Repositioning femto-cells to overcome lackluster market performance
Story by Phil Marshall
By Phil Marshall, PhD, Chief Research Officer, Tolaga Research After five years in the limelight, femtocells have yet to gain a meaningful presence in the marketplace. Currently there are only thirteen commercial femtocell implementations worldwide, with several of these being limited trial offering. In essence, femtocells introduce a disruptive architecture to mobile operators who have yet to accept that traditional network designs are incapable... [Read More...]
Look at the edge not the core for the Anywhere enterprise.
Story by Chris Marsh
By Chris Marsh, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group Ushering in a paradigm shift in enterprise mobility and freeing the information worker…for a one-year old company with only 18 employees this is an ambitious goal, but then leapfactor don’t seem short on ambition. Leapfactor is a cloud-based micro-apps company that is seeking to accelerate the trend of the consumerization of business processes through the proliferation of both ready-to-use... [Read More...]
Wider software strategy key to offset Qualcomm’s margin pressures
Story by Caroline Gabriel
Qualcomm’s Brew developer event used to be a low profile affair, gathering the loyal CDMA base in San Diego but scarcely troubling those seeking to understand the chip giant’s broader strategies. All change this year - not only did the event have a new name, Uplinq, to reflect new momentum behind Brew Mobile Platform, but Qualcomm used it as the stage to outline a host of new directions. These may have been loosely connected by some basis... [Read More...]
Digging a Hole to Anywhere
Story by John Keough
By John Keough, Research Associate, Yankee Group Whenever someone needs to dig in a developed area (toddlers in suburban sandboxes excluded), utilities are responsible for marking the locations of existing pipes and cables in the construction zone with paint. Utilities commonly outsource this task to third-party locators. Wielding paint sticks and electromagnetic hand-held devices, these locators determine where the underground facilities... [Read More...]
A Cautionary Tale on Operator Led Payment Consortiums
Story by Nick Holland
By Nick Holland, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group I have the strangest sense of deja vu all over again. Today, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile publicly announced a contactless payment consortium. It has no name, no CEO and no concrete details on cities of deployment, payment processor or, really much of anything. HOWEVER. It will use contactless (read NFC) technology to facilitate the payments and it may well bypass the traditional Visa and MasterCard... [Read More...]