SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ --
Viador Inc. (TM) (Nasdaq: VIAD), the leading self-service enterprise portal provider, today announced a new agreement with EC-Founder Co., Ltd., of Beijing, China. EC-Founder, a Hong Kong exchange-listed company, is a leading provider of advanced information technology products and services in China and is also one of the companies of Founder Group, a top brand name in Asia. EC-Founder has purchased the Viador E-Portal and will integrate Viador products into their EAP (Enterprise Application Portal) product. EAP connects a customer's commerce portal with enterprise information through functional modules by using designs that work with legacy systems such as financials, human resources, and office automation.
"We are excited about the integration of the Viador product suite into EAP. Our account base consists of many corporations who need the ability to seamlessly share data both inside and outside their organizations. Viador's self-service applications integrate vital business processes into a single user interface which results in direct company, partner and customer communication," according to Ricky Lee, President of EC-Founder.
Dick Warmington, Viador Inc. CEO, stated, "The relationship with EC-Founder underscores our commitment to our OEM partners. We believe that by building alliances with companies like EC-Founder that already have large installed bases we are able to more quickly penetrate new markets. Viador's multi-layered E-Portal technology is specifically designed to work with complex databases and legacy systems, which makes it a perfect fit for EC-Founder."
About Viador Inc.
Viador Inc. combines proven experience, technology and partnerships to deliver self-service portals for leading businesses and organizations worldwide. The Viador E-Portal facilitates enterprise-wide productivity gains, including increased revenue from new e-services, improved partner communications, better customer relationships and retention, and streamlined, paperless information distribution at lower cost. Viador continues to receive industry recognition and awards including being named to the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50, CrossRoads 2000 A-List, Federal Computer Week's Top 10 Companies to Watch list while the Viador E-Portal product family was named Product of the Year by a CMP Media publication. Over 350 leading companies have chosen Viador for their self-service portal needs, including Amazon.com, Charles Schwab, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), IBM, Nortel Networks, Shiseido and Xerox. Viador is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, call 408-735-5956 or visit the Viador web site at www.viador.com.
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- Dental Professionals Attend Virtual Dental School
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ISLANDIA, N.Y., and PHOENIX, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ --
Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), the world's leading eBusiness solutions provider, today announced that e-dentist.com, a leading provider of content and services for the dental profession, has selected CA's KnowledgeTRACK as the foundation of a far-reaching series of Web-based education products and services.
e-dentist.com will use CA's KnowledgeTRACK solution to rapidly convert the organization's rich content collections for training dental professionals into multimedia, topic-based, and reusable training components that can be delivered over the Internet.
Students enrolled in e-dentist.com's training programs "attend" their own personalized virtual campus. This private campus provides access to courses, experts in the needed field, mentoring, peer-to-peer chat rooms, and other resources. The campus is the place where each online experience is fully integrated providing the tools necessary for personal and career success.
"Through the use of CA's KnowledgeTRACK, we can provide eLearning solutions that enable dentists, their staff and industry professionals to learn at a much quicker rate and more readily put their newly acquired skills into practice," said Dr. James M. Powers, Jr., e-dentist.com's president and CEO. "eLearning is a natural extension of our core practice enhancement business, which has historically provided dentists with traditional instructor-led training, seminars and regional workshops."
Dentists as well as other busy professionals increasingly prefer virtual training to traditional training methods using instructor-led seminars or videotapes.
Classroom seminars involving travel are expensive and expose professionals to unwanted downtime during peak office hours. eLearning eliminates these barriers of time and geography, allowing professionals to access multimedia training materials at their own convenience, from their own offices, proceeding at the individual pace that works best for them.
The e-dentist.com training courses feature interactive, multimedia delivery over the ordinary low-bandwidth Internet connections found in most dental practices, as well as hands-on labs and live demonstrations. Courses range from teaching emerging dental procedures to the business aspects of managing a practice. Each course guides students through the material, allowing students to leave and return to the materials at their convenience; testing their mastery of the materials when they are ready. The system also keeps track of each student's progress and test scores.
Using KnowledgeTRACK allows e-dentist.com to combine content, technology and services into a comprehensive training solution for dental industry professionals around the world. The integration of e-dentist.com's robust training content and service offerings with CA's technology creates a solution that positions e-dentist as the premier enterprise training solution for the dental profession.
e-dentist students can now access the most up-to-date information on the tools, technologies and practices of the dental trade right from their desktop. Through the KnowledgeTRACK conversion engine's interactive training solutions, visitors to e-dentist.com's Web site can access the full catalog of interactive training, hands-on labs and live demonstrations that tackle practical, work related scenarios.
"We are excited about the opportunity to provide comprehensive eLearning solutions to the dental market," said Terri Seppala, CA senior vice president and general manager, worldwide education. "eLearning has a tremendous impact on learning effectiveness because it is adaptable to the student's situation. Users become totally immersed in a learning environment and that makes it easier to retain new knowledge because it is presented in hours rather than days."
KnowledgeTRACK is a computer-based training engine with a toolset that converts company-specific content collections into topic-based, reusable content objects. It is one part of CA's eLearning offering, a far-reaching series of educational products and services designed to effectively leverage advanced CA technology and the Internet for maximum training, flexibility and effectiveness.
Each eLearning component can be utilized effectively as a powerful standalone solution to a specific training problem or integrated within the context of e-dentist.com's virtual university concept.
For more information on CA's Web-based training programs and the latest CA Education Learning Center course schedule, please visit http://www.ca.com/education or call 1-800-237-9273.
