10 March, 2010

Technology Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (Wimax)) which is a technology broadband wireless access (broadband wireless access or BWA) with high-speed access and wide-reaching predicted to grow more slowly in Indonesia.

"WIMAX not have the mobility to provide broadband connectivity to remote villages in Indonesia," said Senior Director, Services, GSM Association (GSMA), Jaikishan Rajaraman in his press conference in Jakarta, Monday.

He added, if compared with competitors such as 3G/HSPA technology, WIMAX is not yet able to offer Mobile Broadband connection which provides solutions to reach remote, remote islands, because they still continue to play in a more specific range and a larger role as a supplementary course.

According to him, until now, only HSPA technology that can reach into any area and have a real mobility through a variety of devices available today.

"Furthermore, WiMAX is better known simply as a substitute for fixed line broadband and is unable to offer true mobility," he said.

According to Ovum, a leading industry analysts, WiMAX will only control less than 5 percent of fixed access connection 1.5bn and Mobile Broadband in the market of developing countries in 2014.

"The penetration of WiMAX has been very slow according to analyst firm Maravedis, there are about 200 WiMAX networks, and about 200 more networks that are still in trial period, in 135 countries globally and only serve 4.73 million subscribers," he said.

When compared with competitors that HSPA has more than 200 million HSPA connections with the growth rate of more than 9 million per month, around the world, the Wimax has so far behind, he said.

Currently there are only about 120 WiMAX devices have now been certified or far behind compared with more than 1,800 for the HSPA.

"Ecosystem HSPA enables the creation of large economies of scale and also because of tight competition, so there are many choices for consumers and businesses," he said.

WiMAX itself is an evolution of previous BWA technology with features that are more interesting that can provide high-speed data and is a technology with open standards.

Wimax is not a proprietary technology with data speeds up to 70 MBps, so claims can be applied for last mile broadband connections, or backhaul.

08 March, 2010

Sales of personal computers (PCs) around the world are expected to grow nearly 20% higher this year than 2009, with encouraging sales of new laptops, the research group Gartner said on Thursday.

Gartner said it expected total sales of 366.1 million PC units in 2010, up 19.7% from 305.8 million units shipped in 2009.

It said spending on PCs worldwide is estimated to reach U.S. $ 245 billion this year, up 12.2% from 2009.

In December, Gartner estimates that 13.3% growth in PC shipments in 2010 and 1.9% growth in spending.

Gartner says PC market growth in 2010 will be driven by sales of portable computers such as notebooks and netbooks.

"Industrial PC will be very much driven by mobile PCs, thanks to strong growth in both developed markets and in a mature market," Gartner research director George Shiffler said in a statement. "The growth of table-based PC shipments will be minimal and limited to new markets."

"We hope the PC mobile PC growth of 90% over three years," Shiffler said. "In the year 2009, mobile PCs contributed 55% of all PC shipments; in 2012, we estimate that mobile PCs contributed nearly 70% of the shipment."

Gartner principal analyst Ranjit Atwal said Apple iPad tablet computers coming "is just one of many new devices coming to market that will change the entire ecosystem of PCs and overlapping with the mobile phone industry."

Gartner said it estimates that 10.5 million traditional tablet devices and tablets next generation to be sent worldwide in 2010.

Gartner also released a forecast Thursday for the sale of touchscreen mobile devices, predicts sales will grow 97% this year from last year and will represent 27.4% of all mobile phone sales in 2010.

Gartner said it expected sales of the touchscreen mobile device more than 362.7 million units in 2010, up 96.8% from a year ago.

In 2013, touch-screen phone will contribute 58% of all mobile device sales worldwide and more than 80% in developed markets such as North America and Western Europe, Gartner said.

"Touchscreens are no longer preserve the high-end and is now included in many midrange phones as more companies have pushed consumer market for affordable touchscreen mobile phone," said Gartner principal analyst, Roberta Cozza.

17 February, 2010

Google Search has changed his doodles into a big event Vancouver 2010. When clicked the logo, it will lead to the Vancouver 2010 search results.

As known, the Canadian government and a number of funding partners has been conducted in the Winter Games this year 2010. The event will take place from February 12 until February 28, 2010 Whistler and Vancouver will also host the XXI Olympic Winter Games, while from March 12 until March 21, 2010 will be held X Paralympic Winter Games. Both games are the games in Canada. In such event will be held sports, culture and all that became the pride of Canada are excellent athletes.

15 February, 2010

Friendship networks of locally made in China as Weibo, more flying and took a lot of members after their competitors from outside such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube censored government.

Weibo addition, there are instant messaging services and video sharing such as QQ and Youku also booming. As we all know, Twitter and Facebook was blocked by the government of China since July 2009.

"Government of China has been pursing social networking on a small local companies, so easily controlled," said Xiao Qiang of China Digital Times based monitoring sites in the United States, as reported by AsiaOne, Friday (12/2/2010).

However, the development of local social networks by the government remains wary of China. Because the network of friends can mobilize especially in terms of criticizing the government kebijakkan.

Some analysts expressed, the development of local networking sites could not be influenced by blocking Facebook or Twitter.

"While Facebook was blocked, they also can not compete with local networks such as Kaixin, Youku and others," said Duan Hongbin IT analyst from Anbound Consulting.

"Look, Baidu and Google, although Google has a better technology but people prefer Baidu. It's not about nationalism, but the language is a major factor, users in China prefer China because the language is more familiar," he added.