by Paul Joseph
June 12, 2011
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According to a regional expert, UAE has captured 60% of the Middle East’s smart phone mobile apps business. 40 % of the smart phone users use between 6 and 10 applications in their daily life “The penetration of these kinds of mobile applications is tremendous in the UAE. The UAE has become a global player, thanks to its openness to the world economically and technologically and its world class infrastructure. The UAE government is now moving aggressively into adopting these applications to provide better services to its customers. One step towards that direction was that Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre hosting the leading m-content global summit. The statistics show that the number of governmental applications in the UAE is between 20 and 25. The majority of the usage of mobile apps in the Arab world pertains to entertainment, such as songs, social news, Al Quran and Islamic lectures, prayer times and Hajri timings. Due to research, 40 percent of the smart phone users are using between six to ten applications in their daily lives. Likewise, what makes the mobile phone beneficial is that it has a very high response rate through text messaging which is read within 5 minutes of delivery in comparison with email that takes up to 48 hours in some cases. The world-class ICT infrastructure in the UAE and the cost effective ICT billings compared with the income in addition to the availability of the latest models of smart phones and computers as they are launched have drawn the attention of ICT investors to this region. The world is increasingly turning from desktop to mobile computing. Smartphone sales are expected to eclipse desktop computer sales by 2012, and in 2013 people will pay all their bills through mobile devices, including buying coffee, transferring money and reading your books and magazines. The mobile computing is all about user friendliness. People always demand what helps them doing things on the run. Flagship is one of the fastest growing companies specializing in creating qualitative App strategy for its customers, at a time when the region is witnessing a huge spurt in demand for apps. The consumer will be the biggest grand winner in all this, as he will get a better deal and in many cases free offerings. It is left to the consumer to grab the benefit and improve his lifestyle and be more productive and efficient at work and in daily life. The optimal application idea, perfectly realized in terms of design and concept, determines the success of any application. Pads are going to spread in a higher ratio than smart phones with a price range AED.400-3000, with an average of AED1000, allowing you to buy and store hundreds of books for one-tenth of their shelf price. This will definitely be a cost-effective solution, besides saving you the pain of holding tons of printed books.
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by Paul Joseph
April 12, 2011
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LTE networks make possible a new breed of location-based services (LBS) that need to determine a user’s location quickly and accurately, at any time and in any place. To help accelerate the availability and verify the performance of these location services on LTE devices, leading mobile operators, technology developers and device manufacturers are using a pioneering lab-based LBS LTE test solution from Spirent Communications. To satisfy growing consumer demand, the mobile industry is relying heavily on advances in location technology to enable a new wave of creative LBS applications. Spirent continues to develop innovative test solutions that help bring new location technologies to market faster and with better performance. Spirent’s new LBS test solution for LTE devices is built on top of the company’s market-leading Position Location Test System (PLTS) and UMTS Location Technology Solution (ULTS). Spirent solutions are already used by all the leading industry players to test location technologies such as Assisted GPS (A-GPS) and A-GLONASS in CDMA and WCDMA devices. A critical enabler of LBS on LTE networks is a new protocol from the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) called Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) version 2.0. SUPL 2.0 enables A-GPS and other location technologies to be employed across LTE, CDMA and WCDMA networks. It also supports the use of hybrid location technology combinations. The first test offerings from Spirent include SUPL 2.0 protocol conformance for LTE/CDMA and LTE/WCDMA dual-mode devices. Another test area supported by Spirent is standalone GPS performance while LTE data transfers are in process. “No legacy protocol could do what SUPL 2.0 can, so major network operators have decided to make it a requirement to enable LBS across all the cellular technologies supported by an LTE device,” said Rob VanBrunt, vice president of Spirent’s Wireless business. “In some cases it will also be used for E911. Spirent has made major contributions to development of the OMA’s protocol conformance tests, helping to make SUPL 2.0 a reality.” In addition to its technical advantages, SUPL 2.0 enables new revenue opportunities for the industry, with features such as Area Event triggering. This new capability allows applications to automatically alert users when they enter or leave a pre-defined boundary such as a shopper receiving updates on the best deals from a store upon entering a shopping mall. Mobile coupon providers and creative advertising agencies are eagerly awaiting this type of capability which is expected to trigger a wave of new innovation in the LBS application marketplace. (NetEvents APAC Press Summit)
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