Thursday, 31 May 2012

RECENT SMARTPHONE CHANGING PEOPLE WAY OF LIVING

Nowadays we can see different types of mobile phone is in market and more surprisely Apple and HTC is going forward than other mobile product. it may be reason because it got latest technology like 8 mp camera, lot of application which is easy for people to do their job so easily. want to check train timetable , just open application and you know everything.


















There are now more than 175,000 mobile apps available across the three leading smartphone platforms: iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android. With all of those apps, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find the good ones, especially for business users.(Morton, 2010)
just as we know too that google adds free cloud backup to apps,features that reduces risk of data loss. application can be viewed anywhere in world just using cloud system. lot of business applciation like travel, information about share, stock market etc are provided in big smartphone platforms.

Morton, S., 2010. Top mobile apps for business users. [Online]
Available at: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/smartphones/top-mobile-apps-for-business-users/278
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Monday, 28 May 2012

M-LEARNING: HEAVY Vs LIGHT MOBILE PHONE

Mobile technologies offer the opportunities to enhance learning in natural environment. Heavy mobile phone users are supposed to have access to more than one type of mobile content than light mobile phone users.
Significant distinctions can be noticed when comparing the usage of mobile phones for M-learning between heavy & light mobile users. Heavy mobile phone users subscribe/access more than a single type of mobile content than light mobile phone users. Moreover, heavy mobile phone users have more frequent access/subscription and purchase of mobile content within the last year than that of light mobile phone users.
Hence, heavy mobile phone users spend more money on M-learning, its content and mobile games than light mobile phone users.


References:
Emerald | Campus-Wide Information Systems | Mobile phone usage for m-learning: comparing heavy and light mobile phone users. 2012. Emerald | Campus-Wide Information Systems | Mobile phone usage for m-learning: comparing heavy and light mobile phone users. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1065-0741&volume=24&issue=5&articleid=1634451. [Accessed 28 May 2012].

Sunday, 27 May 2012

EVOLUTION OF MOBILE PHONES AND ITS USE OF APLLICATIONS TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS.


It seems that MOBILE Phones is  ever present in our society, successive generation from the early 0G's services like MTS to 1 G's , 2G's , 3G's followed by latest 4 generation. Perphaps because of its popularity, there are widely differing views as to whether the medium of mobile phones is a positive force or a negative force in society.


On the plus side , there is a commonly held view that mobile phone is great importance to each and every individual in a society as it acts as an communication media or even as a educational tools for the general Public. Mean to say about its Lastest Application in this corporate  organisation. People respond well to the artical published i.e. mobile application programmes and are better able to retain the knowledge learned through the experience. The use of Mobile phone application like Trip View Lite , Facebook , Skype can taken as a good example of this . 


On Alternatively , some people believe that Mobile Phone  is nothing more than mindless entertainment. It is argued by such people that mobile phone acts as a substitute for actual learning. That insead of absorbing information at one's won speed through the medium of reading for example, one is force-fed the briefest of information at a fast-pace, making indepth analysis difficult. An example Effects on Children - The health effects of mobile phone radiation on children is very worrisome. All government reports and many scientific studies that are referred to in this article emphasize that children are more vulnerable than adults. In ‘How Exposure to Mobile Phone Base-Station Signals Can Adversely Affect Humans.
In the world of globalisation these days where technologies are rapidly increasing ,  things are changing in an blink of an eye . Technologies mobile Phones and its applications are very useful and plays a very vital role in daily life of people and also there mushrooming activities .there is just an example how these business mobile phone apllications helps you to increase your growth in business for eg;.blackberry phones are the most uselful mobile phones used in business , apple (i-phone)and samsung are also used by the business people around the world .


first and foremost you need to know how to use your mobile apllications for your growth of business .Many business owners have not fully realized the potential benefit how the use of mobile apps, smartphones and tablet devices can increase productivity, add competitive edge, cut costs and much more. Did you know you can create an iPhone app to deploy to your internal organization without it either going through Apple’s lengthy review process nor it showing up in the iTunes store? Did you know of new payment models that allows you to swipe a credit card by phone – ditching traditional portable terminals; or initiatives to do away with credit cards and simply swipe your phone as a digital wallet to pay? If you have a ‘brick and mortar’ business, did you you can find out real-time information about potential customers; including when they visit, how often, whether they commented positively/negatively about your establishment to their friends, thus you can reach out and incentivize them to be a repeat customer? These are just the tip of the iceberg practical examples of how mobile can grow your business.


