Blackberry applications have moved one step relate   to controlling our lives. Dodge recently announced that it has launched owner’s manual apps on the Android, Blackberry, and iphone platforms. The apps offer a range of quality that supplement and enhance the existing hard-copy manuals and DVDs that come with Dodge vehicles.

First   these apps are portable, easily navigable owner’s manuals. Need to know what that flashing light on your dash is trying to tell you, or where you’ll find the jack in your new car? A couple of clicks through the app, and you’re in business. Handy video clips provide overviews of certain features. Dodge also points out that it can update the apps on a regular basis with warranty info and such The apps also allow users to identify and find parts, and in the case of emergency, they can connect users to Customer Care and summon 24-hour roadside assistance. There’s even a social media feature that puts Dodge owners in contact with fellow owners and enthusiasts.

The first apps to hook into the Drop box API, “Drop box anywhere,” are the local area sharing client Air Sharing (which this editor considers a must-install iPhone/iPod touch app), the Quick Office mini-office suite, Sprite Mobile backup, the Dictums dictation app, and document viewer Good Reader. Drop box serves as the easy transfer and storage means for the apps, and ideally makes them available everywhere you want to work on them. On the ipad, in particular, this fills out some of the “actually work on the thing” functionality you’ve heard about, but probably haven’t seen a real test case for.

On to what’s actually out right now—the Android app. It does not, as you might think, instantly sync all your Drop box files to space on your phone or microSD card. Instead, it’s a convenient place to download individual files, view documents in both Drop box’s own basic viewer and your installed apps, and, most helpfully, quickly create and share documents. Press and hold on any file, and you can copy, email, or use Android’s Share function to pass around a link for select access.

Blackberry   applications

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire ( Prfriend ) December 13, 2010 – Everyone of us have a thought about welding as a very dangerous trade, which is also not much easy to learn. Safety should be one’s number one priority no matter which welding process he is using. Anyhow, with certain welding techniques like TIG (GTAW) and MIG (GMAW), safety is assured. Read further as Mr. Andrew Cooper of Weld Delux describes about both the processes in detail.

“GTAW is nothing but Gas tungsten arc welding process that uses non-consumable tungsten electrode to produce the weld. It is also known as TIG (tungsten inert gas). The weld area is protected from atmospheric contamination by a shielding gas, which is usually argon gas. GTAW welding techniques are commonly used to weld thin sections of stainless steel and non-ferrous metals such as aluminum, magnesium and copper alloys. It is one of the consumable electrode techniques where the electrode and deposit are usually a filler wire. In addition to stainless steel welding and aluminum welding, Weld Delux uses TIG (GTAW) welding techniques also for carbon and mild steel welding.”

“GMAW is yet another important welding technique that is similar to GTAW and is being used by Weld Delux. GMAW stands for Gas metal arc welding and is also referred to as MIG (metal inert gas). It is a semi-automatic or automatic arc welding process in which a continuous and consumable wire electrode and a shielding gas are fed through a welding gun. A DC (direct or constant) voltage and DC current is commonly used to heat the wire to form an arc,” says Mr. Andrew Cooper

At Weld Delux, we also use FCAW and MMA welding methods in addition to GMAW and GTAW techniques. Manual metal arc (MMA) or shielded metal arc welding (SMAC) is a manual arc welding process that uses a consumable electrode coated in flux to lay the weld. FCAW or FCA is nothing but the flux-cored arc welding process that is getting increasingly popular due to its high welding speed and portability. This technique requires a continuously-fed consumable tubular electrode containing a flux and a constant-voltage or a constant-current welding power supply.

About Weld Delux:

Other than welding, Weld Delux also undertakes projects for oil industries, gas companies, aviation, food processing, construction and similar other projects. They also specialize in manufacturing wrought iron products. Being headquartered in Aberdeenshire, the company has worked on several on-site projects throughout the country. To know more, visit, http://www.weld-delux.co.uk

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After conducting a poll of just over 2,000 people, the UK’s leading mobile phone comparison website has found that, on average, consumers look at more mobile phones and deals than they do cars or houses, prior to making a purchase.

