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2010 iQmetrix Wireless Summit: Experience It.

5 Ways to Improve Your Summer Staffing

The New Smartphone Wars

Gartner: Cellphone Games Market to Grow 19% in 2010

Twitter Phones Coming to Japan

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2010 iQmetrix Wireless Summit: Experience It.

Once again, iQmetrix is inviting retailers to its innovative and industry-leading Wireless Retail Summit, from Oct. 17 to 19, 2010 in Scottsdale, AZ, sponsored by BlackBerry.

Held at the luxurious Fairmont Scottsdale, the 6th annual Wireless Summit is the largest and fastest-growing event of its kind for wireless retailers in North America. This year’s event features an exciting line-up of speakers, presentations and workshops to help attendees grow their business, improve their knowledge of RQ4 and discuss industry trends.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Summer Staffing

Summertime is a good time for wireless retailers to hire student employees and allow senior staff to take some well deserved holidays. 

The business resource writers at the National Federation for Independent Business (NFIB) suggest that the key to getting through the vacation season is to prepare early by scheduling employee leave and have backup plans so that your business can still get the job done.

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The New Smartphone Wars

With the release of the Apple iPhone 4 last Thursday (June 24), Research In Motion announcing the same day that it passed the 100 million BlackBerrys sold mark and with Google’s Android platform growing in popularity, we are truly in the midst of the most active and competitive smartphone market ever.

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Gartner: Cellphone Games Market to Grow 19% in 2010

Last month (May 17), Gartner reported that a buoyant market for mobile gaming will open up opportunities for application store owners and handset vendors.

Gartner predicts that worldwide mobile gaming end-user revenue will surpass $5.6 billion in 2010, a 19 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $4.7 billion. By 2014, the firm says, the market will grow steadily to reach $11.4 billion.

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Twitter Phones Coming to Japan

More often than not, the Japanese market is exposed to cutting-edge technology before the rest of the world. But said technology doesn’t always necessarily “take off” internationally, and in the case of new “Twitter phones” in the Land of the Rising Sun, it will be interesting to see just how far the devices can go.

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Volume #5, Issue #13
June 30, 2010

DID YOU KNOW?

Social media usage among Internet-connected Americans has gone from 20% penetration in 2007 to 66% penetration in 2010, a 230% jump.

(Source: Experian Simmons)

 

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