physical social event. The TV ad escalation for the Superbowl grew out of the need to make the Ads their own event. The higher [...]
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Ya gotta love investors. Â If you don’t give ‘em the short-term results they want, even if you have been transparent about your plans, Â they’ll trash you. Â This is what happened to Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) yesterday. Â The company reported a 57% decline in net income for 4Q2011 yesterday and the stock price of $194 was reduced nearly [...]
Read moreWith 4G adoption set to ramp up significantly during the next 1-2 years, opportunities in the mobile marketplace are replete, encompassing mobile broadband connectivity, mobile apps, video and enterprise services. Â Mobile network operators in European and U.S. markets find themselves in the middle of this transformation — with the right differentiation strategies, those operators stand [...]
Read moreEricsson’s OSS/BSS chieftains described their plans yesterday for the recently acquired Telcordia to an audience of info-hungry analysts. As one might expect, it was a snooze, complete with statements about no immediate staffing changes, fulfilling existing customer commitments (do they have a choice?), recognizing capability overlaps and working to eliminate duplication over time. Oh yeah, [...]
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Picochip and Xelerated: Just the Start of a Wireless Chip M&A Boom this Year
by: Caroline Gabriel on January 19, 2012
Several factors will create a storm of M&A in the wireless chip world in 2012. The recession will see a number of mature and accomplished start-ups, especially in Europe, coming for sale at bargain prices as IPOs dry up. And as chip suppliers increasingly need to diversify throughout the wireless product chain, they will need [...]
Read moreUnified Communications Buyers Should Think “Sessions,” Not “Calls”
by: Zeus Kerravala on January 3, 2012
In 2012, look for the Unified Communications (UC) industry to finally evolve away from using terms like “calls” and “trunks” and replace it with the concept of a “session.” I believe this to be an important step on the road to more pervasive UC deployments, particularly mobile UC. Why do I believe that? The first [...]
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Today’s multinational corporation is a conglomerate in which the central IT function needs to deal with the reality of supporting: Multiple countries with different sets of IT infrastructure, Four generations of users, ranging from digital ignorants to digital natives, Many cultures and languages with different communication and collaboration behavior Several departments with separate and distinct [...]
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One of the key themes of Adtran’s industry analyst conference, held last week in the company’s home town of Huntsville, AL, was raising the company’s visibility and marketing profile. “We make a good product, but people don’t know about us,” said a bemused Tom Stanton, CEO of the company. He’s putting it mildly: the company [...]
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