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Despite the hype around mobile health applications and big market projections mobile health app developers will not be able to create big revenues with a pay per download business models.

Founded in 1996 in Berlin, snom is counted among the pioneers in the VoIP industry and can therefore look back at years of experience in the development and production of Voice over IP phones.

Suitable to the CeBIT-motto, serVonic at this year’s IT-fair presents its solutions to the topic Cloud: At Microsoft in Hall 4/Booth A26, the Olching-based company introduces the serVonic “BPOS Connect Service“ for Fax and Voice.

TELES extends and restructures access gateway portfolio

Research2guidance estimates that app revenue grew by 92 percent in one year and that paid app download revenue has grown to €357 million in that time.

Taiwan fibre revenues mostly subscriber-driven — Increasing 3G subscriptions and widening demand for smartphones — Mobile non-voice successfully offsetting decline in voice revenues.

M2M fast growing and increasingly strategically important market — Most active players are mobile network operators — Partnerships crucial among vendors, software providers and resellers.

The majority of today’s mHealth smartphone applications fall into the category of general health tracking and fitness tools. Generally these apps have a low to medium sophistication level.

A new version of serVonic’s IXI-Inspector is available now. The monitoring tool of the Olching-based software manufacturer allows controlling processes of the IXI-UMS Unified Messaging Server, detecting emergency situations and sending reports.

German dark fibre market rather small and fragmented — Dark Fibre generally provided on demand — Suppliers apply variegated price strategies.

The know-how of the TÜV NORD Group is also in demand for very special tasks: such as in the development of the digital radio network for police, fire and rescue services (BOS) of the state of Baden Württemberg.

Top-10 group paid-for TV subscriptions at 145 million — US-based DirecTV largest provider — News Corporation could become number three with BSkyB — Satellite TV still most popular platform — IPTV not yet significant.

Smartphone penetration is the main driver for the growth of the mobile healthcare market. Lack of standardization, regulation and market opacity are the main barriers according to developers of mobile healthcare applications.

The app economy provides new business opportunities for pharma companies.

Aricent and IPTEGO Partner to Help Communication Service Providers Optimize Customer Experience Management

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator by subscribers, has announced that it is on track to launch commercial LTE services in December 2010, pledging a further investment of US$3.78bn in the next-generation technology over the next three years.

A global survey by research2guidance amongst leading mHealth developers and healthcare companies shows that mHealth apps will predominantly be distributed through traditional healthcare channels by 2015.

E-health to grow significantly in the coming years — Available e-health solutions are tele-monitoring or services for disabled people — Mobile network operators offer most of available services.

Smartphone applications will help the mobile health market to break through.

ECT’s INtellECT® NGIN platform has successfully passed the compatibility tests performed by Deutsche Telekom for interconnection with the German PSTN network.

Bynet to distribute TELES complete product portfolio in Asia Pacific, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Using the Orange network in France, lebrel networks’ DynaMo servers were tested across a number of top French websites and showed an immediate 58% increase of 3G network capacity.

New research by research2guidance concludes that mobile applications and the new smartphone market model will help the mHealth market to reach a new level.

High CAPEX major deterrent for telecom carriers in Europe — FTTH not a “one-size-fits-all” model — Integrated facility-based against open access — Regulation plays decisive role in most markets.

Investors face service unavailability and dissimilar price schemes — High costs for business broadband — Subscribers charged with additional one-time fees — SDSL and VDSL scarcely available.

Vigorous digital music market — Better online user experience drives mobile side-loading and smartphone downloading — Mobile music store providers still experimenting with workable business models.

Latest C5 software release expands to include complete end-to-end SIP trunking, leveraging the complete TELES product portfolio

Argentinean telecoms expected to grow at 4% a year to 2015 — DSL to remain the dominant broadband technology — Mobile market shrinking — ARPU in fixed line to peak in 2010

The smartphone application market has reached more than USD 2.2 bn in the first half of 2010

Vanrise Solutions to become regional next generation network service provider for TELES

Chinese broadband market growing 5% a quarter — New additions for 2010 to bit the 6 million per quarter —China to have over 180 million broadband subscribers by 2015 — FTTx base lays as low as 6%.

Leading provider ONO exploits TELES switching solution and applications to grow Spanish traffic.

• Qeep members use their mobile phones to send virtual presents to each other • Starting today users can purchase a virtual diamond for $100

Spanish telecom industry to continue to fall in 2011 — Saturated mobile market — Mobile broadband below European average — Incumbent Telefónica loses over 1 million fixed lines.

Die AWARES GmbH übernimmt ab sofort den Vertrieb und Support für die Telefongebühren-Auswertungssoftware MicroBX. Die Abrechnung der Telefongebühren funktioniert mit allen Telefonanlagen-Herstellern wie z.B. Siemens und Panasonic.

Following a productive year in 2008, the telecom equipment market posted a decline worse than anticipated shrinking by 3.6% in infrastructure and by 9.9% in mobile handsets during 2009.

Korean vendor NewGrid joins forces with TELES as carrier-grade media gateway partner for the German NGN supplier

serVonic now offers 2 Best Price Packages of the unified messaging solution IXI-UMS SBE Small Business Edition. The summer-special is valid until 15. September 2010.

The new CTI-solution IXI-PCS Professional Call Server is available at serVonic now. The client-/server-software solution offers features for an effective telephony for workstations with Windows- and Linux-Clients.

Romanian service provider Euroweb Romania replaces multi-vendor solution with TELES wholesale solution

With the new serVonic “BPOS Connect Service“, IXI-UMS now is also available as fax solution in the cloud.

World’s most comprehensive on-line resource for telepresence, videoconferencing, and unified communications solutions

InterNetX gives domain registration wings and delivers a practical and fast solution for mobile domain registration management with the AutoDNS App for iPhones.

Mobile music increasingly bundled with other broadband applications — Clear trend towards a subscription model — Cooperation of record labels to offer DRM-free songs drives users’ interest

Clear trend towards EoMPLS – Offer review reveals EoMPLS is the Carrier Ethernet preferred solution — With Carrier Ethernet based on EoMPLS, customers may burst traffic above committed rate.

The ECT Group now includes a wholly-owned US subsidiary, the European Computer Telecoms Inc. The new subsidiary is supporting sales and service with ECT’S strategic partner Ericsson. It is located in direct proximity to Ericsson Inc in Plano, TX.

SELLto.DE the German specialist for B2B sales outsourcing presents a new website with information about the German IT market, trends, contacts, current tenders and related backgrounds.

TELES expands VoIPBOX product line to include a starter gateway for home office workers and SMEs for complete FMC functionality.

Over the years GPS technology has grown extremely to the point where you can track down a person’s location at any given time. According to the evolution of cell phones, this locating system is now stepping into the next generation.

TELES partners with Comdasys to combine FMC solution with Class 5 application for enterprises and service providers