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By Eden Zoller, Principal AnalystGoogle is set to buy mobile advertising network specialist AdMob in an all-stock deal valued at $750 million – a deal that shows how serious Google is about being a top player in this space. The acquisition is a good fit: Google needs to strengthen its hand in mobile display advertising, where Admob is already a strong player (particularly in serving ads on Google

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By Jason AnkenyOnline payment solutions provider PayPal announced its decision to open its PayPal X global platform to developers, unveiling a series of new APIs as well as a mobile SDK to embed payments directly into iPhone applications.According to PayPal, developers can now build person-to-person solutions or business-to-business payment applications on their platform of choice, whether it's a

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With a growing appetite for mobile applications, services, and content, consumers and business users will be looking to mobile search to streamline their information/content access and retrieval.“Unfortunately, there is little ‘joy of use’ in the current mobile search user experience”, said Sarah Burnett, Ovum Senior Analyst, based in London. With a growing appetite for mobile content, consumers

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A market worth USD450 million by 2014 globallyA new report from global advisory and consulting firm Ovum, finds that managed telepresence services for multinational corporations will provide a significant stream of new revenues for global telecoms service providers in the next five years, even if operators are not all exploiting the opportunity yet.According to the report, entitled, “Business

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By Dan O'SheaThe telecom industry is getting closer to the integration of content and services across multiple screens, including mobile phones, PCs and TVs. Some of that content will include advertising, delivered in a personalized and targeted way enabling service providers to get a bigger piece of the advertising market by selling advertisers more effective cross-platform packages.For now,

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Market information company J.D. Power has released a new customer satisfaction survey that shows that satisfaction is increasing rapidly for users of smartphones, while users of traditional mobile phones are becoming less satisfied.Based on reports from over 16,000 mobile phone users, the data also highlights that iPhone owners are the most satisfied of smartphone users, whereas LG phones rate

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According to Ovum, the global analyst and consulting company, IT services providers, particularly those offering systems integration (SI) services, need to adopt new strategies and approaches to ensure that the trend toward cloud computing services does not negatively impact their business.Although widespread adoption of cloud computing is slow to materialize, services vendors should take steps

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Michele Mackenzie & Adam Leach (Principal Analysts)Application downloads to mobile devices have been the subject of a great deal of hype since Apple launched its App Store in 2008. Many of its competitors in the devices market are following hot on its heels, and not a month goes by without an application store launch. There have been some impressive announcements from Apple – most recently that 2

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By Jason AnkenyA year after the U.K. debut of Nokia's all-you-can-eat Comes With Music service, digital music research firm Music Ally reports the mobile music effort has signed up slightly more than 107,000 users worldwide. According to Music Ally, 32,728 consumers signed up with Comes With Music as of July 2009--Australia follows with 23,003 subscribers, trailed by Singapore with 19, 318. Music

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A market worth USD 190 million by 2014 in Asia-Pacific aloneAccording to Ovum, an analyst and consulting company, Asia-Pacific is one of the regions experiencing strong growth from managed telepresence services over the next five years. “By 2014, the telepresence-based videoconferencing services market will be worth USD 450 million globally, and Asia-Pac could account for nearly 42% of that,”

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Research is mixed Social media marketers have noticed the millions of women taking to social networks and blogging as a prime target. But research from Q Interactive presented at ad:tech Chicago may be causing marketers to rethink those efforts.According to the “Women’s Survey,” despite more than one-half of women active in social media visiting social networking sites at least daily, 74.8%

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By Jason AnkenyMore than 80 percent of newspaper and magazine publishers believe consumers will rely more heavily on mobile devices as a primary information source over the next three years according to a new study conducted by the Audit Bureau of Circulations print publishing forum--in addition, close to 70 percent of respondents agree that mobile is receiving more attention at their publication

