Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Bharti Airtel, announced that it has successfully completed the deployment of the “Traffic Police Enforcement Automation” system by providing BlackBerry® smartphones to all the officers of the Bangalore Traffic Police.
Dr. V.S.Acharya, Hon. Home Minister, State of Karnataka in the presence of Mr. Shankar Bidari IPS, Commissioner of Police Bangalore City presented the last lot of 10 BlackBerry smartphones to the Bangalore Traffic Police personnel. With this, the Bangalore Traffic Police department has equipped all 650 officers a BlackBerry smartphone, giving them access to the large central database of vehicles, drivers and offenders.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Saturday launched the country’s first commercial urban mobile WiMax network in Ernakulam. The service was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Agriculture K V Thomas.
BSNL is the first operator in the country to launch commercial mobile WiMax service, for which technical support is being provided by Aviat Networks. “In the initial phase, 450 base stations will be set up across the state at a cost of Rs 100 crore, which will cover all the major cities and district headquarters.
Microsoft on Monday announced that its Windows phone 7 operating system for mobile phones will be available by this Christmas season, as a whole new platform that incorporates social networking, music, video, photos and games to provide a rich, personalised user experience.
At the Mobile World Congress that opened here, Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer unveiled the features that the Windows Phone 7 to be manufactured to specifications laid down by the company, will offer.
The Handcase launched its mobile search system, called Gune. Gune is a system of meta-search, ie it searches the other websites and generates a single page of results, optimized for small screen phones and smartphones. The websites consulted by the Gune are: Google and Bing.
New Delhi-based 2ergo, a provider of mobile enabling technology will launch location-based services in India by next six months, Ramesh Krishnan, chief operating officer, 2ergo told Telecom Yatra.
Location-based service (LBS) is a form of marketing and communication that uses location-tracking technology in mobile networks to target consumers with location-specific advertising on their mobile devices. Speaking on the forthcoming launch, Krishnan said, “Last year, 2ergo launched a LBS-based mobile application for one of our clients, Rightmove, in UK. Now we plan to launch it here in India.”
To cut a long story short, there is a striking similarity between the majority of mobile phone users; it is the sheer negligence and the habit to leave phones behind at any place. This is in no way a small quandary and owing to this, we do face umpteen problems. Remember, even if we prefer to accuse stealers at every time, phones are mainly lost owing to this. However, all such problems will be a part of tale thanks to the emergence of Zomm.
What is Zomm? You may certainly term it as a novel technological marvel but in reality, it is a gadget, unveiled at the CES 2010 and it can be your best aid provided that you have the habit of losing your classy cell phone from time to time.
Keeping pace with tech-savvy users these days seems to be quite difficult. Infosys, in an attempt to fulfill this is releasing a mobile application platform known as Flypp. This application platform could offer several ready-to-use experiential applications across devices worldwide.
Globally, the mobile applications market is said to be swiftly developing and one of the budding markets includes India. Claimed to be a source of prospect and novelty, the country seems to have seen a rise in digital consumers believed to be motivated by ease, alternatives and immediate satisfaction.
Leading mobile content technology provider mTouche Technology Bhd has set up a joint venture company-mBit Infotech Pvt. Ltd in India to launch peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile content platform for major Indian telecommunication service providers.
This new entity, which has been established with technology firm VASSoft.
net, a wholly owned unit of Himenviro Environmental Technologies will be a strategic vehicle to launch the mBit network with the Indian service providers.
Upside Learning has tied up with Skill-Pill to resell the mobile learning catalog content in India and a few other regions. Skill-Pill designs and produces short, high-impact pills of knowledge and motivational content. The pills are developed to reinforce recent skills training and business communication. Upside Learning believes mobile technology has the potential to really make learning anytime, anywhere and for anyone.
Infineon Technologies AG, one of the leading semiconductor companies for mobile phone solutions, and Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones and services, today announced a cooperation to develop advanced radio frequency (RF) transceiver solutions. The agreement covers a non-exclusive collaboration to ensure the compatibility and interworking of Nokia’s advanced licensable baseband modem technologies and Infineon’s leading RF solutions.
