BRIC

What is BRIC?

BRIC means (Brazil, Russia, India, China)

Currently they are bigger growth in terms of mobile subscriber.
Singapore currently only have 6 million, these countries have:

Brazil 135.9 million mobile subscriber
Russia 87.26 million mobile subscriber
India 296.08 million mobile subscriber
China 680 million mobile subscriber
(wiki for other countries)

Why they are important? They are so call the emerging markets, as they are rapidly growing their economy, and they have so many internet user (wiki) and mobile subscriber.
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Qik for National Day Rally

If you have seen the National Day Rally on Aug 18, you would have seen this footage.



Here is the story from Straits Time, and Here is the Story from Qik

So are you on Qik now? iPhone is Supported too! Well, if you own a Nokia Phone S60 Service Pack 3, you can still check this out!

Xperia X1

Sony Ericsson recently presented a new phone Xperia X1, which is quite interesting. It is not just only it's look (3" screen with a resolution of 800 X 480, 3 Megapixel camera), it's feel (qwerty keyboard, touchscreen), it's flow (GSM, GPRS, WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA, WLAN, aGPS, bluetooth), but also it's heart (625 Mhz CPU and hardware 3D)




The video is slow, hence be patient.



Hope you enjoy the video.

Skype Phone

Currently I am teaching a subject on Voice over IP. One of the famous product for Voice over IP is skype. When we talk about skype, normally we will think of using computer to chat with one another there are actually many other implementation of skype that does not need to switch on the computer!

1) Skype Mobile Phone (Only in UK)

This basically is a mobile phone that all calls go through skype. Well this is not so good as it is only working in UK and does not work else where.

2) Skype on PSP

This is a great product for many students who own a PSP. Not sure how this fair, can any one update me on this?

3) Skype on Windows Mobile

I have not got a chance to try out this even though we have quite a few of Window Mobile device lying around. Has anyone using this now?

4) Skype on Nokia Tablet

Well even though it is linux based, I still think that Nokia Tablet is too expensive to own and moreover iPhone now has a SDK.

5) Skype on WiFi

This has been selling in Sim Lim square for quite sometime. Not sure how it would fair. The problem with this is the screen is too small and not sure whether it will support WPA2.

6)Skype Desk Phone (This is what I want!!!! wait for delivery .....)

It cost me USD $170 not including shipping.
I think it is a good present for my parents who does not know how to use a PC, and often need to make long distance call.



Well there is a skype scheme that I think is quite cheap if you make alot of calls. It is call unlimited world. If you only want singapore only they also have unlimited country.

Photo Sharing via Mobile Phone

Alltel networks uses Ontela-powered service transfer photos from phones to Photo Sharing Website as soon as the photo is taken.

If you are interested in similar technology, not so long ago, I have a major project group working on that. You can send a e-mail to me if you are interested to further working on that project.

Of course there are also other companies that offers similar services, just to name a few.

Shozu

PixSense PSP

DashWire


Seems like Ontela is recruiting, I think most of MWC graduate can fit into the recruiting criteria.

Ontela Recruiting Site
http://www.ontela.com/Jobs/Ontela%20mobile%20devices%20dev%20JD%20092707.htm