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| There are many factors to consider when purchasing a phone system. This FREE white paper highlights a few key considerations to think about when evaluating phone systems. These include:- Investment Horizon
- Sizing Your Phone System
- A Description of Basic Phone System Features Including:
- VoicemailCall Forward
- Conferencing
- Speed Dial
- Redial
- Auto-Attendant
- Paging
- Advanced Phone System Capabilities
- Location Features
- CTI
- Find Me/Follow Me
- Pricing Phone Systems
- Encouraging Vendor Competition
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| Considering a Premise-based IP PBX system? Then you’ll need to learn the critical features and differentiators for Enterprise Class IP PBXs and the issues you should consider during your decision-making process.
In this FREE Buyer’s Guide, you will find details on what to look for, how to buy, what you can expect to pay and how to go about maximizing your investment in VoIP. Use it to help make an informed decision.
The Premise PBX Buyer's Guide analyzes:- Key requirements
- Basic features
- Vendor offerings
- Pros & Cons
- And More. . .
Learn what a Premise IP PBX System can do for you and understand what issues you should consider during your decision-making process.
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| This free ROA Group white paper briefly introduces smart grid and the latest developments in the U.S., Europe and South Korea. Smart grid refers to a next generation electric power network that makes use of IT and high technologies. Compared to the telecommunications networks, the electric power networks have not developed remarkably in terms of creating innovative technologies. However, smart grid by revolutionizing the electric power network and being almost as powerful as the Internet, is attracting many attentions among various industries. |
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| Interest in eBook contents or device business is growing from small and medium sized manufacturers to big players, such as Google and Apple, and companies brace for competition to challenge Amazon’s Kindle, the market leader. However, even before Kindle was launched, there were other eBook readers with similar specs available, but none of them have been able to offer a business model as successful as that of Kindle. Then what are the success factors of the Kindle eBook reader and how can the new entrants grasp opportunities in this growing market segment? This ROA Group white paper aims at answering these questions and introduces the latest developments in the eBook market. |
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| Mobile Advertising Market Growing Fast in Japan
Despite the global economic downturn, mobile advertising market seems to be growing fast in Japan where advertising types such as behavior targeted advertising (search or website behavior), and so called 'Interest Match' have attracted the most attention. In the future, these advertising types are expected to show the biggest growth in the Japanese mobile market.
According to Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the number of users who used mobile devices for web browsing reached 75.06 million in 2008, showing an increase of 2.19 million users compared to 2007. The number of mobile users who have subscribed to mobile internet services is 91 million as of March 2009, which is approximately 84.7% of the total 107.48 million mobile users in Japan, and the number of subscribers is expected to increase further.
In this FREE white paper, ROA Group predicts that the mobile advertising market of Japan as well |
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| This FREE ROA Group white paper examines the main features of Nokia’s map service and analyzes the potential of the service structure. The expansion of GPS-enabled handsets is contributing to the popularity of map mashup services, which have been emerging since last year and have high potential as a business model. In South Korea, Daum is pushing ahead with its ‘Road View’ service, and has received a good response, showing that interest in map mashup services is continuously increasing. Nokia recently launched its 6210s handset in South Korea, and the market leader is expected to introduce more handsets supporting its map services as well. |
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| This FREE ROA Group white paper examines the Toshiba TG01 smartphone, which was first unveiled in February at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2009. Toshiba is scheduling to launch the device this summer in the European market, and is seen as the Japanese vendor's attempt to escape the sluggish domestic handset market in Japan. With an innovative UI and computing power comparable to PMPs, the device attracted many attentions in MWC. Among the Japanese handset vendors, Sharp and Fujitsu have entered the market in China and North America, and now Toshiba as the third vendor is entering the market in Europe, having its European head office (Toshiba Europe) located in London.
As a differentiation point, the TG01 smartphone has 3D UI and its computing power is enhanced to a maximum with Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. This white paper also provides a brief analysis on Qualcomm's chipset strategy and the main competitors in the chipset market.
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| The new FREE ROA Group white paper analyzes the reason behind push e-mail solutions and examines BlackBerry architecture as well as Funambol, an open source solution that provides a competitive alternative for proprietary solutions. |
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| This FREE ROA Group white paper examines three-screen service that combines TV, PC and mobile devices, offering the same TV programs and movies on these 3 platforms. As a background, the paper briefly introduces Orange Cinema Series that is a three-screen service provided by Orange. Before the service launch, France Telecom held many discussions with regulators and audiovisual producers in France, and was finally able to launch the service in November, 2008. This paper also analyzes the three-screen service in the context of three main players, including consumer electronics manufacturers, operators and platform providers, as well as emphasizes the importance of smartphones in providing the service. |
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| Compare leading VoIP Phone System and IP PBX companies like Avaya, Fonality, Nortel, Siemens and more, all in one place. This FREE PBX Comparison Guide from Tippit presents a detailed comparison of small and medium business phone and IP PBX systems.
The Guide examines:- Installation & Features
- Management & Administration
- Security
- Support
- Pricing
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| Considering an IP PBX or VoIP phone system? Then you’ll need to learn the critical features and differentiators for Enterprise Class IP PBXs and the issues you should consider during your decision-making process. This Buyer's Guide will help you make an informed decision.
