According to ABI Research the market for unified communications is set to rise from $302 million in 2008 to $4.2 billion by 2014.
“We foresee a booming market for managed services, simply because unified communications are tricky and many companies won’t want to spend the time and effort to do it themselves. That applies to the market as a whole, but particularly to smaller businesses.” —Stan Schatt, ABI Research practice director
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MONAMI 2009 aims at bringing together top researchers, academics and practitioners specializing in the area of Mobile Network Management (MNM).
MONAMI 2009 invites papers that follow either evolutionary approaches based on current IP-centered architectures or introduce revolutionary MNM approaches and new paradigms. Papers reporting experimental and empirical studies as well as implementation/industry results (including testbeds and field trials) are also welcome. More…
2009 IEEE Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks
The Fourth Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN) is an open forum, which aims at promoting interaction and discussion between the Workshop contributors. Starting with a rigorous review process in which each submitted paper will receive at least three independent peer reviews, including one from a TPC member, we expect the Workshop to provide relevant and knowledgeable feedback that will assist all authors to significantly enhance the quality of their work.
All accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2009 Proceedings, will be available on IEEE Xplore, and will be professionally indexed by the IEEE Computer Society’s Conference Publishing Service. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Multimedia Services over Wireless Networks
Multimedia Applications and Protocols over Wireless Networks
- Experimentation: Testbeds, Field Trials and Empirical Evaluations, Measurement Studies
Emerging Standards, Technologies and Novel Paradigms for Wireless Multimedia Communications
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According to the Helsingin Sanomat International Edition (HS) the “former Chief Technical Officer and Head of the Nokia Research Center Bob Iannucci […] apparently planned to move the research & development facility away from Finland.” Iannucci joined Nokia in 2004. HS notes that about 450 people work at NRC Finland today—presumably that includes both NRC Helsinki and NRC Tampere. The HS article also highlights that “under [Iannucci’s] leadership, R&D activity was expanded vigorously in California while units elsewhere were shut down. The overall staff complement in research and development was cut by half. The end-product was that Palo Alto became the second-largest Nokia research facility, with around 80 employees.”
Nevertheless, “NRC Palo Alto is currently accepting applications for full-time research scientists and engineers, as well as interns and post-docs.” There is no such call for applications for either Helsinki or Tampere.
The IEEE Spectrum run an article titled “thx 4 the revnu.” According the article, the world’s 3.3 billion users spent approximately USD 100 billion to 1.7 trillion text messages in 2007. Global music sales were approximately USD 19.3 billion. On New Year’s 2007-2008, 43 billion messages were sent according to ITU and Acision, a Dutch SMS service provider.
Petri Koskinen of Talouselämä writes (in Finnish) that Nokia needs a quick flow of smartphones: Although the market for smartphones has grown by 40% in Q3 2008, Nokia’s share has dropped from more than 50% to 35% in this segment. The winners? Apple and RIM. The recently released N96 resembles too much the N95, released two years ago. Koskinen wonders how can it be that a giant like Nokia failed to respond quickly to the changing field. According to a theory, Nokia’s software and hardware teams failed to work well together.
The IEEE Communications Society invites the world’s leading researchers and engineers from academia, industry and government to exchange their ideas at the IEEE ICC 2009 conference in Dresden, Germany in June 2009. More…