"How to use Mobile Applications to Grow Your Business"


If you DO NOT NEED to build your own mobile app…


Talk with your web designer about optimizing your existing website for mobile devices.
Try to identify existing mobile apps that can handle more of your internal needs; apps such as CRM, sales management, ecommerce, location-based, mobile marketing, financial, contacts, email, etc. A great resource for discovering and knowing which are the best Android apps is our very own AndroidTapp.com.
Track and measure productivity from the previous method into the new.
If you DO NEED to build your own mobile app…


Determine whether you need a mobile app for your business. One common pitfall is when creating an app that is only ‘brochure-ware’, basically placing static information in an app that can be found on your mobile website. The key is to determine whether you can engage with your audience with a mobile app, such as accessing proprietary data like sales figures, inventory or products.
Determine whether your app is an internal only or mass consumer app.
Now that you have determined you have a need for a mobile app it is time to think heavily about budget, as mobile app development can be costly, especially if you are thinking about more than one platform; i.e. iOS (including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch), Android, Blackberry, etc. I personally would recommend according to the majority of your end client needs or start with the two most popular platforms; iOS and Android.
Find a professional mobile app developer/company that can handle most of your initial and ongoing support & maintenance needs. One company we can recommend is MusicTapp, although currently geared at musicians, their mobile app platform allows for custom app creation on iOS and Android with a content management system business owners can use to control their own content.
Marketing your app is another ball of science we’ll discuss in another article, however, you should think heavily about differentiating and marketing your mobile app if it is geared toward mass consumers.
Once the app is built, tested and deployed… it does not stop there. Consider improving the app based on user feedback and continue to iterate on bug fixes and feature enhancements.
Track and measure productivity from the previous method into the new.
REFERENCES 
 Robotium : Automation tool for Android Mobile Application Mobile Application Testing
 Rothman, Kenneth. “Epidemiological Evidence on Health Risks of Cellular Telephones.” The Lancet 356 (2000): 1837-1840
Hyland, G J. “How Exposure to Mobile Phone Base-Station Signals Can Adversely Affect Humans.” (2005). <http://www.tetrawatch.net/papers/hyland_2005.pdf>

iphone as a best business app phone


iPhones are high-quality, stylish, user-friendly mobile devices that offer a variety of efficient, easy-to-use applications. Business professionals are jumping on the iPhone bandwagon because of the phone’s assortment of valuable business applications.

Appealing business iPhone applications can include the capability to accurately monitor income and expenses, effectively organize details, tasks, and contacts, easily convert currency, and more. While there are several business iPhone apps, below is a list of the Top 11 best iPhone applications for businesses.
JustAddMoney Expense Tracker – this business application allows multiple users to track money in real-time. Users can enter receipts, checks, credit card purchases, and cash purchases at the moment of the purchase, customize income and expense categories, transfer money from one account to another, and generate financial reports. Because this is a multi-user application, users can share financial information and get updated instantly upon someone’s tracking entry. This is an ideal solution for businesses requiring constant updating of financial dealings, particularly if colleagues spend from the same account.
Mobile Password Safe – with the advances in technology, it is necessary to have a secure location to store multiple passwords. Mobile Password Safe allows only the user to gain access and passwords are decrypted into the browser, which means they can’t be hacked by third parties. This is the best iPhone application for business professionals with various accounts, codes for computer programs, and other hard to remember passwords. This application keeps passwords organized allowing users to specify labels, categories, and searches. It’s ideal for keeping business passwords separate from personal passwords and it is convenient and secure.
Goal-Tracker is designed to help the business professional reach his or her various goals. This application allows users to enter goals, hold themselves accountable, track progress, and separate and organize personal versus professional goals.
Currency Convert – this iPhone business application offers a quick and easy way to convert amounts of money between 23 currencies. Instant updating with the tap of your finger shows you up-to-date conversion rates on the go. Additionally, you can sort the currencies to keep your most used currencies on top for quick access and convenience.
ACTPrinter – this application is the most innovative and helps save the environment by not wasting paper. It allows a user to “print” any document from a Mac PC to an iPhone or iPod Touch. Essentially, it stores documents electronically so people can take documents with them on their phone and view them easily and conveniently without sorting through a stack of papers.
Timewerks – this is a time-tracking and invoicing application for all types of business professionals. From freelancers to consultants to lawyers to salespeople and contractors, users of this business iPhone application can track billable hours and create invoices. With Timewerks, you can manage and organize the time you spend on various projects and get detailed reports, easily filter through invoices, clients, work items, hours, etc.
iBeam – this application allows you to instantly send items such as contact information and photos directly to another iPhone. iBeam saves time and frustration by allowing iPhone users to instantly “Beam” information to each other as opposed to saying it, repeating it, and typing it into your phone or contact management system.
Ledger – with this, the best iPhone application for businesses seeking a money management application, you can record purchases, money transfers, loans, and receipts. Additionally, you can easily view transactions and details for all accounts, record simple or complex transactions, and edit account and transaction information.
TouchCall – iPhone users can conveniently, easily, and quickly find business information on the go. Say you need the phone number or address for a restaurant you were supposed to be at for a meeting and you’re running late, simply click the easy one-touch buttons on the interface and the information is provided to you.
Task2Gather – this application is ideal for maintaining all your business, personal, and family tasks. You can organize tasks, separate them, and share them with iPhone users and non-iPhone users. Additionally, the tasks are always accessible from your iPhone and your computer. Tasks can be divided into subtasks so you can delegate to colleagues.
Contact Hero – this business iPhone app is more than just a contact manager and online address book. You can collect, merge, organize and manage all your contacts from various contact management systems, such as Outlook, Gmail, or Yahoo!. You can manage your list of calls to make, keep a list of contacts you have made, and keep a detailed list of contact history for each contact. There are various ways to identify your contacts, for example numbers, colorful icons, or country flags. Also, you can schedule email messages to go out to any of your contacts at anytime in the future.

