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Doing it Right (ous)ly 
Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 12:23 PM - Technology


Warren Buffet says ‘you only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong’. Especially so, in the time of recession, we are left with two choices i.e. either to sit idly dong nothing or to fight it out with dogged determination, unflinching spirit and no-nonsense approach.

We have to invest our hard earned money and resources in to a business which augurs well for future. Let’s look at a number that speaks volume of the highly promising business. UK Sleep Council reports in 2008 that 25% of British couples sleep apart at least part of the time because of a partner is busy using mobile by messaging in bed. Can you see the opportunity therein? Why not to avail it when it is there?

We don’t need to reinvent the wheel to make money because the path is already laid down. All we need to do is to surge on the path with due diligence.
The path I just mentioned is, of Android application development. All have heard of iPhone applications but this-the android platform- is going to shoot through the roofs. It’ll break the records of all sorts because of its open source code and excellent UI. Most of the mobile instrument makers have decided to take advantage of these features. This is the high time to read the undercurrents of the prevailing market situation and make the call to meet success. Currently there are 415 paid apps in Android technology.

Mobile industry is, without an iota of doubt, the industry where tremendous untapped opportunity lies. All that has been done so far is just like to collect shells on the seashore. Real pearls are yet to be found. No doubt it requires the brave and fearless heart of lion along with non apprehensive mind.

One is not required to be a rocket scientist to estimate the growth of an industry that has done so well in such a small span of time. Mobile device is something we glance at every eleventh minute. It is the first thing we look at as we wake up in the morning and it is the last thing that we look at before we tuck ourselves into bed. Regardless of the place, we carry it everywhere e.g. bathroom, conference room, or bedroom for that matter.

This is the time of credit crunch and recession wherein most people are feeling the heat of the economy. What smart people would do is to make this section smile. Try to instill hope and confidence in the people who have domestic and financial problems.

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Mobile Methodology 
Friday, May 1, 2009, 09:15 AM - Technology


Let’s move from the money to the people. How many have mobile? Ten years ago, wherever you went on the planet, even in the most advanced markets, the mobile phone was only an executive toy. In most advanced industrialized countries like Germany, UK and the USA, mobile phones were toys for the boys, status symbols, expensive accessories for the young and up-coming business types. People who pretended to be important would show it off.

Ten years ago, there was a mobile phone subscription for 5 percent of total populace. Today there are 3.95 billion mobile phone subscriptions (let’s call it an even 4 billion, we'll be at 4 billion in January). That means there is a mobile phone subscription for more than 55% of the population on the planet. Let’s give comparative numbers. There are 800 million cable/satellite TV subscriptions. There are 850 million cars. There are 950 million personal computers (laptops and desktops combined). About 1.2 billion fixed landline phones. About 1.2 people use email. 1.3 billion is the total number of internet users. All television sets on the planet number 1.4 billion and credit cards, there are about 1.5 billion unique holders of a credit card. (Source: - Tomy Ahonen)

Mobile phones work by sending and receiving wireless radio signals. The handsets that people carry with them communicate with each other via base stations that are interconnected by way of switching centers. Base stations are located every few kilometers throughout the country, and mobile phones can be used just about anywhere that has a sizable population. What people think of nowadays when they hear the words mobile phone appeared in the 1990s. Portable phone services that could be used by individuals, however, actually began more than 10 years earlier. The car phone appeared in 1979, and in 1985 NTT released the "shoulder phone," which could be carried freely by a user.

The shoulder phone, however, weighed 7 pounds and was large and had limited connectivity. Mobile phones really began to take off in 1991, when NTT released very light models that weighed only about half a pound. This is what is now known as the first generation of mobile phones.

In 1993, what were called second-generation mobile phones hit the market. In comparison with first-generation phones, new models offered much clearer sound quality, and the problem of having the signal cut off when many users congregated in one area was overcome. The mainstream mobile phones of today, which have been referred to as generation 2.5, provide a variety of useful functions, such as allowing users to send and receive e-mail and access the Internet.

At the dawn of 1990s, Sony Corp. developed lithium-ion batteries that were light, thin, and capable of storing a large amount of power, and other major makers rushed to keep pace. As these new powerful batteries became commonly used, mobile phones became small and light enough that a user could comfortably fit one in his or her pocket. (www.web-japan.org)

These days, more and more home appliances are becoming digitized. It may soon become possible for people to program their VCRs while away from home (!!!) and to set their air conditioners to switch on shortly before they return! Many people believe that mobile phones will eventually become a sort of all-purpose remote control.

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An Android Era 
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 03:58 AM - Technology


Making millions has never been easier than this! One good idea, a perfect planning and exquisite execution bound to trigger success. As they say ‘Thinking is Hard work’. Dexterous thinking leads one to unimaginable altitudes. Cultivating imaginative ideas to help bring smile on the faces can definitely assure you physical as well as psychological prosperity. Android is the new kid on the horizon. It’s booming. Remember, one has to grab the opportunity upfront rather than catching up with the same, later on.

