Global report has been launched by IDC on smart phone & cell phone sales for the first quarter of this year.

Last year in Q1 total smart phones shipped were 402.4 million units & in this year Q1 418.6 million units were total smart phones shipped where 216.2 million was the total number of smart phones i.e. 51.6%.

Samsung again shows its dominance in the market by shipping 115 million units out of which 70.7 million were smartphones. It is also interesting to know that Samsung possess 32.7% share of the global smartphone shipments & in the final quarter 27.5% of all phone shipments occurred.

Apple takes on the second spot in terms of smart phones shipments. Apple achieved 6.6% YoY increment which is much lower than global smart phone market but it is good in terms of 4% growth in cell phone market.

In terms of total phone shipments Nokia takes on the second spot with 61.9 million units & at the same time 25.1% decline YoY & also not in top 5 smart phones maker list in Q1 2013.

LG occupies the third spot by shipping 10.3 million Optimus devices with a good growth YoY whereas in 2012 LG sold 4.9 million units in Q1 of 2012. Standing side by side of the Korean Company Huawei also comes in picture with 10 million smart phones sold in the last three months.

Nowadays 20 Gbps transfer speed of data can be easily obtained through Intel’s new next generation interface known as ”Thunderbolt” in both directions & sudden improvement in earlier interface. Falcon Ridge is the code-name given to this new interface which pushes a video file of 4K a much larger than 1080p file at a download rate of 20 Gbps.  National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, Nevada throw some light on this new high speed interface.

200 licensees were present under Thunderbolt reach as per report came from Intel & large number of compatible devices.

Apple & Intel with joint collaboration developed a new Thunderbolt as Light Peak code named as a different hardware interface to support external devices like displays,storage devices with single ports.

Like that of Apple’s Firewire a new high speed serial interface communication device lacks in speed & other capabilities than Thunderbolt.

Apple’s 2011 MacBook Pro also become the first device to shipped with Thunderbolt. Other external interfaces now becoming popular is USB 3.0 providing data transfer speed up to 5 Gbps which is more commonly used than Thunderbolt.

A rumour has been quoted over a year that Apple is trying to enter into TV industry, but still now no such public interest has been shown by the company & Cupertino has laid down the TV design. Every consumers is eagerly waiting for this kind of new launch in such old consumer segment like TV. As per report from Digi Times within 12 months time Apple will launch its iTV.

iTV is said to be the new name given to this television as per supply chain sources from Digi Times which possess 3,840×2,160 pixel resolution including internet connectivity with voice and motion controls. Already in CES at Las Vegas there was quite a rage about the 4k television.

Recently a sale report arose saying that Apple is looking for new supplier for TV panel, since its own supplier is manufacturing the display panels of iPad & iPhone in full fledged. LG may be chosen as one of the true partner for manufacturing display panels in the later part of this year or may start the work in early phase of 2014 since company is planning to release in the next 12 months.

Apple and manufacturing partner Foxconn have been discussing the mass production of UHDTVs for “quite some time,” but the Cupertino company is said to be looking for a reliable panel supplier. The publication noted that most firms capable of building the high-resolution displays will already be at near full capacity in 2013 to satiate demand from Chinese vendors as per some special sources.

Apple Inc. has recently taken a decision to scale up its presence across India due to the so-called success iPhone in India. The company is planning to triple its exclusive outlets figure by 200 till 2015.

Already in India total 17 franchisees are there operating 65 Apple’s exclusive stores also known as Apple’s Premium Re-sellers.

Again company itself running Apple stores in some countries like U.S. & China, so company will share designs & manpower too to create new exclusive stores just like that of original Apple stores.

Rs. 1 crore is the estimated fund decided by Apple Inc. to the franchisees over a year as a means of reimbursement for the new Indian stores.

Most of the mobile handsets in the country still belong to the 2G category.

As per IDC report  Apple has marked a record sales of around 400 percent & also jumped to second spot in total revenue in the smart phones sales market.

Smart Watch one of the latest entry into the gadgets segments in this current year. Already as per rumours Samsung & Apple both are working to launch a new hi-tech smart watch & soon Google also might put itself into the action. As per latest report from Financial Times, a smart watch is being prepared from Google’s end. Already Google’s Android unit has recently developed an Google Glass rather than built by X-lab.

In 2011 Google has filed a patent application for smart watch as per report came from Financial Times.Dual-screened display and an interactive user interface should be included in the feature of smart watch as per mentioned in that patent application.

