Opera: Latest report On Mobile Search Arena and its Rapid Growth
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The latest report has placed emphasis on the Mobile Search arena where Google still rules the roost. However, there are minor aberrations in specific and linguistically isolated countries like China and Russia, where other search engines like Yandex and Baidu compete head on with Google.
Opera on latest report shows us Mobile Search Shows Rapid Growth. The report consists of a monthly analysis of the trends followed by the users of Opera Mini, Opera\'s light weight browser for mobile phones. Other interesting statistics include the fact that Opera Mini now commands a 24.5 million strong user base. This translates to an increase of 8.4 percent over the previous month and 136 percent year on year. All these users generated over 9.6 billion page views. This is a 27 percent increase over the data from May 2008. The traffic too has seen an upsurge with a phenomenal 245 percent growth.
The total data generated by accessing all this content has been pegged at 160 million MB. As most of you might be aware, for faster browsing, Opera Mini servers compress data before transmitting them to your phone. So, in effect, 1.5 Petabytes of data have been served by the Opera Mini servers over the past month.
Indian Opera Mini users seem to like Nokia\'s 5130c a lot! That, in fact, happened to be the most used handset from which users have accessed the web using Opera Mini. Others in the top five position include the Nokia N70, n73, 3110C and the Nokia 6300. The only non-Nokia phone to make it to the list is the Sony Ericsson W200i.
India has moved up the rank of countries when it comes to the usage of Opera Mini. India has pushed Ukraine down by a spot. In fact, India has seen a huge 531 percent growth in the number of page views since May 2008. In terms of unique users, the growth is still impressive at 128.9 percent. The top five sites accessed by Indian users include Google, Orkut, Gmail Yahoo and Rediff.
Read More Google\’s AdSense On Mobile- Developers earn revenue by displaying Ads in their Apps
Google\'s AdSense On Mobile- Developers earn revenue by displaying Ads in their Apps Putting Google AdSense on mobile phones provides the consumers with advertising information they (hopefully) want when they are on the move. With AdSense for Mobile Applications now in beta, Google joins other companies such as AdMob in the push toward in application advertising.
Developers earn revenue by displaying text and image ads in their iPhone and Android apps. The AdSense for Mobile Applications site offers answers to frequently asked questions and a sign-up to participate in the beta. To participate, developers must have an app that\'s ready to implement, is free, already gets a minimum of 100,000 page views daily and runs on either Android or iPhone. Google will contact publishers who meet that criteria, and agree to participate for at least three months, on a rolling basis.
A number of partners worked with Google on the trial stages of this project, including Backgrounds, Sega, Shazam and Urbanspoon. Urbanspoon, an application that helps users locate restaurants in their vicinity, offers targeted and related advertising content that enhances the search experience.
Read More Nokia and Vodafone have joined their hands to offer Indian customers a smooth and speedy internet Services
Nokia and Vodafone have joined their hands to offer speedy internet service in India.The service would be starting with Nokia N97 devices and later it would be available on other Nokia make cell phones.
Nokia and Vodafone Essar have collaborated to offer Indian customers a smooth and speedy internet experience on their handsets. This initiative will starts off with the highly exciting Nokia N97 devices. Users will obtain loads of information by accessing the internet with efficient while traveling. The Nokia N97 will enable greater internet connectivity, and hence we are coming up with special data plans to make accessing information on the net easier.
V Ramnath, Director Operator Channels, Nokia India, said that the Internet is now an everyday part of people\'s lives, something they can\'t live without and devices such as the Nokia N97 give them greater freedom to be always switched on. Customers will enjoy browsing the internet 24x7 on the N97 phone they will obtain an exclusive free data plan for three months. It will provide high speed internet at 2.75G speed and Edge networks.
The Nokia N97 introduces the concept of social location. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their status and share their social location as well as related pictures or videos. The home screen of the Nokia N97 mobile computer features the people, content and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen.
The store offers a collection of applications, games, videos and podcats. It also includes productivity tools, web with location based services and more. It provides paid and free content from a series of global and local content providers and developers. Facebook, Paramount Pictures and Twitter applications are the inclusive content developers and providers. Indian customers in particular will get an option of 50 free to download items by Indian developers under the aegis of Forum Nokia.
This service is expected to be available in India by next week through all Vodafone Stores offering Nokia phones.
Read More T-Mobile \”MyTouch 3G- second phone on Google\’s Android operating system\” Plans to Launch on July
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T-Mobile on Monday announces availability of MyTouch 3G on July, the second phone on Google\'s Android operating system. Google first announced Android in 2007. It gives the operating system to manufacturers for free. Google has 5,000 applications available for Android from its network of developers.
It\'s the first of 18 new Google-powered phones coming worldwide by the end of the year. Tech and telecom analysts expect Sprint to have an Android phone by year\'s end.
T-Mobile has sold 1 million of its first-generation Google phone, the G1. That\'s tepid compared with the 21.2 million iPhones sold in the last two years, but T-Mobile says it\'s thrilled with the response. It expects the new phone to sell at a faster clip.
The MyTouch is smaller, can sync with Microsoft Outlook and has an improved battery, Andrew Sherrard, T-Mobile vice president Said that we have addressed some of the concerns from customers. The Current T-Mobile customers can order beginning July 8 for delivery later in the month. General retail availability is planned for early August. The touch-screen phone made by HTC sells for $199 with a new two-year contract. T-Mobile will offer a discounted rate for current customers but hasn\'t finalized pricing.
T-Mobile\'s selling point is personalization, with customizable menus, wallpapers and icons. A new program called Sherpa learns your favorite locations and preferences and makes recommendations accordingly. The phone also has instant access to Google services.
Google Looks to Enhanced its Google Books Search By Making it Social
Google has enhanced its Google Books service with interface refinements and easier sharing options. The preparations under way to start selling e-books online later this year.