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), the world's leading business software company, delivers the end-to-end infrastructure to enable eBusiness through innovative technology, services and education. CA has 20,000 employees worldwide and had revenue in excess of $6 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000. For more information, visit http://www.ca.com.
e-dentist.com (formerly known as Pentegra Dental Group, Inc.) is currently implementing its new eCommerce strategy that offers its core business as well as an expanded array of services to the entire dental industry through its dental portal. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, e-dentist historically provided practice enhancement and administrative services to dental practices throughout the United States. e-dentist has affiliated dental offices in 29 states with approximately 140 dentists in approximately 100 dental practices, representing an annual revenue run rate of $75 million in patient revenue. Since its formation under the name Pentegra Dental Group in March of 1998, the Company has utilized its virtual private network over the Internet to process transactions currently representing an annual run rate of over $50 million in net revenues. For more information, visit http://www.e-dentist.com.
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SINGAPORE, June 23 /PRNewswire/ - Make the Internet Protocol (IP) work over wireless, and resolve the political and technical barriers to a single, global third generation standard.
These are imperatives for the continued dynamic growth of wireless communications into the next century, Matt Desch, president, Wireless Networks, Nortel (Northern Telecom) (NYSE/NT/TSE: NTL), told cdmaOne proponents today in his opening address to the third annual CDMA World Congress.
"Right now, subscribers don't know or care about W-CDMA or cdma2000," Desch said. "It's just not important to them. All they want is mobile communications that work... and in the near future, mobile multimedia services that are simple, affordable and reliable."
Desch called for a renewed focus on business and consumer needs, and on identification and development of compelling services to meet those needs. He also linked the growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web with the continued success of wireless.
"Subscribers are finding new ways to use the Internet to drive added value in their personal and professional lives," he said. "The only thing missing is making it available to them anytime, anywhere... and the only solution that can make it happen is a wireless one."
Nortel recently demonstrated its commitment to development and delivery of IP-centric wired and wireless networks by announcing plans to acquire Bay Networks, a worldwide data networking market leader, in a deal estimated to be worth US $9.1 billion. The combination of Nortel and Bay Networks will create a new category of company which will be first to deliver mission-critical IP networks capable of reaching anyone, anytime, anyplace in the world.
Nortel's exhibit at the third annual CDMA World Congress this week features the latest addition to the complete Nortel family of flexible, cost-effective cdmaOne digital wireless network solutions -- the Nortel CDMA Minicell base station.
The Nortel CDMA Minicell provides quick and cost-effective service coverage in rural areas, along highways, in "hot spots," and indoors in office buildings, malls and other public areas.
Nortel's exhibit also includes the Nortel FCP800 CDMA base station, the Nortel RF Optimizer and Nortel's Virtual Home Location Register (VHLR).
The Nortel FCP800 base station combines power and channel elements and RF components in a single cabinet for scalability and a small footprint. It features low receive sensitivity for improved coverage, an integrated duplexer for easy overlay of existing networks, and easy migration from an omni-directional configuration to a three-sector design.
The Nortel RF Optimizer is an easy-to-use software package that provides status reports on network performance and detailed problem analysis. Nortel's VHLR allows one physical Home Location Register to be divided into multiple partitions for use by multiple networks.
Nortel CDMA digital wireless networks are in service or under construction in more than 80 cities around the world, serving more than a million subscribers. Nortel has shipped more than 5,000 CDMA base stations in 18 months.
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DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a7dd69/china_tourism_indu) has announced the addition of the "China Tourism Industry Forecast to 2012" report to their offering.
Chinese tourism industry has emerged as a new growth avenue with increasing purchasing power, rapid economic liberalization, and favorable government policies. These developments and reforms have taken the tourism industry to new heights and introduced multistage transformations that not only attract tourists from within the country, but from overseas countries as well. The growth process can be segregated into different phases, where the initial phase belonged to the emergence of inbound travel market and moved ahead to the development of domestic and outbound travel market.
This new research report China Tourism Industry Forecast to 2012, has found that, the domestic and outbound tourism segments have witnessed positive growth, despite economic slowdown and changing industry landscape. Besides, the Chinese government has taken various initiatives, such as bilateral agreements with neighboring countries, granting Approved Destination Status, easing VISA norms, tourism promotion, branding and positioning of China as a tourism hub, cultural promotion, golden weeks etc, to boost the tourism industry.
Further, China is one of the world's largest domestic tourism markets. This can be substantiated by the fact, that nearly 2.1 Billion domestic travelers generated total revenue worth CNY 1,250 Billion (US$ 187.5 Billion) in 2010. Further, the outbound travel market is also undergoing phenomenal transformation in the country.
It is projected that, the number of tourists to China from Asian countries will increase in the coming years on the back of increase in bilateral corporation and low cultural barriers.The main countries for tourist arrivals in China are Honk Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia. It is projected that, Japan and Taiwan will witness significant growth in the number of tourists visiting China in near future.
The impact of recession was significant on the country's inbound tourism, but it was not that higher as in the case of Europe and the US. However, the industry bounced back again in 2010 and is expected to gain its lost momentum from 2011 onwards. Domestic and inbound tourism markets will maintain their growth rates and contribute maximum share in revenue generation to the Chinese tourism industry.
The report incorporates an extensive research and rational analysis of the tourism industry in China. It provides segment level analysis of the industry along with future trends that may shape up with the betterment of economic conditions. The research will help consultants, industry analysts, and vendors to get an in-depth knowledge of the current, past, and future performance of the industry. The future outlook mentioned in the report has been derived by interactions with various industry veterans, experts, analyzing information from research papers, journals, and our in-house developed models.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Analyst View
2. Industry Overview 2.1 Mode of Transport
3. China Tourism Industry: Emerging Trends 3.1 Medical Tourism 3.2 Increasing ICT and Internet Adoption 3.3 Booming Rural Tourism Market 3.4 Rising MICE and Cruise Tourism 3.5 Government Initiatives 3.6 Promoting Yacht Industry to Propel Luxury Tourism
4. Industry Outlook to 2014 4.1 Foreign Tourist Arrivals 4.1.1 Region/Country 4.1.2 Purpose 4.1.3 Receipts 4.2 Outbound Tourism 4.2.1 Destination 4.2.2 Purpose 4.2.3 Expenditure 4.3 Domestic Tourism 4.3.1 Visitor 4.3.2 Expenditure
5. Hotel Industry
6. Competitive Landscape 6.1 Beijing Capital Tourism Co., Ltd. 6.2 China Travel International Investment Hong Kong Ltd. 6.3 Ctrip.com International 6.4 China United Travel Co., Ltd. 6.5 Guilin Tourism Corporation Ltd.
