India today began issuing letters to the country’s telecoms operators ordering them to make BlackBerry corporate e-mail and messenger services accessible to interception by security agencies or risk suspension of their licences.
The move marks the first step by the government towards implementing an ultimatum from the Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday warning that India would block the services by the end of this month unless they were opened for monitoring.
“The issue is that the service providers have legal obligations to the government under their licences,” said one industry executive.
The legal obligations of Research In Motion, the Canadian company that makes the devices, were to the service providers, he said.
The order poses a dilemma for India’s 15 mobile operators, including industry leader Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar, the number three, as the technology for BlackBerry services is controlled by RIM.
The move also raises the temperature for RIM, which is locked in tense negotiations with the government over its encrypted enterprise e-mail service and messenger function amid concerns these might be misused by terrorists.
Spurred on by similar moves against RIM by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, India is keen to tighten security ahead of the Commonwealth Games in October and to curb terrorist attacks originating from neighbouring Pakistan.
India is the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market with about 600m users and 10m-20m new customers being added every month.
While BlackBerry users number only about 1m, they are among the highest spending customers in a market in which growing competition is squeezing margins.
One operator said yesterday it had received a letter from the government ordering it to suspend the corporate e-mail or messenger service by the end of this month if a solution to the security issue was not reached. Operators were instructed to communicate the order to RIM.
India sets stringent conditions for mobile licence holders, requiring them to make all communications through their networks open to interception by security agencies.
Failure to do so can lead to the seizure of the operator’s network and equipment by the authorities and the suspension of the licence.
However, mobile operators say they doubt they have the technology to selectively block BlackBerry services.
The providers could instead suspend all domestic BlackBerry handsets from the network, but this would not prevent international users of the devices from using roaming services in India.
It is difficult to detect what type of handset is being used when an international customer enters a market using roaming services.
The government is expected to use the BlackBerry issue to put pressure on other internet-based communications systems, such as Google and Skype.
The names of the two internet providers were mentioned as next in line for scrutiny at a meeting last month between government officials and telecoms and internet service provider associations.
RIM’s stock fell 1.2 per cent to C$55.77 yesterday in early trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Oracle’s threat to Google mobile push
The legal war over software rights that Oracle launched against Google late on Thursday could hamper the internet company’s successful push into the smartphone market, industry analysts warned on Friday.
Oracle’s aggressive move was also a “nuclear deterrent” that would spread much more widely across the mobile devices industry, with long-term implications for many handset makers and carriers, said Mark Driver, an analyst at Gartner.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, accuses Google of patent and copyright infringement over the inclusion of parts of Oracle’s Java software in its Android smartphone operating system.
Android, which Google makes available free of charge, has been taken up by handset makers including Motorola and HTC, and in the most recent quarter phones carrying the software overtook Apple’s iPhone in global sales.
Oracle acquired rights to Java, a set of tools that make it easier for software developers to write applications that run on many different operating systems, as part of its purchase of Sun Microsystems earlier this year.
The lawsuit shows that Oracle will seek to make more money from the rights to the widely used Java than Sun did, analysts said.
“You’re definitely going to get a stronger licence enforcement policy – and rightly so, perhaps,” said Al Hilwa, an analyst at IDC.
The lawsuit also serves as a warning to handset makers that are using Android and could tilt the balance in favour of other operating systems, including Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 software, which is due to be launched later this year, Mr Hilwa said.
If Google is forced to pay Oracle for the use of its technology, it could lead it to charge for Android, also making the software less attractive to handset makers, he added.
Many handset makers already have a licence that allows them to use Java. The prospect that Android would continue to grow fast raised the danger for Oracle that it would lose its power to charge a royalty on many new handsets, said Mr Driver.
However, some experts also warned that Oracle’s lawsuit could backfire, encouraging companies to look for alternatives to the Java technology.
At the time it bought Sun, Oracle executives said they would tread carefully in how they exercised their Java rights, since a heavy-handed approach could undermine the software’s standing as a de facto industry standard.
Legal battles over patents are rare between the technology industry’s leading players. Most maintain large portfolios of rights and have enough mutual self-interest to agree broad cross-licensing deals that give companies access to each others’ patents.
Oracle’s attack on Google highlights the internet company’s relatively weak patent portfolio, Mr Driver said.
Oracle’s aggressive move was also a “nuclear deterrent” that would spread much more widely across the mobile devices industry, with long-term implications for many handset makers and carriers, said Mark Driver, an analyst at Gartner.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, accuses Google of patent and copyright infringement over the inclusion of parts of Oracle’s Java software in its Android smartphone operating system.
Android, which Google makes available free of charge, has been taken up by handset makers including Motorola and HTC, and in the most recent quarter phones carrying the software overtook Apple’s iPhone in global sales.
Oracle acquired rights to Java, a set of tools that make it easier for software developers to write applications that run on many different operating systems, as part of its purchase of Sun Microsystems earlier this year.
