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With the recent boom in mobile messaging apps including WhatsApp and LINE, consumer brands that have relied on text messaging to communicate with audiences for more than 10 years, have to wonder if text messaging, specifically common short codes, are still as relevant to consumers as they once were.

For many years, the fraud management (FM) solutions market has been dominated by small and mid-sized software developers.

OneM2M announced its elected leadership team for 2017, with representatives of Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, LG Electronics and Qualcomm among those taking roles...

The holiday shopping season offers a prime opportunity for retailers to engage with gift-buyers and drive sales. Print, online and email promotions are rampant and high levels of mobile engagement via mobile applications and coupons is expected. According to GPShopper, roughly half of all holiday shoppers planned to take advantage of mobile coupons last year.

Ericsson subsidiary iconectiv (formerly Telcordia) aligns to deliver a range of data services on top of its core interconnection and data services business. It's starting with a handful of telcom big-data-driven services in the area of operator revenue assurance, but it has a clear vision of helping operators move toward monetizing their big-data assets via what 451 calls 'telecom data as a service' (TDaaS) offerings.

While the growing availability of 4G networks has greatly attributed to the thriving Indian mobile subscriber base, few companies in India have been able to convert expanding telecom subscriptions into a highly successful business model...

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) announced the election of new members to its Board of Directors. The five newly-elected members are Doug Davis, chief technology officer (CTO), West Telecommunications Services (incumbent); Chris Drake, CTO, iconectiv (incumbent); Kent Hellebust, group vice president and general Manager, Comtech Telecommunications; Todd Landry, corporate vice president, product and marketing, JMA Wireless; and Ganesh Pattabiraman, president and CEO,…