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Mobile Banking gets prominent

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:08:43 +0000

It is known from a recent survey that the most of the adult bank consumers use mobile banking for their transactions. Almost 17% of the people use mobile banking . In the coming year, the usage may go up to 22% , reveals the study.

The major part of users use mobile web browsers while few use SMS and a small segment of the people use application for their banking purpose.

They generally receive informational services through mobile banking like the account balance etc, check clearance status etc.

The Mobile Marketing Association are taking efforts to encourage people to use mobile banking for transactions apart from receiving informational services.

They see mobile banking emerging as a powerful tool in the near future.

Google Navigation system to storm the market

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:10:29 +0000

The mobile users are currently paying anything between 50 dollars to 100 dollars to get a dependable Navigation system on their smart phone or iPhone. But Google is set to change all that by giving their advanced Navigation system software free for all smart phone users.
The Google Navigation software will not only give you street views and map views, it also gives you with latest traffic information and voice commands. That coming for free has already sent the shares of Navigation software majors down in the last few days. Google can be expected to make it big in this market also in the coming months, since it is sitting on billions of dollars of free money without any investment avenue.

Google improves the Voice messaging system

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:24:19 +0000

Google users were till now unable to get their voice messages from other cell phones transcribed. Google is now offering all the Google Voice messaging system with a Google phone number, with which you can manage all voice mail calls from all other mobile networks.
This additional feature could well increase the usage and popularity of Google Voice system.

Flash Applications on the mobile

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:26:50 +0000

Adobe announced at the World Economic Forum which is being held in the Swiss city of Davos that they have partnered with Apple to make Flash on the iPhone a reality.

Adobe’s Chief Narayen has not said what obstacles are there in this process. Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, had declared that the real obstacle is the inherent nature of Flash, which is too heavy for mobile processors and the Lite version is too limited and does many things that users expect Flash video playback on the Web or display animations in the more complex pages.

Most applications rely on Flash Lite applications for most tasks and are often based on earlier versions of Flash, thus limiting the feature set, Jobs has argued for a product in the middle of the two versions.

Furthermore, Apple remains committed to HTML 5 as a substitute and is working with the developers of Mozilla and Opera to perform the same functions as Flash, but in a more universal standard and by consuming fewer resources.

Google announces more details on Android 1.5

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:05:37 +0000

Google has begun to disseminate official information about Android 1.5, the next version of this operating system for smartphones. Some of the key improvements is that this new version will incorporate the mobile keyboard, video recording and stereo Bluetooth. Android 1.5 will be based on the “cupcake”.

The on-screen keyboard will allow users to enter text using the phone in portrait mode. Currently, users of the T-Mobile G1 have to turn to landscape mode to enter text. Besides, you already know that the first Android-based device without the keyboard, the HTC Magic, will be launched this spring.

The Android 1.0 includes a pair of widgets, small applications created to facilitate simple tasks. These widgets are an analog clock and a browser. This new version adds a calendar, music player and an application for framing pictures.

The Android operating system for mobile 1.5 also comes with voice recognition interfaces and auto text. In addition, it allows the folders are updated automatically. Google is working on developing applications for this new version of Android. For this reason, developers can now download the new version of this platform. It should be borne in mind that Android competes in the market for smartphones with other operating systems like Apple’s iPhone OS, the Nokia’s Symbian or Windows Mobile from Microsoft.

Opera Turbo

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:23:47 +0000

We all know about mobile browsers Opera Mini and Opera Mobile that increase speed and compress the data that is sent via broadband. Now the Norwegian Opera Software company launched Opera Turbo, a new version which is much faster. The main novelty of Opera Turbo, which will be presented during the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is it will compress up to 80 percent of data traffic.

The new Opera Turbo helps operators to reduce network traffic and save on data transmissions. Furthermore, end users will also benefit because, when you browse from your mobile, you will notice the pages load much faster. In addition, the operating system will be completely compatible with Turbo technology web dynamics, such as Ajax and Flash.

Opera Turbo will be available to users who are using Opera Desktop and Opera Mobile Opera Devices SDK. Although not all the terminals used Opera browsers created by, the launch of this new version is a good solution to decongest mobile networks, the Internet, which have recently seen its traffic increase by the rise of USB modems for laptops.