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a7dd69/china_tourism_indu
"We see more and more people around the globe using the Internet, mobile phones and other technologies to make their voices heard as they protest against injustice and seek to realize their aspirations," said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently. "There is a historic opportunity to effect positive change, change America supports. ... So we're focused on helping them do that, on helping them talk to each other, to their communities, to their governments and to the world."
As a U.S. senator representing New York state, Clinton made a priority of extending broadband coverage to the rural reaches of the Adirondacks and the North Country. Now she has made a signature issue of what is being called "liberation technology" -- promoting ways to allow citizens around the world to keep talking even if repressive regimes censor or otherwise unplug telecommunication networks.
Despite diplomatic pique and real risks to dissidents in nations like Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, China and North Korea, the low-profile efforts of the State Department and the Pentagon could be a key to maintaining the momentum of democracy uprisings that swept across the Arab world this spring.
On Sunday, New York Times reporters James Glanz and John Markoff offered a fascinating glimpse at the high-tech wizardry of the "stealth Internet" project -- an initiative in a dozen countries that the U.S. government has invested at least $50 million in so far. The details of "suitcase" communication networks that link cellphones and computers while bypassing state-controlled media are the stuff of Third World science fiction. Working out those details in Washington is an unlikely crew that includes a young programmer with pierced ears and leather bracelet, a veteran hacker, a computer security expert, and Sascha Meinrath, director of the activist New American Foundation's Open Technology Initiative.
Some worry the projects could backfire, allowing enforcers with sophisticated surveillance technology to track and capture dissidents. Could stealth communications in the hands of terrorists enable them to carry out their clandestine plots?
The benefits of open communications are undeniable. Before he left office, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak nearly shut down his nation's Internet system. In Syria, Basher al-Assad's regime also disrupted communications for a while, impeding protesters' coordination and mobilization efforts. In Iran, the authorities disabled the Internet during the 2009 protests.
As for terrorists, they have more to fear than gain from open communications. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have targeted telecommunication networks. A U.S.-sponsored effort is under way to evade Taliban attacks through networks of cellphones.
Not surprisingly, U.S. officials don't talk about this technology as a tool to oppose regimes, but rather as a means of protecting free speech, civil and human rights. If this under-the-radar spread of stealth communications bedevils authoritarian rulers and provokes the wrath of the Taliban and the remnants of al-Qaida's terrorist network, so much the better.
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NEW YORK, May 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
Services (2010 - 2015)
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REPORT DESCRIPTION
The need for mobile broadband is growing everyday as digital lifestyle continues to evolve with the line between cell phones, mobile handheld devices, PCs and laptops getting blurred. Users continue to show increasing interest for real time applications that include video-conferencing, publishing and social networking. Subscriber's interest in accessing high bandwidth applications such as YouTube from their mobile phones are further taxing the already stressed networks of mobile service providers. To meet this increasing demand for bandwidth, operators are migrating to LTE, which provides them with an opportunity to introduce new services such as data download, accessing internet from mobiles and ultimately helping them to improve their bottom-line.
With an eye on coping up with such technology evolutions, third generation partnerships created a project termed as 3GPP LTE. The primary objectives are to improve spectral efficiencies, lower costs, better services, making use of existing as well as new spectrum and opportunities to integrate with host of open standards, including Internet Protocol.
Typical LTE characteristics include:
Significantly increased downlink and uplink peak data rates and spectral efficiency over 3G with peak data rates up to 50 Mbs up and 100 Mbs down for 20 MHz of spectrum.
Scalable user bandwidth from 1.4 MHz to 20 MHz in both the uplink and the downlink
Less than 10 ms latency for small-size IP packets
Optimized performance for slow mobile speeds of 0 to 15 km/h; supported with high performance from 15 km/h to 120 km/h; usable from 120 km/h to 350 km/h
Co-existence with legacy standards while evolving toward an all-IP network
It is expected that with LTE, mobile network operators will introduce services ranging from multimedia, e-health, and machine-to-machine applications primarily because of faster access and upload speed and lower costs per bit of traffic to operate.
The market for LTE equipments and services are expected to register significant growth over the next few years.
In term of infrastructure shipments the LTE base stations are expected to cross 665,000 units by end of 2015.
The LTE infrastructure market is forecasted to reach $12.1 billion by 2015, fueled by macrocell eNodeB deployments
LTE subscribers could exceed 225 million by 2015, with most of them split between Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa & the U.S.
In terms of initial deployments, TeliaSonera launched the world's first commercial LTE network in Oslo and Stockholm in December 2009, giving the lead to EMEA. In our estimates, Asia Pacific and North America will drive the first major wave of LTE rollouts in 2010 through 2012. The second wave will kick off in 2012-2013 when the Chinese operators start their rollouts along with the majority of the Western European mobile operators.
MARKETS COVERED
This research report categorizes the global market for wireless broadband in public safety into the following submarkets:
On the basis of paired and unpaired spectrum:
LTE TDD (TIME DVISION DUPLEX)
LTE FDD (FREQUENCY DIVISION DUPLEX)
On the basis of services in LTE environment:
VoIP
Video Conferencing
Instant Messaging
Photo and Video Messaging
Informational Services
Browsing
Ringtones & Realtones
Online gaming
Mobile TV
Mobile Advertising
M Commerce
P2P file transfer
Business Apps
Others
On the basis of users
Enterprise
Consumers
On the basis of means of network access
SIMs
Dongles
Cards
Embedded Chipsets
On the basis of geography
North America
U.S.
