Monthly Archives: January 2012
Smartphone Driven Market
With one billion smartphone shipment target by 2016, there is clearly a huge market opportunity involving smart applications, services, and related infrastrucutre. Within last few years the world experienced a dynamic shift in data usage growth indeed fostered a rapid … Continue reading
Mobile Commerce Market
Mobile application stores are getting more attention lately. It has been a new source of revenue for the mobile operators. In the UK O2 is considering a revenue-share plan with handset vendors, where they would only pay 50% upfront for … Continue reading
RFID Basics
The main factor that characterizes the RFID system is the Tags. Before we dive into the details of the tags it’s important to know about the readers, it is to be noted that generally a Passive Tag reader can’t read … Continue reading
Smartphone Evolution
In 2011, 472 million Smartphone were sold worldwide, rising to 1 billion by 2016. Smartphone now account for 17% of all global mobile handset sales. Particularly in US 43% mobile people are using Smartphone which is an equivalent figure of … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Devices, Smart Phones
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Google in Mobile Advertising
Google’s mobile advertising business continues to fuel impressive growth for the online search engine pioneer. The company estimates its mobile advertising revenues will likely generate in excess of $2.5 billion a year and growing. Google generates 97 percent of its … Continue reading
Posted in Devices, Google, Mobile Commerce and Marketing
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Smart Grid
Segment the Smart Grid domains into different wireless environments/groups that could use similar sets of requirements. The Smart Grid “market” has many moving parts. There are hundreds of vendors, large and small, providing software, hardware and solutions at every layer … Continue reading
Posted in Broadband Wireless, Energy Management, LTE
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Mobile Application Store Market Predictions
The mobile application stores market, while complex, has stabilized on a retail store model. The players might change, but I don’t expect the model to change anytime soon. We have identified fifteen different stores. Handset Vendors, Network Operators, development consortiums … Continue reading
Hosted Unified Communications
More Hosted Unified Communications in APAC Recently BroadSoft Inc (Dec, 2011) announced big win in APAC region, LG U+, one of South Korea’s leading service providers of mobile, fixed-line and broadband communications services, has selected BroadWork platform to introduce the … Continue reading
LTE Infrastructure
LTE can be deployed in existing 2G or 3G bands, and in new spectrum such as 2.6 GHz now being allocated in many regions, and the Digital Dividend bands (700 or 800 MHz depending on region). The spectrum segmentation for … Continue reading
Posted in 4G, Broadband Wireless, LTE, Wireless Carriers
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Next Gen Mobile Commerce
In the US market it’s kind of different, There is application that runs on iPhones called shopkick, Shopkick pays consumers “kickbucks” — reward coupons — just for checking in when they enter Best Buy, American Eagle, Macy’s, or other participating … Continue reading
