Apple vs Samsung – SmartPhone Patent War – Are they really Innovative ?
As Samsung becomes the World’s leading SmartPhone company with 30% market-share, Apple claims that Samsung infringed its patents on design, user interface, and other utilities, while Samsung is claiming Apple’s patents are invalid given similar technologies and designs were already in place prior to Apple’s and that Apple has infringed…
Airtel 4G LTE Signals Live in Chandigarh, Panchkula, Mohali + Location of 4G Towers – Coverage
Airtel, India’s first 4G LTE Wireless Broadband Service provider has expanded its services into the Tri-Cities of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali which fall under the Punjab Circle. Airtel had won the BWA 4G LTE Spectrum in an auction for Punjab Circle in 2010. Airtel 4G launch in Delhi and Mumbai…
SmartPhones Vs Tablets – Differences and How they are Converging ?
Generally SmartPhones and Tablets have different core functions (cellphone replacement / communications device vs. netbook replacement / media consumption device), the main difference between them is size. In the Android world, the distinction is blurring, with the Samsung Galaxy Note (5.3″ screen) and several 7″ tablets occupying the middle ground…
How Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Infotel will Bid in 1800 / 800 MHz Spectrum Auction ?
The business case for standalone 4G LTE broadband services using 2300MHz is a little away to be popular on mass adoption. There is a prevailing view that Reliance Infotel or one of Mukesh Ambani’s front end company might bid for the 1800MHz band so as to offer basic 2G Voice…
Why Telecom Spectrum Auction May Fail in Top 6 to 8 Circles ? All Operators Possible Strategy
The Indian Government is going by the TRAI recommendations of deferred payment for Spectrum Auction Winners as well as High Reserve price which is actually benchmarked against the 3G Auction prices. [Note – Only GSM Operators & 1800MHz Spectrum band is considered in this article for the sake of Analysis]…
Unstructured Data – Big Opportunities Galore in India
Many Global tech companies (EMC, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle) were circling the big data Hadoop elephant of a solution for the onslaught of unstructured data facing them. One has to ask the fundamental question, what sort of companies would face these sorts of problems and whether Hadoop was a solution…
Does Android Mobile Fragmentation Pose a Security Risk ?
The Mobile SmartPhone industry is concerned about the rampant growth and pervasiveness of Android beyond the processes and structures that Google currently has in place for fragmentation challenges. Consumer Electronics companies looking to leverage Android to be part of the growth of the “Smart Connected Home” would open a host…
HTML5 Vs Native Apps on Android / iPhone / Windows Mobile
It is every mobile apps developers dream to “write once run everywhere”, the fragmented support for and limited APIs within HTML5 make this impossible. According to market research firm Strategy Analytics, the more feature-rich nature of native apps (written in the C/C++ programming language) as opposed to HTML5 apps (written…