A poll commissioned by the UK’s leading mobile phone comparison site has discovered that consumers view more mobile phones and deals than houses and cars before making a purchase.

The study, by www.rightmobilephone.co.uk, of 2,036 people aged 21-35 found that the respondents would look at an average of 5 houses before renting or buying one, whilst when it came to a vehicle, respondents would look at an average of 3 cars before making a purchase.

When it came to mobile phones however, respondents claimed to look at an average of 7 handsets and 9 tariffs before parting with their cash. The aim of the poll by www.rightmobilephone.co.uk was to look into buying habits of Brits and their research before spending habits.

The respondents were asked to give reasons as to why they looked at a certain number of different products before making a purchase and, when it came to mobile phones, 67% felt there was ‘too much choice’ which is what prompted them to looking into their options before committing to a sale.

In terms of properties, with 5 being the number people view on average before renting or buying, 83% felt they only viewed houses they thought they would move into, which limited the number they looked at.

The same could be said for cars, with 71% claiming they knew what vehicle they wanted before the started looking, hence limiting the number they actually looked at.

Neil McHugh, co-founder of rightmobilephone.co.uk, said;

“I’d agree that there is a huge amount of choice out there when it comes to mobile phones and tariffs, but the purpose of our website is to help people pick the right phone for them in a short space of time. With that said, I was still surprised to see that people actually look at more handsets and tariffs than they do houses and cars before buying.”

He continued, “Usually, the more expensive the item, the more time people take over making a decision to buy, but there are obviously a lot of people who are a bit bewildered by the sheer number of handsets and tariffs available, which is causing them to ponder more over their final decision. Hopefully, sites such as rightmobilephone.co.uk can help reduce the amount of time spent searching for a mobile by consumers.”

LINK http://www.rightmobilephone.co.uk

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For more information, or to arrange interviews with Neil McHugh, please contact Shannon Haigh of 10 Yetis PR Agency on 01452 348211 or email [email protected]
Editors notes

Rightmobilephone.co.uk was launched in November 2007 to help consumers save time and money by providing a trusted comparison platform for customers to purchase from.

The site has become the UK’s most comprehensive and user friendly mobile phone comparison engine, with 600,000+ mobile phone offers combined with user friendly consumer reviews, ratings and video.

Users can review and compare over 800 handsets with images, specifications and video with unique users reviews, opinions and ratings provided by handset owners and compare over 2000 + pay as you go offers and tariffs from all major networks.

Telcordia, a global leader in the development of mobile, broadband and enterprise software and services, was cited as the fastest growing Real-Time Charging (RTC) vendor in a USD$3.382 billion Service Delivery Platform (SDP) market by leading industry analyst firm, Analysys Mason.  Telcordia was also ranked as the fourth-largest RTC vendor and sixth largest in SDP product revenue.

Two prime drivers for Telcordia’s leadership ranking, which reflects eight (8) percent of worldwide market share in the RTC segment, are recent wins in India with Aircel, Tata DoCoMo and Uninor, as well as the company’s major installed base in India and CALA (Central America/Latin America). Both of these hyper‑competitive, hyper-growth regions require accelerated service rollouts by Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to ensure competitive differentiation.

“Telcordia’s converged application server provides a common platform for real-time charging and telecom application servers with proven scalability,” said Peter Mottishaw, Principal Analyst, Service Delivery Platform Strategies and Billing, at Analysys Mason.  “In the overall SDP market, Telcordia is well-positioned as one of the significant vendors and has achieved the highest growth in real time charging of any major vendor”

“Telcordia’s success in emerging markets provides an excellent reference to enable them to diversify into additional developing and developed markets,” Mottishaw added

“India is a truly inspiring market in terms of rapid subscriber growth, and our successes there give us unparalleled experience and insight into helping operators strategically test and deploy new services, and achieve brand differentiation,” said Michael Wojcik, President, Service Delivery Solutions, Telcordia. “That insight informs all of our global engagements and provides the market credibility to maintain our strong growth rates and continue to improve our market share.”