Canada
Others
EMEA
U.K.
Germany
France
Italy
Nordic Countries
South Africa
Others
APJ
Australia
New Zealand
China
India
Japan
South Korea
Others
Latin America
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Others
STAKEHOLDERS
The targeted audience for this report includes:
IT and Telecommunication companies
Government bodies and public safety entities
Network infrastructure developers
Mobile network operators
Software and hardware manufacturers
Enterprise and business users
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Size of the potential LTE market is calculated using the supply side approach. Market trends and prices were used to arrive at market size, which was then verified by the key industry players.
Market sizes were also verified by cost volume approach.
Prices and pricing trends in different geographies were identified and analyzed through secondary & primary research, and then average selling price per unit was calculated.
All currencies are converted into USD using OANDA.COM historical exchange rate tables.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 KEY TAKE-AWAYS
1.2 REPORT DESCRIPTION
1.3 MARKETS COVERED
1.4 STAKEHOLDERS
1.5 TAXONOMY
1.6 FORECAST ASSUMPTIONS
1.7 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
2 SUMMARY
3 MARKET OVERVIEW
3.1 LTE DEFINITION
3.2 LTE MARKET SEGMENTATION
3.3 LTE MARKET SIZE & TRENDS
3.4 LTE SYSTEM REQUIREMENT & FEATURES
3.5 COMPARISON OF LTE & WIMAX
3.6 LTE ON THE BASIS OF DUPLEXING TECHNIQUES
3.6.1 FDD
3.6.2 TDD
3.7 MARKET DYNAMICS
3.7.1 DRIVERS
3.7.1.1 LTE enhances spectrum efficiency
3.7.1.2 LTE reduces long-term cost of infrastructure
3.7.1.3 Rising data traffic
3.7.1.4 Emergence of new applications & devices
3.7.2 RESTRAINTS
3.7.2.1 Lack of infrastructure increases network complexity
3.7.2.2 Device compatibility issues
3.7.3 OPPORTUNITIES
3.7.3.1 Standardization of infrastructure platform
3.7.3.2 High data transfer rates in LTE spectrums
3.7.3.3 Scope for high bandwidth application developers
3.7.3.4 Rising demand for LTE-enabled devices
3.8 IMPACT ANALYSIS ON THE LTE MARKET
3.9 WINNING IMPERATIVES
3.9.1 OPERATORS DEMANDING HYBRID NETWORK
3.9.2 NETWORK SHARING
3.1 BURNING ISSUES
3.10.1 CIRCUIT SWITCHING FALLBACK
3.10.2 SCARCITY OF SPECTRUM
3.10.3 HSPA PLAYERS MOVING TO HSPA+ FIRST
3.11 OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS
3.12 MARKET SHARE ANALYSIS
3.12.1 METHODOLOGY
3.12.2 OVERVIEW
3.13 PATENT ANALYSIS
4 LTE MARKET - BY TYPES
4.1 LTE MARKET
4.2 LTE INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET
4.2.1 E-UTRAN & E NODEB
4.2.2 EPC
4.2.2.1 Subcomponents of the EPC
4.2.3 MARKET REVENUE & FORECAST
4.3 LTE ENDUSER DEVICES MARKET
4.3.1 SMARTPHONES
4.3.2 NETBOOKS
4.3.3 USB MODEMS
4.3.4 UNIT SHIPMENTS & FORECAST
4.3.5 MARKET REVENUE & FORECAST
4.4 LTE SERVICES MARKET
4.4.1 CONSULTING SERVICES
4.4.2 INTEGRATION SERVICES
4.4.3 MAINTENANCE SERVICES
4.4.4 MARKET REVENUES & FORECAST
4.5 LTE MARKET SEGMENTATION ON THE BASIS OF APPLICATIONS
5 GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
5.1 MARKET OVERVIEW
5.1.1 MARKET REVENUE & FORECAST
5.1.2 INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET
5.1.3 END-USER DEVICES MARKET
5.1.4 SERVICES MARKET
5.1.5 LTE SUBSCRIBERS
5.2 NORTH AMERICA
5.2.1 OVERVIEW
5.2.2 TRENDS
5.2.3 MARKET REVENUE & FORECAST
5.3 EUROPE MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
5.3.1 OVERVIEW
5.3.2 TRENDS
5.3.3 MARKET REVENUE & FORECAST
5.4 ASIA PACIFIC & JAPAN
5.4.1 OVERVIEW
5.4.2 TRENDS
5.4.3 MARKET REVENUE & FORECAST
5.5 LATIN AMERICA
5.5.1 OVERVIEW
5.5.2 TRENDS
5.5.3 MARKET REVENUE & FORECAST
6 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
7 COMPANY PROFILES
7.1 ALCATEL-LUCENT
7.1.1 OVERVIEW
7.1.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.1.3 FINANCIALS
7.1.4 STRATEGY
7.1.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.2 ALTAIR SEMICONDUCTOR
7.2.1 OVERVIEW
7.2.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.2.3 STRATEGY
7.2.4 DEVELOPMENTS
7.3 AT&T INC
7.3.1 OVERVIEW
7.3.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.3.3 FINANCIALS
7.3.4 STRATEGY
7.3.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.4 CHINA MOBILE LTD
7.4.1 OVERVIEW
7.4.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.4.3 FINANCIALS
7.4.4 STRATEGY
7.4.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.5 ERICSSON
7.5.1 OVERVIEW
7.5.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.5.3 FINANCIALS
7.5.4 STRATEGY
7.5.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.6 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD
7.6.1 OVERVIEW
7.6.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.6.3 FINANCIALS
7.6.4 STRATEGY
7.6.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.7 LG ELECTRONICS
7.7.1 OVERVIEW
7.7.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.7.3 FINANCIALS
7.7.4 STRATEGY
7.7.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.8 METROPCS COMMUNICATIONS INC
7.8.1 OVERVIEW
7.8.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.8.3 FINANCIALS
7.8.4 STRATEGY
7.8.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.9 MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC
7.9.1 OVERVIEW
7.9.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.9.3 FINANCIALS
7.9.4 STRATEGY
7.9.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.10 MOBILE TELESYSTEMS OJSC
7.10.1 OVERVIEW
7.10.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.10.3 FINANCIALS
7.10.4 STRATEGY
7.10.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.11 NOKIA CORPORATION
7.11.1 OVERVIEW
7.11.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.11.3 FINANCIALS
7.11.4 STRATEGY
7.11.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.12 NTT DOCOMO INC
7.12.1 OVERVIEW
7.12.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.12.3 FINANCIALS
7.12.4 STRATEGY
7.12.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.13 QUALCOMM INC
7.13.1 OVERVIEW
7.13.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.13.3 FINANCIALS
7.13.4 STRATEGY
7.13.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.14 RESEARCH IN MOTION
7.14.1 OVERVIEW
7.14.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.14.3 FINANCIALS
7.14.4 STRATEGY
7.14.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.15 RUNCOM TECHNOLOGIES LTD
7.15.1 OVERVIEW
7.15.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.15.3 STRATEGY
