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RSS consumers forNFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News Wilcox added: "Whilst trial results so far have been encouraging, the industry as a whole will need to convince both consumers and merchants of the merits of yet another payment mechanism on top of cash, cheques, credit and debit cards, and to... [18 Jul 2008]
Location-based services mean business
News Location-based services (LBS) are not just going to be big news for consumers - with the likes of friend finders and local search - but are set to play an increasingly important role in enterprise. ABI Research's principal analyst Dominique Bonte... [17 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Jim Hart, manager at Symantec managed security services, told silicon.com: "It is the inevitable way forward, even for consumers it makes a lot of sense. Proxies are the most effective form of security and I think allowing consumers access to... [17 Jul 2008]
Using SLA Context to Ensure Quality of Service for Composite Services
White Paper As service-orientation is establishing itself as the dominant design and integration paradigm for large heterogeneous and open systems, the lines between wired and wireless consumers and providers begin to blur. [17 Jul 2008]
Consumer Protection and Quality of Service (QoS), Including Network Neutrality and Cyber-Security Issues
White Paper Consumers have certain expectations of the quality of their communication service, primarily based on their past experience of the well established PSTN voice quality. It also raises new challenges for Quality of Service (QoS) and for consumer... [17 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News Tom Phillips, chief government and regulatory affairs officer at the GSMA, said in a statement: "According to our analysis, the average price of SMS roaming services in the EU has declined by 18 per cent in the last year, as operators launch new... [16 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment For example, they can bring proceedings if a trademark is used without the consent of its proprietor, if it relates to other identical or similar products or services, or if it is liable to affect the essential function of a trademark - to... [16 Jul 2008]
EC to outline slash in roaming rate
News Mobile-phone industry officials said the price of roamed data and texts was falling fast, while the voice-roaming regulation introduced last year "has given consumers little benefit and stifled market growth". [15 Jul 2008]
Seagate unleashes 1.5TB desktop
News Michael Wingert, vice president of Seagate's personal computer division, said: "Organisations and consumers of all kinds worldwide continue to create, share and consume digital content at levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News The survey also found nearly a third (30 per cent) of consumers now watch TV or video online.uSwitch added that international broadband rankings put the UK's 4Mbps average to shame, with Japan boasting an average connection speed of 64Mbps, Korea... [14 Jul 2008]
Malware threat for iPhone 2.0
News With the ability to easily and affordably surf the web on the new iPhone, more consumers will shop and bank online, encouraging malware writers to develop new ways to capture this information. The company's report, released on Friday, on the... [14 Jul 2008]
And the designer of the next great gadget is? - You
News So-called "prosumers", a marriage of consumers and producers, will use website forums and email to pipe their ideas straight onto company production lines says the report. About a third of the 661 executives questioned worldwide thought that by... [11 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone - the business perspective
News Business customers will only be able to buy two devices each (consumers are rationed to one) - so mass corporate rollouts are not really much of an option at this point. And I think it's the first truly mobile computing environment where consumers... [10 Jul 2008]
Rendezvous Points-Based Scalable Content Discovery With Load Balancing
White Paper A Content Discovery System (CDS) enables content consumers to discover content published by content providers via a set of content resolvers. This system utilizes existing has-based algorithms for content and query distribution within the overlay... [10 Jul 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News Harbour said: "The interpretation of them is alarmist and scaremongering and deflects from the intention which was to improve consumers' rights. The 'telecoms package', which on Monday gained approval by the Committee on Internal Market and... [09 Jul 2008]