For more information about Telcordia, visit www.telcordia.com. For more information on Telcordia^® Real-Time Charging, visit http://www.telcordia.com/products/realtime_charging/index.html. For more information on Telcordia^® Converged Application Server, visit http://www.telcordia.com/products/application_server/index.html.

About Telcordia

Telcordia, a global leader in the development of mobile, broadband and enterprise communications software and services, enables Communications Service Providers (CSPs), enterprises, suppliers and government entities to successfully deploy innovative and advanced services that help our clients realize operational efficiencies, drive revenue, and maintain a competitive edge in the new era of services-dominated communications. Telcordia has globally trusted expertise in software and services to meet the needs of customers and partners, including, consulting, next-generation OSS, network and application interconnection, service delivery and charging  solutions, industry research and new technology development. Telcordia is headquartered in Piscataway, N.J., with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Central and Latin America. (www.telcordia.com).

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Revealing research by the UK’s leading mobile phone comparison website has shown that on average, Brits will send at least 282,000 text messages in a lifetime and spend nearly 8 whole months talking on their phone. The number of texts sent cost the equivalent of a top sports car for pay as you go users.

A nationwide study of 2,038 people in the UK by www.rightmobilephone.co.uk has revealed statistics detailing the amount of time people spend using their mobile on average in a whole lifetime. It was revealed that the average number of texts sent in a month was 500, whilst minutes used totalled 600 in a regular month.

Whilst some children are as young as eight years old when they receive their first mobile phone, the study by rightmobilephone.co.uk found that most believed 13 to be the age at which young people started using their handset properly and regularly, whilst the age at which usage considerably slowed was thought to be 60.

This means that in the 47 years over which the average person actively uses their mobile phone, almost two thirds of a year, 235 days, are spent talking on the phone and 282,000 text messages are sent.

68% of respondents felt they spent more time texting and calling their friends than actually spending time with them and 41% of them felt the same when it came to their partner or love interest. For over half, 54%, their mobile phone was the main means of communication, whilst just under a third, 31%, were more used to staying in touch via Facebook. Only 4% said their main way of communication was face-to-face.

For the 52% of mobile phone owners on pay as you go in the UK, they will spend an average of 0.10p on every text they send, totalling £28,200 over the years in which they actively use their handset; the same amount of money that could pay for a Lotus Elise, 76,216 Mars bars or 61 iPhones.

Neil McHugh, co-founder of rightmobilephone.co.uk, commented on the findings;

“Our latest study really highlights how much time and money we spend communicating; I’m sure it will surprise people and I’m sure most would rather be spending 8 months of their lifetime doing something a little more exciting.

He continued, “I think it can be easy to spend more time on your mobile phone than you need to, especially if you are on contract and have a good deal on texts and minutes, but even so, perhaps 8 months of your lifetime and £28,200 is a little extreme when you consider what that could buy you, a sports car, a round the world trip etc, it’s amazing many of us will be spending that on text messaging instead”

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For further information or to set up interviews with Neil McHugh or James Zielinski please contact Shannon Haigh , 10 Yetis PR Agency, [email protected], 01452 348211.

Notes to editors

Rightmobilephone.co.uk was launched in November 2007 to help consumers save time and money by providing a trusted comparison platform for customers to purchase from.

The site has become the UK’s most comprehensive and user friendly mobile phone comparison engine, with 600,000+ mobile phone offers combined with user friendly consumer reviews, ratings and video.

Users can review and compare over 800 handsets with images, specifications and video with unique users reviews, opinions and ratings provided by handset owners and compare over 2000 + pay as you go offers and tariffs from all major networks.

Stuttgart, Germany and Manila, Philippines — According to one of InfoCom’s latest studies on the mobile market, the management of software updates for mobile phones not only bring value to the user, providing faster and improved software on its mobile phone, but may reveal as an additional revenue stream for the mobile carrier as well as produce positive effects on brand loyalty. Yet, this also applies to phone vendors, especially those targeting professional consumers (prosumers) and multimedia-oriented users. Especially Apple’s iPhone smartphone has set the benchmark on the marketing of updates.

