LAS VEGAS — In a darkened room, a single light focused on a white Ford Fusion with Robert LeBlanc, SVP of the IBM software group, and Vijay Sankaran, Ford Motor Company's director for application development, inside. They got out of the car and walked to the...
RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer was joined by esteemed guests, including long-time industry analysts Roger Entner, former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth, former Senior Attorney with the Competition Division in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel Lawrence Spiwak and former FCC Wireless Bureau Chief...
Latin American mobile markets may not grow at the double digit rates they have in the past. Many counties have reached more than 100% penetration, and as penetration increases, the market becomes more saturated. This does not mean, however, that the region won’t grow....
Dominated by the two largest Latin American telecom operators, Peru's wireless market still holds promise. As observers have noted, there is room to grow in Peru as mobile penetration is at 96%, 2G services accounts for 91% of the total market and 76% of...
Cognitive computing is not brand new as IBM has been working to create chips that think like the human brain for some time. But during IBM Brazil's December press lunch, the company's local president, Rodrigo Kede, predicted that cognitive computing would be the next...
The doubling of mobile data use led to an increase of .5 percentage points in the GDP per-capita growth rate in 14 countries, according to a report from the GSMA and Deloitte. The report found that countries that had a higher level of data...
Chilean telecommunications group Entel's revenue rose 15% in the third quarter of 2012, principally driven by mobile, data (including IT) and network rental services. Entel's total mobile customers also increased to 9,890,178 in the third quarter of 2012, a 15% expansion compared to the third...
Mobile and social technologies represent a departure from the information technologies that CIOs are used to, such as ERP and CRM. This change is one of the three fundamental questions IT leaders and CIOs are facing, according to Mark McDonald, Gartner group vice president...
"The future of computing is social, mobile, information and cloud, and companies are doing pieces of it correctly today. But where the real advantages to the vendors' side and the consumers' side or the corporate side will be when they start bringing these forces...
All Brazilian mobile line numbers will have one more digit by December 2016. The digit "9 "will be added to the left of the current eight digit numbers of each mobile phone, according to the implementation roadmap released by the telecom agency Anatel yesterday.
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Increased smartphone and tablet penetration is enhancing social business usage as people can communicate from wherever they are, according to social business system provider Jive Software.
“There is a transformation going on, driven by mobile platforms,” said Tim Albright, senior business strategist and evangelist at...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
In today’s world of high mobile expectations, fierce competition and fast-changing technology, it can be hard to convince businesses that...
Mobile phone numbers in Ecuador will include the number "9" by Sept. 30, as a measure to increase the number capacity to 100 million available mobile phone numbers. The increase will allow the country to meet future voice and data demand.
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Cloud computing services have transformed how enterprises buy technology and even how chief information officers (CIOs) deal with corporate demands. In Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, cloud computing (in general) appears to be past the peak of inflated expectations, although in many countries,...
A new free app allows users to receive and answer texts from the comfort of their own computer keyboard — no matter what type of computer, operating system or mobile phone they have. Using a cloud-based account, the app dubbed Mysms can synchronize texts...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
There is an intimate connection between people and their mobile device. It has been coined the "consumerization of IT" and...
LAS VEGAS - Like most large multi-nationals, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) can be challenged to orchestrate its different verticals, which ranges from business-focused products to end user-user focused personal devices. Distilling the range of objectives can even be complicated to digest, even for HP's employees –...
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...
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...
Mobile, cloud, social and information are the four pillars of what Gartner calls a "nexus force." These topics will drive business in coming years, and both chief executives officers (CEOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) need to develop strategies focusing on them. To continue...
When mature markets are saturated, emerging regions become great opportunities. In general, emerging countries tend to grow at higher rates due to lower market penetration. German software company SAP has for years followed this opportunity across the Latin America region with optimism.
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Few events in the mobile industry can compare in size and scope to the annual Mobile World Congress event, and this year will be no different. With nearly 100,000 attendees and 1,400 exhibitors expected to swoop down on Barcelona, Spain, this year’s MWC event...
Mobile apps that notify you when something or someone of interest is nearby, offline, are seeing a big wave of excitement leading into this weekend's kick-off of the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. Apps like Sonar, EchoEcho and most prominently Highlight.
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One of the most developed countries in Latin America, Chile faces very similar telecom challenges to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Its mobile penetration surpassed one device per habitant, reaching 120.8% in June, with most subscribers on prepaid plans. The Chile wireless market is also...