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By Steven Hartley, senior analyst at OvumFierce price competition in Europe continues to drive down the price of big-screen (laptop and netbook) mobile broadband services, threatening profitability as usage increases. Mobile operators have spoken of the potential to boost revenues and margins by selling a range of value-added services. However, the potential options are unlikely to have a

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A new report from global advisory and consulting firm Ovum, finds that mobile broadband in emerging markets is a very different proposition to that seen in mature markets. According to the report titled, “Operator strategies for mobile broadband in emerging markets”, low fixed-line and PC penetration provide an opportunity for mobile broadband to become a viable fixed-line alternative. However,

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By Jason AnkenyA new Microsoft job posting discovered by MobileTechWorld suggests the software giant's forthcoming Windows Mobile 7 operating system will focus squarely on social networking integration. The posting to the microsoft-entertainment-jobs/com website reads in part "'Social Networks' and ‘Mobile Phones' are two rapidly evolving socio-cultural phenomena that deeply impact the way in

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Networking tools and privacyWomen who are core social network users expect a lot, according to “The Power of Social Networking For Women Research Study” from female-oriented social networking site ShesConnected. Participants in the survey were recruited through several social networks and were encouraged to share it with friends.ShesConnected respondents were heavy users of social networks: 59%

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In a low capital expenditure climate organisations need to know how to unlock the financial and intellectual value hidden in existing assetsWhen capital is in short supply the pressure to optimise existing resources and assets intensifies. In the IT space, enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) are prime targets. A new report

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By Jason AnkenyOne of every seven minutes of media consumption now takes place via mobile devices, according to a study conducted by AOL and media agency Universal McCann. Ninety-five percent of respondents said they used mobile media to fill downtime, and 82 percent said they use it at work--81 percent turn to mobile while shopping, 80 percent at home, and 65 percent while commuting to their

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The economic tide might turn before process improvement methods deliver cost takeoutAccording to global advisory and consulting firm Ovum, many organisations that are looking to process improvement methods in the current economic environment are too late. While commonly used approaches such as Agile and Lean can reduce waste in IT systems and software development, they don’t offer the rapid

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By Laurent Lachal, Open Source Director at OvumGoogle as the Linux champion on netbooksGoogle generates most of its revenues from advertising, but intends to diversify its revenue streams with offerings such as Google Apps, which have just (surprise, surprise) come out of beta and whose momentum the new OS aims to boost (along with Google Mail and Google Docs usage) in one of the only markets

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Mapping the social graph.Let’s get the bad news out of the way.As a result of the poor economy and various difficulties at MySpace, paid advertising on online social networks in the US is expected to fall 3% in 2009.But the drop will be short-lived. eMarketer projects that US marketers will increase their social network ad spending 13.2% in 2010, to $1.3 billion.“The expected rebound in spending

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Reducing a company’s focus on risk management during a downturn is a false economy. Although businesses feel compelled to ‘do more with less’, the economic climate can in fact increase or intensify the level of risk companies are exposed to, as it can affect anything from levels of capital expenditure to staffing requirements. This is according to a recent report titled, “Managing risk during an

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Finjan, a leader in secure web gateway products and the provider of a unified web security solution for the enterprise market, has welcomed the launch of Anti-Malvertising.com by Google to assist its advertisers in spotting potential providers of malicious advertisements.In total, 45857 unique malicious, advertising, and potentially unwanted programs were detected on users' computers in March 09

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By Adam Leach, Device principal analyst at OvumAn endorsement for Intel’s Atom processor for mobile devicesSince Intel’s launch of its Atom family of processors it has made no secret that it intends to make a serious play in mobile. The company hopes that taking a slice of the mobile device market will provide an engine for growth outside of its traditional PC and server markets.However, the

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With a strong domestic market, SMEs in China are less exposed to the global economic climate than most of their counterparts in other countries. As a result, they expect to continue spending on telecoms during the downturn. “They are price-sensitive and are more likely to adopt managed and hosted services in order to avoid up-front capital investments, however we recommend caution when looking at

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