“Carriers report some conflicts with phone manufacturers, related to the development of software upgrades or as regards the contact to end users”, an InfoCom’s Analyst located in Manila pointed out. InfoCom’s research shows that traditional end-device manufacturers have been reluctant, generally speaking, to promote firmware upgrade, as they prefer investing in the development of new phone models rather then devote resources in the further development of existing ones. But they are now increasingly using updates to get closer to their users.

The market is indeed changing: customers tend to keep their mobile phones longer and therefore, are more willing to run updates in order, for instance, to benefit from the latest innovation. “In Japan, mobile operators are quite advanced as regards software update management and use it effectively to generate new revenue streams”, the Analyst, who closely follows the Asian mobile markets since years, commented.

“In fact, in the next couple of years, vendors and carriers will compete more directly on customer loyalty. Many carriers and vendors have launched, or about to, mobile application stores. The next logical step is the update management”, the Analyst continued. “They have just started to understand the potential of efficient update management and they discover that the opportunities go far beyond simply fixing a security hole. Update management is soon to become a very exciting topic.”

InfoCom’s research investigates how market players use software updates to gain proximity to the end-user and helps to decipher how mobile carriers and vendors manage to create value with software update management.

About this research: This research investigates best and bad practices in the field of software update management and identifies how software update management can increase revenues and/or brand loyalty. InfoCom identifies the best software update management practices, how carriers benefit from them and how end-users react. InfoCom’s research activities go far beyond what is traditionally intended by telecom consultancy, covering also new telecom services and applications. If you wish to know more about it, do not hesitate to contact us.

About InfoCom: InfoCom is a market research and consultancy company with over 20 years experience providing strategic analyses and planning assistance to stakeholders in the telecommunications, IT and multimedia industries. InfoCom GmbH’s independent and fact-based analyses highlight trends and opportunities, supporting decision makers to understand market dynamics in order to improve their competitive advantage.

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77% of smartphone owners won’t get a proper break from work this Christmas, research by the UK’s leading mobile phone price comparison website has shown.

New research of 1,053 smartphone owners by the UK’s leading mobile phone price comparison website has shown that more than 3 in 4 people claim they will not be able to take a proper break from the office this Christmas, as their Blackberry or iPhone handsets will prevent them from being able to relax completely.

www.rightmobilephone.co.uk discovered that of the 77% who said they will be checking their smartphones over the festive period, two thirds would do it on a daily basis. Other findings of the study included the top reasons why people felt they had to check their emails whilst on holiday.

The most common reason was dedication, with 45% claiming they will keep their smartphone on them at all times in case something important crops up. 26% said checking emails is a habit they are unable to break, while 11% admitted they will be more concerned about impressing their boss in the hope of a New Year promotion or bonus.

Just under half of the respondents, 49%, are predicting that their obsessive smartphone checking will cause a row with family members this Christmas and 58% will be packing their phone charger before taking trips to see friends and relatives.

Rightmobilephone.co.uk has come up with the top five tips for switching off this Christmas;

1. Leave it at home – If you know that you aren’t going to be needed for anything, leave your Smartphone at home when visiting family and friends. If you don’t have it on you, it won’t interfere with your plans.
2. Switch it off – If only for an hour or two, switch your smartphone off to avoid arguments and to have a bit of time to totally relax.
3. Out of office – Set up an auto-response to let people know you’re out of the office. If you don’t get back to them straight away, they won’t start chasing you.
4. Make your absence known – Let colleagues and clients know what days you will not be working, so they are less likely to contact you during your leave.
5. Silence is Golden – Switch your handset to silent, not vibrate or loud mode. If you get a call or an email, you won’t know and won’t be tempted to answer or read it. You might even find you forget that your Blackberry exists… for a minute or two!

Speaking about these latest findings, Neil McHugh, co-founder of rightmobilephone.co.uk commented;

“I wasn’t surprised by the number of people who said they will be checking their smartphones this Christmas. Checking emails is a hard habit to break, especially in the case of the Blackberry when that flashing red light catches your eye!