7.15.4 DEVELOPMENTS
7.16 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD
7.16.1 OVERVIEW
7.16.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.16.3 FINANCIALS
7.16.4 STRATEGY
7.16.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.17 TELEFONICA O2
7.17.1 OVERVIEW
7.17.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.17.3 FINANCIALS
7.17.4 STRATEGY
7.17.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.18 TELENOR ASA
7.18.1 OVERVIEW
7.18.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.18.3 FINANCIALS
7.18.4 STRATEGY
7.18.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.19 TELIASONERA AB
7.19.1 OVERVIEW
7.19.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.19.3 FINANCIALS
7.19.4 STRATEGY
7.19.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.20 TELSTRA CORP LTD
7.20.1 OVERVIEW
7.20.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.20.3 FINANCIALS
7.20.4 STRATEGY
7.20.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.21 VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC
7.21.1 OVERVIEW
7.21.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.21.3 FINANCIALS
7.21.4 STRATEGY
7.21.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.22 VODAFONE
7.22.1 OVERVIEW
7.22.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.22.3 FINANCIALS
7.22.4 STRATEGY
7.22.5 DEVELOPMENTS
7.23 ZTE CORPORATION
7.23.1 OVERVIEW
7.23.2 PRIMARY BUSINESS
7.23.3 FINANCIALS
7.23.4 STRATEGY
7.23.5 DEVELOPMENTS
8 APPENDIX
? U.S. PATENTS
? EUROPE PATENTS
? JAPAN PATENTS
LIST OF TABLES
1 FORECAST ASSUMPTIONS
2 GLOBAL LTE MARKET REVENUE, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 ($BILLION)
3 GLOBAL LTE MARKET (2010 - 2015)
4 LTE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
5 LTE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
6 LTE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
7 LTE SYSTEM FEATURES
8 ON THE BASIS OF TECHNOLOGY
9 LTE SUBSCRIBERS, BY TYPES OF DUPLEXING TECHNIQUES
2010 - 2015 (MILLION)
10 LTE SUBSCRIBERS, BY DUPLEXING TECHNIQUES 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
11 IMPACT ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS FACTORS ON LTE MARKET
12 LIST OF FREQUENCY BANDS
13 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HSPA+ & LTE
14 PARAMETERS FOR MARKET PERFORMANCE
15 PARAMETERS FOR MARKET GROWTH
16 LTE INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET REVENUE, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 ($BILLION)
17 LTE INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015
(Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
18 LTE INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
19 LTE DEVICES FORECAST, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (UNIT SHIPMENTS IN MILLIONS)
20 LTE DEVICES FORECAST, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
21 LTE END-USER DEVICES MARKET REVENUES, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 ($MILLION)
22 LTE END-USER DEVICES MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015
(Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
23 LTE END-USER DEVICES MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
24 LTE SERVICES MARKET REVENUE, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 ($BILLION)
25 LTE SERVICES MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
26 LTE SERVICES MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
27 COMPARISON OF APPLICATIONS IN CURRENT ENVIRONMENT & LTE ENVIRONMENT
28 LTE MARKET REVENUE, BY APPLICATIONS 2010 - 2015 ($BILLION)
29 LTE MARKET, BY APPLICATIONS 2010 - 2015 (Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
30 LTE MARKET, BY APPLICATIONS 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
31 LTE MARKET REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015 ($BILLION)
32 LTE MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015 (Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
33 LTE MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
34 LTE INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015 ($MILLION)
35 LTE INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015
(Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
36 LTE INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
37 LTE END-USER DEVICES MARKET REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY
2010 - 2015 ($MILLION)
38 LTE END-USER DEVICES MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015
(Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
39 LTE END-USER DEVICES MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
40 LTE SERVICES MARKET REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015 ($MILLION)
41 LTE SERVICES MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015
(Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
42 LTE SERVICES MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
43 LTE SUBSCRIBERS, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015 (MILLION)
44 LTE SUBSCRIBERS, BY GEOGRAPHY 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
45 NORTH AMERICA: LTE MARKET REVENUE, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 ($BILLION)
46 NORTH AMERICA: LTE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015
(Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
47 NORTH AMERICA: LTE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
48 EMEA: LTE MARKET REVENUE, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 ($BILLION)
49 EMEA: LTE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
50 EMEA: LTE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
51 APJ: LTE MARKET REVENUE, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 ($BILLION)
52 APJ: LTE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
53 APJ: LTE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
54 LATIN AMERICA: LTE MARKET REVENUE, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 ($MILLION)
55 LATIN AMERICA: LTE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015
(Y-O-Y GROWTH %)
56 LATIN AMERICA: LTE MARKET, BY TYPES 2010 - 2015 (PROPORTION)
57 NEW PRODUCTS (FEBRUARY 2009 - APRIL 2011)
58 AGREEMENTS & COLLABORATIONS (MARCH 2009 - APRIL 2011)
59 MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS (JUNE 2009 - APRIL 2011)
60 ALCATEL-LUCENT: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
