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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised the company will "launch something awesome" the week of July 4, with insiders speculating the new feature is optimized for mobile or tablet devices. Speaking to reporters yesterday, Zuckerberg said the project was developed at Facebook's 40-person Seattle office, the source of previous mobile initiatives including the unified mobile website introduced in

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Dr.Steve Hodgkinson, Research DirectorEnterprise 2.0 – the dawn of a new organizational age?When Enterprise 2.0 first hit the radar, many of us were excited by the new social collaboration tools and their power to usher in new collaborative behaviors.Some of this promise has indeed been realized. The market for Enterprise 2.0 software is strong and growing, with social computing functionality

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By Jason AnkenyGoogle is in talks with eBay to incorporate the online auction giant's PayPal digital payment service into its Android Market application storefront in an effort to simplify the software purchase process. Citing multiple sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports Google may introduce a PayPal option as soon as this year--at present, consumers must pay for Android Market

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By Jason AnkenyJust months after the iPad first hit stores, early adopters already prefer the Apple tablet device to traditional print media formats, according to a new study conducted by media agency Cooper Murphy Webb. Among 1,034 U.K.-based iPad owners surveyed, 31 percent cite the tablet as their preferred method for reading newspapers and magazines, ahead of laptops/PCs (26 percent), print (

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Easy-to-use publishing format guards copyrights, Aims to change the market for digital comicsEpuuk, a supplier of digital comics for mobile devices and browsers, has launched its service in Finland and is set to expand to other geographies. The service guards copyrights and brings a new model of distribution for digital content. Epuuk is currently in the public beta phase and features content

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Consumers do want relationshipsThe social networking audience in the US has reached critical mass. eMarketer estimates that 57.5% of all US Internet users, or 127 million people, will use a social network at least once a month in 2010. By 2014, nearly two-thirds of Internet users will be on board.Marketers have been chasing this audience for several years, but the question remains: Do consumers

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eServGlobal Limited, a provider of smarter transaction management solutions in Charging, Payment, Retention and Network Services, has announced that its FlexiContent Services will be available through over a dozen operators during the 2010 soccer world cup in South Africa.Commencing June 11, the world cup is expected to attract the attention of over 1 billion mobile subscribers, many wanting the

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Like many incumbent telcos, PCCW’s fixed business is facing stiff competition, especially from fixed-to-mobile substitution. However, it continues to maintain a stable fixed-line subscriber base and experience growth in other revenue-generating sectors. In PCCW’s case, its convergent strategy is the driving force behind this success.“Rather than abandoning its fixed business, it has invested in

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By Jason AnkenySmartphone owners with touchscreen-enabled devices enjoy considerably higher satisfaction than consumers with phones incorporating more conventional input mechanisms like text keyboards, according to marketing information services firm J.D. Power and Associates' 2010 U.S. Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study.Among smartphone owners with touchscreen, satisfaction averages

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According to a new report from Ovum, the global analyst and consulting company, enterprises in China are beginning to express increasing demand for enterprise mobility for reasons such as higher affordability, more option for customization, and easier deployment.Chinese companies are still in the early phases of enterprise mobility deployment. “This is evident from the limited types of mobile

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By Jason AnkenyGoogle announced a new mobile interface for its AdWords advertising program, promising iPhone, Android and Palm Pre smartphone users efficient access to their accounts. AdWords is Google's flagship advertising product and primary source of revenue--the program offers pay-per-click and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads, and spans local, national and

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Telecoms operators in emerging markets* must improve their strategy and execution if they are to ensure sustained success in the mobile content and applications arena, according to Ovum. The global advisory and consulting firm believes operators are yet to commit sufficient attention and resources to what is a small but growing market with significant potential.According to Ovum, which has

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According to Ovum’s new report on 2010 Trends of Financial Markets Technology, financial markets institutions will focus back on achieving revenue growth in 2010, moving on from financial crisis. However, government intervention and regulation will mean that institutions will not be a return to business as usual. The Obama proposals already confirm Ovum’s view on this aspect.“This will create new

