Big Data

Big data is more than simply a matter of size it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make your business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond your reach. Until now, there was no practical way to harvest this opportunity. Today, IBM’s platform for big data uses state of the art technologies including patented advanced analytic to open the door to a world of possibilities.

Consumerization of IT

Consumers today have more choice, more options, and more flexibility in the technology that they use every day from powerful mobile devices and computers to the social networks that they use to connect with each other. As that technology spills over into their professional lives, the line between the personal and the professional is blurring.

People want to use the same technology at work as they use at home. And although consumer technology offers some great potential benefits for the business, it also represents added risk in terms of security, privacy, and compliance. For IT, it’s about striking a balance between user expectations and enterprise requirements.

• Windows-based devices that people love
• With a diverse range of devices based on the Windows platform, you can meet your enterprise requirements while delivering an experience that your people will love.

• Security and management to support flexible work styles
• You can manage a proliferation of devices in your enterprise, Windows- and non-Windows-based alike, with a single pane of glass using on-premises management tools alongside cloud services.

• Best productivity experience
• With the best productivity experience on Windows and a best-in-class productivity experience on other devices, you can enable the kind of social and connected experiences that people expect from using consumer technology while delivering the security and privacy that you require in the enterprise.

• Unified application development
• Simplify and enrich your corporate developer’s experience within a familiar development environment and enable them to deliver great new unified applications across the PC, phone and browser.

A Better Experience for Users and IT

At Microsoft, the goal is to help you achieve the right balance. We’re delivering a range of Windows-based devices from smartphones to tablets to PCs that people love to use and that are ready for the enterprise. Having more devices means increased complexity, so our focus is on minimizing that complexity. For IT, an end-to-end security and management platform can simplify how you respond to the consumerization of IT, regardless of the devices that your users bring into work. For users whether they are working on a PC, from a tablet or phone, or through a browser having familiar tools can help them stay productive. And for your developers, it’s all about putting user-centric experiences at the heart of application development and enabling faster development across devices.

Cloud Computing

I’d say cloud computing typically represents using software not hosted on your local computer, but on the internet. So in a sense the internet itself can be considered a cloud, but when we talk about specific services and software we talk about specific networks which are a part of the internet. In other words, the internet is the network of clouds, the cloud of all clouds.

Cloud computing is a phenomenon made possible because of the increasing speed of broadband Internet and the ability for people to access web pages at lightning fast speeds. Without these fast speeds, people would be unable to compute in the clouds. To better understand how cloud computing works, it is beneficial to understand what it is.

Cloud computing is a grid of computers that acts like the architecture necessary to provide software and data to other computers. Its purpose is to deliver software that might be put on the architecture by a company to individual computers connected to the Internet. For example, Google Documents is software that is “in the clouds” that delivers a word processing program to people without them needing to install it on their computer. And, with the power of Google’s servers, they can then save those files right “in the clouds” without needing to burden their own hard drive.

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Next generation Mobile Advertising technology for the mobile operator.

Using the new and innovative technology of Broadband Systems, mobile operators can now control the web sessions of the subscribers and facilitate Mobile Advertising well beyond traditional banner advertisement.

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Next-Generation Mobile - Smart Devices and Tables

Last week marked the conclusion of one of mobile technology biggest events, the four-day Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012, which was held in Barcelona, Spain. Combining the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry, with an attendance of about 60,000, as well as a conference featuring CEOs of top mobility manufacturers and their partners, MWC, virtually since its inception in 1987, has been the place to be for any mobile brand to woo heightened interest for new products pre-launch.

2012 was no different with dozens of new mobile smart devices and tablet PCs being showcased, even in the midst of student demonstrations protesting education spending cuts outside the MWC 2012 venue, and, maybe more challenging for the world's mobile phone brands, the spectre of an impending launch for Apple's iPad 3 expected on March 7.

As well as the array of devices on display, MWC 2012 also saw the official launch of the consumer preview for Windows 8, the tile-based Windows operating system soon to be launched with the Nokia Lumia 900. Additionally, the accompanying conference event, which is much more muted than the widely reported exhibition, identified the biggest challenge for universal adoption of smart devices as the cost of not only handsets but also data, and especially for the Third World. The number being shopped around as the tipping point for universal Internet access, via smart devices, was 4600.00php, or less, as the cost for people for an entry level smartphone.

