Verizon Business Looks to Asia for Growth
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In an interview with Reuters, Verizon Business's Chief Marketing Officer Nancy Gofus has noted that the division is seeing double-digit growth in the Asia-Pacific region, compared with global growth of 2-3%. The company also expects to see "...an acceleration in growth over the next couple of years 'and plans to double' ...
Technology Convergence Spurs Media Applications, Practices
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During the last two years, much of the attention on convergence traditionally has focused on its technological aspects: applications, services, devices and networks. However, new research says, the media -- through the accessibility and affordability of enabling technology -- has changed through all recognizable appearances. The ...
EU Governments Agree on Lower Roaming Fees
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LUXEMBOURG -- EU governments agreed Thursday on cutting the cost of using mobile phones abroad, the last hurdle for a cap on roaming fees to be introduced later this summer. The law should be adopted by the end of this month, and telecom companies will have one month after that to offer customers a new pricing structure ...
Nielsen Launches Wireless Service
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Audience measurement firm Nielsen has announced a mobile media consumption tracking service called Nielsen Wireless. The service, which will be available in the United States in July, hopes to assist wireless carriers, advertisers and entertainment companies in discovering what kinds of media are popular over cell phones. According ...
OpenWave Rejects Advances
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Openwave Systems Inc., which late Monday rejected a cash-for-stock offer from Harbinger Capital that would have given the hedge fund a 62 percent stake in the firm, said it has failed to find a buyer after a two-month search led by Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. There had been talk that Sybase Inc. could be waiting in the ...
CableLabs Sets PacketCable Deadline
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Cable technology suppliers have until July 13 to respond to a request for information (RFI) issued by CableLabs this week for PacketCable 2.0, an emerging specification and architecture that will enable cable operators to deploy and support a wide range of voice, video, and data services across wired and wireless access technologies. ...
HP Vows More Virtualization
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HP has overhauled its Virtual Server Environment (VSE) software as part of an ongoing attempt to lure Sun users onto its server platforms. VSE, which is used to control virtual machines running on Integrity servers, is now being pushed to the forefront of the vendor's virtualization efforts, according to Ute Albert, ...
Mobile Handsets Positioned to Radically Change the Navigation Device Market
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Mobile phone operators now have the ability to market a downloadable navigation application that is just as good as, if not better, than personal navigation devices (PNDs), reports In-Stat
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. As a result, handset-based mapping and navigation applications could cause a major change in the ...
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