Big losers in the global financial crisis in this country are likely to be the iconic software firms like Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Much of their business comes from the erstwhile giant investment banks and that could affect their profitability in the short term. In the medium-to-long term, however, these companies are likely to have greater resilience given their innovative approach in the past to hunting out new markets and customers.

According to Mr.Behl, Telecom is the only sector in India which stands strong and has not been affected much apart from slight lowering of the Average Revenue per User (ARPU). A new report from Juniper Research supports his statement and states that ­Increasing adoption of messaging and content services, aided by increased availability of 2G and 3G-based mobile networks, is expected to push operator-billed data revenues in the mobile markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China (collectively referred to as the BRIC economies) from $26.2 billion in 2008 to more than $48.3 billion by 2013.

Our takeaways:
- The Android YouTube navigation and user interface are clean and accessible
- More information and metadata is readily available than for YouTube on the iPhone. You can even scroll through comments
- BUT...video is larger and higher-res on the iPhone screen

The glaring issue for both phones is that they don't support video uploads. The iPhone technically does, but you have to unlock it to enable video. And the G-1 is supposed to incorporate video capture in an upcoming release, we were told at its launch event, but it doesn't have it yet.

While WURFL, Device Atlas, etc. are all great resources for very specific capability profiling...we've found that turning the problem upside down made much more sense and delivered faster, better results.

The key thing that most developers seem to be trying to do is to identify if a user IS using a specific Mobile Device.

The problem with this is that the User Agent strings on Mobile Devices are inconsistent at best...and completely useless or even non-existent at worst.

Once you accept this the inverse answer becomes clear.

PC browsers are much more reliable and consistent in identifying the Operating System they belong to. Also, there is only a small handful off Operating Systems you need to detect. So this is how our solution works.

We call this !device-detection ("Not Device" Detection).

If your User Agent isn't one of the following Operating Systems:

- Windows
- Macintosh/Mac OSX
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- Solaris
- (Add niche OSes here)

And your User Agent doesn't contain one of the following strings:

- bot
- slurp
- spider
- crawl

Then you are almost guaranteed to be on a Mobile Device.

Within this group you can then also clearly identify the important groups that are consistent:

- iPhone/iPod Touch
- Windows Mobile

We have implemented this method for two major Telco's a major Insurance company, our leading edge Mobile Payment service and our own web projects. This is a strategy that has proven to be very effective and only requires a simple set of regular expressions in the form of Apache mod_rewrite directives that can work in either Apache or IIS.

We also couple this with a simple design pattern that provides a link from the Mobile site back to the PC site just in case we accidentally mis-classify a user. After all they should be able to ask for the full PC version if they really want it.

We've also recently put together a case-study that looks at some well known large corporations in Australia to see how they are or are NOT handling automatic device detection. The results are very surprising.

A full copy of the presentation is online on slideshare

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Now we thought it's time we shared this strategy in order to broaden the on-going device detection discussion.

I got the coolest snow globe ever! It's pink and white and it has 3 disney princess' in it. And its musical too. I think after my room is finally all done, it's going to look so awesome. I still need a rug, and a desk. And a crib eventually when I get the money. I decided I'm getting all white furniture for my room, and everything else pink. Oh and the mobile I have, is broken now because when my grandmother and I were cleaning my room and it fell. But I can easily fix it with some superglue. Hmm...I think that is all I have to say about my room for now.

My diapers just love to leak now... they suck sooo much. I need to find a way to get better diapers. For a few days I had no problem, then all of a sudden they started up with leaking again. I think it's because they are like 2 times bigger than me LOL. I'm kind of in between sizes right now, too big for mediums, yet too small for large LOL.

I think that's about it right now, oh and I'm finally almost finished with the chapter to my story. Bye everyone!

幾つかある変更点の中で最も際立ってるのが、待望のオフラインビューイング！！！

あと、イメージを保存出来るようになったり、起動時に前回最後に見てたページを表示しないようにも出来るようになった。

とりあえずは速報ってことで。詳細はまた今夜にでも書く予定♪

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O Banco Itaú deu um grande passo à frente da concorrência e colocou no ar o Itaú Mobile 3G, site para operações de Internet Banking com interface adaptada para o iPhone, permitindo que clientes possam acessar sua conta com mais naturalidade pelo celular da Apple.

Pelo Itaú Mobile 3G, o correntista poderá verificar saldos e extratos de conta corrente, poupanças e cartões de crédito, lançamentos futuros, realizar pagamentos, transferir valores e emitir DOCs. O cliente ainda poderá consultar investimentos e ações, checar endereços de agências e telefones para atendimento.

Para comunicar a novidade, já está no ar uma campanha da agência Africa que inclui peças em jornais, revistas, Internet, malas diretas, telas de caixas eletrônicos e um filme que poderá ser visto no iPhone. O filme faz parte da campanha institucional desse ano, e reforça o conceito de oferecer a melhor relação custo-benefício para os clientes, através da narrativa de um lápis, ícone da campanha, e de letterings que mostram as iniciativas e postura do Itaú.