The IP PBX Buyer's Guide analyzes:- Key requirements
- Basic features
- Vendor offerings
- Pros & Cons
- And More. . .
Learn what an IP PBX System can do for you and understand what issues you should consider during your decision-making process.
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| This ROA Group white paper analyzes the INQ1 phone, developed by INQ Mobile. The model is marketed as the world’s most advanced social networking phone that offers a new user experience. INQ1 enables social networking, instant messaging, video sharing, Skype calling, and eBay trading on mobile phone within a low-cost price range.
The handset was unveiled on November 13 in London, being the first product of INQ Mobile, a new vendor in the handset market. The company is a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, Hong Kong based conglomerate that runs mobile operator 3 in Europe and Asia. INQ1 and the movements of Hutchison Whampoa have attracted attention in the industry, since it could challenge such handset manufacturers as Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, RIM and Apple in some markets.
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| This FREE ROA Group white paper provides an overview on the latest solutions for mobile coupons and market development in Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. Mobile service usage patterns are becoming more diversified and the usage of mobile payment services is being vitalized. According to estimates on the advanced markets, at least 25% of the mobile users have used mobile payment services. Mobile coupon services offer a new business model as it provides solutions to increase revenue and reduce expenses, not only for operators but also for advertisers, retailers and broadcasters. Japan and Korea have been one of the pioneering countries in introducing mobile payment and mobile advertising solutions. For mobile coupons, NTT DoCoMo introduced its information-capture service called ToruCa in 2005. Nowadays, purchasing products via mobile phones is increasing world-wide, and mobile advertising as well as using mobile coupons is a rising trend. |
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| The latest FREE white paper from the ROA Group provides an Asian insight into the European Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) market and examines the current market through brief case studies on ethnic market MVNOs, such as Lycamobile and Euskaltel, retail based MVNOs such as El Corte Inglés and PosteMobile of Poste Italiane. The global mobile market has seen MVNOs increasing rapidly in Europe and U.S. over the past 10 years, some of them succeeding and others ending-up as business failures. Recently, Helio was taken over by Virgin Mobile, and before that the market witnessed Disney Mobile, ESPN Mobile and Amp’d Mobile terminating their services among many other MVNOs.
Despite the tough times, some MVNOs are entering into new markets with innovative business models. Will they be able to compete with the already existing MVNOs and more over, with the incumbent Mobile Network Operators (MNO), and succeed to lure more customers in the already matured markets? This white paper |
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| The latest FREE white paper from the ROA Group provides an overview on the iPhone 2.0 Update and App Store that were launched on July 11. The paper introduces some of the main applications available on App Store, and briefly analyzes the meaning of the update and the influence of App Store on the handset market, especially in the context of smartphone. |
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| This executive summary presents the future direction of the mobile market by providing periodical analysis on new mobile device
launches in South Korea - one of the leading telecom and mobile device markets in Asia. The executive summary provides an overview
of mobile devices launched in Korea. Evaluation and future outlook on General Information, Functional Factor, Value Added Service Supporting Factor of South Korea’s mobile devices are presented in the report. This executive summary is extracted from Mobile Device Convergence in South Korea, Full Year 2007. |
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| The latest FREE white paper by ROA Group examines the recent trends in combining e-learning with portable devices, mainly focusing on the use of iPod and Nintendo DS Lite in the Korean and Japanese markets. Through an overview, this white paper presents some key factors for the success of iPod and Nintendo DS in these markets, and suggests a development direction for future mobile devices. This white paper provides useful information for content providers, mobile operators, handset manufacturers, and educators. |
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| This white paper introduces ROA’s own methodology that is designed for tracking rising technologies in the wired and wireless telecommunications market. ROA’s methodology is called DUC & I Model that examines the interaction between device, user and content. The methodology aims to track the technologies that facilitate the interaction. |
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| This free white paper introduces ROA’s predictions for the mobile device market in 2008. It includes a review on the major big events in 2007 and provides an analysis on the 5 hot topics that are projected to lead the global mobile device market. Furthermore, ROA Group forecasts that the market trends of Korea and Japan, where the mobile operators push ahead with their globalization strategies, will resemble more and more the general trends in the world market.
This white paper extracts highlights from the full 45-page report, Mobile Device Market Trends in 2008 (RO-1728), which may be purchased directly from InfoEdge. |
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| This new white paper published by ROA Group briefly introduces the main mobile TV technologies available today and the latest developments in the world market. On a global scale, mobile TV market in its early stages, but the players are moving actively. Since a common standard has not as yet been decided, there is fierce competition between the three mobile TV technologies: MediaFLO, DVB-H and T-DMB. MediaFLO, a technology developed by Qualcomm, is mostly adopted in the U.S., while most of the European countries use DVB-H, supported by Nokia and the European Commission. T-DMB, a technology developed in South Korea, is advancing in Asia and some countries in Europe. |
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| The latest white paper published by ROA Group introduces VGF-WA1, a wireless digital music streamer developed by Sony. VGF-WA1 supports VAIO Media, Windows Media Connect and it can also be connected with devices supporting DLNA. It enables playback of personal music collections via PC by supporting SonicStage CP, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. |
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