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The global market for mobile phone applications is expected to soar to $17.5 billion by 2012, surpassing the total value of CDs sold, new research forecasts. The revenue from mobile apps is expected to increase at a 62 percent compound annual growth rate from $4.1 billion in 2009 to $17.5 billion in 2012, according to a research report by Chetan Sharma Consulting. In comparison, the total value of CDs sold is only expected to approach $13.8 billion by the same year.

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Report: Consumers Will Be Gaga for Mobile Apps by 2012

Aberdeen surveyed over 100 organizations between December 2009 and February of 2010 to identify the best practices enterprises are using that improve application performance management solutions’ impact on end-user productivity and the business benefits of a “lifecycle” approach to application performance management. The research results reveal that Best-in-Class enterprises focus on a holistic approach to application performance management to reduce the time to identify and resolve critical application performance issues.

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Managing Enterprise App Performance With an Iron Fist

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” If you haven’t heard that one multiple times, you aren’t really in business. It’s a truism — and part of being a truism is that it’s true, for the most part. When a new business strategy emerges, it can temporarily topple truisms — but soon, they’re back and as applicable as ever. That disruptive period can be confusing, but also exciting and rife with opportunity. Such is the case with Social CRM.

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Strike While the Social CRM Iron Is Hot

The Federal Communication Commission’s national broadband plan, formally unveiled this week, certainly has lofty goals: Provide greater access to broadband, increase broadband speeds, help establish a national emergency network, help improve the economy and ensure the U.S. leads the way in digital technology. However, the FCC’s plan may be even more complex to implement than it appears. Apart from possibly kicking up new battles with the private sector over what the government can and cannot do, the plan raises questions.

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Anxieties Besiege FCC’s Broadband Game Plan

The Nexus One smartphone is now compatible with AT&T’s 3G network in the United States. Though the unlocked device can be used with SIM cards from most GSM operators worldwide, frequency differences meant its 3G compatibility was previously limited to T-Mobile’s network in the U.S. The Android-based device also now runs on Rogers Wireless’ 3G network in Canada. News of the expanded compatibility will certainly provide additional options for users of the well-hyped smartphone and help level out the playing field with Apple’s iPhone, which also runs on AT&T.

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AT&T 3G May Not Be Enough to Save Nexus One