REF:
by Betsy Brottlund on December 16, 2008
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Iphone taking over the world

In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone, which instantly became one of the most talked-about consumer products ever. Thousands of customers lined up to be the first to buy the phones, which featured computing and Wi-Fi capabilities, along with a crisp, computer-like display on an innovative touch screen. Rivals, including Google, rushed phones with similar features onto the market.
In October 2011, the company unveiled an eagerly awaited new version of the device, the iPhone 4S, that included a “virtual assistant,” Siri, that recognized voice commands by users to schedule appointments, dictate text messages and conduct Web searches.
Although the new phone was virtually indistinguishable on the outside from its predecessor, the iPhone 4, it was packed with better technical innards, including a more advanced camera. The phone also included a more powerful chip known as the A5, the same microprocessor that acts as the brains inside the iPad.
Though many Apple fans expressed disappointment about the lack of a design change, consumers reacted very differently. Apple said it sold more than four million iPhone 4S’s during the device’s first weekend on sale.
In January 2012, after a blockbuster fourth quarter, Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, said the iPhone 4S accounted for the majority of iPhone sales. This statement took on added significance considering that at the time, the iPhone 3GS was free with a two-year contract, and the iPhone 4 cost $100. Even in a down economy and with a free iPhone in its portfolio, Apple still managed to sell the expensive, newer 4S to most of its customers.