Meanwhile, for those who are not as restricted in terms of pricing, the following are several smart devices, smartphones, tablet PCs and even two new 'phablets' or super tablets, first launched in the form of the Samsung Galaxy Note, showcased under consumer electronics manufacturers that spawned them:

Nokia

Formerly the world's number one phone maker, and now replaced in that rank by Samsung, Nokia launched three new entry-level smartphone models - the Asha 202, 203, and 302. The 202 and 203 run on Nokia's Symbian operating system.

In addition, Nokia also previewed a scaled down version of its Lumia 900 Windows tie-up, the Lumia 610, which will be offered at a lower cost and will run the Windows Phone Tango operating system, one of the first of its kind to do so. It also features Xbox Live integration, an 800 MHz Snapdragon CPU and a 5MP rear camera with LED flash.

Another novelty product, this time by Nokia, is the 808 Pureview which features a 41 MP camera, with optics from lens-maker Carl Zeiss.

Samsung

Samsung made its impact at MWC 2012 by launching a new 10.1" tablet PC extending its Galaxy Note product range. The Galaxy Note 10.1 offers up the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) tablet specific operating system, which is run on the platform of a 1.4GHz dual-core CPU. The device also has 3 MP (megapixel) rear and 2 MP front cameras.

The event also featured introductions to 7" and 10" models of the new generation Galaxy Tab 2. Also, run on Android 4.0 with two cameras and 3G, but with a 1GHz dual-core CPU, these new models will reportedly be priced at $420 upwards when they are launched in coming months.

Additionally, Samsung also joined other consumer electronics brands that came to MWC 2012 with novelty products by showcasing the Galaxy Beam, which comes standard with a built in Pico projector. Offering a high output battery which can project an image of 640 pixels by 360 pixels for three hours straight, the Galaxy Beam has all the utility of a smart phone and it is likely to become available during the second quarter of 2012. This joins novelty offerings by Nokia (below) as well water resistant smartphones by Fujitsu and Panasonic showcased at MWC 2012.

HTC

HTC's most prolific new offering at MWC 2012 was its enhanced camera and imaging offering, the one series. Featuring "HTC ImageSense, a new suite of camera and imaging features that set HTC One apart from other phones", the One series comprises the One X, the One S and the lower-end One V, according to a product launch statement from the company.

Interestingly, the 4.7" touch screen One X is one of only a few smartphones at MWC 2012 which offered up the new 1.5 GHz quad core CPUs, while the 4.3" touch screen One S used a 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU. Both phones also utilised new generation Corning Gorilla Glass which make them much thinner. Also noteworthy, the One series will be available worldwide from April 2012 via 140 mobile operators and distributors.

Asus

Known for its Transformer tablet PC, which includes a detachable keyboard that, when added, turns the device into a laptop, Asus debuted its new Padfone, which is a 4.3" touch screen device, running on Android 4.0, which works on a dual-core CPU. Keeping loyal to the innovation that made its Transformer tablet unique, the Padfone can also be inserted into an Asus Padstation to become a 10.1" tablet PC.

