News analysis
Ericsson predicts flat 2008, and job cuts
Ericsson has reported that net sales for the fourth quarter of 2007 were flat on 2006 sales, at €5.75 billion, putting its full year sales up 4% on 2006. But fourth quarter net income fell to €591 million
cVidya cOmin aTya
Sees growth in revenue assurance
Mobile dealers who are scamming the operator better look out, because revenue assurance company cVidya is putting the operators on to their case.
cVidya has launched software for mobile operators that lets them track the performance of their dealers, tallying SIMs shipped with those sold, revenues in, commissions out and so on.
cVidya’s Dealer Management Platform has three elements, commission management, commission verification and fraud management, designed to
Mobilkom enriches services with presence
Mobilkom Austria Group will launch SIP-enabled services in three of it operators in the coming months using presence servers and XDM (XML Document Management) servers from Colibria.
Deploying the SIP and XDM servers within mobilkom¹s IMS-based services
NXP claims LTE first
NXP Semiconductors is claiming it has a world first with the development of a reference design for a software defined radio multi-mode baseband platform - including support for LTE.The system solution, built around a DSP core based on NXP’s Embedded Vector Processor, will allow equipment and terminal vendors to define the parameters of the solution through software, which will help the development of LTE terminals and systems in the period up
Nokia buys Trolltech
Not all about Linux, Nokia says
Nokia has shaken things up in the handset OS firmament by announcing that it is going to buy Linux platform developer Trolltech. Nokia will offer €104 million and Trolltech’s directors have recommended that its shareholders accept Nokia's Offer.
Nokia says it plans to add Trolltech’s Open Source software to its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to develop its Internet services business.
Celltick launches D2C advertising model
Celltick, the company which uses cell broadcast and point to point connectivity to push content via an idle screen client on the mobile desktop, is expanding its product portfolio to include a Direct to Consumer (D2C) offering based on point to point distribution.
Is the mobile marketing glass 15% full or 85% empty?
Only 15% of users have mobile marketing exposure so far
The development of transparent and valid mobile marketing measurements in 2008 is one of the priorities of the mobile marketing industry this year, according to the EMEA Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association. The MMA man was speaking as his organisation released consumer usage survey results that didn't exactly serve as an unqualified endorsement of mobile marketing activity so far.
Pick your winners in the year of the femto cell
2008 will see a fall out in the femto cell equipment vendor market, as operators begin to hone their strategies, make purchasing decisions, and consign some femto cell hopefuls to the loser pen, according to Paul Callahan, vp