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Apple is gradually positioning itself as serious online advertising competitor to Google and to a lesser to Microsoft and Yahoo as it tries to corner the mobile ad segment with the new iAd platform.
The latter will blend together the interactivity of web-based advertising with the “emotion” induced by classic television ads. Apple’s charismatic CEO demonstrated this with a X-Y graph with interaction and emotion on both axis.
Bharti Airtel Ltd. has reached at a deal with Apple Inc. for selling the iPhone 3GS in India in the upcoming months.
Bharti Airtel is India’s largest mobile phone operator by the users that has submitted its bid for participating in bandwidth auction to get the third generation, 3G mobile services. The bidders who would achieve success would be permitted to provide 3G services commercially from Sept. 1, 2010.
India’s largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, has joined the race with handset makers such as Nokia, RIM (maker of BlackBerry) and Samsung among others to get a share of the mobile applications market in India.
Bharti’s app store is set to go live on Wednesday (February 10) with over 1,200 applications making it the first Indian telco to attempt replicating the highly successful business model of Apple, the pioneer in this space.
Sorry iPhone fans. Looks like iPhone 3GS will not be coming to India on Aug 9th. I visited a iStore in the city and from what they told me August 9th seems impossible and 3rd week of August looks more probable .
Looks like there has been some confusion amongst blogs and the media about the August 9th launch date.In the Apple Keynote way back in June,this slide shown below says iPhone 3GS coming to india in Aug ‘09 which means Aug 2009 and not August 9th. Apple India were not reachable for an explanation !
Leading mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia, Apple and Research in Motion (RIM) are in the process of rolling out localised versions of their application stores in India. These vendors are also betting big on Indian developers to set up a mobile phone apps development ecosystem in the country.
Vendors feel apps will be the next big revenue opportunity for them in India, after US and Europe. The desi version will have a slew of apps which are customised for the Indian market. ‘Application store’ in industry parlance is all about mobile phone apps which consumers can buy and download on their handsets.
The third-generation iPhone is here! As widely being speculated in the media over the last few days, Apple lifted the curtains over its new version of iPhone, called iPhone 3G S.
iPhone 3G S claims to be much faster than its previous versions and packs some 100 new features. Apple’s vice president, marketing, Phil Schiller made the announcements at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco (And yes, contrary to wide speculations, Apple’s renowned chief executive, Steve Jobs, did not appear).
The good times for Research In Motion (RIM) continue with recent news that the BlackBerry Curve has managed to outsell the Apple iPhone in the first quarter of 2009, in U.S.
That, incidentally, makes the BlackBerry Curve the best selling smartphone in U.S. If that wasn’t enough, RIM dominated the smartphones chart with as many as three handsets finding place in the coveted top 5 largest selling phones list there. All this came with the added satisfaction of “beating” the iPhone 3G and relegating it to the second spot. Two other BlackBerry phones; the Storm and the Pearl took the third and fourth spot respectively. T-Mobile’s G1 managed to come in at a respectable fifth position.
It’s just the season to acquire some jaw-dropping touch-based innovations
Multi-touch is the must-have feature for all digital devices this year. The craze for this spiralled after the launch of Apple iPhones and has now become all pervasive. In fact, “touch” is the new by-word for all electronics devices in the market today. The gizmos available with this feature are not only drool-worthy but also feature technology by way of Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, accelerometers, haptic feedback and so forth.
Apple has won a U.S. patent for its multitouch-enabled technology. Analysts speculate the patent could be a potential legal weapon against iPhone competitors. The win comes as Apple’s comments to the media have alluded to some displeasure with Palm’s encroachment on its technology.
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