BlackBerry was the top selling smart phone in the UK during 2010. RIM was delighted with a 28.2% share of the smartphone market. During the Christmas period RIM recorded over half a million sales which equated to around 36% of overall smartphone sales.
After a shaky start to 2010 with a drop in sales RIM eventually come through to finish strongly. It has been a tough year for the BlackBerry. A large number of businesses made the dreaded switch from the BlackBerry to iPhone. However, companies such as Morgan Stanley and HSBC remained loyal, continuing to insist it was handset of choice. It is clear that the coolness, stability and update frequency of iPhone meant it became popular among the business world. Elsewhere in the market it was able to see off fierce pressure from the release of the Android series.
There are a massive 33 million BB messenger users worldwide which signifies a 500% increase the previous year. RIM adapted well to the recent trends in social media and connected well with both Facebook and Twitter. However, it still lags far behind Android and Apple in terms of apps as it provides a mere 17,000. That aside, the BlackBerry handsets perform very well, hence the smartphone market in 2011 will certainly be hotly contested.
Tags: Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, RIM
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker said its netincome for the latest quarter fell slightly from a year ago.
Net income was $6.63 billion, or 77 cents a share, compared with $6.66 billion, or 74 cents, a year earlier, Microsoft said in a statement.
Sales rose 4.9 percent to $20 billion. The results beat the average projections of 68-cents in profit and $19.1 billion in sales, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The Redmond, Washington-based sold 8 million Kinect devices, more than twice its initial forecast.
“They beat on revenue and profit and showed some nice expense control,” said Katherine Egbert, an analyst at Jefferies & Co. in San Francisco. “The business side is good and then Kinect was good.”
Tags: Kinect, Microsoft, Microsoft Bing, Profit Growth, Redmond, revenue
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Indian based game developer Zatun today announces the recent successful release of I Luv Chocolat for the iPhone, and iPod Touch. Created to entertain and excite users with engaging game play confined within a wonderfully stylized candied chocolate environment, I Luv Chocolat offers the perfect mix of joyfully distracting game play and visual splendor that savvy mobile gaming enthusiasts love.
Gujarat, India – Zatun, an innovative mobile application developer currently focused on mobile games, has today announced the recent release and subsequent success of I Luv Chocolat for the iPhone, and iPod Touch. Offered as both a free lite mobile game as well as fully featured paid application as well, this imaginative game places the user into a vibrantly vivid chocolaty world and bring them with breaking into a chocolate factory and stealing as much of the delicious gifts as they can without being caught. This leisurely adventure is built to provide users with game play that is reminiscent of classic arcade titles but with the added allure and excitement of more dynamic and highly stylized modern graphics. I Luv Chocolat is currently available for download on the Apple App Store for $0.99. I Luv Chocolat Lite is offered free of charge.
App store link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/i-luv-chocolat/id409137319?mt=8
Youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avT4l8cZy8
The game itself – while built off of the unique premise of having players infiltrate and rob a wacky chocolate factory – functions as a classic top tier arcade game would. While I Luv Chocolat Lite contains only two levels the full game is much larger in scope, consisting of seven expansive individual levels through which players navigate, collecting each one of the thirty different chocolates hidden within the game in order to win. To successfully pass each stage, players need to rack up a set a mount of points – done by catching and eating as much delicious chocolate as possible – within a given time limit. To make things even more challenging, each level is riddled with pesky factory guards and bad chocolates which will deplete a user’s time banks and take points away if eaten. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: free mobile game, I luv Chocolat, I Luv Chocolat Lite, iPhone, Mobile Game, Zatun
Create m4r files freely
No one wants to use the same ringtones all the time. Unfortunately, for those who are in the iPhone community, changing your ringtone to a unique one is a “mission impossible”.
4Media iPhone Ringtone Maker offers you an very easy way to create m4r files. Only a few clicks, a unique ringtone will be created and uploaded directly to your iPhone.
Both audio and video files supported
4Media iPhone Ringtone Maker can create ringtones from not only audio files but also videos.
Supported audio files include: MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG and etc. Nearly all the popular video files can also be perfectly handled, including AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP. 4Media iPhone Ringtone Maker can extract M4R files directly from these videos.
