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Friday, February 19, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

THE LATEST FROM OTA
- Verizon And Skype Offering Free Calls For Smartphones
- iPhone Owners Intentionally Break Old iPhones For Upgrades
- Motorola's Backflip Landing March 7 On AT&T
- Windows Marketplace For Mobile Refreshed
- Mobile World Congress Best Of Show: HTC Desire
- Opera Mini Bests Safari On iPhone
- RIM Saves Bandwidth For Future Generations
- RIM's WebKit Browser Gets Slightly More Real

ANALYTICS REPORTS
- Netbooks Challenge Notebooks' Dominance
- SAP At A Crossroads

WHITEPAPERS
- Why IT Must Sort Out Application Mobilization Challenges
- Driving IT Help Desk Efficiency with Customer-Centric Remote Support

MOBILE AND WIRELESS NEWS
- Huawei Introduces LTE Modem
- Global CIO: Open Letters To Ellison, Hurd, Chambers, & Plattner
- Qwest 4Q Profits Sink; FTTN A Bright Spot
- LTE Handset Development Gets Boost
- Full Nelson: Mobile World War Breaks Out In Barcelona

WEBCASTS
- Conquering the Challenges of Virtualization Management

RESOURCES AND EVENTS
- InformationWeek Analytics 2010 WAN Optimization Survey

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FEATURED BLOG
- Verizon And Skype Offering Free Calls For Smartphones
Posted By Eric Zeman
Tuesday in Barcelona Verizon Wireless and Skype announced a new application for smartphones that will allow for free, unlimited calls to any other Skype user worldwide. What's really interesting is that the Verizon Skype app doesn't use VoIP at all.
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ALSO SEE
- iPhone Owners Intentionally Break Old iPhones For Upgrades
Posted By Eric Zeman
According to SuperCover Insurance, iPhone owners smash their old iPhone on purpose when a new model is announced in order to get a free upgrade. SuperCover also says that 40% of all claims are suspicious. Is the iPhone that addicting?
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- Motorola's Backflip Landing March 7 On AT&T
Posted By Eric Zeman
AT&T is the last major wireless network operator in the U.S. to launch an Android handset. Though one in is on the way -- Motorola's Backflip -- the company said today that it plans to have a total of five Android handsets available by the end of June this year.
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- Windows Marketplace For Mobile Refreshed
Posted By Ed Hansberry
Windows Marketplace for Mobile, which is Microsoft's application store for Windows Mobile, was launched in October 2009 when WinMo 6.5 came out. It has since been made available for all 6.x devices. Very soon, Microsoft should push out an update that will add a few new features. In addition to that there are some welcome changes for developers.
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- Mobile World Congress Best Of Show: HTC Desire
Posted By Eric Zeman
Of all the hardware and software announcements made during this week's Mobile World Congress, I was most impressed by HTC's latest flagship Android device. The HTC Desire wins "Best Of Show" for 2010.
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- Opera Mini Bests Safari On iPhone
Posted By Eric Zeman
Opera Software is demonstrating its Opera Mini browser on Apple's iPhone during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The browser from Opera is better than Apple's native iPhone browser in almost every way, and is much faster.
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- RIM Saves Bandwidth For Future Generations
Posted By Ed Hansberry
RIM is warning other phone makers to build more efficient applications to conserve bandwidth, otherwise it fears we may run out of wireless bandwidth, and then what will our children do when we've used it all up?
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- RIM's WebKit Browser Gets Slightly More Real
Posted By Eric Zeman
Today Research In Motion took the opportunity to preview an early build of its new mobile browser for BlackBerries. The new browser's killer ingredient? WebKit, the same engine that powers the iPhone's browser and the Android browser. Welcome to the WebKit Club, RIM.
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ANALYTIC REPORTS
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- Netbooks Challenge Notebooks' Dominance
In this report, we'll outline 10 key questions you need to review to see where netbooks fit within your organization.

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- SAP At A Crossroads
Amid the sudden resignation of CEO Leo Apotheker, the German software company is doing some serious self-evaluation. On the line is everything from its technical architecture to its licensing model to its relationships with partners and customers.

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WHITEPAPERS
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- Why IT Must Sort Out Application Mobilization Challenges
Discover how IT can sort out the complex issues surrounding mobile platforms.

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- Driving IT Help Desk Efficiency with Customer-Centric Remote Support
IDC predicts that by 2011, 73 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile, inevitably increasing the pressure on the IT help desk. That's why more companies are turning to Web-based, customer-centric remote support to support a burgeoning remote workforce.

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MOBILITY NEWS
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- Huawei Introduces LTE Modem
Not restricted to long-term evolution technology alone, the device is backwards compatible with 3G UMTS and 2G GSM/EDGE networks.
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- Global CIO: Open Letters To Ellison, Hurd, Chambers, & Plattner In the past year we've made candid suggestions to each of those executives via open letters -- were our ideas on target?
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- Qwest 4Q Profits Sink; FTTN A Bright Spot Aggressive deployment of fiber to the node (FTTN) and 80,000new fiber customers were cited as highlights of the quarter.
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- LTE Handset Development Gets Boost
Verizon, AT&T and over three dozen other wireless companies have signed on to the Voice over LTE initiative, expected to speed deployment of Long Term Evolution phones.
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- Full Nelson: Mobile World War Breaks Out In Barcelona Mobile World Congress has generated far too many new platforms for corporate IT organizations to consider.
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WEBCASTS
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- Virtualizing your critical Windows and Linux infrastructure using KVM
This webcast will talk about the overall factors organizations should consider when starting or expanding their virtualization initiatives, including hypervisor selection, management tools, and expansion planning. We'll specifically review the new developments from open source market leader Red Hat.

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