The lawsuit shows that Oracle will seek to make more money from the rights to the widely used Java than Sun did, analysts said.
“You’re definitely going to get a stronger licence enforcement policy – and rightly so, perhaps,” said Al Hilwa, an analyst at IDC.
The lawsuit also serves as a warning to handset makers that are using Android and could tilt the balance in favour of other operating systems, including Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 software, which is due to be launched later this year, Mr Hilwa said.
If Google is forced to pay Oracle for the use of its technology, it could lead it to charge for Android, also making the software less attractive to handset makers, he added.
Many handset makers already have a licence that allows them to use Java. The prospect that Android would continue to grow fast raised the danger for Oracle that it would lose its power to charge a royalty on many new handsets, said Mr Driver.
However, some experts also warned that Oracle’s lawsuit could backfire, encouraging companies to look for alternatives to the Java technology.
At the time it bought Sun, Oracle executives said they would tread carefully in how they exercised their Java rights, since a heavy-handed approach could undermine the software’s standing as a de facto industry standard.
Legal battles over patents are rare between the technology industry’s leading players. Most maintain large portfolios of rights and have enough mutual self-interest to agree broad cross-licensing deals that give companies access to each others’ patents.
Oracle’s attack on Google highlights the internet company’s relatively weak patent portfolio, Mr Driver said.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Spice Mobile Phone S-1200 with 12 Mega Pixel Camera and Face Detection
Spice Mobiles recently launched an amazing 12 megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom. The Spice S-1200 is the cheapest 12 megapixel camera phone currently available in India. Last year, Spice launched the cheapest 5 megapixel camera phone and now they are back with a bang.
“Photography is emerging as a fine art and expression of creativity. Our latest Picture Perfect seriesPerfect series phone the 12MP S-1200 caters to this lifestyle need of good photography on the move. At Spice we believe in giving the best to our consumers. S-1200 is the perfect example for this. It offers advanced camera functionalities in a phone, which was unthinkable. With this handset our customers can enjoy the dual advantage of a phone with inbuilt full fledged camera”, said Mr Kunal Ahooja, Director & CEO, Spice Mobiles Ltd.
Mobile Updates : Nokia N85 Firmware v20.175
Nokia has just rolled out a new firmware for the Nokia N85, one of the best handset in the Nseries lineup. The v20.175 firmware, up from v11, brings in bug fixes and improvements along with the standby email plugin to show your emails on the standby screen. Other additions include turning controls which now allows you to flip to silence incoming calls alarms, internet telephony set up and an email wizard to setup your Nokia Email or Nokia Messaging.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch or Nokia N97...??
Hi guys I wanna buy new mobile....which one should I buy?
Nokia N97
Samsung India launched the first solar powered cellphone
Samsung India has just announced the global launch of their first solar-powered mobile phone, the “Solar Guru” (Guru E1107) in the Indian market. The new handset enables its users to charge the battery anywhere via sunlight.
Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New and Renewable Energy and J. S. Shin, President and CEO, Samsung South West Asia HQ launched the phone at a ceremony organized by the company at its manufacturing complex at Noida. “The Solar Guru has been developed keeping in mind the needs of Indian consumers, especially customers residing in areas where the electric supply is unstable, so that the consumers can rely on solar charging to remain connected.” states and J. S. Shin, President & CEO, Samsung South West Asia Headquarters. The Solar Guru represents the Company’s efforts to strengthen its leadership in the solar panel mobile market.
With an extended solar-powered battery, the Samsung Solar Guru solves the problem of unavailable or unstable electric supply, particularly in far flung areas. The phone has the capacity to provide around 5-10 minutes of talk time with one hour of solar charging (Measured when the phone is turned-off under the sun light of 80,000 Lux. Results can be different depending on circumstances). Moreover, the solar panel charging allows its users to save money and energy consumption on traditional electrical charging.
Apart from India, Solar Guru will also be launched in June in Europe, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia and Latin America.
It will go for just Rs. 2,799 ($59).
Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New and Renewable Energy and J. S. Shin, President and CEO, Samsung South West Asia HQ launched the phone at a ceremony organized by the company at its manufacturing complex at Noida. “The Solar Guru has been developed keeping in mind the needs of Indian consumers, especially customers residing in areas where the electric supply is unstable, so that the consumers can rely on solar charging to remain connected.” states and J. S. Shin, President & CEO, Samsung South West Asia Headquarters. The Solar Guru represents the Company’s efforts to strengthen its leadership in the solar panel mobile market.
With an extended solar-powered battery, the Samsung Solar Guru solves the problem of unavailable or unstable electric supply, particularly in far flung areas. The phone has the capacity to provide around 5-10 minutes of talk time with one hour of solar charging (Measured when the phone is turned-off under the sun light of 80,000 Lux. Results can be different depending on circumstances). Moreover, the solar panel charging allows its users to save money and energy consumption on traditional electrical charging.
Apart from India, Solar Guru will also be launched in June in Europe, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia and Latin America.
