Posted by: Bappy on: July 14, 2009
I don’t often write about tech issues, but so much is being written about the Google Chrome OS announcement I thought I’d weigh in.
On the surface, the announcement of a Google operating system seems to many like a shot at rival Microsoft, an attack at MS’s core business. But those who have been following Google’s [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: June 13, 2009
Research released today by mobile device management company Mformation highlights that the mobile phone is becoming increasingly central to consumer lifestyles. A significant amount of information is now stored on mobile devices. 94% of users surveyed store telephone numbers while 65% also store address and other contact information on their phones; 83% have digital photos, [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
With stronger competitive pressure from internet players, telecom operators are giving more attention to the option of transformation through unified operations support systems over the best of breed approach.
For Clarity International CEO Tony Kalcina, much of the push is from the web players’ successes in OSS and billing, which ironically take off from the achievements [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
New research from Wireless Intelligence has revealed that the world’s largest mobile handset vendors are facing severe financial pressures as they continue to invest in their product portfolios during the market slowdown. We estimate that the average operating margin at the top five vendors – Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG – declined to [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
The principal performance benefit femtocells bring to LTE is to ensure more users receive peak data rates more of the time, especially inside buildings where the most mobile broadband data is consumed and where the service quality is lower than outside.
Femtocells achieve this by maximising spectrum re-use and by ensuring power, and therefore network capacity, [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
European researchers believe they have achieved what has remained an almost impossible dream in the wireless world: powerful mobile services that work simply, seamlessly and intuitively. European researchers have developed a mobile services platform that is generating a lot of excitement among fellow researchers and developers. It already works with Windows Mobile and Symbian, two [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
The latest data from IMS Research shows that the SIM card market continues to defy the economic downturn that is currently hitting the mobile market. Total shipments of SIM cards in 2008 grew to reach the record number of 3.07 billion. This is in marked contrast to the numbers from manufacturers which showed handset shipments [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 25, 2009
Annual revenues from value-added services upsold through downloaded apps are expected to exceed $14bn by 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The mobile applications report found that storefronts are increasingly likely to offer the facility to upsell premium content from within the app itself (including the App Store, starting later this year). [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 25, 2009
An NSERC-funded lab at the University Of Waterloo has laid the groundwork for a lithium battery that can store and deliver more than three times the power of conventional lithium ion batteries. The research team of professor Linda Nazar, graduate student David Xiulei Ji and postdoctoral fellow Kyu Tae Lee are one of the first [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 6, 2009
Apple ranks highest in customer satisfaction with smartphone manufacturers, while LG ranks highest among traditional mobile phone users, according to a couple of J.D. Power and Associates reports. The studies measure customer satisfaction with traditional wireless handsets and smartphones across several key factors. In order of importance, key factors in examining traditional wireless handsets are [...]