Last October, Google resolved complaints about Google Books and is awaiting approval of the settlement by the court and the Department of Justice. Perhaps in anticipation of the end of resistance to its service, Google recently confirmed its intention to become more involved in electronic book selling.
The new book search features introduced Thursday suggest that Google plans to leverage its social infrastructure to faster user engagement and to drive sales.
Google has scanned more than 7 million titles for Google Books. The service offers more than 1.5 million public domain books at no charge to users of Android mobile phones, Apple\'s iPhone, and the Internet. It also allows people to search through millions more books sold online and provides links to online stores selling those books.
The new features are the availability of link and embed codes for Google\'s online book collection. Just like YouTube users, Google Books users now have access to HTML code snippets that can easily be copied and pasted into blogs or other Web pages to present book content. Other new features include improved search in public domain books, a thumbnail overview of public domain books and magazines, a drop-down menu for easier book navigation, a plain-text view for public domain books, a page turn button and page turn animation, and an improved overview page for listed titles.
By this reader can more easily share pages from books you love, while publisher partners can gain even more awareness across the web to promote their books.
Read More Acer introduces Five Rich Multimedia smartphones
Acer on Thursday announced its entry into the Indian smartphone market by launching five feature-rich multimedia handsets priced between Rs. 24,000 and Rs. 35,000.
Unveiling the phones, Acer Senior Corporate Vice-President Aymar de Lencquesaing, who is also President of Acer\'s Smart Handheld Business Group, said that The official launch in India marks the first step of our smart handheld business group in one of the world\'s largest and fastest growing mobile markets. Our phones are designed to deliver a seamless convergence of functionalities for both personal and professional use.
Acer smartphones will be marketed by Delhi-based Vision Distribution Pvtd. Ltd. Initially, Acer phones will be available in top eight cities, including the four metros. We will then gradually expand to State capitals and mini-metros. Stating that out of the 70-lakh phones being sold every month, only one per cent or 70,000 phones are smartphones priced at over Rs. 15,000 that are mainly sold in top ten cities including the four metros, Mr. Babbar added that they were targeting 10 per cent of this market.
Informing that Acer smartphones are being imported from Taipai, he further said they had tied up with all top retailers including Croma and Reliance to retail Acer phones.
The company also announced its plans to introduce more handsets soon, starting from Rs. 16,000 to capture the fast growing Indian mobile market.
Read More Scientists developed a New indoor GPS system
The system is being currently tested in Finland. In fact, it is not the first indoor system but the others have mostly been for specialist uses, such as helping firefighters find colleagues in smoke-filled buildings. This system, developed by Nokia, will work with existing handsets and infrastructure, according to the scientists.
Global Positioning System doesn\'t work in buildings as the satellite signals it uses cannot get through walls.
In this system, a cellphone can use nearby Wi- Fi transmitters instead of satellites. it triangulates their signals to calculate its position, which it then displays on a map.
One thing it does need, however, is access to maps of the inside of buildings. This may not be feasible for private homes, but many public sites such as big sports centres and universities already make maps available.
The ongoing test at Kamppi shopping centre in Finnish capital Helsinki is a success, then this system could be rolled out much more widely.
Read More German Luxury Car manufacturer Audi introducted three new engines for the Audi A4 series In India
On Tuesday German luxury car manufacturer Audi announced the introduction of three new engines for the Audi A4 series — the 3.0 TDI Quattro, the 2.0 TFSI and the 1.8 TFSI which have greater fuel efficiency, consuming 10 per cent less fuel than their predecessors.
The new generation of the Audi A4 has already set benchmarks for its segment in India. With the introduction of three new engines, we are able to offer the widest choice in the luxury car market to our customers in India. The new engines add a new dimension of sophistication and progressiveness to the Audi A4 with more power and lower fuel consumption, guaranteed to deliver an unforgettable driving experience.
The customers have a choice of two high-tech transmission solutions: the tiptronic six-speed automatic gearbox and the continuously variable multitronic version.
With a range of five engines (three petrol engines and two diesel with four or six cylinders) and priced between Rs. 36.40 lakh and Rs. 26.67 lakh, the Audi A4 becomes the model with the widest choice for customers in the luxury car market in India.
Audi India has also announced a special offer of interest financing rate for A4 3.2 FSI Quattro.
Read More WordPress 2.8 Released with some minor tweaks and Features
WordPress 2.8 packs has several features including theme browser and installer which is much more customizations to the admin dashboard, a better widgets API among other things.
The latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. They also fixed over 790 bugs.
WordPress 2.8 Features:
Read More * You can browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.
* The new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor.
* The complete redesigned widgets interface
* The new Screen Options on every page.
WordPress 2.8 Baker is much faster to use. They have changed the way WordPress does style and scripting which is new to user.New Design For Google Webmaster Tools
The Need of Webmaster Tools:
Read More Google Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages visibility on Google. At first you need to simply add and verify your site and then you will see information right away.
It Improve your site\'s visibility in Google search results. Most importantly it is totally free. Webmaster Tools began as a way for webmasters to submit Sitemaps. New Design For Google Webmaster Tools: It has been a while since the interface was updated. Now Google released a new version of their webmaster tools, which has some good features and better visualization. I have been using webmaster tools from the very beginning and I consider myself an advanced user. so, I can able to use this updated webmaster tools without any help items. One big enhancement is that the message indicator follows you around in the top right corner of each page, which is really helpful. As well as the internal links and links to your site reports. I can also see a report showing sites that you link to. This would be really helpful in determining if your site has been hacked or and help monitor outgoing to links if you have a site with multiple contributors or authors. There are some nice things in there, but overall, it\'s pretty much the same as it was before, except for more features and better visualization