It will go for just Rs. 2,799 ($59).
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
HTC's Best - HTC Touch HD
The Touch HD is storming the WinMo stage to leave a footprint the size of half the HTC portfolio. Not so long ago we saw Windows Mobile changing for the better thanks to the TouchFLO 3D, The latest flagship gets things even hotter with a multimedia twist. And the new screen… well, beauty's in the numbers
Key features
- Massive 3.8" 65K-color WVGA display
- Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS
- TouchFLO 3D Home screen and gesture controls
- Wi-Fi and built-in GPS receiver
- Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz CPU and 288 MB DDR SDRAM
- Dedicated graphics chip (64MB RAM reserved for graphics)
- Quad-band GSM and dual-band HSDPA support
- 5 MP auto focus camera with nice image quality
- microSD card slot
- Accelerometer sensor for auto screen rotation and turn-to-mute calls
- Proximity sensor to automatically turn the screen off during calls
- Fingerprint resistant rear panel
- Touch sensitive keys with vibration feedback
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Standard 3.5mm audio jack
- miniUSB slot and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
- Active magnetic stylus
- MS Office Mobile document editor
- Excellent Opera 9.5 web browser
- Rich retail package, including 8GB microSD card
- A wee bit overweight
- Sizeable body (still within acceptable limits though)
- Average sunlight legibility
- Video recording maxes out at CIF@30fps
- There's no dedicated camera key or flash
- No D-pad (offers more precise navigation)
- Power key is really hard to press
- No TV out port
Main disadvantages:
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
concept phone : T3
T3 Magazines quest for perfection in the mobile phone world takes another form, thanks to their collaboration with The Alloy. The campaign to create the world’s most perfect mobile phone, suitable for each and every pocket alike, is gathering speed. Gone is the laser virtual keyboard, in its place they have got a fully-customisable contextual keyboard which changes depending on the program in use at that moment. A rubberised film over the slide-out pad makes it feel more realistic than any other keypad you’ve used before. More details about this concept and some pictures after the break.
Headphones click into place in the back of the phone, along with a flexible mini phone, which you can strap around your wrist, or keep in your pocket, if you want the 01 Phone to be in your laptop bag or close by, but not on your person. It works just as an ordinary phone, able to make and receive calls, and when done with it, you can lock it into the back of the 01 Phone.
The 01 Phone is being designed thanks to a partnership between T3 and The Alloy, who have worked tirelessly to create this new design, and are going through the stages of whipping something very special (and real) in their workshops, just for T3.
32GB of storage
Available on the iPod Touch, why can’t we have it on a phone? Store thousands of tunes and videos on your mobile, not to mention everything else…
5.0-megapixel camera
Screw 8.0-megapixel phones, we’d rather 5.0-megapixel - two of ‘em, actually. One on the front for video calling and another on the rear for pics. Nokia has managed to do it, so why can’t everyone else?
3G internet
Access the internet anywhere with speed.
32GB of storage and a huge screen makes the 01 Phone a video-watching and music-playing mothership. Not to mention the gaming abilities too.
Headphones click into place in the back of the phone, along with a flexible mini phone, which you can strap around your wrist, or keep in your pocket, if you want the 01 Phone to be in your laptop bag or close by, but not on your person. It works just as an ordinary phone, able to make and receive calls, and when done with it, you can lock it into the back of the 01 Phone.
The 01 Phone is being designed thanks to a partnership between T3 and The Alloy, who have worked tirelessly to create this new design, and are going through the stages of whipping something very special (and real) in their workshops, just for T3.
32GB of storage
Available on the iPod Touch, why can’t we have it on a phone? Store thousands of tunes and videos on your mobile, not to mention everything else…
5.0-megapixel camera
Screw 8.0-megapixel phones, we’d rather 5.0-megapixel - two of ‘em, actually. One on the front for video calling and another on the rear for pics. Nokia has managed to do it, so why can’t everyone else?
3G internet
Access the internet anywhere with speed.
32GB of storage and a huge screen makes the 01 Phone a video-watching and music-playing mothership. Not to mention the gaming abilities too.
NamFleG Concept Phone: Beauty and Luxury All In One Handset
Following in the unimpressive wake of the Vertu Void concept phone, which some referred to
as a “ celebration of empty space,” a Russian designer has developed a staggeringly beautiful handset that is a real treat for the eyes to behold.
Russia’s Marat Kudryavtsev is a young designer who has created a masterpiece of lustrous
sleek design with his new handset, the NamFleG Concept Phone. Black and gold highlights render a delicate sense of elegance enhanced by solar motifs around the navigation button.
With a touch of just enough embellishment, this beautiful concept phone has a camera on its back. The design might have been a bit better without the thick edges surrounding its screen, but be that as it may, the phone is still a vision of sparkling beauty and grace.
Forget about other features. In this case, beauty is everything.
Pricing and availability of the NamFleG Concept Phone are not known at this moment.
