The next 12 months will see the broadcast sector addressing new business models for distribution and advertising in a bid to retain and attract new audiences. This is one of the key conclusions to be drawn in a new report which says that the transforming communications and entertainment sector is creating a challenging new environment for traditional broadcasters. In order to remain competitive, digital TV players will need to utilize effective technological solutions to aide in multi-platform distribution and value-add services.

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BT has a strong presence in the SMB market and has just expanded its portfolio with a new unified communications (UC) service aimed at these customers. It hopes to utilize its “Communications Complete” solution to build long-term partnerships. BT has chosen to work with Cisco and is using its UC500 platform for this new service. The UC500 system offers functionality for up to 50 users, so is an ideal platform for BT to use to target SMBs. BT is already a technology partner and reseller for Cisco and it is set to further leverage Cisco’s strength in UC by this move.

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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 of decentralisation – with end-users increasingly taking charge of their own energy management – a large number of energy efficient devices and management tools will flood the market.

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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 is delivered to individual personal devices which are enabled for mobility.

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A new report analyses five important developments that will be impacting this market over the next twelve months. Whilst concerns over green IT, employee productivity and the economy may inhibit investments in some emerging technologies, Datamonitor believes that these issues will make unified communications a compelling business proposition for enterprises.

The continued media focus on green IT is also likely to affect the unified communications market positively. Vendors will continue to market solutions from this perspective, helping to reduce businesses’ carbon footprints. Continue reading “Unified Communications are the Way Forward for Eco-Friendly Businesses” »

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 that it was Microsoft who, in the 1990s, warned that more and more (software) services and applications would move to the Net. In those days we used the term ‘net-centric’.

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The Phillipines is in the midst of an internet revolution - with more and more people connecting to the web using their mobiles as well as computers. News published by the Inquirer finds that the broadband market will serve 50 million Filipinos by 2015.

Analysts believe that the falling cost of broadband, increasing uptake of online gaming and decreasing hardware prices have all worked as promoters for the increase in the number of people who use the Internet.

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A new report shows that Apple and Google are threatening to take the lead from Nokia, the international leader in mobile handset innovations, in the mobile handset market. Of course, the battle is far from over but there will certainly be a major shake-up of this extremely lucrative market.

Traditionally Nokia has played the role of market leader and market innovator. However, it will have to be very careful in this instance, as the mobile operators are its major customers. These telcos subsidise the mobile phones and it is crucial for the mobile vendors to be included in the mobile packages promoted by the operators. This requires them to play the same tune as the operators, and that means closed systems, proprietary standards and ways to lock in and lock up customers.

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India’s telecommunication sector is witnessing an explosive growth, as falling tariffs and rising incomes are bringing mobile phones within the reach of millions of new customers, according to Emerging Rural Mobile Market in India.

Mobile industry players are eyeing rural India as their new area of opportunity. The companies are encouraged by the fact that mobile users are expected to cross 230 million by 2007 end and 500 million by 2010.

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Perhaps you’re already familiar to watching TV on your mobile phone? If you’re not as up-to-date yet, you better join, because the number of Mobile TV users has reached 20 million globally and will balloon to over two billion by 2013, according to Telecom Trends International.

A new report shows that the vast majority of users currently access free-to-air mobile TV, but pay-TV will catch on as high-quality made-for-TV programming becomes widely available on subscription-based channels.

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