61 AT&T INC: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
62 CHINA MOBILE LTD: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
63 ERICSSON: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
64 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
65 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES: REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY ($MILLION)
66 LG ELECTRONICS: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($BILLION)
67 METROPCS COMMUNICATIONS INC: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
68 MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC: REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY ($MILLION )
69 MOBILE TELESYSTEMS OJSC: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
70 NOKIA CORPORATION: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
71 NOKIA CORPORATION: REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY
72 NTT DOCOMO INC: REVENUE, BY BUSINESS SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
73 NTT DOCOMO INC: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
74 QUALCOMM INC: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
75 QUALCOMM INC: REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY ($MILLION)
76 QUALCOMM INC: REVENUE, BY PARTICULARS ($MILLION)
77 RESEARCH IN MOTION: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
78 RESEARCH IN MOTION: REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY ($MILLION)
79 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($BILLION)
80 TELEFONICA O2: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
81 TELENOR ASA: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
82 TELENOR ASA: REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY ($MILLION)
83 TELIASONERA AB: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
84 TELIASONERA AB: REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY ($MILLION)
85 TELSTRA CORP LTD: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
86 VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC: REVENUE, BY SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
87 VODAFONE: REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY ($MILLION)
88 ZTE CORP: REVENUE, BY PRODUCT SEGMENTS ($MILLION)
89 ZTE CORP: REVENUE, BY GEOGRAPHY ($MILLION)
LIST OF FIGURES
1 APPLICATIONS OF LTE MARKET VERTICALS (2010)
2 EVOLUTION OF 3GPP
3 LTE MARKET SEGMENTATION
4 LTE MARKET, BY TYPES, PROPORTION & FORECAST (2010 - 2015)
5 LTE ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES
6 ON THE BASIS OF EVOLUTION
7 ON THE BASIS OF DEVICES
8 LTE SUBSCRIBERS, BY TYPES, PROPORTION & FORECAST OF DUPLEXING TECHNIQUES (2010 - 2015)
9 DATA FLOW IN FDD
10 DATA FLOW IN TDD
11 LTE BASE STATION EQUIPMENT COST TREND
12 INCREASING MOBILE DATA TRAFFIC (TB/MONTH)
13 SOPHISTICATION OF MOBILE SERVICES
14 ARCHITECTURE FOR CS FALLBACK IN EPS
15 OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS MATRIX
16 MARKET SHARE ANALYSIS OF TOP PLAYERS
17 GLOBAL LTE MARKET PATENTS (MARCH 2005 - APRIL 2011)
18 GLOBAL LTE MARKET PATENTS (MARCH 2005 - FEBRUARY 2011)
19 LTE MARKET, BY TYPES (2010)
20 LTE INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY TYPES (2010 - 2015)
21 LTE DEVICES PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY TYPES (2010 - 2015)
22 LTE END-USER DEVICES MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY TYPES (2010 - 2015)
23 LTE SERVICES MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY TYPES
(2010 - 2015)
24 LTE MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY APPLICATIONS
(2010 - 2015)
25 LTE MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY GEOGRAPHY (2010 - 2015)
26 LTE INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST,
BY GEOGRAPHY (2010 - 2015)
27 LTE END USER DEVICES MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST,
BY GEOGRAPHY (2010 - 2015)
28 LTE SERVICES MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY GEOGRAPHY (2010 - 2015)
29 LTE SUBSCRIBERS PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY GEOGRAPHY
(2010 - 2015)
30 INCREASE IN MOBILE INTERNET USERS
31 NORTH AMERICA: LTE MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY TYPES (2010 - 2015)
32 EMEA: LTE MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY TYPES
(2010 - 2015)
33 APJ: LTE MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY TYPES (2010 - 2015)
34 LATIN AMERICA: LTE MARKET PROPORTION & FORECAST, BY TYPES (2010 - 2015)
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Hoteliers with updated television issues also have to grapple with the difficulty of bringing high-definition content to guests. Since the days of cathode-ray tube sets, most hotels have used programming providers of pay-per-view media to boost revenue. In today's iPad era, however, more guests are bringing their content with them or remotely accessing their personal video stash on the Web.
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"We chose not to do PPV because [some of the] models are pretty much broken, given the Internet, Netflix and people connecting to DVRs," said Andy Pettingill, director of hotel operations for Western States Lodging & Management. "Our hotels that actually have those systems are not breaking even, so we chose not to make the investment into a revenue source that's not a revenue source anymore."
But moving away from pay-per-view services can complicate the design and simplicity of guestroom entertainment solutions.
"Starting with our Frisco [Texas] Homewood Suites property, about three years ago, we wanted to get away from PPV and decided to go with a local cable provider," said Matthew Newton, president of Magnolia Lodging. "At first it looked to be great because you get 140 channels and digital music from cable. Our lineup was amazing, but they had to put converter boxes in the rooms and we found out it frustrated guests."
Newton compares the diminishing "wow" factor of modern televisions to that of high-speed Internet in the early days of the information boom.
"Two or three years ago you could still get that 'wow' factor," Newton said. "Now people aren't going to change brands because this one has a 42-inch screen and that has a 37-inch screen. But if you have a box TV, you're still going to be left in the cold."
45 percent
Time spent viewing video online increased 45 percent in January 2011 compared to January 2010.
