Mobile & Wireless Communications

As smartphone and tablet adoption experiences continued exponential growth among consumers—and as mobile broadband becomes increasingly ubiquitous—social networking and the creation, synching, and management of rich multimedia content [purchased and user generated] are becoming increasingly important aspects of the user’s mobile broadband experience. With consumers around the world continuing to create, access, and share an increasing amount and variety of personal and multimedia content across a wide range of mobilized and fixed consumer electronic devices, the need to store, access, and seamlessly sync this content across multiple platforms is causing a paradigm shift in the way consumer data is stored in the cloud and on the devices. This shift is reshaping consumer behavior and creating new opportunities as well as challenges for different nodes in the mobile value chain...