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Friday, May 14, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

THE LATEST FROM OTA
- SAP Smart To Snare Sybase's Mobile Mojo
- Sprint's EVO 4G Streets June 4 For $199
- Android 2.2 'Froyo' Adds Tethering And Hotspot Apps
- Microsoft And Verizon Defend Kin Data Plan Charges
- Sprint: Everyone Is Clamoring For Our WiMax Phone
- Verizon's Droid Eris Receiving Android 2.1 Update
- Verizon And Google Tablet Smacks Of Vaporware
- FCC Proposes Alerts In Wireless Overage Charges

ANALYTICS REPORTS
- Oracle's New Strategy Unfolds
- Billing: Key To Growth

WHITEPAPERS
- Supporting Three Dimensions of Mobile Intelligence
- Untapped Market for Mobile Banking Among Offline Consumers

MOBILE AND WIRELESS NEWS
- Net Neutrality Debate Intensifies
- Android 2.2 To Add Tethering, Wi-Fi Hotspot
- SAP Buys Sybase For $5.8 Billion
- Sharp Announces 3D Camera For Mobile Phones
- Fiserv Demos ZashPay, iPad Banking

WEBCASTS
- Making Converged IT Infrastructure A Practical Reality

RESOURCES AND EVENTS
- InformationWeek Analytics Strategic CIO Survey

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- SAP Smart To Snare Sybase's Mobile Mojo
By Alexander Wolfe
SAP's $5.8-billion acquisition of Sybase should finally put some momentum behind the movement of business-critical enterprise software apps onto smartphones. That's something today's increasingly mobile corporate workforces need. However, deployment has proceeded at a snail's pace, probably because the enabling expertise has been centered in pockets outside of the mainstream of the enterprise software-development community.
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ALSO SEE
- Sprint's EVO 4G Streets June 4 For $199
By Eric Zeman
Sprint recently revealed the pricing and release date information for its first WiMax smartphone, the HTC EVO 4G. It's coming sooner than you thought. It will arrive in Sprint stores in mere weeks, on June 4, and is priced at a competitive $199 (after rebates). What's really interesting are the required data plans.
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- Android 2.2 'Froyo' Adds Tethering And Hotspot Apps
By Eric Zeman
Some unearthed screen shots of Android 2.2. Froyo reveal several new features that are set to debut on Google's smartphone platform. The two big ones are the ability to tether and create Wi-Fi hotspots on the go. Just how soon will Froyo arrive?
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- Microsoft And Verizon Defend Kin Data Plan Charges
By Ed Hansberry
After the Kin rate plans from Verizon were announced, many of us in the world of mobile devices had to rub our eyes to make sure we were seeing the numbers correctly. This is a phone that seems to be aimed squarely at teens and people right out of college, yet Verizon basically has a $70 per month minimum charge for the device. Now the mobile partners are left to defend the pricing.
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- Sprint: Everyone Is Clamoring For Our WiMax Phone
By Eric Zeman
During a recent webcast, a Sprint executive bragged that there is already a "long waiting list" of people signed up to purchase the HTC EVO 4G when it goes on sale later this year. Sprint didn't share any numbers, so feel free to make up any figure you wish.
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- Verizon's Droid Eris Receiving Android 2.1 Update
By Eric Zeman
Users of the HTC-made Droid Eris should see a notification from Verizon Wireless in the next few days indicating that Android 2.1 is ready for download. The new system software is a major leap forward from the Android 1.5 that shipped on the device. Ready for some Eclair?
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- Verizon And Google Tablet Smacks Of Vaporware
By Eric Zeman
Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam recently let it slip that his company is working with Google to bring a tablet computer to market. If by "working with Google," McAdam really means "I Googled Steve Jobs' phone number" then perhaps I'll buy the story. Otherwise...
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- FCC Proposes Alerts In Wireless Overage Charges
By Ed Hansberry
Few things can ruin your day like opening your phone bill and seeing that it is for over $1,000, $5,000, or even higher. This happens more often than you might think and now the Federal Communications Commission wants to put a tool into consumers hands that would mitigate this scenario. It is bold, clever and a technological marvel heretofore unconceivable by carriers. They are called - alerts. I know, it is a crazy idea isn't it?
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ANALYTIC REPORTS
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- Billing: Key To Growth
Billing is a critical but often underappreciated aspect of good customer service and experience, as well as improved retention -- not only for policyholders, but also for agents and distributors. This new and timely Insurance & Technology Analytics Brief focuses on the opportunities and challenges insurance companies face in modernizing their core billing systems.

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WHITEPAPERS
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- Supporting Three Dimensions of Mobile Intelligence
As wireless use expands so do the associated costs. But they need not spiral out of control. Discover five keys to a smarter and more cost effective wireless strategy.

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- Untapped Market for Mobile Banking Among Offline Consumers
This whitepaper analyzes results of the recent Syniverse mobile banking survey of 501 U.S. consumers who are not active regular users of online banking and provides recommendations about how financial institutions can lower the cost to serve this significant audience.

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MOBILITY NEWS
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- Net Neutrality Debate Intensifies
Republican lawmakers say FCC chair Genachowski is pushing a government takeover of broadband.
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- Android 2.2 To Add Tethering, Wi-Fi Hotspot
Benchmark tests reportedly show the refreshed platform, codenamed Froyo, is 450% faster than Google's Android 2.1.
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- SAP Buys Sybase For $5.8 Billion
The deal establishes a new focus for the company and demonstrates the growing importance of mobile technology.
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- Sharp Announces 3D Camera For Mobile Phones
The HD system uses two small lenses that can simultaneously capture separate images to create synchronized, 720p video images.
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- Fiserv Demos ZashPay, iPad Banking
Rich-media interfaces and P2P payments promise to transform online and mobile banking.
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