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iPhone may knock out Microsoft’s global position by 2009 end-Analysts

  • August 25th, 2008
  • 8:19 am

According to an analyst report, it has been forecasted that Apple will sell 13 million 3G iPhone this year and 45 million in 2009. On the lower end, it is also forecasted that Apple will sell around 11 million iPhones in 2008 and another 25 million in 2009.

It is belived that Apple will outnumber the worldwide shipping of number of Windows Mobile smartphones a year after releasing its first 3G device. Microsoft had sold 18 million Windows Mobile licenses in the fiscal year ended June 2008, missing expectations by 2 million and it is also said that will make it even harder for Microsoft to hit its goal of increasing global sales in fiscal 2009 to 30 million.

Let’s see what’s in store for both the companies and for Apple, it’ll be a great effort on it’s part with zero market share little more than a year ago, is able to knock out Microsoft’s global position by the end of 2009.

   

Mobile data revenues to reach $100 billion by 2017 - Report

  • August 4th, 2008
  • 5:00 am

According to a new forecast issued by financial intelligence firm SNL Kagan, Mobile data revenues will increase by at an annual growth rate of 16% from $24 billion in 2007 to over $100 billion in 2017. The catlyst behind the expected growth is the recent launch of Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones. SNL Kagan’s forecast is completely in contrast sharply with the firm’s forecast that total wireless service revenues will experience barely a 5 percent CAGR over the same timeframe. According tot he firm’s estimate average data subscribers will grow at a CAGR of 5.8 percent to 249.5 million by 2017, comprising 77 percent of the total wireless subscriber base. During the same period, wireless subscriber totals will grow an average of only 2.9 percent per year.

SNL Kagan predicts wireless subscribers to reach 90 percent per capita penetration by 2017, which will lead to new data services emerging as the primary driver for revenue growth as market saturation nears. By 2017, 62 percent of all subscribers will clinch to messaging and mobile e-mail, mobile web users will grow from 18 percent of subscribers in 2007 to 52 percent of subscribers in 2017. SNL Kagan expects mobile video and TV to see a 10-year CAGR of 22.5 percent, followed by mobile music at 13.1 percent CAGR and mobile gaming at 12.7 percent CAGR.

New GPS navigation program released: gpsVP

  • July 13th, 2007
  • 9:13 am

Here comes yet another GPS mapping navigation software for Windows Mobile -based smartphones and Pocket PCs.

gpsVP supports simple navigation. You can select any location and tell the program that you are going there. After that it begins to show you direction to the point. Distance monitors shows distance from current location to the point. Navigation only works when GPS receiver is connected and determined location.

gpsVP records a track always when GPS receiver determines location. Track recorded since the program was last started is shown on screen. Recorded tracks are written to card. Each session is written into separate file. Please notice that the files are not deleted automatically. It’s up to you to choose location with enough space and delete old tracks. Only one track format is supported.

gpsVP works with maps in Garmin MapSource format. Although the format was developed by Garmin, free maps in this format are usually produced with cgpsmapper. gpsVP opens several maps and then chooses maps to display based on current position scale and selected detail level.