In-Stat expects mobile VOIP to reach 139 million users by 2014. Integration in social-networking services, along with cheap international calls, is spurring growth. – Mobile voice over IP use is expected to rise to nearly 139 million
users by 2014, according to a new report from In-Stat.
Thanks to companies such as Skype, Fring
and Google, mobile VOIP (voice over IP) technology
has been gaining popularity over the last five years, as an inexpensive option fo…
A new Cisco study forecasts a 26-fold increase in mobile data traffic by 2015, driven by smartphones, tablets and mobile video watching. – Worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 26 times by 2015, driven primarily by smartphone and
tablet use, as well as consumers increasing interest in watching videos on
mobile devices, Cisco Systems reported in a
Feb. 1 study.
Traffic will reach 6.3 exabytes the equivalent of
1 q…
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 lagged behind its older Windows Mobile platform for the fourth quarter 2010, according to new data from the NPD Group. – Microsofts
Windows Phone 7 faces a steep uphill climb for consumer adoption, with the
latest numbers from research firm NPD Group suggesting the smartphone
platforms market share lags behind that of Windows Mobile, its older and
increasingly antiquated predecessor.
For the fourth
quarter of 2…
Caregivers are embracing new mobile-health apps that are steadily reaching the market to help them take care of loved ones, according to researchers. – Each year,
caregivers provide an estimated $375 billion worth of uncompensated aid to
family members, according to The National Alliance for Caregiving. Mobile applications
such as those that monitor medication compliance and track locations using GPS
could make this job easier, and caregivers a…
IBM is leveraging the social impact of tablet computers, mobile devices and the cloud in moving enterprises to become social businesses. – ORLANDO,
Fla. – As part of its new Social Business initiative, IBM is making big moves
to leverage the social impact of mobile devices and the cloud.
Indeed,
by bringing social business to the broadest range of mobile devices, IBM is
expanding a mobile worker’s ability to collaborate beyond e-m…
While Apple revolutionized the mobile industry, Samsung chugged away in the background. Now its poised to become Apples first real competitor. – This week, smartphone giants Nokia, Motorola Mobility and Samsung posted fourth-quarter
earnings that, each in its own way, reflected the looming presence and successes of Apple.
Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha noted that the Android-booster had
made strides in the smartphone space during the quarter,…
As General Electric builds technologies that transform the way we live, it’s channeling the equally transformative power of iPad, iPhone, and in-house apps to generate new business possibilities. Says Linda Boff, Global Director of Marketing Communications at General Electric: “We’re always thinking about what’s next. How can technology make lives better and help our customers be more efficient? iPad and iPhone are wonderful ways to inspire us and help us get GE there.â€
Apple’s App Store helped mobile application downloads soar in 2010. With Google’s Android Market pushing Apple, expect the overall pie to grow in 2011, Gartner said. – Thanks to Apple’s App Store and Google’s rougher-around-the-edges Android Market, mobile-application-store sales will top $15 billion in 2011, Gartner said Jan. 26.
The $15 billion number, up 190 percent from $5.2 billion in 2010, counts both users buying applications and applications generating ad…
Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 5 will include technology for wireless mobile payments, according to a new report from Bloomberg. – Apple will enable the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 to make wireless
purchases, according to an online report.
Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm Envisioneering
Group, told Bloomberg Jan. 25 that the next-generation iPad and iPhone will
feature payment technology leveraging NFC (near
field com…
Telcom firms have launched a major advertising, marketing and promotional blitz to attract new and existing customers after the government launched a pan-India scheme that allows them to switch operators while retaining the numbers. Although mobile number portability may not be a big game changer for the industry, it is certainly proving to be a [...]
With the advent and the significant usage of mobile technologies, slowly we are reaching an age where the gadgets will soon get shrinked and will make other options like mobile to go through the roof.
News Analysis: Some might say that Google is Apples biggest threat, but when it comes to revenue in the mobile market, Motorola and Samsung stand above the rest. – Apple is undoubtedly a
mobile powerhouse. The companys iPhone is selling like gangbusters and its
iPad continues to dominate that market. By the looks of things, it doesnt seem
that there is a single company in the mobile marketplace that has any chance of
threatening Apples position.
Of cour…
In a recent survey by Evans Data Corp., mobile-application developers ranked AT&T as the best carrier to cater to developer needs in North America. – Mobile-application
developers in North America rank AT amp;T as the best carrier for developers in
the region, according to a recent report by Evans Data Corp.
When asked to
rank the capabilities that carriers offer to developers, those in North America
ranked AT amp;T better than all competito…
Starbucks customers can pay for their coffee with Apple’s iPhone or RIM’s BlackBerry Tour, Curve or Storm smartphones. No Google Android app is available yet but it’s in the works. – Starbucks Jan. 18 said it is taking its pay-by-smartphone
effort national in more than 7,800 locations around the country.
Users of Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch or
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Tour, Curve or Storm smartphones can download the
new
Starbucks Card Mobile App to pay for their …
IBM and ARM, which have been working together on chip designs since 2008, are extending the partnership to include work on 14-nm processors. – IBM and ARM Holdings are expanding their partnership to include the
14-nanometer processor manufacturing process, a move to help create
increasingly smaller, more energy-efficient chips for makers of mobile
devices.
The extended partnership, announced Jan. 18, will
help both companies in the hi…
Facebook is now offering applications access to users’ mobile phone and addresses, though sharing must be approved by users. – Facebook’s decision to offer applications access to users’ phone numbers and
addresses has put the company in the crosshairs of yet another
privacy debate.
quot;We are now making a users address and mobile phone number accessible
as part of the User Graph object, quot; blogged Jeff Bowen, a…
Southeast Asian ministers will study ways of lowering roaming mobile phone and text messaging charges across the region starting with Singapore and Malaysia, a minister said.
The neighbors will kick off with new telecommunications rates between their countries to be announced in two months, Rais Yatim, Malaysia’s minister of information, communications and culture told reporters in Kuala Lumpur. A letter of undertaking from Malaysian companies agreeing to the new roaming charges will be presented to Singapore next week, he said.
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12 is making Vevo’s online video library accessible via the YouTube 2.0 application
for Android.
YouTube fans, who
own smartphones based on Android…
A new mobile VOIP report from In-Stat expects spending in the space to reach $6 billion in 2015, as enterprises, and even carriers, get on board. – The successful transition of voice over IP technology from
fixed-line phones to the mobile world is expected to encourage spending in the mobile VOIP space to rise to $6
billion by 2015, according to a report from In-Stat.
The growth, added the firm, will create “significant opportunity” for equi…
