Microsoft has announced Windows Mobile 6.5 with forecast availability for second half of this year. Some new features will no doubt be automatically disabled by enterprise customers, such as the online backup, online media uploading abilities and the online applications marketplace, but other enhancements will no doubt tickle the fancy of tech savvy users including the new touch sensitive interface.
February 16th, 2009
Cisco has released research on mobile data traffic growth under the banner of the Visual Networking Index. Some of the key points include:
- Global mobile traffic will exceed two exabytes per month by 2013.
- Global mobile data traffic reached one exabyte per month in half the time that fixed data traffic did.
- Nearly 64 percent of the world’s mobile traffic will be video by 2013.
- Mobile video will grow at a CAGR of 150 percent between 2008 and 2013.
- Mobile broadband handsets with higher than 3G speeds and laptop air or data cards will constitute more than 80 percent of global mobile traffic by 2013.
February 10th, 2009
