The Australian smartphone market has proved recession-resistant. Highly innovative and competitive, the industry in the past year has seen the stellar rise of new players and the fall of established ones.
Examining the gains your organisation could make with new workforce technologies
Mobile workforce management has developed substantially during the past five years and is integral to most distribution and service work processes.
Several models exist for planning mobility around broad categories of mobile worker. While useful, these models are being overused, placing emphasis on the wrong aspects of mobility without deep consideration of the processes and applications being addressed. The basic tenet appears to be "build it and they will come". That's fine if you are building a field of dreams, but not so good if you are spending $1.5 million on a new IT architecture.
The ultimate purpose of unified communications (UC) is to enable workers to stay connected with colleagues, customers and business partners in a seamless and user-friendly fashion, regardless of which mode of communications, applications or equipment they are working with. One of the big benefits of UC is that it creates the ability to move information from one medium to another. Apparently, mobile technology will play an integral part in turning that UC vision into a reality because it allows information flow to be truly user-centric.
Mobile unified communications solutions can help organizations to reduce cellular minutes significantly whilst at the same time increasing the productivity of workers. Mobile unified communications solutions leverage the advantages of FMC at the same time as mobilizing business applications. This UC solution also boosts the ROI (Return On Investment) of firms significantly by reducing costs. Considering cost cutting initiatives across industries worldwide, these solutions have become increasingly relevant.
Mobile content consumption grows on social networks, but ringback tones, music still top demand, finds Frost & Sullivan
Singapore, May 28, 2009 -- The past year has seen a steady rise in the consumption of [mobile] premium content on social networks and communities, as well as other new applications such as location-based services and mobile advertising. Ringback tones and mobile music, however, still remain the top revenue earners, accounting for about 21.4 percent (US$6.2 billion) of the region's mobile content revenues in 2008, and are expected to continue to top mobile operators' and content providers' billings in the next five to six years.
Introduction
The mobile phone has become the ubiquitous device of choice worldwide. In spite of different cultural, commercial and technical drivers in differing regions, the mobile phone universally rules supreme for communications and social interaction. The mobile phone is usually the one thing consumers ensure they have with them when you go out. Do you use voice, SMS, email or the mobile Internet? Does your mobile phone store and play your music files? Now consumers can do banking and Internet purchasing via the mobile phone and much more!
Social Equity Solutions Using Mobile Commerce Banking and Remittances
The resolution of poverty for rural poor is high on the agenda of governments around the world and organizations such as the United Nations.
Topics
- Early Warning
- Mobilisation of the population (P2P funds)
- Instruction on safe areas, mobile hospitals etc
- Population identification location and well-being
- Loss of base station
- Loss of Base Station Controller
25 June 2009
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 these expectations", said Claudio Castelli, Senior Analyst based in Melbourne.
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