Fresh from their success of the last years Eeepad Transformer tablet and it's successor, the Eeepad Transformer Prime, All eyes were on ASUS who were a relativity cheaply PC maker a couple of years ago but have come into prominence by making arguably the best Android tablets currently available. The first thing Asus did was to drop the 'Eeepad' moniker and renaming their tablets the Transformer Pad. Got that? Yeah I have no idea why either but lets take a look at what Asus had to reveal and show us today.
PADFONEThis was revealed a year ago yet never saw the light of day but FINALLY, Asus have confirmed an April release date for the hybrid tablet and phone. Now you might know of Samsungs 5.3 inch Galaxy Note smartphone which blurs the lines of phone and tablet. Well the Padfone mutates the lines between phone and tablet. It's basically a 10.1 inch Android tablet and at the back there is a compartment. You open that compartment and in it is an Android smartphone which you take out and use as a mobile! On the one hand, you've got yet another high-end device, with a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD display, Snapdragon's new dual-core S4 chip, an Adreno 225 GPU, Ice Cream Sandwich and an 8-megapixel rear camera with an LED flash and f/2.2 autofocusing lens. (The front camera records at VGA resolution.) Other specs include 16 to 64GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD), Bluetooth 4.0, HDMI, GPS, A-GPS, a gyroscope, 1,520mAh battery and a compass. Connectivity options include WCDMA (900, 2100 MHz), EDGE / GPRS / GSM (850, 1800 and 1900 MHz) and HSPA+, with theoretical download speeds topping out at 42Mbps. Taking a cue from Motorola's Lapdock-friendly handsets, the Padfone can slide into an optional station that effectively allows you to use it as if it were a 10.1-inch tablet. Like the optional docks sold alongside ASUS' Transformer tablets, the station not only improves the ergonomics, but also extends the battery life -- in this case, by nine-fold. Speaking of keyboard docks, ASUS will be selling one for this product, too, so that you can tuck that 10-inch phone-tablet into something with a full physical keyboard. There's also one more thing, one of the accessories available for the Padfone is a stylus but It's not just any stylus however. When th Padfone is docked into the tablet and you are using the stylus and you get a phone call, you can answer the call with yor stylus so you don't have to pull the phone out of the tablet. Welcome to the future ladies and gentlemen.
INFINITY TABLET SERIESYes, another one. Less than four months after announcing the original Transformer Prime and slightly modified TF700T, ASUS is adding uno más to the collection. And don't be fooled by the name: though the company is rebranding its tablet line "Transformer Pads," the newly announced Infinity Series looks a lot like a product we've already seen. Essentially, it's an improved Transformer Prime with a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU. There will be a 3G/4G version but tis won't sport the quad-core chip favoring a Qualcomm dual-core one instead.Additionally, there will be a lower-end 16GB option (the Prime was onavailable in 32GB and 64GB flavors). Otherwise, the specs are the same, including dual 8MP / 2MP cameras, 1GB of RAM, HDMI and a 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1200, Super IPS+ Gorilla Glass display. This time around, it has Gorilla Glass 2, but that's a mild spec bump. Infinity Pad will run Android 4.0 out of the box. It also comes with 8GB of free lifetime ASUS WebStorage and is rated for 10 hours of battery life (16 with that signature keyboard dock, sold separately). No word yet on pricing or availability. In any case, though, we wouldn't be surprised if ASUS gave birth to another tablet between now and then.
So once again, Asus is releasing more tablets before the latest one has had a chance to breathe. Its nice to see the Padfone finally becoming official although using a stylus to take calls might seem a little weird to others as you're pretty much talking to a pen but god damn it, it is so sci-fi that i want one.

Huawei

MWC 2012 also witnessed a new 10" tablet from Huawei, the MediaPad 10, which it claimed was the world's first quad-core tablet PC offering. The MediaPad 10 comes with a 1.5 GHz quad-core CPU and utilises Android 4.0.

Sony Ericsson

Interestingly, Sony Ericsson used MWC 2012 as an opportunity to launch two new products which were a departure from previous Xperia products in that they carried only the Sony brand - the Sony Xperia P and the Sony Xperia U.

Both utilising dual-core CPUs and Near Field Communication (NFC) chips, the Xperia P and U were only differentiated in that they each have differing screen sizes and camera resolutions: the P has a 4" touch screen and an 8 MP camera, while the U has a 3.5" touch screen and a 5 MP camera.

However, most telling of all, conspicuously absent from Sony's new offerings were quad-core devices, which it said it would only introduce in 2013. Especially revealing of the company's future since most competitors showcased quad-core products at MWC 2012.

LG

Aside from Samsung, and maybe Huawei, LG was the only other company to showcase a new 'phablet', or super tablet offering, with its Optimus Vu which featured a 5" touch screen, Android Gingerbread operating system, and a 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU.

Also, further adding to MWC 2012's novelty offerings, LG additionally previewed the Optimus 3D Max which has a 1.3 GHz dual-core CPU, along with NFC chip, and a 4.3" touch screen. In addition, the novelty factor was piled on by its 3D view feature, which does not need 3D glasses. This could be used to view images, movies and even apps, such as Google Earth, in 3D.

SMART Communications of the Philippines and Red Bend Software introduced the new SMART Netphone in February 2011. This innovative mobile device is the world’s first smartphone featuring widgets from the Wholesale Application Community (WAC) that are independently managed over the air. With Mobile Software Management from Red Bend, SMART will realize faster time to revenue by deploying and managing new, innovative services that will make the Netphone the center of SMART consumers’ social lives.

SMART's Chief Innovation Officer, Alex Ibasco, and Lori Sylvia, Red Bend's EVP of Marketing, discuss how the two companies worked together to make Netphone a reality.