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	<title>RBlog &#187; Paul Budde</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Trends Emerge From Campaign: &#8216;Broadbanding in Local Communities&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/trends-emerge-from-campaign-broadbanding-in-local-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Budde</dc:creator>
		
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<category>broadbanding</category><category>broadband infrastructure</category><category>broadband networks</category><category>business case</category><category>canada</category><category>economic effects</category><category>government organisations</category><category>healthcare education</category><category>implementations</category><category>incumbents</category><category>leading edge</category><category>local councils</category><category>local networks</category><category>municipalities</category><category>netherlands</category><category>social services</category><category>sweden</category><category>Telecoms</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you might recall the campaign I launched in 2001: “Broadbanding local communities”. In all I spoke to over 50 municipalities in an attempt to make them take control over the broadbanding of their local communities. Around the world more than 1,000 local communities now do have at least some form of local broadband. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Nurses: the Future of Health Industry?</title>
		<link>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/video-nurses-the-future-of-health-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/video-nurses-the-future-of-health-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Budde</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Energy &amp; Utilities]]></category>
<category>broadband infrastructure</category><category>cost basis</category><category>education work</category><category>Energy &amp;amp; Utilities</category><category>energy health</category><category>energy legislation</category><category>energy savings</category><category>environment energy</category><category>e government</category><category>government departments</category><category>grids</category><category>incremental cost</category><category>infrastructure investments</category><category>integrated network</category><category>rate of return</category><category>service structures</category><category>support networks</category><category>telcos</category><category>telecoms networks</category><category>the rblog</category><category>traditional infrastructure</category><category>universal service</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report shows that E-health can save each country tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars over the next ten years and energy savings of 25% can be achieved by smart grids. Additionally, patients and older people can be monitored by video nurses, linked to video-based community support networks.
broadband infrastructure, cost basis, education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Payment Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/mobile-payment-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/mobile-payment-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Budde</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile commerce is potentially important for a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, IT, finance, retail and the media, as well as for end-users. It will work best in those areas where it can emphasise the core virtue of mobile networks – convenience.
Japan and Korea were one of the first to offer low-cost models to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICT Solutions for Global Warming and Energy Saving</title>
		<link>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/ict-solutions-for-global-warming-and-energy-saving/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/ict-solutions-for-global-warming-and-energy-saving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Budde</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms]]></category>
<category>alternative energy sources</category><category>broadband networks</category><category>decentralisation</category><category>energy efficiency</category><category>energy management</category><category>energy prices</category><category>energy saving</category><category>environmental issue</category><category>fossil energy</category><category>global growth</category><category>hardware products</category><category>key role</category><category>management tools</category><category>own energy</category><category>pendulum</category><category>saving energy</category><category>solar energy</category><category>Telecoms</category><category>tele education</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICT industry will play a key role in dealing with problems such as global warming and saving energy. Simply by making processes and systems more efficient savings will start to occur naturally. Furthermore, by giving the end-users more control we will see an increase in energy efficiency.
Once the utilities are able to provide that level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wireless Broadband Better Potential for the Delivery of VoIP</title>
		<link>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/wireless-broadband-better-potential-for-the-delivery-of-voip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/wireless-broadband-better-potential-for-the-delivery-of-voip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Budde</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms]]></category>
<category>3g networks</category><category>broadband market</category><category>broadband markets</category><category>busines</category><category>business model</category><category>fixed networks</category><category>foothold</category><category>latest addition</category><category>market niche</category><category>mass market</category><category>metropolitan areas</category><category>mobile data</category><category>mobile operators</category><category>mobile sector</category><category>niche opportunities</category><category>personal devices</category><category>regional markets</category><category>Telecoms</category><category>wireless broadband services</category><category>wireless mobile</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report shows that the focus of wireless broadband, and in particular WiMAX has now shifted towards the area of mobility, although there will still be some opportunities in the fixed broadband markets.
WiMAX is well suited to the mobile sector as the future of wireless/mobile rests very much with ‘personal broadband’ - where broadband [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Microsoft Wasting $45 billion on Yahoo?</title>
		<link>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/is-microsoft-wasting-45-billion-on-yahoo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/is-microsoft-wasting-45-billion-on-yahoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Budde</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms]]></category>
<category>1990s</category><category>admission</category><category>business sense</category><category>driven environment</category><category>good business</category><category>google maps</category><category>internet portal</category><category>revolutionary applications</category><category>sad story</category><category>service mail</category><category>strength to strength</category><category>Telecoms</category><category>three quarters</category><category>western markets</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that Microsoft is prepared to bid $45 billion-plus for Yahoo is a sign more of desperation than of good business sense.
It plainly is an admission that Google is actually right about something Microsoft has been talking about for more than a decade, but has failed to anything much about. A new report shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Speaking into Your Mobile Pay the Bills?</title>
		<link>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/will_speaking_into_your_mobile_pay_bills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/will_speaking_into_your_mobile_pay_bills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Budde</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business Services]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms]]></category>
<category>Business Services</category><category>Telecoms</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developed in the United Kingdom, the first voice-verified payment processing system has recently been launched, substantially reducing the threat of credit and debit fraud.
The Voice Pay system uses a customer&#8217;s own voice as a means of digitally signing and authorising payments. It incorporates VoiceVault voice biometric authentication technology that is already in use by global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital: the New Way of Broadcasting TV</title>
		<link>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/digital-tv-taking-shape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/digital-tv-taking-shape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Budde</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms]]></category>
<category>Telecoms</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The industry is still struggling to find products to entice customers into digital TV. The only country where this product has been really successful is the USA, which accounts for more than 80% of the global online video market  – worth between US$600 and $650 million. Video-on-demand is still the main product.
However, all around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Phone Operators should Stop Meddling in Marketing Affairs</title>
		<link>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/mobile-phone-operators-should-stop-meddling-in-marketing-affairs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/mobile-phone-operators-should-stop-meddling-in-marketing-affairs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Budde</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms]]></category>
<category>Telecoms</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those involved in the m-applications, especially those with a marketing background, can intuitively recognise the enormous opportunities that exist, but they don’t necessarily understand the complexities of the industry. For the last decade most of them have been banging their heads against a brick wall – the operators – and they have finally given in. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frequency Threat to Hit Asian Satellite Industry Body</title>
		<link>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/frequency-threat-to-hit-asian-satellite-industry-body/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reportbuyer.com/blog/frequency-threat-to-hit-asian-satellite-industry-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Budde</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms]]></category>
<category>Telecoms</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has warned that planned wireless broadband technologies pose a significant threat to the Asia Pacific satellite industry’s C-band services, if not the entire industry itself. According to CASBAA officials, if regional administrations allocate C-band spectrum to WiMAX services, the impact of a ‘spectrum grab’ by Broadband [...]]]></description>
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