Low ROI is a deterrent to increasing mobile ad spending . 43% of marketers who are not increasing mobile ad spending cite low ROI from mobile campaigns as a deterrent.
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The Relevancy Group survey found that low ROI is a deterrent to increasing mobile ad spending. 43% of marketers who are not increasing mobile ad spending cite low ROI from mobile campaigns as a deterrent.
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To help achieve this vision, Intel researchers have been working on new 48 core processors specifically designed for low power mobile devices.
Apple has not been able to penetrate the emerging markets in a meaningful way, which explains its rather low global mobile phone market share of less than 5%.
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And Globalfoundries and its customers have the pole position in high mobility, offering an ultra-low power mobile SoC with a whole ecosystem around it rather than just a processor.
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Due to these issues, Apple has not been able to penetrate the emerging markets in a meaningful way, which explains its rather low global mobile phone market share of less than 5%.
Development costs remain ridiculously low in mobile gaming.
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Its not exactly a secret that Nokia has a number of challenges, including a struggling mobile infrastructure joint venture and transitioning its device business toward smartphones while its core low-tier mobile phone business is under attack thanks to ZTE, Huawei and others.
But the simple, low-cost mobile-banking systems that operate in countries such as Kenya, India or Brazil suggest otherwise.
Low-rated mobile apps that were initially outsourced have been redone in-house and now receive much higher ratings from users.
Because it provides an alternative, low-cost mobile communications service, Google Voice is often compared to both Skype and Vonage though each is based on slightly different technology.
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Today, our database is accessible from any low-cost mobile device via WAP, SMS and USSD, enabling refugees to register and search for family without accessing the Internet.
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As international links improve and network equipment becomes cheaper and more effective, it will not be difficult to provide a low-cost mobile-broadband service, says Vodafone's Mr Colao.
We also wanted the platform to be accessible from low-cost mobile devices so that refugees anywhere in the world would be able to search for long lost family.
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"Our philosophy at textPlus that anyone should have access to free and low-cost mobile communications aligns perfectly with FreedomPop's free mobile data offering, " said Scott Lahman, Founder and CEO of textPlus.
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The rz1715 - Their low-end Mobile Media Companion, the rz1715 only has a 203MHz processor, 32MB of RAM, a 3.5-inch LCD screen, an SD expansion card slot, but no WiFi or Bluetooth.
If the only thing keeping you from making a switch to low-cost mobile provider Ting is the pain of early termination fees, we've got a bit of good news: come February 1st, you can tell your current carrier to get lost.
Then, before the iPhone, many experts said the small screen sizes and low data speeds of mobile devices made the mobile Web worthless and mobile video a total fantasy.
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Although subscription pricing and profit margins are both higher in the TV and Internet segments, the subscriber base is very low compared to the mobile market, which results in lower gross profits.
We, however, expect mobile monetization to remain low and would like to see a strategy for a solid product line that can leverage any increase in Chinese mobile ad spending going forward.
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If one takes the ideas that heterogeneous computing is primarily about efficiency (read: low power usage), and that ARM, with its legacy in mobile phones, is known for low power usage, then a future that includes AMD parts with actual ARM processor cores running them suddenly seems likely.
T-Mobile had one low end WP7 device that we considered for our daughter (She choose something else).
Toshiba will continue to develop technologies that contribute to high performance, low power system LSI for mobile products.
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"We'd also like to encourage residents that either live in low-lying areas or mobile homes, or if they just feel vulnerable to the situation at hand, to maybe move to safer locations, " she said.
Combine these offline capabilities with device APIs that allow web apps to access hardware features like cameras, battery level, microphone, etc and Mozilla could effectively break down the barriers not only between HTML5 and native apps, but between high-end mobile devices and low.
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Rising demand for low-to-mid end mobile phones from value-conscious customers will continue to put pressure on average phone pricing.
We recently announced our support of Finestrella, which provides innovative mobile telephony services to low-income and unbanked populations in Mexico.
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Their job is to convert high-voltage alternating current from the mains into low-voltage direct current for mobile phones, laptops, iPods and other electronic gadgets.
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Mr. Cleveely had called for one small block of spectrum to be released unlicensed to allow anyone to operate a low-power device that used mobile broadband frequencies.
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