The mobile network operator Digicel has added NFC technology to its Digicel Mobile Money service offering in the South Pacific archipelago nation of Tonga. Digicel said it will make the service available initially with 50 merchants in the capital of Nuku’alofa and it plans...
It’s a delicate (some might say indelicate) question to ask – What is your mobile strategy? But I’ve learned not to make assumptions when companies come to us looking for help with their mobility issues.
Beyond Policy - A New Era in Real-Time Charging: Why prevent a subscriber from accessing a desired capability that is readily available at minimal cost to the operator? In "Beyond policy," Dr. Colm Ward, CEO at Tango Telecom, discusses the new era in real-time...
Smartphones have been used in corporate environments for quite a while and, since the advent of Apple’s iPad, tablets have also flooded the enterprise environment. Sometimes, adoption is driven by users under the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon; other times it is the corporation that starts...
Increased mobility, cloud computing, and IT consumerization are the main enterprise trends that companies around the world are basing their strategies on. RCR Wireless News is watching these trends to learn how they are affecting companies and impacting chief information officers (CIOs).
Vendors, consulting firms,...
Enterprises are changing to become more mobile, integrating cloud computing and allowing IT consumerization. RCR Wireless News takes a look at the most relevant trends to discuss how they are impacting companies and CIOs, as well as what solution providers are doing to address...
NEW ORLEANS – Following on news earlier this week flushing out more details of its network plans, T-Mobile USA continued to hammer home the point that it wants to re-establish its position as an industry disruptor.
Highlighting that cause, the carrier is looking to...
The world passenger car market is projected to reach 86.5 million units by the year 2017, while OEM-connected car system shipments are expected to grow from 8.22 million in 2012 to 39.5 million in 2016. This according to data released by Global Industry Analysts,...
In about a week, Motorola Solutions made two announcements that underscore the company’s embrace of cloud-based technology. New enterprise-grade WLAN service management capabilities will now be delivered via the cloud. The company also introduced a modular Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) that allows hardware snap-in...
Increases in the sales of PCs, laptops, and especially smartphones are spurring growth in the security market. A report from Symantec Corp. shows that while the number of vulnerabilities decreased by 20% last year compared to 2010, the number of malicious attacks continued to...
In today’s marketplace, there are three main competitors for mobile phone communications in the corporate world: iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. As of late, iPhone sales have moved
Brazilian Foxconn plant employees in the city of JundiaÃ, Brazil, gave up going on a strike that was proposed last week due to bad working conditions. In a meeting held yesterday, employees voted for no downtime. The strike was contemplated as a way...
Cloud-based solutions have become essential tools in vendors’ portfolios and a key pillar of new product offerings. Now, telecommunications are staking out a place in the cloud, Gartner Research Analyst Elia San Miguel told RCR Wireless News.
“The cloud is a driver of new communications...
Analytic data solutions provider Teradata (NYSE: TDC) announced an agreement to acquire Munich, Germany-based eCircle, a cloud-based digital marketing firm. The addition of eCircle is intended to enhance and expand Teradata’s overall big data market prowess.
According to Rob Brosnan, an analyst with Forrester Research,...
IT departments have to deal with two different categories of data - structured and unstructured (such as video, photo, social media, etc.) - so vendors have begun to develop solutions to meet both needs.
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has redefined its storage and management strategy...
After growing 11.3% in 2011, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., is projecting top line growth of 15-20% in 2012. This is an aggressive estimate in light of the company’s carrier network division, which grew at just under 3% last year while representing 73% of the...
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) announced the formation of a new data services workgroup that will focus on accelerating solutions for enterprise big data and content management. ODCA is an independent IT consortium comprised of global IT providers.
Enterprise data use is forecast to increase by 6.7...
IBM (NYSE:IBM) unveiled Mobile Foundation, a portfolio of products and services designed to help organizations capitalize on the proliferation of mobile environments, at its ongoing Impact 2012 Conference in Las Vegas this week. Aimed at solutions for laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the new offering follows IBM's recent acquisition of Worklight and...
For the past few years, at my direction, Accenture has studied usage of technology by consumers to identify major trends that might assist our corporate clients. Our most recent survey
Cloud computing apps are set to become much more popular by 2014, with Latin America and Asia-Pacific leading the way. Currently, large companies in emerging markets are the most aggressive adopters of cloud computing, while their European and U.S. counterparts remain more conservative about...
Global travel technology company Sabre Holdings has selected HP Enterprise Services for a six-year infrastructure and applications services agreement worth $US 800 million. It is an extension of the companies’ 11-year relationship.
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Eyeing the upcoming Fifa World Cup and Olympic Games, the U.S.-based location determination company TruePosition, Inc., said it is trying to establish business relationships with local government agencies to help provide reliable estimates of crowd sizes and to locate people quickly.
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Brazilian workers in the city of Jundiaà have threatened to go on strike against Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn beginning May 3 if the company does not fix problems related to water, food, and transportation. Local newspaper Jornal de Jundiaà first reported the situation on April 25.
Evandro Santos, director at...
Boosted by the growth of smartphone use, mobile banking is on track to become as common as Internet banking in Brazil during the next five to seven years, industry analysts say. From 2010 to 2011, current mobile banking accounts grew by 49% to reach...
