Mobile Tech Reviews

Apple has some fans. These fans get very eager about everything Apple does. The iPhone Downloads along with SDK is a case in point: four days after the big A announced it’s iPhone SDK was available to download, over 100,000 downloads have occurred. That’s a big number (it’s one every three and a half seconds over the four days) and we cannot believe that there are over 100,000 developers who will be using this. Hmmm…

Nonetheless the fact remains that the iPhone SDK downloads has created a tremendous buzz. 210 terabytes of traffic worth of buzz, as it turns out. Even a lowly movie of the SDK ‘event’ has been viewed, according to Apple, over a million times the iPhone apps were downloaded. Impressive figures.
Now the real reason to get excited: big names like Namco and PopCap are enthusiastic about the iPhone SDK downloads, which means that big name games should start to appear in iPhone downloadable versions very soon. While we don’t expect GT5 to appear on the little machine, classics such as Pac-man, Galaga, Bejeweled and Zuma may well make an appearance.For best iPhone apps downloads you can find them here.

Sony BMG have backed the online music downloads store We7 in the most emphatic way possible: by providing its entire back catalogue for online streaming. For free.

If you think that this seems like a massive u-turn from the publisher in its stance on music downloads, then you’d be absolutely right. Whether this move will be followed by its stable mates – presumably still opponents to downloads of free music in any form – remains to be seen and the coming months could be interesting indeed.

The move follows some other announcements by big industry players such as 24-7 entertainment, O2, Vodafone and Napster which could see free music downloads becoming the norm, rather than just a pleasant surprise. The ways we get high quality, free, legal music are fast evolving and increasing in number.

This could be more bad news for CD sales and for paid-for music downloads services like Apple’s iTunes. They will need to decide how they will weather this storm and take prompt action to avoid being buried by this new wave of providers.

The current marriage between mobile advertising technology and larger, traditional technology could be coined the MobiCom revolution. Revolution is an interesting word implying massive and fundamental change: this is what MobiCom brings to mobile iPhone technology and traditional computers.
Gone are the days when ‘normal’ computing technology was too big to fit in your house. Gone also are the days when cell phones were too big for your pocket. Shrink both, increase the power many times, and we get to where we were in the year 2000: desktop computers with comparatively huge power and small – mobile – telephones on which you can play simple games and even search the mobile downloads web.
Come into the present and technology has shrunk even further. Now we have telephones with full computing power, capable of anything a desktop was a few years ago. UMPCs have miniaturized the mobile computer so that every bus, train or airplane seat is a fully functioning office.
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A recent study by the Forrester Research Inc. makes interesting reading. Not only are the number of legal MP3 downloads actually growing year on year, they are expected to continue to grow by 23% over the next five years. In 2012 online music downloads are expected to contribute more in terms of sales than physical CDs.

According to the report, this is the end of the music industry as we know it. That might be a little dramatic, but it is certainly a huge change and those not equipped (or not willing) to move with the times will be left behind. Simple. Actually this isn’t bad news for the industry at all – sure it’s bad for some organizations – and it might be good news fro the consumer.

And this is just the legitimate side of music downloads: unofficial downloads undertaken by users of filesharing software such as Ares are estimated to account for many, many more.

Of all the players, IBM knows where the market is and they have already started working on the certification process for going green. You know when the Kyoto Protocol gets signed by the next president we are going to get into the frenzy for getting green certification. Their apparently is a certification program that farmers can register to sign up in selling carbon credits to corporations that are going to have to get to act like good corporate citizens as per the treaty requirements. The gas meter is a novel idea in getting companies to buy this gadget and install this as a energy meter. Going green for corporatins is not a nice thing to do but a necessity that they have to live upto pretty soon.

What we are seeing currently is the marriage between wireless mobile technology and big hulky technology. I coin this the MobiCom revolution is what we are witnessing. The functionality of computer and the freedom to roam about, yes Laptop did provide that intermediate freedom, but the ultimate freedom comes from MobiCom synchronization. With the help of Microvision like companies we can ultimately make the size not to matter in this revolution. Mobile technology and computer technology is like cotton and fire just need to be brought close enough and the union is brighter then before. iPhone is the eligible bachelorate and the only bachelor with touch screen technology, most suited for this union. Computer technology had come a long way and the mobile technology will have to go through a similar transition, but the ramp will be steeper then what we had to go thru the computer technology, because we have learned quite a bit and to transfer that knowledge onto mobile device will be relatively intuitive. We are near the final frontiers as far as now small the size of the technology can get in terms of size of the transistors the building blocks. Unless a feasible nano technology or bio technology provides itself we are in a tight corner.

Linkedin is going mobile on February’s 25th that is optimized for iPhone apps and its an applications built on Ruby on Rails and uses Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). This will also be released in Spanish, French,Japanese, German, as Asian users are more and more using mobile devices to access mobile applications. Linked in is one of the major application that has been released among the varied other applications that you will be seeing soon. All these applications are getting more and more optimized for mobile devices, that you can also interface with other useful iPhone apps. FaceBook has been very nicely integrated with BlackBerry and performs seamlessly, applications are more and more getting tuned towards mobile theme and With the SDK from apple and Google Android the possibilities are endless.