Easy clipping and editing
You can decide which segment of an audio/video file to be clipped and converted. Drag the arrows along the time line to set start and end points, then click the play button to ensure it is just what you want.
Besides, fade-in and fade-out effects can be added to ringtones. Volume of output ringtones can be set up to 200% as well. All these handy functions would make your ringtone even more unique.
Simple ringtone management
Connect your iPhone to your computer, all the ringtones will be automatically uploaded to your iPhone after convertion.
4Media iPhone Ringtone Maker also has an embedded Ringtone Manager, which can directly delete ringtones from your iPhone Read the rest of this entry »
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Bandicam is a lightweight program to record game and desktop. You can record a certain area on a PC screen, or on a program that uses the DirectX/OpenGL graphic technologies with ease and high quality.
Bandicam provides FPS management, video-recording and Image-capturing of games and streaming videos, which are functions similar to some other software, but with higher quality closer to the original work.
Bandicam consists of 2 modes. One is the 'DirectX/OpenGL window' mode, which can be used to record the target created in DirectX (or OpenGL), and the other is the 'Rectangle on a screen' mode, which can be used for recording a certain area on the PC screen. Bandicam is very easy to use, if you have any problem in using this program, you can check their user manual which explains it to you step by step.
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Tags: Bandicam, desktop recorder, DirectX/OpenGL, game recorder, High Quality, WOW
The new avast! 6.0 will provide no-hassle ‘virtualization’ to all users, giving them even greater security. AutoSandbox is the first time that a free antivirus will offer virtualization technology together with outstanding malware detection.
AVAST Software is including an array of new technologies in its soon-to-be released avast! 6.0, including virtualization technology for all of its free users.
“AVAST is so committed to free, we are providing all of our users with this virtualization technology for free,” says Ondrej Vlcek, CTO of AVAST Software. “It is not always certain that an item is 100 percent clean but with AutoSandbox virtualization, we’ve created a safe space between the known good and bad content which will make life safer for all avast users – whether they are using our free or paid-for products.”
Virtualization technology enables people to create a ‘virtual’ computer inside their physical machine. If they encounter malware while browsing the internet or running an infected application, the virtual computer will shut down, leaving their real computer unharmed and running. “Most viruses are spread through executable commands and scripts are the entry point. By isolating the binary in a virtual computer, the real machine stays clean,” explains Mr. Vlcek.
AutoSandbox, a free virtualized environment for testing suspicious code, makes virtualization an easy one-click choice. “Virtualization has the potential to significantly increase user safety, but people have been slow to adopt this technology—even when it’s a part of their antivirus package,” says Mr. Vlcek. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: automatic virtualization, AutoSandbox, Avast, free anti-virus, Security
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) T-Mobile’s CEO and President Philipp Humm announced the company’s commitment to its 4G network. CES is over now, but the 4G phones keep coming. As a part of its 4G plans, T-Mobile announced that the Samsung Galaxy 4G will launch in the first half of 2011.
The Galaxy S 4G will powered by Android 2.2, and is aimed to be T-Mobile’s first smartphone capable of delivering peak download speeds of up to 21 Mbps, through its Super AMOLED touch screen display.
Cole Brodman, chief marketing officer (CMO) of T-Mobile USA, said, “With Galaxy S 4G, T-Mobile will deliver its fastest smartphone yet on America’s largest 4G network, providing rich entertainment virtually whenever and wherever consumers want.” And with 4G data plans from $10 per month, we’re making blazing-fast 4G speeds and super smartphone experiences easily accessible to the millions who crave them.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: CES, Cole Brodman, Consumer Electronics Show, Galaxy S 4G, Samsung T-mobile, T-Mobile
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The famous web browser company Opera Software ASA has released some statistics showing that users of Opera Mini already over 85.5 Million in December 2010.
In December 2010, Opera Mini had over 85.5 million users, a 6.8% percent increase from November 2010 and an 84.7% percent increase in unique users since December 2009. Mobile operators should be very glad too as Opera Mini users generated over 706 million megabytes of data for operators worldwide.
Opera Mini is enjoying plenty of popularity on the mobile market. If you haven’t given Opera Mini a test drive before this, now it’s a good time for you to take a try.
More results can be obtained in the report: http://www.opera.com/smw/2010/12/
Tags: mobile browser, Opera, opera mini, Opera Software ASA, web browser