Para navegar no site do seu iPhone ou iPod touch, acesse http://www.itau.com.br/mobile  O sistema do banco detectará o navegador do telefone (o Safari Mobile) e o redirecionará para o site correto.

Vale lembrar que o Itaú chegou ao celular em 2000, por meio da tecnologia WAP. Em 2007, o banco passou a disponibilizar também uma versão mais moderna do Itaú Mobile, em linguagem HTML.

Alexander Calder (julho de 1898 - novembro de 1976), também conhecido por Sandy Calder, foi um escultor e artista plástico americano famoso por desenvolver seus móbiles.

Formou-se em engenharia e antes de se dedicar à escultura foi pintor e ilustrador.

Em 1926 , após visitar a Grã-Bretanha, fixou-se em Paris, onde conheceu surrealistas, dadaístas e os componentes do grupo De Stijl. Data dessa época sua amizade com Joan Miro. Construiu um circo em miniatura, com animais de madeira e arame. Os seus “espetáculos” eram assistidos por artistas e intelectuais. Fez, também em arame, as suas primeiras esculturas: Josephine Baker (1926), Romulu and Remus (1928), Spring (1929).

De 1931 datam as suas primeiras construções abstratas, nitidamente influenciadas por Mondrian. Os primeiros móbiles são de 1932.

Em 1933 Calder voltou aos Estados Unidos. Em 1948 viajou à América do Sul e de novo em 1959. Nessa última ocasião, visitou o Brasil, onde expôs no Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Em 1950 foi à Escandinávia.

Calder ocupa lugar especial entre os escultores modernos. Criador dos stabiles, sólidas esculturas fixas, e dos móbiles, placas e discos metálicos unidos entre si por fios que se agitam tocados pelo vento, assumindo as formas mais imprevistas – a sua arte, no dizer de Marcel Duchamp, “é a sublimação de uma árvore ao vento”.

Calder foi o primeiro a explorar o movimento na escultura e um dos poucos artistas a criar uma nova forma – o mobile. Nos últimos anos mantinha um estúdio em Saché, perto de Tours, e embora vivesse aí a maior parte do tempo, conservou sua fazenda de Roxbury, Connecticut, comprada em 1933, e que se tornara um verdadeiro repositório de trabalhos e objetos feitos por ele – desde os andirons espiralados da lareira rústica até às bandejas feitas com latas de azeite italiano.

And T-Mobile have just announced a launch date for the UK.

Isn't it about time someone brought it up here to Canada?

The problem here is that we only have one GSM provider as Rogers owns Fido - and Rogers/Fido is already committed to the iPhone. Would they want to launch a device that is being touted as an 'iPhone killer'? Probably not.

But maybe there's a glimmer of hope... Bell have announced that they're going to be rolling out a 3G GSM network in time for the 2010 Olympics. Wouldn't the 'iPhone killer' be a great way to launch their new network with a bang and grab a heck of a lot of publicity and market share?

Of course they're not going to have a network for it for another year. But people are already talking about the G2. Maybe the timing will coincide for Bell and they can launch the G2 on their new network next year? And hopefully with more competitive data rates than those that brought Rogers international publicity of the wrong sort.

Pure speculation on my behalf. But next autumn I'll be digging out this blog post and saying "I told you so!"

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The FCC will now take comments, then create rules to determine how such white spaces devices should operate. The rules may be voted on at the next FCC public meeting held on Nov. 4. From the report:

This action will open for use a significant amount of spectrum with very desirable propagation characteristics that has heretofore lain fallow. It will also allow the development of new and innovative types of unlicensed devices that provide broadband data and other services for businesses and consumers without disrupting the incumbent television and other authorized services that operate in the TV bands. The Commission is considering whether to also allow “personal/portable” WSDs to operate in the TV spectrum.

Technology companies, including Google, Microsoft, Motorola and Dell, have all stepped forward to show their support this proposal. On the other side, several groups using the spectrum, including the National Association of Broadcasters, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and those using wireless microphones have protested, citing the potential for interference. The FCC undertook 18 months of testing that is reflected in this report.

Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, issued the following statement:

"This isn't about one industry versus another. And the real value of unlicensed white spaces isn't in the devices of today -- it's in their future potential to connect all Americans to a fast, affordable, open Internet. Freeing up these powerful airwaves will create a boom in innovative technologies and expand the opportunities for citizens to communicate with one another and the rest of the world."

It could also lead to a bonanza for device makers who can sell devices to access such spectrum, and for firms such as Google who would see more consumers online viewing more of its advertising. Depending on the quality and speed of access offered over white spaces, it might also affect the monthly data services wireless operators currently sell for $60 a pop.

However, until the FCC begins setting rules for this spectrum, it remains hard to see how this will play out in the real world. As we've said before, the FCC could still create rules for devices operating in this spectrum that limit the usefulness of a white spaces network.

Thanks Franco per la ''pronta'' segnalazione

Fonte:Mobileburn

Mobile technology, including everything from inventive applications for smart phones to simple text messaging, is increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world. USAID challenges you to explore its potential through an innovation for maximum development impact in areas such as health, banking, education, agricultural trade, or other pressing development issues.