Open source code is the buzzword for people in IT world. It means a lot to this connoisseur’s guild. We have witnessed quite a few innovations in general and communication industry in particular that have done wonders to our lives. Android technology is knocking the door of opportunities. This technology is the future of technology! It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries. From a developer perspective, its strong openness makes it extremely interesting. On Android, "Apps are created equal" and you don't need to sign an application to deploy it.

There are still only two phones based on the open-source operating system: the HTC Dream -- also known as the T-Mobile G1 -- and Vodafone's HTC Magic. But don’t you realistically think about others to follow suit? I emphatically believe that the race has just begun and the money involved in the game would be tremendous.

Samsung has said it will launch three Android phones this year. Google just announced on 14th of April that It is about to announce the Smartphone platform version 1.5. The Version 1.5 of the smartphone platform will include support for soft keyboards (including ones from third parties), live folders and speech recognition. Just imagine! How huge the market is going to be! It is definitely going to rock. People who have invested effort, time and money into this upcoming technology are bound to make their fortunes within a very short span of time.

All of us live in an age where a technology becomes obsolete in no time! Technology has made our lives increasingly easier. But with applications on iPhone and Android platforms, it will get much easier for sure. People having knack of the technology will tap the opportunity and make millions.

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Catch the Magic 
Saturday, March 28, 2009, 05:38 AM - Technology


Only a year ago, if you ask anyone ‘where he accesses news from’, the probable answers would be TV, Radio or Internet. Besides the majority of those accessing news and information would report that they did so only a few times in the month; so over the small period of just one year, we have witnessed mobile Internet access become a part of the daily media diet of a hugely growing number of people.

The number of people using mobile devices to access the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009, according to comScore, a provider of Internet tracking. Internet users have been using smartphones for personal use and to conduct business, similar to the way they would use a laptop or home computer. But the convenience of carrying mobile is way better than laptop leave alone desktops. Nowadays business is done at the speed of the light and nobody is ready to wait for years to receive feedback. Mobile internet is an efficient mode to increase the speed of communication.

Researchers predicts that there will be more growth next year as mobile content offerings continue to expand and as more consumers learn to use the mobile Internet. Furthermore, devices are becoming more sophisticated and less expensive, and data plans are being packaged and priced more attractively to allure new customer into their fold.

Last January, of the 63.2 million people who used their mobile device to access information, 22.4 million, or 35 percent of mobile-device users, did it on a daily basis; more than double last year's 10.8 million people.

At the beginning of this year, 22.3 million people accessed news and other content using a downloaded application. One of the most popular downloaded applications was maps, with an 8.2 million users.


In January, device users not only used mobile phones to search for directions, but 14.1 million also conducted searches for content and 32.4 million used SMS to access news and information.

Let us measure where we stand on this whole picture. Are we ready to leverage the benefits ?

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M-Commerce Mania, Magic & Magnificence 
Friday, February 13, 2009, 02:55 AM - Technology
The new buzzword on the economic horizon is M-commerce. People earn their fortunes unbelievably. Steve Demeter, developer of the vastly popular $5 iPhone game Trism, announced he made $250,000 in profit in just two months!!! Just imagine how many businesses have such an astounding potential. His team was comprised of Himself, mainly, with a little bit of help from a friend and a contracted designer (whom he paid $500). If his profits continue at this rate, Demeter will earn nearly $2 million by July 2009.

In 2000 and 2001 hundreds of billions of dollars in licensing fees were paid by European telecommunications companies for UMTS and other 3G licenses. The high prices paid were due to the expectation of highly profitable mobile commerce applications. These mobile commerce applications would be delivered through broadband mobile telephony provided by 2.5G and 3G cell phone services

Let’s move from the money to the people. How many have mobile? Ten years ago, wherever you went on the planet, even in the most advanced markets, the mobile phone was only an executive toy. In most advanced industrialized countries like Germany, UK and the USA, mobile phones were toys for the boys, status symbols, expensive accessories for the young and up-coming business types. People who pretended to be important would show it off. The mobile industry has every reason to cheer for the current boom. It is the industry that has carved out niche for itself. Following are the chief benefits (& reasons),
  • economy of scale
  • quicker and easier delivery
  • effective target marketing
  • privacy-friendly data mining on consumer behavior
  • environment-friendly and resources-saving efficacy
Ten years ago, there was a mobile phone subscription for 5 percent of total populace. Today there are 3.95 billion mobile phone subscriptions (let’s call it an even 4 billion, we'll be at 4 billion in January). That means there is a mobile phone subscription for more than 55% of the population on the planet. Let’s give comparative numbers. There are 800 million cable/satellite TV subscriptions. There are 850 million cars. There are 950 million personal computers (laptops and desktops combined). About 1.2 billion fixed landline phones. About 1.2 people use email. 1.3 billion is the total number of internet users. All television sets on the planet number 1.4 billion and credit cards, there are about 1.5 billion unique holders of a credit card. (Source: - Tomy Ahonen)

This and other statistics which would follow in the series of articles would definitely act as stimulus. The time has come wherein smart work is the need of the hour. Smart people just direct their efforts in right direction and yield tremendous dividends for the same…

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