Mobile technology will play a significant role in the provisioning of healthcare services globally, according to a new report from the GSMA. The industry association noted in its report, “Touching Lives through Mobile Health: Assessment of the Global Market Opportunity,” that the growth of the m-health market will lead to $23 billion in revenue opportunities [...]

The decision by Congress is expected to pave the way for private LTE networks to be deployed by public safety agencies across the country.

Latin America in expected to count 118 million HSPA subscriptions by the end of 2012, which is a little less than the 133 million HSPA and LTE subscriptions forecast for the United States and Canada, according to a report from 4G Americas. However, by the end of 2013, HSPA and LTE subscriptions in Latin America [...]

Information technology spending increased 5% in 2011, despite the worsening economic situation in Western Europe and volatility in other regions, according to a new study from the IDC) Worldwide Black Book. IDC noted that emerging markets continued to lead the way, with tech spending in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) enjoying another [...]

Atos, EMC and VMware are combining their efforts toward cloud computing, announcing a strategic alliance for open cloud computing. As part of the initiative, Atos plans to create a new company, Canopy, to provide cloud solutions and services as a one-stop shop vendor. “The launch of Canopy and its unique set of enterprise-grade services will [...]

Mobile-health smartphone applications will take off in 2012, reaching $1.3 billion, according to a recent survey by market research and consultancy firm Research2guidance. The group estimates the current market size at $718 million. “We think the m-health market will be mainly driven by private persons using m-health apps to improve their daily lives and pay [...]

Telefónica Digital tapped Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase and a SAP company, to be its global, strategic partner on providing mobile wallet services, which will be the gateway for its customers to a wide range of mobile financial services. Telefónica expects to see the first commercial wallet services launching in Latin America and Europe [...]

While worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month by 2016, in Brazil the rate is slightly higher with Cisco Systems predicting an 19-fold increase between 2011 and 2016. That will result in an annual growth rate of 79% in 2016 and volume of [...]

Brazilians like to communicate. Recently, RCR Wireless News reported that Brazil was the leading country in growth of Facebook users and during 2011 among the top 30 countries by number of active users, according to researcher Nick Burcher, who has been collating Facebook usage statistics by country. That social media fascination has also made its [...]

Colombia’s state-owned Emcali, which provides water, telecommunications and electricity services in Cali, plans to launch an IPTV service in the next couple of months. The company has been testing the technology and the structure packages for the launch. According to the local newspaper El Pais, the offer will initially include 90 standard definition channels and [...]