Find more information on this challenge here, including the key dates.

TC-I has regularly reported on developments in the usage of mobile technology to help tackle social issues - be it spreading health message through ringtones or lowering the cost of banking. Innovations in mobile technology coupled with the intense competiton in the mobile market space have lowered the entry level for cell phones and also helped increase its reach manifold. Now we need to ensure that innovative ideas levarage this ecology.

PS: The site http://www.netsquared.org/ is itself a very interesting portal. Their motto clear states their objective of "remixing the web for social change". You can find a few other very interesting and cutting edge web based solutions.

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

Just connect BSNL DataOne Broadband and you are ready to do Sa Re Ga Ma ... Voice of India

It's still in beta and only has limited functionality, but what it does have is 100% browser detection (using Wapple Exhibit), and has fancy things like image resizing..

It's currently running on http://docs.online-footie.com and works pretty well! Once a few features have been added in, i'll release it into the wild so everyone can have a go with it!

I'm not saying that Windows Mobile is no longer relevant. What I am saying is that Microsoft’s grand mobile ambitions might have to come down a few notches. Just like open-source server software made it impossible for Microsoft to extend its stranglehold to servers and the back-end infrastructure business, these newer mobile platforms will act as speed barriers to Microsoft’s mobile ambitions.

Research firm Gartner recently released smartphone market share data for the second quarter, and some of the numbers were pretty astonishing. RIM's market share surged 126 percent over the second quarter of 2007, to 17.4 percent. For the same year-over-year period, Apple’s OS X platform rocketed higher by 230.6 percent to encompass 2.8 7.3 percent of the worldwide market. Symbian was flat, and Windows Mobile market edged up a mere 20.6 share to stand at 11.5 percent for the period.

Notably, this was before Blackberry figured out its game and announced a slew of devices, among them its new flip phone, aimed at higher-end consumers. A bunch of others, like the Bold and the Storm, will soon be released in the U.S. as well. And Apple continues to wow with its iPhone. But none of those present the most immediate threat to Microsoft's mobile platform -- that comes from Google's Android.

Over the weekend, rumors began surfacing that T-Mobile USA had pre-sold nearly 1.5 million units of the Google Phone, the G-1, made by handset maker HTC. After seeing the phone up close and personal, I'm not at all surprised.

A few weeks ago, I moderated a panel in Boston that included Rich Miner, group manager of mobile platforms at Google and one of the co-founders of Android, a startup that Google acquired in 2005. Android, of course, has become the underpinning of Google’s assault on the mobile industry.

Miner, who was a keynote speaker at our Mobilize conference, let me play around with his Google Phone. Since I wasn’t able to attend the launch event in New York, it was my first interaction with the device whose existence and emergence over the past few years we have closely followed.

It didn't take long for me to conclude that the device was well designed, sturdy, fast, easy to use and very intuitive -- many of the same sentiments already expressed by experts such as Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal and über gadget blogs Engadget and Gizmodo. (Of course, we share similar concerns as well.)

What I don't believe is that the device will have a major impact on Apple’s iPhone. The two have a lot in common the way a Mercedes and a Toyota truck have a lot in common: While they contain some of the same basic features -- in this case a touch screen, an application framework that draws inspiration from their web peers and a near-identical Webkit browser -- the user experience on the two devices is markedly different. In other words, the companies are going after different market segments.

Google's Android, in my opinion, is a direct competitor to Windows Mobile. Put another way, it's Windows Mobile done right. I say this because I have tried dozens of Windows Mobile-based phones and their user interface always leaves me feeling like someone with multiple cuts being submerged in salt water. Don’t get me wrong – I think Windows Mobile as an OS has come a long way since its early, awkward roots. It's just that the new guys are better. A lot better.

In fact Miner, when he used to work at French-owned mobile carrier Orange, was one of the people who helped introduce a customized version of a Windows Mobile-based HTC device there. The experience with Windows Mobile left him so frustrated that he convinced Andy Rubin to team up and build the Android OS.

Sometime later this month, the G-1 will go on sale and people (at least those in the U.S.) will be able to experience the difference between a Windows Mobile- and an Android-based phone for themselves. Of course, some will find the shortcomings of the Google Phone -- and according to Mossberg, there are many -- grating. Others, like me, will be suitably impressed. And if they're impressed enough, most handset makers will want to join the party.

So is Windows Mobile a lost cause? Absolutely not: Microsoft still sells millions of devices based on this platform, has brand-name mobile phone makers as partners and, most importantly, the ability to spend seemingly endlessly. They could start by buying browser maker Cellfire Skyfire to make up for Internet Explorer Mobile. And they could hammer home the advantages of Mobile, like how easy it to run VoIP and other applications such as Skype, or how it can work seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange. That will at least keep them on par with their upstart competitors.

N85 è solido, ben costruito e molto gradevole alla vista, nonostante la parte lucida renda praticamente impossibile ternere pulita la parte superiore, che si riempie di ditate in pochi secondi d’uso.

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