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Europeans set to adopt femtocells in 2009
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Motorola has announced the results from its European study into consumer attitudes towards femtocells.  Whilst the technology is still relatively unheard of amongst consumers with over three-quarters not being familiar with femtocells, adoption is set to rise.
European 3G market hits 100 mill
Thursday, 26 June 2008
European WCDMA subscriptions passed the 100 million mark at end-May 2008, just over five years after the region’s first commercial WCDMA-network launch, according to Informa Telecoms & Media data.
WLAN-the next big thing in handset connectivity
Thursday, 26 June 2008
According to a new  research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, WLAN will become the next prevalent connectivity technology in mass-market mobile handsets.
Mobile gaming revenue to boom
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Worldwide mobile gaming revenue is on track to total US$4.5 billion in 2008, a 16.1 per cent increase from 2007 revenue of US$3.9 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.
Feature of the Week
Internet TV: Ticking Some Of The Boxes
Friday, 21 September 2007
Although no-one is down-playing the scale of the attendant challenges – technical, commercial and, in some markets, regulatory – a number of recent analyses of the market prospects for TV and video content delivered over broadband networks have been notably positive. For example IPTV services – typically provided over a closed network infrastructure to a set top box – are forecast by applied market intelligence firm iSuppli to be generating revenues of US$26 billion by 2011. Meantime Internet TV - a service typically delivered over the public Internet or a private network to a PC or other device -  will attract an audience of 1 billion by 2012 says ABI Research, up from 300 million today. There’s still some boxes needing to be ticked, though.