Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Samsung Calling : smartTV challenge
Samsung hosting a developer competition with a prize money of 500000 Euros. Submissions deadline Dec 30 2010.
For more details :
http://www.samsungsmarttvchallenge.eu/
Check it out.
For more details :
http://www.samsungsmarttvchallenge.eu/
Check it out.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Android is "secret sauce" - Apple losing smartphone market share, Android growing | TechEye
Android is "secret sauce"
Apple losing smartphone market share, Android growing
Apple is losing some of its smartphone market share, while Android supporters like HTC, Samsung, and Motorola are seeing substantial growth, according to the latest figures from research firm iSuppli.
The report on the top ten smartphone brands for the second quarter of 2010 showed Apple slipping, dropping four percent in shipments of its otherwise successful iPhone. Part of this drop was attributed to the iPhone 3GS reaching the end of its life and the launch of the iPhone 4, which Apple failed to meet demand for.
The overall effect of this led to Apple's market share dropping from 15.7 percent to 13.9 percent.
Another factor in Apple's decline is clearly the growing success of Google's Android platform, which has taken the world by storm this year. Most of the smartphone manufacturers who saw substantial growth in the second quarter are Android supporters, launching some of the most successful smartphones of this year.The report on the top ten smartphone brands for the second quarter of 2010 showed Apple slipping, dropping four percent in shipments of its otherwise successful iPhone. Part of this drop was attributed to the iPhone 3GS reaching the end of its life and the launch of the iPhone 4, which Apple failed to meet demand for.
The overall effect of this led to Apple's market share dropping from 15.7 percent to 13.9 percent.
HTC took the spotlight with a massive 63.1 percent increase in shipments from three million units in Q1 to 4.9 million in Q2. This helped HTC gain more market share, rising from 5.3 percent to eight percent.
HTC's success can be attributed to the launch of a wide range of successful Android phones, such as the Desire, Wildfire and Evo 4G.
HTC was not the only Android supporter to see huge growth. Samsung was not far behind with 55.6 percent more shipments in the second quarter, increasing overall market share from 3.2 percent to 4.6 percent. Much of this was attributed to the Galaxy S.
Motorola also saw some good growth, jumping 12.5 percent in shipments and increasing its market share from 4.3 percent to 4.5 percent. This growth was more modest than the others, but Motorola has been growing consecutively over the past five quarters, mainly due to its Droid.
“Every brand that has put effort into designing smart phones using Google’s mobile operating system is riding the Android wave,” said Tina Teng, senior analyst for wireless communications at iSuppli. “From the spectacular growth of HTC and Samsung, to the steady advances of Motorola, Android is the secret sauce for smart phone growth for many companies in 2010.”
Read more: http://www.techeye.net/mobile/android-is-secret-sauce#ixzz12CcskRT6
Saturday, October 9, 2010
How to Be a Social Media Change Agent
How is today's social media bringing a power shift from the Corporations to the people - Groundswell
Effect phenomena. You cannot ignore the today's social media platform. People gaining energy from other people empower the good commercial brands of goods and services consumed by the collective consumer. It is growing bigger and more powerful and a factor in choosing what you do in the today's
world for the Y people for what they are doing. How should corporations react to this? Here is a video
of Josh Bernoff, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, from Harvard Business Publishing.
Effect phenomena. You cannot ignore the today's social media platform. People gaining energy from other people empower the good commercial brands of goods and services consumed by the collective consumer. It is growing bigger and more powerful and a factor in choosing what you do in the today's
world for the Y people for what they are doing. How should corporations react to this? Here is a video
of Josh Bernoff, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, from Harvard Business Publishing.
Social Media Revolution
Social Media Revolution...is this revolution the biggest one after industrial revolution. Look at some interesting numbers here....And indeed its a people driven economy!!!!!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Mozilla Skywriter leaves cloud city - InternetNews:The Blog - Sean Michael Kerner
Mozilla Skywriter leaves cloud city
From the 'Lando Calrissian' files:
Mozilla's open source effort to build an online code editor is gearing up for its 1.0 release. As tends to be common for Mozilla, the 1.0 release marker also is when there is often a name change too (think Weave/Sync, Phoenix/Firefox etc.).
Mozilla Bespin has been in development at Mozilla Labs since at least February of 2009and as of late last week, the project is now called 'Skywriter'.
While Bespin/Skywriter was originally an idea to build a coding system for cloud-based development, it's moving toward become an online/offline tool as well. Dangoor noted in his blog post that a desktop version of Skywriter is on the roadmap.
Mozilla's open source effort to build an online code editor is gearing up for its 1.0 release. As tends to be common for Mozilla, the 1.0 release marker also is when there is often a name change too (think Weave/Sync, Phoenix/Firefox etc.).
Mozilla Bespin has been in development at Mozilla Labs since at least February of 2009and as of late last week, the project is now called 'Skywriter'.
"As we approach a 1.0 release, it was clear that it was time to shed Bespin's code name and give it a real, lasting project name," Mozilla developer Kevin Dangoor blogged. "We're happy to announce that that name is Mozilla Skywriter. I think that Mozilla Skywriter fits the "coding in the cloud" theme very well indeed."Personally, I liked the name Bespin (a reference to Cloud City in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back) and the name Skywriter sounds remarkably close to 'Skywalker' -- another Star Wars reference.
While Bespin/Skywriter was originally an idea to build a coding system for cloud-based development, it's moving toward become an online/offline tool as well. Dangoor noted in his blog post that a desktop version of Skywriter is on the roadmap.
In my view, I had wanted to see a Mozilla-backed Bespin cloud service that could enable anyone to have their own Bespin/Skywriter instance to build apps. That's not the direction that Mozilla is taking though.
Instead, Skywriter really is a framework that will enable the development of those online building tools that I want to see and use. One such tool is Mozilla's new add-on builder codenamed flight deck, which is the pinnacle of cool.
Another interesting note, is that Skywriter development is now being done in GitHub and not Mercurial. That's a good sign for the community development/contribution of Skywriter in my view as Git provides a better environment for broad contributions, merging and branching.
I don't expect the core Firefox project to switch to Git anytime soon (if ever), but it will be interesting to see how the different SCMs in use at Mozilla net different results for development projects.
Google Instant
Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.
The most obvious change is that you get to the right content much faster than before because you don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” Another shift is that seeing results as you type helps you formulate a better search term by providing instant feedback. You can now adapt your search on the fly until the results match exactly what you want. In time, we may wonder how search ever worked in any other way.
Continue reading : http://www.google.com/instant/#utm_campaign=launch&utm_medium=van&utm_source=instant
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