Techorati

Rocketing smartphone use could drive mobile operators into losses in three years unless they rapidly adopt technology to capture more revenue from data services, according to a US network company.
Rising investment costs to handle exploding data traffic combined with lower revenue per unit of data could begin to drive some operators into the red in as soon as two years, Tellabs said it calculated based on independent analyst data.
"Carriers can spend themselves bankrupt well before users run out of hunger for capacity," said Tellabs chief executive Rob Pullen.
"Our study shows that simply adding dumb capacity is unsustainable. To avoid the 'end of profit', carriers must bring intelligence to their networks -- it is critical to carrier survival," he was quoted as saying in a statement.
A number of industry players expect mobile data traffic, driven mostly by smartphones, to nearly double each year for the next several years.
While operators are investing heavily to add capacity and roll out fourth-generation networks, they are having difficulty earning money from data transfer and forecasts see falling revenue per unit of data transferred if current trends continue.
Dozens of companies such as Tellabs are offering mobile operators solutions to manage network traffic, reducing needed investments and opening possibilities to capture more revenue through priority services.
"Mobile carriers face a stark choice about their business models: it's either the smart mobile Internet or an unsustainable dumb-pipe business," said Vikram Saksena, Tellabs' chief technology officer.
Tellabs' findings come days before the mobile industry holds its annual gathering in Barcelona, where a smartphone-driven boom in data traffic overwhelming networks and capturing revenue from data are set to be at the top of the agenda.
Tellabs did not analyse specific mobile operators, but used a model that generalised costs and revenue structures in three major regional markets.
It found that operators in North America were most vulnerable to changes wrought by mobile Internet and that some could plunge into unprofitability as soon as the beginning of 2013, others at the end of that year based on median cost and revenue assumptions.
For developed Asia-Pacific markets, operators would enter the red from the third quarter of 2013 to the third quarter of 2014.
Western European operators are forecast to enter unprofitablity from the beginning of 2014 or 2015.

Samsung Electronics said that Galaxy S, the company's showpiece Android-based smartphone, has crossed the 10 million-sold threshold seven months after it launched. The milestone puts Samsung among the vanguard manufacturers backing Google's white-hot Android platform, which is itself now the No 2 mobile OS in the world behind Symbian, according to analysts.


According to Samsung, 4 million Galaxy S units have been sold in North America, with 2.5 million sold in Europe and 2 million sold in Asia.

"The Galaxy S is the result of our 22-year heritage in the mobile industry," said JK Shin, President and Head, Mobile Communications Business, Samsung Electronics, in a statement. "It is the realization of our concept of 'the Smart Life'— we wanted to make users' lives more convenient, more exciting and more integrated. Today's milestone shows that we have succeeded: 10 million Galaxy S users around the world are living the Smart Life."

Shin added that Samsung is selling more than 1.4 million Galaxy S devices per month.

Galaxy S was first introduced by Samsung at CTIA Las Vegas in March 2010, and strong word-of-mouth, solid reviews and customer embrace of Android devices propelled it to a spot among the coolest smartphones of 2010.

Galaxy S was released on all four of the major U.S. carriers last year, under different names, such as Sprint's Epic 4G and Verizon's Fascinate. Though each version has slightly different features, each includes a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen and a 1Ghz processor, 5MP camera, 2GB of storage and support for Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi.

Samsung's strength with the Android platform should come into sharper focus in 2011, as its Samsung Galaxy Tab—an Android-based rival to Apple's mighty iPad—looks to gain traction among tablet customers. Samsung has not released initial sales figures for the Galaxy Tab, which launched in November.

Samsung hit a pretty big milestone, announcing that it has sold 10 million Android OS Galaxy S smartphones since its launch in June 2010. That equals to about one device sold every two seconds.
According to Samsung, North America leads the Galaxy S sales chart with 4 million sales, followed by Europe at 2.5 million and Asia with 2 million sales.
"The Galaxy S is the result of our 22 year heritage in the mobile industry. It is the realization of our concept of 'the Smart Life' - we wanted to makes users' lives more convenient, more exciting, and more integrated", said JK Shin, President and Head of Mobile Communications Business at Samsung. Today's milestone shows that we have succeeded: 10 million Galaxy S users around the world are living the Smart Life."

 
If you have Jailbroken your iPhone or iPod touch and use jailbreak apps then you would know that most of the times jailbreak apps have something special in them.And one of the latest jailbreak app is Voice Activator by Chpwn.It is an app which enables you to give command to your iOS device with your voice.

to let you take full control of the Voice Control feature of your iPhone or iPod touch. Launch apps, open URLs, use Activator actions: it’s all here, in one tweak.

This app is certainly magical as it allows you to control your device with your voice commands just like in the good old movie scenes and definitely it would be useful for you while you don’t want to touch your iPhone for whatever reason.
Isn’t it too bad that devices running on the Android OS can enjoy voice based commands on the entire operating system? The voice search tool for the Android OS can literally search anything on the web, your phone, call contacts, give commands and complete a lot of other operations. The Apple iOS lacked this feature, although there is a voice command feature for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, these can’t be used for a complete OS search or carrying out other functions such as starting applications and speak to enter text.
The wait is over, thanks to the developer chpwn, the app that can bring Android like voice enabled functions to the iOS has finally arrived. It’s known as the VoiceActivator and can be downloaded from the BigBoss repository via Cydia for $4.99. And yeah, this is an app for the jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch, so you’ll have to Jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch to make use of this app. There’s a video after the break demonstrating how this app works.


This app would be soon available as Cydia.Check out the demo of this app in the video below.

From past few months many speculations are made about the new features in the next iPad and today another analyst made its prediction about iPad 2.Analyst from Concord claims that iPad 2 will not have a higher resolution display or Retina display as many people are hoping that it would get retina display just like the other iPhone 4 and 4^th generation iPad.

 
If you remember the launch of the iPhone 4 , Apple was initially supposed to launch white iPhone 4 soon after the black version. But things got little bit trickier for Apple regarding the issues of white iPhone 4 as it was having problem with its production and about some months ago Apple had announced that there would be no iPhone 4 launch.

Music enthusiasts and mobile gamers now have a huge reason to rejoice. Razer has recently launched their ultra-portable speaker system named Ferox. This pocket-bomb produces some of the best quality sound in it’s category, courtesy 30mm drivers. Ferox is very portable (70mm x 70mm x 53-64mm), but still it is powerful enough to be used as a mini subwoofer.

Due to its aesthetic design, Ferox produces 360° omnidirectional sound and widens the sweet spot for all the listeners sitting around. Moreover, this speaker produces frequencies lying between 150Hz-20KHz, with it’s 2 loudspeakers giving an output of 3W each. This mini speaker connects itself via 3.5mm audio jack, making it compatible with most of the portable devices out there.

Ferox comes pre-loaded with it’s own 470mAh rechargeable batteries which can run this little beast for as long as 12 hours. And yes, you can always know its battery status from the built-in LED indicator. To add to that, Razer ships these speakers with nice little carrying case.
This speaker can be yours for $59.99.