Mobile web users have 35 per cent less success completing website tasks on cell phones than they do on a PC, according to a study.
Small screens, awkward input, download delays and badly designed websites were all given as obstacles to a good browsing experience.
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There could be 94 million people using VoIP hardware over mobile broadband connections across Europe by 2017, according to new research.
Figures from the Coda Research Consultancy suggest the uptake of mobile broadband will continue to expand significantly. This could potentially change business practices as more people have the option of working from home rather than heading into the office.
STEC has signed an agreement with one of its largest enterprise storage customers for sales of USD $120 million of ZeusIOPS SSDs in the second half of 2009.
With this agreement signed, the company is now forecasting revenue from the sale of its ZeusIOPS drives will exceed USD $220 million in 2009.
Wireless HD chipmaker Amimon has raised USD $10 million in its latest round of funding.
The Israeli company’s announcement comes as demand for HDTVs capable of wirelessly transferring HD video from one device in the home continues to grow.
EMC Corporation has finally overcome rival NetApp and succeeded with its bid to buy data deduplication leader Data Domain at a price of USD $2.1 billion.
The acceptance of the final offer comes after a six-week bidding war and will raise questions about whether EMC overpaid for Data Domain – and what NetApp will do now.
VoIP solutions are likely to benefit from more people around the world seeking to access the internet using satellite technology, according to research from Global Industry Analysts.
The technology has been tipped as a possible way to provide broadband services in more remote, rural communities where it will be much more difficult to deploy conventional broadband infrastructure.
Worldwide consumer location-based services (LBS) subscribers and revenue are expected to more than double in 2009.
The growth is being driven by the higher availability of GPS-enabled phones, reduced prices and the appearance of application stores, according to Gartner.
The number of smartphones shipped with open source operating systems (OS) will increase from 106 million this year to 223 million by 2014.
That’s the prediciton of telecom consultants Juniper Research, who found that operating systems and applications are playing an increasingly important role in the differentiation of new smartphones.
EMC Corporation has extended its all-cash tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of Data Domain common stock for USD $30 per share.
The move is to provide additional time to satisfy closing conditions, the offering period now expires at 12:00 midnight EDT on July 10, 2009.
VoIP is the most likely application type to have deployments delayed due to third-party network concerns, according to a survey of IT managers.
The report by Apparent Networks found that 73 per cent of respondents also said VoIP was the most common application to stress their networks.