BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) held its third annual BlackBerry Developer Conference (DevCon) in San Francisco this week, and BlackBerry enthusiasts of all kinds, including developers, analysts, media and other mobile-industry-watchers, showed up in droves to see what RIM has in store for the coming months and years.
CIO.com was lucky enough to get a sit-down with RIM's BlackBerry App World Senior Product Manager Alex Kinsella, and the App World staffer shared a number of interesting details, including information on the next version of the company's mobile app store, BlackBerry App World v2.1, the new BlackBerry platform development features and services he's most excited about--and why you should be too--as well as what the company is doing to ensure mobile malware doesn't find its way into App World and onto unsuspecting users' devices.
The New BlackBerry Payment and Analytics Services
On Monday, RIM unveiled a variety of new and improved developer tools and services, including the new BlackBerry Payments Service, which offers developers more ways to sell their applications and reach more potential customers. The service also relieves many of the financial headaches associated with selling mobile applications, because it manages all the technical and financials of payment so developers don't have to waste time managing relationships or business terms with payment providers and coding for integration into each of those providers' unique products.
For example, developers who use the BlackBerry Payment Service can offer "in-app payment services" to let customers purchase applications they like after free-trial periods expire or unlock additional application content, like new levels or functionality in games or advanced application features, without ever leaving the app.
Kinsella is particularly excited about the new Payment Service. Creating engaging BlackBerry applications is the best way for developers to build their customer bases, but that's really just the first step, according to Kinsella.
"That's the foot in the door," he says. The BlackBerry Payment Service is really about maintaining customers' attention, according to Kinsella.
The BlackBerry Payment Service will help developers keep their customers engaged by offering new content within their apps, which helps to ensure those apps are "fresh." And that's a good thing for developers, who are ultimately trying to profit from their apps, and BlackBerry users, who want quality mobile applications with evolving functionality.
Kinsella also says he's excited about RIM's new, free BlackBerry Analytics Service, which it announced at DevCon along with Webtrends, a Web metrics firm, to give commercial BlackBerry developers greater insight into who's using their applications, when, how and for what specific purposes.
BlackBerry Analytics Services will help to better educate developers on how their apps are being used, and it should improve their ability to target new types of customers and geographic areas, since they'll be able to see the people and locations in which their apps are used most frequently, among other metrics, Kinsella says.
source: www.networkworld.com
Nokia, losing large shares to domestic brands!
The domestic companies like G'five, Micromax, and the Spice have consolidated their position in Indian mobile phone market with low priced and feature-rich handsets gains market shares of 33.2 percent, according to the IDC research.
According to the Indian Telecom Survey, Nokia's revenue slipped 15 percent to Rs 14,100 crore (down from Rs 16,567 crore in 2008-09, and this downfall was mainly due to the increasing presence of domestic brands. The survey further adds, because of the rapid move to touch screen smart phones and cloud computing Nokia is losing its shares. Nokia is well positioned for cloud computing with Ovi, but lost momentum when Apple introduced the touch screen paradigm to mobile phones. Several new players successfully launched their own devices at significantly lower Average Selling Values(ASVs) in the price sensitive India market. Such handsets found ready acceptance amongst first time buyers, especially from small towns and villages, IDC India Associate Vice President-Research Anirban Banerjee said.
During the last six months, the top five mobile handset vendors in India were the Finnish handset maker Nokia with a market share of 36.3 percent, Samsung with market share of 8.2 percent, Chinese brand G'five with a market share of 7.3 percent in terms of unit shipped. Apart from these mobile handset makers, India also gave a tough competition to the foreign brands in terms of price, handset model and services through Micomax and Spice.
The India mobile market saw a unique trend of multi-SIM phones capturing 38.5 percent of the market. This could be attributed to several new service providers responding with highly competitive tariff plans to a price sensitive mobile telephony user market,IDC India Lead Telecoms Analyst Nuveen Mishra said.
This represents a manifold increase from five new vendors, representing 0.9 percent combined share of units shipped in the January-March 2008 quarter.
source: www.siliconindia.com
According to the Indian Telecom Survey, Nokia's revenue slipped 15 percent to Rs 14,100 crore (down from Rs 16,567 crore in 2008-09, and this downfall was mainly due to the increasing presence of domestic brands. The survey further adds, because of the rapid move to touch screen smart phones and cloud computing Nokia is losing its shares. Nokia is well positioned for cloud computing with Ovi, but lost momentum when Apple introduced the touch screen paradigm to mobile phones. Several new players successfully launched their own devices at significantly lower Average Selling Values(ASVs) in the price sensitive India market. Such handsets found ready acceptance amongst first time buyers, especially from small towns and villages, IDC India Associate Vice President-Research Anirban Banerjee said.
During the last six months, the top five mobile handset vendors in India were the Finnish handset maker Nokia with a market share of 36.3 percent, Samsung with market share of 8.2 percent, Chinese brand G'five with a market share of 7.3 percent in terms of unit shipped. Apart from these mobile handset makers, India also gave a tough competition to the foreign brands in terms of price, handset model and services through Micomax and Spice.
The India mobile market saw a unique trend of multi-SIM phones capturing 38.5 percent of the market. This could be attributed to several new service providers responding with highly competitive tariff plans to a price sensitive mobile telephony user market,IDC India Lead Telecoms Analyst Nuveen Mishra said.
This represents a manifold increase from five new vendors, representing 0.9 percent combined share of units shipped in the January-March 2008 quarter.
source: www.siliconindia.com
Armed men in Addlestone travel agency raid
Surrey Police said the two men entered Co-operative Travel on Station Road at 1600 BST on Saturday.
They threatened a member of staff with what they claimed was a firearm wrapped in a cloth before pulling her into a back room and demanding money.
The men left on foot with thousands of pounds of sterling and foreign currency. Nobody was seriously injured during the incident.
Detectives said the suspects were black men in their mid to late 20s. One was clean shaven with short curly hair.
The second man had a goatee-style beard and was wearing a red and white checked shirt and navy blue hat.
source: www.bbc.co.uk
Scoop SEO Launches Social Media Marketing Services
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For fixed monthly cost, anyone signing up for SMM services get access to SMM professionals, with proven success in Social Media Marketing at Scoop SEO.
Sydney Ifergan, the founder of ScoopSEO remarked, “Building websites is just the beginning; however, getting buying visitors to the site is all the work about. You do not want to have a website that no one is looking at, that which does not give you any business. Your website is more than just a visiting card. We have put together a team of SEO, SMO, and SMM pros to help boost your business profile, attracting visitors who really buy. We are glad to offer our customers the services they have been asking for from us.”
They have beta tested their strategies with results proven for increased buying traffic.
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source: www.pr.com
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