Long used to strong growth and high margins, medtech companies are learning to adapt to a new normal. Since 2011, industry sales have grown at about 3% a year until more recently, when the growth rate reached the mid-single digits, and margins have been continuously under pressure. Health care providers, meanwhile, are looking for more…
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As the market is flooded with latest technologies, innovations, and ideas to ease out processes that require human intervention, mobile phones so far have been the only technology to sustain and serve the needs of consumers. While people have multiple means to get connected, mobile phones can be thought of as the most convenient and…
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Service Provider Have you ever wondered how to choose an authentication service provider? We are amid a growing trend of using federated identifiers to provide authentication to the websites we use everyday. We can log in to countless applications using our social media accounts, our work accounts all have SSO capabilities, and we can even…
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Premium SMS, what is it ? Premium SMS or SMS Pay, is a 3-7 digit number used for messages that charge a certain price to the end-user, per SMS received. The user pays a higher price per message than for a “normal” message. Premium SMS is widely used to monetize content, allowing customers to pay…
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What Is Mobile Advertising? The term mobile advertising refers to any form of advertising that appears on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Companies advertise on these devices through text ads via SMS or through banner advertisements that appear embedded on a mobile website. They may also be found through downloaded apps including…
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Content providers can help an application manage access to data stored by itself, stored by other apps, and provide a way to share data with other apps. They encapsulate the data, and provide mechanisms for defining data security. Content providers are the standard interface that connects data in one process with code running in another…
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The Mobile Service Desk – Workers want choices and because of this, companies are tossing ticket and response IT processes and embracing the idea of empowering employees “to make tech choices at work and away from traditional IT departments,” CIO notes. Not all technology problems can be solved independently, however, and many businesses are now…
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What exactly is a telecommunication system? You may be among the many individuals who are likely scratching their heads and struggling in vain to come up with a concrete definition for this term. In an era of constant innovation and technological evolution, you can be forgiven for forgetting that popular telecommunication hardware is quite dated.…
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Venturing Into Value Added Services in Medtech – In this article we’ll explores how medtech companies have fared at integrating value added services into their offerings. It also examines how these companies can accelerate growth by pulling through product sales and offering broader solutions for health care providers. The first article, “Profiting from Product Services…
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Entering SMS sweepstakes is a fast and fun way to win. However, while all sweepstakes are free, SMS sweepstakes may have charges associated with them that online sweepstakes do not. There are two types of SMS fees to watch out for before you enter sweepstakes by SMS: standard and premium SMS charges. Here’s what you…
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