Source: The Nielsen Company
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"Household borrowing in a foreign currency is a widespread phenomenon in Austria. Thirteen percent of Austrian households report their housing loan to be denominated in foreign currency, mostly Swiss franc," investigators in Tilburg, Netherlands report.
"Yet, despite its importance, peculiar character, and acute policy concerns, we know little about the attitudes and characteristics of the households involved in this type of carry trade. We analyze a uniquely detailed financial wealth survey of 2556 Austrian households to sketch a comprehensive profile of the attitudes and characteristics of the households involved. We employ both univariate tests and multivariate multinomial logit models. The survey data suggest that risk seeking, affluent, and married households are more likely to take a housing loan in a foreign currency. Financially literate or high-income households are more likely to take a housing loan in general," wrote C. Beer and colleagues, Tilburg University.
The researchers concluded: "These findings partially assuage policy concerns about household default risk on foreign-currency housing loans or household retirement security."
Beer and colleagues published their study in the Journal of Banking & Finance (Borrowing in foreign currency: Austrian households as carry traders. Journal of Banking & Finance, 2010;34(9):2198-2211).
For additional information, contact S. Ongena, Tilburg University, CentER, Tilburg, Netherlands.
The publisher of the Journal of Banking & Finance can be contacted at: Elsevier Science BV, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Keywords: City:Tilburg, Country:Netherlands, Banking and Finance
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SINGAPORE, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Flextronics today announced that it has changed the date of its previously announced second quarter earnings results conference call from Wednesday, October 28, 2009 to Monday, October 26, 2009. The Company also will host a Mid-Year Business Update Meeting for financial analysts and institutional investors on Tuesday, November 17, 2009, in New York, New York.
The rescheduled earnings conference call, hosted by Flextronics's senior management, will be held on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. PT/ 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the financial results of the Company for its second quarter ended October 2, 2009.
And as previously announced, the Mid-Year Business Update Meeting for financial analysts and institutional investors, hosted by Flextronics's senior management, will be held on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 to discuss the Company's key strategies and initiatives.
Presentations for the earnings call and the Mid-Year Business Update Meeting will be available via the Internet and may be accessed by logging on to the Company's Web site at http://www.flextronics.com/. A replay of the broadcasts will remain available on the Company's Web site after the earnings call and the Mid-Year Business Update Meeting.
Minimum requirements to listen to the broadcast are Microsoft Windows Media Player software (free download at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp) and at least a 28.8 Kbps bandwidth connection to the Internet.
About Flextronics
Headquartered in Singapore (Singapore Reg. No. 199002645H), Flextronics is a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on delivering complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to automotive, computing, consumer, industrial, infrastructure, medical and mobile OEMs. Flextronics helps customers design, build, ship, and service electronics products through a network of facilities in 30 countries on four continents. This global presence provides design and engineering solutions that are combined with core electronics manufacturing and logistics services, and vertically integrated with components technologies, to optimize customer operations by lowering costs and reducing time to market. For more information, please visit http://www.flextronics.com/.
CONTACT: Warren Ligan, or Cindy Klimstra, Investor Relations, +1-408-576-7172, investor_relations@flextronics.com, or Renee Brotherton, Vice President, Corporate Communications, +1-408-576-7189, renee.brotherton@flextronics.com, all of Flextronics
Web Site: http://www.flextronics.com/
BYLINE: Andrew Parker
Last Thursday was my mom's birthday, and thanks to Google I was able easily to locate the telephone number and e-mail address of a favourite local florist who helped to make her day special. If the florist hadn't set up its own website, the business would have gone elsewhere - because I'm currently in London, so the internet is the first place I'm likely to look for something back home. The same could be said of a property owner based abroad: how would he or she typically find a local tiler, painter or plumber? Chances are it's going to start with a web search - that's why many of these types of businesses now have websites and are expanding their horizons.
Some simple but effective examples of this type of service industry website include www.tapchap.com and www.dial-a-plumber .co.za. I located these easily, sitting in the UK, by searching for "plumbers Durban" and "plumbers Cape Town" respectively.
Choose a name: A domain has to be unique on the web: otherwise, given more than one option, a web browser wouldn't know which site to open. This is why "TLDs" or Top Level Domains exist. In South Africa, the ".co.za" TLD is very common, allowing, for example, www.cnn.co.za to be differentiated from www.cnn.com. Strictly speaking, ".co.za" is meant to be used by companies (co) in South Africa (za), although in reality anyone anywhere can register this TLD. Sites that end with .com are typically US-based sites, but this TLD's association is so desirable that sites from all over the world use .com. For a full list of top level domains and their implied associations, see www.tinyurl.com/tld22.
Registering a site's domain name is very easy actually. You can use an all-in-one hosting, design and registrar service like www.home stead.com, or a local registrar with basic site builder tools like Hetzner at www.hetzner .co.za. Basic hosting starts at just R19 a month. Another excellent hosting and site-building service is Siteground at www.siteground .com. They offer a live demo of their easy site building tools and templates, and their hosting charges start at around $6 (R55) a month.
Note that you can register a domain with any internet registrar, but host your website elsewhere, or move it there later, subject to some conditions - it's your choice how you want things set up. The registration just ensures that anyone who links to or visits your website's address will be directed to the appropriate web server - which is provided by the hosting company.
Search Optimisation: Sites are usually found using web searches, and to be effective, a site needs to be near the top of a list of search results. Professional services exist to help fine-tune this process. An example is Intoweb at www.intoweb.co.za, who recently designed braai king Cadac's website at www.cadac.co.za. If you're going it alone, there are some basic rules to remember. Include keywords that search engines like Google will index and use to list your site according to how relevant it is to a user's search. Try to list words that would appear in solutions as well as listing typical excerpts from a web searcher's questions. Think of words associated with the solutions you provide, and incorporate them in your website's text.