“Our top five tips will hopefully help people to have a more relaxed Christmas that allows more quality time for family and not clients. I know how difficult it can be to switch off from work when you have a constant reminder in your pocket or bag all day, but for one day of the year at least, people should be able to switch off.”

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For further information or to set up interviews with Neil McHugh or James Zielinski please contact Shannon Haigh , 10 Yetis PR Agency, [email protected], 01452 348211.

Notes to editors

Rightmobilephone.co.uk was launched in November 2007 to help consumers save time and money by providing a trusted comparison platform for customers to purchase from.

The site has become the UK’s most comprehensive and user friendly mobile phone comparison engine, with 600,000+ mobile phone offers combined with user friendly consumer reviews, ratings and video.

Users can review and compare over 800 handsets with images, specifications and video with unique users reviews, opinions and ratings provided by handset owners and compare over 2000 + pay as you go offers and tariffs from all major networks.

This autumn, InfomatiX Ltd. (Budapest, Hungary) is presenting its products and solutions in Dubai at the GITEX Technology Week 2009. As major highlight, InfomatiX is launching MobiAccess 3.1 during the conference which is held on 18-22 October at Dubai Exhibition and Convention centre.

The release of the new 3.1 version of MobiAccess™multi-platform mobile development framework is expected to be a main attraction as it will be first available at GITEX. InfomatiX Ltd. and MobiAccess visits Dubai to build international partnerships with mobile solution providers and to showcase its unique mobile development framework, FFA and SFA products and professional service offerings to potential clients.

Some new benefits of the new MobiAccess 3.1 framework will be:

• Google Android and Blackberry Storm support (iPhone supported from MA3.0)
• Brand new plug-ins: Benchmark (to test the mobile device database performance), HTML viewer, image viewer etc.
• More DB connectors, new Oracle DB support in 3.1
• New online data exchange capability and faster SyncServer connection

Visitors will have first-hand experience with new features will be presented at GITEX on all supported platforms (iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Google Android, Symbian, Java) and of course our ‘off-the shelf’ products line with full scale support for Field Force Automation (FFA) and Sales Force Automation (SFA) will also be available for user trial at the conference.

The presence of our company at both of the exhibitions are organized by ITD Hungary, the Hungarian Investment and Trade Development Agency, which helps the Hungarian SMEs to penetrate new markets all around the world.

CONTACT

InfomatiX Ltd.

11 Klapka Street,

H-1134 Budapest, HUNGARY

Phone: +36 (1) 32 77 550

www.infomatix.com | www.mobiaccess.com

[email protected] | [email protected]

Stuttgart, Germany – Telecom spending in Brazil amounted to €31.2bn in 2008, equivalent to about 3% of the country’s GDP, and it is expected to rise to €35.6bn in 2014 at a CAAGR (compounded annual average growth rate) of 2.2%. Revenues from fixed telephony will continue to decrease despite fixed telephony carriers’ efforts to attract customers by decreasing service pricing and increasing geographical coverage.

Mobile telephony will remain the main driver of the telecom sector. The growth in subscription will offset the decline in prices. Indeed, if ARPU (average revenue per user) is expected to decrease from currently €9.00 to €8.40 in 2014, the total subscriptions will increase to 185.9 millions by 2014, representing a penetration rate per inhabitant of nearly 90%. Growth opportunities will likely come from the prepaid market, particularly the low-income users and SME segment, and from Region I, where mobile penetration is still relatively low. Non-voice services should gain some momentum as soon as 3G based mobile broadband services become more geographically available. Furthermore, the launch of 4G (LTE) technologies in the first part of the next decade should further boost mobile broadband by allowing faster and enhanced mobile data services.

Brazilian telecom market trends reported by InfoCom also include:

– Broadband penetration continues to increase as at end-2008, over 17% of all Brazilian households had broadband Internet access, up from about 10% in 2006. xDSL is the leading broadband technology while 2.5 million are cable modem subscribers: Embratel’s subsidiary Net Serviços (formerly Globo Cabo) controlls more than 90% of the cable modem segment with 2.2 million subscriptions.

