http://wirelessinnovator.com/ en-us Fri, 18 May 2012 05:01:50 -0400 editor@technologyinnovator.com http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=23302&sectionID=41 Previous Year-over-Year Decline Occurred in Second Quarter of 2009. Samsung's Android-Based Smartphone Sales in First Quarter of 2012 Represented More Than 40 Percent of Android-Based Smartphone Sales Globally; No Other... Wed, 16 May 2012 06:24:32 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=23292&sectionID=41 With deadlines to comply with regulatory “know your customer” (KYC) requirements fast approaching, banks must maximise the value and utility of the data and processes that they already have. According... Wed, 16 May 2012 01:17:05 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=23293&sectionID=41 The recent Federal Budget delivered government agencies a clear message about be a tough year ahead, driven by staff cuts and efficiency savings. With a forecast drop in GST revenues,... Tue, 15 May 2012 01:27:43 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=23294&sectionID=41 BT have presented solid results both financially and operationally in terms of subscribers. Despite its lack of content in comparison to Sky and Virgin, net broadband additions continued strongly in... Thu, 10 May 2012 01:34:35 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=22651&sectionID=13 Analysts Discuss Mobile Device Management at Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2012, June 5-7, in Orlando and June 12-13 in Frankfurt, Germany. Mobile device management (MDM) has become... Wed, 09 May 2012 04:26:28 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=23295&sectionID=41 This was always going to be a tough Budget for IT. The November mini-Budget announcements saw to that. Business as usual will not be a happy place in government agencies,... Wed, 09 May 2012 01:36:15 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20879&sectionID=41 The importance of the Galaxy S III to Samsung can not be underestimated; the company has built its reputation on producing the ‘must-have’ Android smartphone and in the process has... Thu, 03 May 2012 07:52:05 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=22657&sectionID=8 Multidevice Data Rate Plans Will Disrupt the U.S. Mobile Services Market. As the number of devices with cellular modems increases, consumers and small businesses in the U.S. will demand matching multidevice... Thu, 03 May 2012 04:32:10 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20996&sectionID=52 Beneath the brash headlines that Microsoft this week said it is putting $300 million into the new Barnes & Noble controlled digital business which holds its current Nook ereader and... Thu, 03 May 2012 02:16:49 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20995&sectionID=52 It is a measure that the week is poor, in terms of genuine news impact, that the shenanigans at Technicolor – purely a cash injection by an existing shareholder JP... Thu, 03 May 2012 02:07:15 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20970&sectionID=41 Canalys today released to clients its detailed smart phone shipment estimates by country for Q1 2012. Total shipments worldwide grew 45% year on year to 146 million units, but significant... Wed, 02 May 2012 10:05:11 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20046&sectionID=52 Barnes & Noble has had a troubled few years, and continues to be a tablet business with a chain of bookshops connected to it, rather than the other way around,... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:39:29 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20045&sectionID=52 This week we found out just how much of a video revolution is going on at AOL, and following its announcement last week that it would be the first online... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:38:10 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20101&sectionID=7 Go though your smarphone right now. Look at each app and seriously consider whether you need it. If not, delete it. Then, determine which of the free apps are worth... Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:55:00 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20014&sectionID=13 Analysts to Explore Customer Engagement, Mobile and Social CRM at Gartner Customer Strategies & Technologies Summit 2012, June 11-12, in London, U.K. CIOs ranked customer relationship management (CRM) as their... Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:05:00 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=19649&sectionID=41 State-owned Telecom Cambodia (TC) and Vietnam Telecom International (VTI) on Friday launched the Super Highway Telecom Network to improve Internet and telecom services in Cambodia, Xinhua news agency reported. The... Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:35:55 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20044&sectionID=41 Significance: The default position for a consumer technology company which has fallen on hard times is to redouble its efforts for the growth markets of mobile and multiscreen services. Most... Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:35:08 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20043&sectionID=41 Significance: Apple and Samsung, which control over half the smartphone market, are increasingly self-sufficient in terms of mobile processors, leaving a reduced addressable market for Qualcomm, Intel and the others.... Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:14:24 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=20036&sectionID=41 Businesses moving away from BlackBerry, and the rise of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon is making mobile device management (MDM) one of the hottest markets for enterprise IT, according to Ovum.... Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:57:14 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=19349&sectionID=13 HP has announced a mobility platform for communications service providers (CSPs) that enables them to help enterprise customers increase productivity by supporting employee use of smartphones and tablets.                                                          The... Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:48:49 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18805&sectionID=41 HANOI, Vietnam April 14 (NNN-BERNAMA) -- Military-run telecom Viettel will provide its users with 1.3 million new mobile phone numbers starting with 096, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. Accordingly, the... Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:17:06 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18804&sectionID=41 HANOI, Vietnam April 14 (NNN-Bernama) -- Military-run telecom giant Viettel said it has provided a data transmission line connecting the Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN3), the pan Asian Research and Education... Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:11:55 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=19202&sectionID=52 The lazy reaction to Yahoo’s latest attempt at revival is cynicism, but a closer examination suggests it is playing a mixed hand of cards as well as it can. As... Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:15:08 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=19201&sectionID=52 A quite upset and rather out of sorts Arxan gathered with us on a conference call this week and without saying that any of the executives on board were “annoyed”... Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:48:21 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18764&sectionID=41 hanks to a recovery in both fixed and mobile sectors, service provider revenues passed the US$1.91 trillion mark in 2011,  compared to US$1.79 trillion in 2010, according to Ovum, the... Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:05:51 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18763&sectionID=41 ACMA’s structure for the 4G spectrum auction confirms what has emerged in earlier consultations. The decision to make the key 700MHz spectrum available in national lots, rather than regional ones,... Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:00:09 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18566&sectionID=41 NAY PYI TAW, April 11 (NNN-MNA) -- Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), a unit of the Ministry of Communications, Posts and Telegraphs has signed an agreement with International Telecommunication Holdings... Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:40:21 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=19199&sectionID=41 Significance: Nokia overshadowed its critical US Lumia 900 launch with a profit warning, indicating the huge challenges that face the firm in its core midmarket, while it waits for its... Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:40:02 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=19198&sectionID=41 Significance: The intensifying battle between Intel and Qualcomm has centered on the smartphone and various ‘post-PC’ devices like tablets and ultrabooks. That has involved the companies copying one another’s strengths,... Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:26:34 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18766&sectionID=52 Facebook has paid $1 billion to acquire Instagram, a Twitter-like mobile app using photos rather than words that provides some heavy filtering options to modify and enhance your pics and... Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:14:07 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18766&sectionID=41 Facebook has paid $1 billion to acquire Instagram, a Twitter-like mobile app using photos rather than words that provides some heavy filtering options to modify and enhance your pics and... Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:14:07 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=19387&sectionID=7 The young orangutan reaches his hand through the cage and rubs his knuckles over an iPad, drawing wide colors across the screen with his favorite app. A few minutes later,... Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:15:36 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=19387&sectionID=45 The young orangutan reaches his hand through the cage and rubs his knuckles over an iPad, drawing wide colors across the screen with his favorite app. A few minutes later,... Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:15:36 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=19200&sectionID=41 This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was the usual deluge of product launches, keynotes, gossip and marketing stunts, even with the habitual absence of Apple (which did not prevent... Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:42:21 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18334&sectionID=52 Google, they say, never makes the same mistake twice. On that basis its plans to launch Google TV across Europe later this year must surely be successful after the dismal... Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:52:56 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18333&sectionID=52 The plan between Verizon and top cable companies led by Comcast to link their respective wireless and residential broadband markets via joint sales and marketing is unlikely to be approved... Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:47:54 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18777&sectionID=12 Ovum’s Interactive Decision Matrix reveals new opportunities for vendor community Ovum has re-launched its Interactive Decision Matrix (OIDM), a formalised approach to assessing the vendor solution landscape according to key... Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:50:16 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18774&sectionID=52 According to an upcoming report by Ovum, social messaging is estimated to cost telecoms operators over $23bn in mobile messaging revenue in 2012. Neha Dharia, analyst at Ovum and author... Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:23:07 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18774&sectionID=41 According to an upcoming report by Ovum, social messaging is estimated to cost telecoms operators over $23bn in mobile messaging revenue in 2012. Neha Dharia, analyst at Ovum and author... Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:23:07 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18774&sectionID=7 According to an upcoming report by Ovum, social messaging is estimated to cost telecoms operators over $23bn in mobile messaging revenue in 2012. Neha Dharia, analyst at Ovum and author... Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:23:07 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=19165&sectionID=41 Sydney, Australia, April 3, 2012— CIOs in Australia and New Zealand view governance, compliance, regulation and security as the biggest barriers to IT, above lack of IT budget and resources, according... Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:29:16 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=17622&sectionID=45 One interesting characteristic of Star Trek: The Next Generation -- one that separated it from the original series and most of the early films -- was its widespread use of... Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:35:54 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18782&sectionID=41 The Asia-Pacific digital games market will more than double over the next four years to be worth US$30.3bn in 2016, according to Ovum. In a new report*, the independent telecoms... Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:02:40 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18336&sectionID=52 Significance: Apple’s primary Taiwanese manufacturing partner, Foxconn/HonHai, is to make a $6.1bn investment in Sharp, effectively becoming an equal partner in its Sharp Display business. This will increase that unit’s... Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:04:46 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18336&sectionID=7 Significance: Apple’s primary Taiwanese manufacturing partner, Foxconn/HonHai, is to make a $6.1bn investment in Sharp, effectively becoming an equal partner in its Sharp Display business. This will increase that unit’s... Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:04:46 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18335&sectionID=41 Significance: The US will not be the world’s largest smartphone market by the end of this year, and it will never be Nokia’s largest base, given its awful track record.... Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:54:36 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18335&sectionID=7 Significance: The US will not be the world’s largest smartphone market by the end of this year, and it will never be Nokia’s largest base, given its awful track record.... Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:54:36 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18786&sectionID=41 Canalys today announced the launch of its fifth annual Channels Forum for EMEA, to take place from 8 to 10 October 2012 in Barcelona. Expecting more than 1,000 attendees this... Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:32:55 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=17298&sectionID=8 St. Louis, Missouri, USA – March 21, 2012 – Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and supply of customized performance-critical components and systems for advanced electronics and... Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:47:22 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=18784&sectionID=13 The enterprise network is being bombarded. According to Ovum, the number of smartphones in use will exceed 600 million in 2015, making the intelligent network more relevant than ever. In... Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:27:15 -0400