Yet the free and reduced-price iPhones were still important to the company’s business. Tero Kuittinen, a senior analyst at MGI Research, said the free iPhone 3GS gave Apple the opportunity to expand aggressively into markets where smartphones were not as popular yet, like China and Africa.
Jan Dawson, an analyst with Ovum, said not to underestimate the power of the free iPhone 3GS and the cheaper iPhone 4. “You’d better believe the other iPhones are selling, too,” he said. “They’re suddenly competitive with the lower-end smartphones that you used to get if you couldn’t afford an iPhone.”
The iPhone4s runs on two kinds of cellphone networks, GSM and CDMA, allowing its operation worldwide. Prices start at $199 for a model with 16 gigabytes of storage. The new phone is available on the AT&T, Verizon and Sprint networks.
In a Race With Android
Apple’s strategy helped narrow the lead that had been gained by Android phones, powered by Google’s operating system. Nielsen, the audience measurement firm, reported that 61.6 percent of United States smartphone consumers surveyed in October 2011 said they had gotten an Android phone within the previous three months, while only 25.1 percent got an iPhone.
By December 2011, though, Android’s lead among people who had recently acquired a smartphone had narrowed to 46.9 percent, while 44.5 percent of consumers said they had bought an iPhone, Nielsen said. About 57 percent of iPhone owners in December said they got the new iPhone 4S, while the rest, 43 percent, got older iPhones.
Legal Dispute
Soon after the iPhone 4S was introduced, Samsung Electronics said that it would seek to block its sale in France and Italy, asserting that the phone violated its patents. In seeking a court order against its rival in the two large European markets, Samsung indicated a more aggressive stance in its expanding patent battle with Apple.
Samsung said that it planned to file for preliminary injunctions in other countries after further review. The two companies are locked in about 20 legal disputes over patents in nine countries, including Australia, Britain, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States.
The fight began when Apple sued Samsung in April 2011 in the United States, asserting that the Samsung Galaxy lineup of smartphones and tablet devices “slavishly” copied the design, user interface and packaging of the iPhone and iPad. Samsung responded with its own lawsuits accusing Apple of violating its intellectual property.
An Issue of Control
Apple likes to maintain tight control over what programs can appear on the iPhone — a task that became a little bit harder in July 2010, when the Library of Congress, which has the power to define exceptions to an important copyright law, said that it was legal to bypass a phone’s controls on what software it will run to get “lawfully obtained” programs to work.
The issue has been a topic of debate between Apple, which says it has the right to control the software on its devices, and technically adept users who want to customize their phones as they see fit.
Apple has also said that altering the phones encouraged the pirating of applications, exposed iPhones to security risks and taxed the company’s customer support staff. But iPhone hobbyists say they simply want to have free range to use certain features and programs on their phones that Apple has limited or failed to offer.
Can Apple win in an intensely competitive market against rivals that are openly licensing their software to scores of companies? It faces that challenge not only in phones, but also in the market for tablet computers, where the iPad is about to take on a similar set of rivals.
The are huge, as the mobile computing market could prove to be larger than the PC market ever was.
That leaves little room for error at Apple. The company must continue to create hit products, as a single misstep could give Android and other rivals an opportunity to make inroads and steal market share.



REFERENCE
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/iphone/index.html

FOURTH- GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES


Although the 3G technologies are just emerging, people started research on fourth- generation (4G) technologies. Those researches of 4G initiatives encompass a wide range of Radio Interfaces and totally advanced wireless access infrastructure.
Two of the main research areas consist of BETTER MODULATION METHODS and SMART ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY which enable 4G wireless systems to overcome 3G wireless technology in the near future.
The following sketch will show how mobile phones are developing:
 


4G

3G                                                    UMTS

2.5G                                       GPRS                  EDGE

2G                                                    GSM

1G                                                    Analog Cellular              
  


References:
Advances in Mobile Commerce Technologies - Ee-Peng Lim, Keng Siau - Google Books. 2012. Advances in Mobile Commerce Technologies - Ee-Peng Lim, Keng Siau - Google Books. [ONLINE] Available at: http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=441qCYlVjK8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=article+on+mobile+business+applications&ots=w124wmOaI7&sig=Oo30lvWwdeM50VTYiMnZgsnhHyw#v=onepage&q=article%20on%20mobile%20business%20applications&f=false. [Accessed 27 May 2012].
The latest weapon in the battle of the smart phone,


Samsung unveiled its galaxy Nexus device which was eagerly waited by the customers. This handset was promised to give easy and fast internet browsing, plenty of memory space with face lock system. All operating under android so called ice cream sandwich system. Its usually cheaper than the apple iPhone. This is the one of the factor of booming market of android. More than 107 million smart phones were sold in second quarter of 2011. Smart phone using Google android system doubled their share in second quarter of 2011 accounting for 43% of world wide sells. By comparison apple iPhone sold 9.6 million units giving it over just 18.2% of the market share. But those share does't reveal for revenue. Apple iPhone record the profit of 6 billion dollars in 2011 September  report. Samsung had asked for the stop selling iPhone because of the copyright issue with the patent of the mobile (http://macdailynews.com/2011/09/16/samsung-files-patent-infringement-suit-against-apple-over-ipad-iphone-in-australia/). However iPhone won the case and continued its brand world wide.

Simple &amp; Curved Design
(cited from: http://www.samsung.com/au/system/consumer/product/2011/12/07/gt_i9250tsaops/420.jpg)


(Cited: http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html)

References:
http://www.samsung.com/au/system/consumer/product/2011/12/07/gt_i9250tsaops/420.jpg
http://macdailynews.com/2011/09/16/samsung-files-patent-infringement-suit-against-apple-over-ipad-iphone-in-australia/
http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html