– Brazil is one of the fast-developing economies in the world along with China, India and Russia. Coupled with its large population and ongoing industrialisation, Brazil is expected to become one of the leading countries in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, service and telecommunication sectors.

About this research – This research is available in the Emerging Markets& Products module of InfoCom Knowledge Centre. This module – one of six – gathers InfoCom expertise in researching emerging markets, with a huge amount of indicators and strategic insights on a large number of markets, with the usual InfoCom reliability. Country dashboards for markets like Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Pakistan, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam are inside. This module includes also strategic insights on innovative and new, emerging products, available from InfoCom research activities, such as mobile TV, eNewspapers, Cloud gaming as many others.

About InfoCom: InfoCom is a market research and consultancy company with over 20 years experience providing strategic analyses and planning assistance to stakeholders in the telecommunications, IT and multimedia industries. InfoCom’s independent and fact-based analyses highlight trends and opportunities, supporting decision makers to understand market dynamics in order to improve their competitive advantage

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As technology develops, the average British day gets longer, with 37% of Brits admitting to being a slave to their phone. 1 in 5 BlackBerry and iPhone users claim they spend a minimum of 10 extra unpaid hours per week making calls, responding to emails and sorting work problems in the evenings and at the weekends.

With continuous technological advancements, the human need to stay connected is now easier than ever but more than a third of Brits claims they have become a slave to their phone; feeling lost without it and 23% sleep with their mobile beside their bed, according to a study by Rightmobilephone.co.uk.

A study of 1,226 British workers commissioned by the UK’s leading mobile phone price comparison website, has found that 1 in 3 admit to working out of hours on a weekly basis; replying to emails via their BlackBerry and making urgent calls and 1 in 5 claims to spend a minimum of 10 additional hours of unpaid work per week, in the evenings and weekends.

Despite the fact that 43% consider their BlackBerry to have made their lives less stressful and 28% prefer to stay connected with the office and their emails, almost 20% of British workers now feel pressurised to respond to client and colleague emails out of office hours and 35% claim to have had their evening or weekend ruined because of reading an email from an annoyed or demanding client.

www.Rightmobilephone.co.uk found that for 53% of people, their mobile phone is one of the first things they see in the morning. 24% of people check their emails via their BlackBerry before they leave for the office and 14% have already read and replied to emails before they even officially start their working day.

Speaking about the results, co-Managing Director of Rightmobilephone.co.uk, Neil McHugh said;

“Mobile phone technology is now so advanced that we are able to stay connected with friends, family and colleagues around the clock. The problems start when clients and management expect emails to be dealt with at the weekends and when the phone is going off throughout the night with various problems that need to be sorted.

“As long as expectations are set with clients, this technology can really make your working life easier; a day out of the office no longer has to mean a day out of the loop, people can now work remotely and keep up to date with all emails, thus preventing a stressful and unexpected start to the day.

“Family time is however extremely important and even though I fully understand the instant urge to check my emails in the morning, perhaps our loved ones should be the first people to get our attention!”

The study also revealed that 18% of people do not put their Out of Office on when they are off work as they know they will still be contactable via their mobile phone throughout the duration of their holiday. Unsurprisingly, 38% admit that their family members would prefer them to leave their BlackBerry device off when they are not at work and devote time to them.

LINK http://www.rightmobilephone.co.uk/

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For further information or to set up interviews with Neil McHugh or James Zielinski please contact Andy Barr, 10 Yetis PR Agency, [email protected], 01452 348211.

Notes to editors

Rightmobilephone.co.uk was launched in November 2007 to help consumers save time and money by providing a trusted comparison platform for customers to purchase from.

The site has become the UK’s most comprehensive and user friendly mobile phone comparison engine, with over 350,000 + mobile phone offers combined with user friendly consumer reviews, ratings and video.

Users can review and compare over 800 handsets with images, specifications and video with unique users reviews, opinions and ratings provided by handset owners and compare over 2000 + pay as you go offers and tariffs from all major networks.