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By Lynnette LunaSouthwest Airlines announced late last week that it signed an equipment purchase contract with inflight WiFi provider Row 44, which provides high-speed Internet access via the Ku band satellites. The airlines said it has now begun the process of ordering equipment and scheduling for a full-fleet installation after ending the equipment testing phase.Southwest chose Row 44 back in

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By Adam Leach, Principal AnalystYesterday Apple launched its much anticipated tablet device, the iPad, and with it Steve Jobs proclaimed that Apple was now a mobile device company. Apple hopes to kick-start the market for e-books with its iPad and iBookstore service, and replicate its success with the iPod and iTunes. However, like the iPhone, the key to the iPad’s success will be the value added

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By Jason AnkenyNokia said it is at work on rebuilding its Ovi Store mobile content storefront, stating that its current iteration was always designed as a stopgap to bring together the handset giant's assorted portal efforts like Download and MOSH. Speaking at a roundtable event in London, Nokia's vice president of media products George Linardos said Nokia is currently revamping Ovi Store for a

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By Jason AnkenyThe number of mobile web users worldwide will more than double from 450 million in 2009 to over a billion by the end of 2013, according to a new forecast issued by market intelligence firm IDC. While mobile Internet use currently mirrors conventional web surfing--search, messaging, multimedia downloads and news/sports information dominate--IDC anticipates that over the next four

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By Sherrie Huang, AnalystAfter the success of the Apple App Store, mobile application stores have been headline news, and more players from different domains are rushing into this market. The major global players – although not all are available in China – are Apple (App Store), Nokia (Ovi Store), RIM (BlackBerry App World), Google (Android Market) and Microsoft (Windows Marketplace for Mobile),

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By Claudio Castelli, Senior AnalystCisco has announced several new and enhanced software applications for instant messaging, email, social networking, videoconferencing and software collaboration, including document and video sharing. Some of these new products will compete directly with similar products offered by partners such as Microsoft and IBM.Having a comprehensive collaboration strategy

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By Jason AnkenyThirty-eight percent of consumers say they don't want advertisements on their mobile phone regardless of the circumstances according to a new survey issued by market research firm Parks Associates. A quarter of respondents say they are open to mobile ads, and 37 percent of consumers are neutral. In addition, while 18 percent of subscribers say they support personally relevant ads,

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By Jason AnkenySocial networking behemoth Facebook said it will create a dual-class stock structure and convert its current shares into so-called Class B shares, but maintains it has no plans to go public. According to The New York Times, the Class B shares will have 10 votes each on matters of corporate governance--Class A shares, which would be sold in an initial public offering, would carry

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2010; a year of slow recovery, broadband access monetisation, cost control, and partnership with Internet companiesInforma Telecoms & Media today announced its top ten predictions for 2010 to the telecoms and media sectors at its annual Industry Outlook event in London.Speaking at the event Mark Newman, Informa Telecoms & Media’s Chief Research Officer comments,“We selected the most

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Unified Communications, merging IP telephony, conferencing and collaboration, messaging and other forms of integrated information exchange, are on a steeply rising curve of adoption in the enterprise. According to a new ABI Research study, the market’s size was just $302 million in 2008, but will rise quickly to nearly $4.2 billion in 2014.However this market is far from monolithic. “Companies

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By Patrick O’Brien, Senior AnalystChina’s importance as an outsourcing location is rising fast, but a fragmented local vendor landscape and a domestic market dominated by Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise customers means that it will be the major Western and Indian outsourcing vendors that will reap the rewards, according to a new report from analyst and consulting firm Ovum.The Chinese government

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By Jason AnkenyMoney transfer applications, location-based services and mobile search will reign among the top 10 mobile application categories of 2012 according to a new forecast issued by market research firm Gartner. Basing its predictions on each app category's projected revenue, loyalty, business model, consumer value and estimated market penetration, Gartner anticipates that most consumers

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