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iPhone, Other App Stores Shape Phone-Buying Trends
Mobile application developers are in for busy times ahead. According to a recent report by In-Stat, mobile phone manufacturers will be pumping more than 100 million mobile app store-compatible phones into the market within five years. That’s 100 million phones capable of downloading mobile applications of every ilk, and that’s good news for mobile application…
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Skype’s SIP Support Creates New Telephony Opportunities
Free phone service provider Skype is horning further in on the corporate market with new functionality that enables it to work with most existing corporate phone systems. Skype for SIP, which the company has released in beta, works with SIP-based PBX systems to enable companies to receive calls from Skype users directly into their PBX…
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Avaya Solution Providers Capitalize on Nortel’s Fall
Avaya’s North American channel chief belies the bankruptcy and predicted demise of Nortel could be a goldmine for Avaya solution providers willing to go after Nortel customers. “They need to practice competitive outreach,” said Carol Giles Neslund, vice president of North America Channel Sales at Avaya. “For Avaya business partners, this is a real opportunity…
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Treo Smart Phone Maker Palm’s Revenues Plummet
Treo smartphone maker Palm attributed its 70 percent third quarter revenue drop to a bad economy as sales of its mobile devices fell. Palm competes against Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry in the smartphone market. Revenue dropped sharply to $90.6 million from $312.1 million, and the company said unit sales of smartphones fell 42 percent…
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Apple iPhone OS 3.0 Ups Ante on Mobile App Development
Apple made available the beta version of its iPhone OS 3.0 and updated software development kit (SDK) to registered developers to begin work on a new and vast array of applications for the popular multifunction mobile phone. The new iPhone OS 3.0 and software development kit (SDK) includes more than 1,000 APIs (application programming interfaces,…
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Verizon’s Managed Services Play in Unified Communications
Communications service provider Verizon Business has entered the managed services fray with a unified communications offering aimed at enterprise customers. Available immediately, Verizon’s unified communications service adds services such as instant messaging, presence, Web conferencing and voice over IP (VOIP) to a user’s existing business communications, according to Verizon. The service is based on the…