Industry News Summary: Opera, Galaxy S III and Google’s self driving cars

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Industry News Summary- Opera hopes Apple will change iPhone & iPad policies, Galaxy S III’s share of Web traffic surges and Google’s self driving cars reach another milestone.

Opera challenges Apple’s policies- The Times of India reported today that the Norway based company behind the Opera browser wants Apple to change some of its policies regarding third-party-web- browsers in iOS stores. Officials at Opera say that Apple’s tight control over content and apps precludes the company from offering Opera’s full version on iPad and iPhones. Read More

Samsung’s Galaxy S lll’s web traffic surges according to Chitika, which runs an ad network and performs data analytics- following the Galaxy S III’s successful launch, the smartphone is surging in its share of web traffic. According to Chikita, the S III jumped from zero to 11.23% of all Samsung smartphone Web usage in just six weeks. Learn more here

Google’s self driving cars reach an important milestone- Google announced that its much anticipated self driving vehicles have driven 300,000 miles without a single accident while under computer control. Google posted a blog post stating “ We’re encouraged by this progress, but there’s still a long road ahead. To provide the best experience we can, we’ll need to master snow-covered roadways, interpret temporary construction signals and handle other tricky situations that many drivers encounter” . For further reading press here

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Industry News Summary: The Olympics, LTE networks and Mountain Lion OS

OlympicsIndustry News Summary- The evolution of Olympic coverage, a new research on how LTE has increased data usage on smartphones and tablets and Apple’s new OS.

And the Olympic medalist is… The 2012 Olympic games could be dubbed The Twitter Olympics as twitter users flock to the social network in order to get the latest results from London. But this is just another stage in the evolution of Olympic coverage which began with carrier pigeons. Acme Packet, a network solution company, recently compiled an infographic report on the evolution of Olympic coverage. Take a look.

Informa Telecom & Media and Mobidia Technology, Inc. offer new insight into use of smartphone and tablets on LTE networks: Earlier today, Informa and Mobidia released the second part of their whitepaper “Understanding Today’s Smartphone Users”. The research offers insight into consumer’s data usage via smartphones and tablets on various networks, including LTE. The results demonstrate that LTE networks and devices have indeed increased data usage. In addition, Wi-Fi is quickly becoming a primary mean of connectivity for all smartphone users. Learn more here.

4 days, 3 millions copies: Apple’s new OS “Mountain Lion”, that brings features from the iPhone and iPad to the Mac, and includes tight integration with Apple’s iCloud, as well as a “Notification Center”, sold 3 million copies in just four days. Read more.

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Industry News Summary: Firefox, HP and Content Discovery

firefoxFrom Mobile browser to Mobile OS. Firefox

“Firefox Mobile OS will outperform Android”. We used to see the Mobile OS market share with very solid and clear characteristics. We’ve got Google’s Android at the first spot fighting Apple’s iOS. Lately we had also Microsoft sending her Windows Phones to right into the battlefield…

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Industry News Summary – VoIP on LTE Fee, Surface & TelepresenceOptions Magazine

Is VoIP on LTE Networks to Cost Money?
Andy Abramson from VoIP Watch blog predicts that USA carriers will start charging for voice traffic (Skype and similar) passing through their networks. With examples such as TeliaSonera – it seems quite logical.

Microsoft Announces ‘Surface’ Tablet – the MS Response to Apple’s iPad
The new tablet will come in two flavors, arm base Win8 RT with 10 inch 1366*769 16:9 screen, and a Core  i5 machine with 1080P screen. Unlike the iPad, Surface includes dual microphones – and with Skype at hand – surface might become a serious video conferencing tool.

Telepresence Options Magazine 2012 Summer Issue is Now Online
The video conferencing magazine by TelepresenceOptions contains the latest news about  cloud, security, inter-connectivity and the latest news in the video conferencing field. I find it highly recommended – registration is available here.

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Industry News Summary – Jabber, NAT66 And NanoSIM

Cisco Jabber to Compete With Skype?
Cisco announced the availability of it’s Jabber client on iPad and Windows platforms – making Jabber a universal client, supporting Webex, Telepresence connectivity and a handful of platforms to run on. [Read more...]

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