AS app makers hold off Windows Phone struggles to break catch 22

Finland, Mar 26 Apps, apps, apps! That is the main challenge that Microsoft and Nokia, who are trying to claw back market share from Apple Inc's iPhone and Google's Android in the red hot smartphone market, face now. And so far the going does not look too good for the challengers and their warhorse Windows Phone platform.

Online advertising spend nears £5 billion

London: Brands in Britain spent almost 5 billion pounds ($8 billion) advertising online in 2011, with video ads and marketing on social media platforms driving growth to its biggest increase in five years against a weak economic backdrop. Britain has led the way in moving advertising money to the internet from traditional media such as newspapers and radio and the latest report by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) put growth for 2011 up 14.4 percent, with a similar rate expected this year.

Tough times in the US China iPad smuggling game

San Francisco/Hong Kong: Early on the morning of March 16, Wong Tat joined a line of about 100 people waiting for the launch of the new iPad in a chilly rain outside an Apple store on the outskirts of San Francisco. When the doors opened, he was among the first to buy his quota of two iPads - the maximum Apple Inc allows per person. Then, sporting a bright red cap for easy identification, Wong began to direct a stream of people toting their new tablets to a silver Mercedes SUV in the parking lot.

Nokia's Lumia 900 A good high end smart phone with relatively few compatible apps.

The Lumia 900 is proof that although Nokia and Microsoft teamed up under duress, as their competitors forged ahead to redefine mobile computing, the partnership makes sense. Nokia has built a high-quality and striking handset, and Microsoft has made a refreshing and likable operating system to run it. Unfortunately, the apps to run on that OS are in short supply.

Nokia's new app Ekattor

Nokia launched its new application (app), Ekattor, to celebrate the memories of our independence. The app has been developed to give our new generation a new way to learn about the liberation war.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

BlackBerry PlayBook gets OS update to 2.0.1 and enhanced browser tops at HTML5 test site

12:44 PM Etech4future No comments
Even though the BlackBerry PlayBook hasn't exactly been flying out the door, RIM is continuing to tweak with the tablet, looking for something that will propel sales. For example, leaked photos that we showed to you recently featured what appeared to be a 4G LTE model of the tablet, with BBM. Additionally, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0.1.358 is now available as an OTA update by clicking on the update notification, or manually by going to settings and then hitting "update software". Users activating a PlayBook after Tuesday will have their tablet automatically updated to the latest OS.



The new update includes optimizations to video chat, PIM and BlackBerry Bridge apps. It also enhances the BlackBerry Browser and fixes some issues that have made difficult the use of some Android apps on the tablet. Speaking of the browser, a benchmark test done at website HTML5 Test shows that the browser on the PlayBook 2.0 OS outscored all other tablet browsers (see chart below).

Last week, RIM's Alec Saunders announced a contest where the developer of each 100th app for BlackBerry App World over the next week would be eligible to win a trip to next month's BlackBerry 10 Jam in Orlando from May 1st to May 3rd. In just one week, the promotion helped 600 new apps get added to RIM's online application store, and helped 6 developers get their name thrown in the hat to win the trip. The half-dozen apps are Donna’s Premier Lodging by Kickinthe App, Joan Of Arc Comic by ZERO-SUM, LTD, RadDeg by Bartho, Free Molten Magic with OS7 Icons by InProgress™, Hank Aaron Brave in Every Way by Scrollmotion, Inc and LiquidCosts by Bwize ZA.

Saunders previously said that 2,000 special BlackBerry 10 powered handsets will be passed out to developers at the Jam, which will run alongside of BlackBerry World Conference. These special units will not have the same looks or navigation as the BlackBerry 10 phone that will be sold to the public later this year. It is merely a way for RIM to get the OS into the hands of its developers in time for some new apps to be, uh, developed before the BB 10 launch whenever that will be.
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