For example, a Franschhoek-based paint and decorating shop might use phrases such as "offer paint colour matching and tinting to any custom colour" as well as listing keywords such as Franschhoek, PVA, painting, paint, enamel, rollers, sandpaper, hardware, etc.
You can find more good tips about keywords and search optimisation at www.tinyurl.com/seo11.
Byline: Myung Oak Kim, Rocky Mountain News
It's just before noon on Tuesday at Spire Financial, a mortgage firm at 15th and Platte streets in Denver.
Four young brokers - Nick Brown, Brian Fennell, Ben Parker and Chris Hudnall - are logged onto the Colorado Rockies web site at six computers. They had spent three hours Monday without success, but they're ready to try again. Here's what happens on the second go-round:
11:54 a.m.: "Hey! You can get in now," Brown calls out when he makes it to the first web page.
11:55 a.m.: Brown's phone rings. It's another sales rep. "I'm just trying to get tickets," Brown says. "Who can I send you off to?" He quickly transfers the caller to a co-worker.
11:58 a.m.: Brown gets a message that his Internet browser isn't working. He shuts down other programs.
11:59 a.m.: "How many tickets do we have so far?" asks broker Matt Bliss, who decided not to try again after Monday's luckless outing. "We're up to zero," Brown responds, lowering his chin and groaning.
12:03 p.m.: Fennell paces around the room sipping a water bottle. Like the other computers, his screen shows the two-minute countdown to the purchasing page at 1 second, and nothing else is happening. "I think it's a big joke. It's ridiculous."
12:04 p.m.: Parker gets a text message from friend Heather, a nurse at St. Anthony Central in Denver. "Any luck with tix?" - the note says. No, he responds.
12:08 p.m.: Brown sits at his computer, chewing lightly on his left pinky. He highlights the sentence on the screen that says "Do not refresh this page or you will be dropped to the end of the line." "I wonder if the tickets are out already," Brown says.12:12 p.m.: Broker Matt Bliss walks in the door with a chicken panini sandwich. Fennell jumps up and tells Bliss "We got tickets!" He's joking.
"You guys are (jerks)," Bliss says.
12:16 p.m.: Brown switches on a radio under his desk. "I'm just trying to see if anybody is getting in."
12:18 p.m.: Parker gets another text message from Heather at the hospital. "There r 3 people here trying to get tix," the message says.
12:26 p.m.: Brown gets a call from a co-worker who's out of the office. "Hey, can I use your Internet to try and get Rockies tickets?" Brown asks him. "Thanks."
He runs downstairs to log onto that computer.
12:27 p.m.: Fennell gets a call from co-worker Mike Freeman in their Phoenix office. "Freeman got four tickets," Fennell calls out. "Of course he calls to brag."
"That jerk!" Brown retorts.
12:35 p.m.: Brown bangs his palms against the desk and groans. "What a waste of my life."
12:40 p.m.: Brown opens 15 screens to the Rockies Web site. "One more for good measure," he says as he opens a 16th.
12:57 p.m.: Staffer Tami Cox jumps out of her seat. "My sister got tickets!" she calls out. Cox's younger sister Janice Armstrong bought four $250 tickets from her computer at her physical therapy office in Lakewood.
1:10 p.m.: Phoenix staffer Freeman says he's still trying to complete the ticket purchase.
3:12 p.m.: Freeman is still trying. He had chosen club seats in section 242 and in 246 during a second attempt. He even enters his credit card number. But then he gets bumped out.
3:15 p.m.: Freeman gets a message on the Rockies Web site that the tickets are sold out.
"I'm absolutely disappointed," he says. "I hate the Red Sox."
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Chris Hudnall, left, and Brian Fennell, mortgage brokers at Spire Financial, tell a co-worker to press a certain key after his computer froze while trying to buy World Series tickets online Tuesday. JUDY DEHAAS / THE ROCKY
Apr. 16--A Polka Fest is planned from 1 to 8 p.m. April 23 at the Hosmer Civic Center. A lunch of barbecues and knoefpla will be served. Admission is $6. Supplemental funds will be provided by the Edmunds County Thrivent Chapter 30578. The event will include a door prize. "Bring your family for an afternoon of music and fun," according to the flier. The featured performers will be the Allen Aman Band, The Starliters and 12-year-old Kristi LaRae Goldade of Wishek, N.D.
Goldade is known as "North Dakota's Yodeling Cowgirl." Her first exposure to yodeling came at age 8 at the Medora Musical. She was hooked on yodeling from there on. She then bought a CD with yodeling songs and practiced while feeding calves on the family dairy farm. Her father, Michael, got in contact via the Internet with Janet McBride, "The Yodeling Queen of Texas." McBride sent Goldade various tracks and songs, opening a whole new world of different yodeling songs for Goldade to practice. Goldade is one of the six children of Michael and Geraldine Goldade.
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Boeing Integrated Defense Systems President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Albaugh, and Boeing Commercial Airplanes Vice President of Future Customer and Market Kent Fisher, will speak at the SG Cowen "Global Aerospace Conference" in New York City on Tuesday, Feb. 11.
Mr. Albaugh is expected to discuss Boeing's performance, strategy and outlook, with a focus on Integrated Defense Systems. Mr. Fisher will be one of the featured participants in a panel discussion on the commercial aerospace market.
A live audio webcast of the panel discussion featuring Mr. Fisher will be available on the Internet at 9:55 a.m. Eastern Time at the Boeing home page, http://www.boeing.com/ . The live audio webcast of Mr. Albaugh's presentation, as well as slide materials, will be available at 12:05 p.m. Eastern Time at the Boeing home page, http://www.boeing.com/ .
Individuals should check the web site ahead of time to ensure their computers are configured for the audio stream and slide presentation.
CONTACT: Boeing Communications, John Morrocco, +1-312-544-2002, or Boeing Investor Relations, Paul Kinscherff, +1-312-544-2140, both of Boeing
Web site: http://www.boeing.com/
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