Consumer handsets span everything from basic voice-only phones to converged devices that double as cameras, music players and TV sets. The U.S. market prefers clamshells and expects them to ...

Once part of an overall backup strategy, email archiving has gained a higher profile in the enterprise, with legal and compliance requirements driving adoption alongside business continuity and server performance. ...

The Integration software and services market continues to be driven by SOA technologies and practices, expanding into supply chain management and focusing on lowering TCO through highly verticalized, pre-built solutions. ...

It took most of the decade, but carriers have pronounced the bandwidth glut of the early 2000's over. So, with full networks and capacity needs set to explode, optical vendors ...

The mobile enterprise is a key growth area for carriers, software and device vendors, and integrators, as mobile email and business process applications become mainstream and businesses go beyond mobility ...

After several years of gaining acceptance, then the market momentum and growth that established the softswitch as a legitimate network entity, it's about to undergo a metamorphosis, taking it higher ...

With declining or flattening voice revenue, carriers are counting on data access services to be just one arrow in their data service quiver to stimulate overall ARPU. ...

The iPhone is here! While it does not technically meet our definition of a 'smartphone' (you cannot add native applications to it, at least not yet), Apple is shaking ...

Now that wireless penetration is reaching saturation, carriers and MVNOs are looking for new ways to appeal to prospects on the postpaid and prepaid voice side. As a result, carriers ...

With most vendors upgrading their WCDMA RAN product lines, it's easy to overlook what's going on in the core. Yet, where operators are looking to build new OpEx efficiencies, ...

With the government's revised ICT initiatives and the adoption of convergence, Malaysia's telecom environment is moving towards increased competition. However, foreign investment policies and incumbent dominance act as growth ...

Emerging market voice may do little to generate lots of 3G data. However, a move to IMS and softswitching will drive IP everywhere - even in the developing world ...

Now that voice revenues have started to flatten and many carriers have rolled out decent 3G coverage, the rush is on to create targeted data services that will bring additional ...

With the telecom consolidation among the major players, smaller ones looking to offer a managed voice solution face a more challenging environment in 2006 as they work to provide a ...

China's telecom market is gradually opening, forcing a deregulatory response by the government. Incumbent carriers are struggling with duplicate networks and insufficient provincial-level operations. This report contains a market ...

Singapore is an example of how aggressive government management can drive a competitive telecommunications environment. Infrastructure and competitive growth are driving the development of the enterprise fixed services market. ...

The increasing popularity of VoIP and mobile services has spawned a new field of network-based service providers, and it has presented an opportunity for creative carriers to improve wholesale margins ...

The ETL market is growing. Currently dominated by three vendors, some of the database players will continue to make gains, while the notion of what constitutes ETL will continue to ...

The regulatory compliance market is growing remarkably, and vendors are entering the market seemingly every day. The market is still relatively new, and major consolidation probably won't begin for ...

Fibre channel vendors are looking down the barrel of Ethernet/iSCSI at 10 Gigabits, and market forces will cause big changes for fibre channel vendors in the coming years. This ...