 As a part of Project J, Samsung was working on a smart watch as per rumours spread in the past. But few days back Samsung has confirmed that there are really working on a smart watch but not revealed any further details.Again as per rumours, smart watch is likely to come with an arm band, will have the ability to bike mount and will come with a pouch as well. Altios OS bet version is the new OS being used to run the new smart watch.

iWatch is the name of the smart watch working by the Apple soon to be released in upcoming years. This smart watch from Apple runs on full version iOS with very exciting features like that of iPhone & iPad i.e. integrated pedometer for counting steps and sensors for monitoring health-related data, making calls, caller id feature & many more.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC(System on Chip) may be used by Apple to manufacture low-cost iPhone as report released from China times. The manufacturing process will be started on the second quarter of the year.

TSMC’s 28nm process of Taiwan based chip maker to make cheap on board SoC for Apple, in this phone only 3G connectivity features will be available.

28nm process are like Snapdragon 400 and 200 processors for mid-range and entry-level smartphones launched by Qualcomm & it supports all basic connectivity except LTE to cut basic cost of a mobile phone maker.

LCD Drivers of low cost iPhone will be purchased from Renesas Electronics & NAND flash memory will be bought from companies like Toshiba, Elpida, Micron Technology, SK Hynix and SanDisk as per report released from China Times.

Recently Apple is working on two iPhone models one is  successor to the iPhone 5 with a 4.5-inch screen while the other will a cheaper smartphone model sporting a polycarbonate body as per recent report from Apple Insider via Japanese blog Macotakara.

  Dual-core MSM8960 or the Quad-core APQ8064 were the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets may use by Apple to make their new low budget iPhone.

 Already a record breaking shipment of around 3.11 million tablets sold in the last calender year 2012 as per report from Cyber Media Research (CMR). Of which 1.09 million tablets were shipped in the last quarter of 2012.

This tablet is steadily become a new part of Indian Consumers. 25.1 percent market share belongs to Samsung, 14.3 percent market share belongs to Micromax,  9.1 percent market share belongs to Apple as per CME report.

“The year 2012 and particularly the last two quarters (3Q 2012 and 4Q 2012) were significant for the India tablets market. We have seen the market for these devices grow substantially in 2012, particularly in the second half which made up for over 70 percent of the total sales.” as per comment passed by Faisal Kawoosa, Lead Telecoms Analyst, CMR.

“Samsung has been able to maintain the lead in the market only because of the first-mover advantage with the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Note II. But this is not a sustainable strategy in the long term, as it has resulted in creation of the new ‘phablet’ form factor, attracting competitors at both ends of the price spectrum to follow suit. With the entrance of Apple at the top end and multiple Chinese and Indian players at the entry-level, the phablet segment is only going to see increased competition in the foreseeable future.” as per Tarun Pathak, Telecoms Analyst, CMR.

As per some research firm statcounter Apple being the first & Samsung  being the second has climbed on the top peak of mobile internet usage on world wide basis.

As per Jan 2013 stats Apple tops the list with 25.86 pc, Samsung being next with 22.69 pc & Nokia on third with 22.15 pc.

As per 2011 figures India has 119,749,712 internet users only 10 percent of global internet population. China contributes 38 percent of total population i.e. 511,963,000 using internet. But in the top, US leads with 77.86 percent i.e total population of 242,614,88.

Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter pass a commrnt that No.1 spot is falling despite for such low share on Apple. Again the spot ceded by Finnish company i.e. Nokia from Jan 2012 to Jan 2013.

Again the above table indicate the current market status of Apple, Samsung & Nokia compared to previous & present year.

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Recently Apple Mac OS based computers have stopped working properly. The Xprotect system built into Mac OS of Apple provides security protection. The basic reason behind Mac OS not supporting the recent version Java file 1.7.0_11-b22 is that recently Oracle current Java file version JRE  1.7.0_11-b21.

This kind of incident has happened twice in the recent times about the blocking of java plugin on Mac OS. To solve this issue Java has again released the much improved version of Java web plugin, but this newer one was exploited to higher security threats.

As we know that many of our internet browsers like Chrome, Firefox do require third-party applications for performing online bank transactions & many other activities. Right now many of the browsers either allowing or blocking any unkown plugins i.e. totally depends upon the user choice.

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As per recent Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, any Govt. authorities will be able to monitor Internet storage server .

Mostly, as per report published by British media, US agencies can snoop into the cloud storage servers governed by Apple & Google. Even with no such national threat issue now this agencies can look into this server by monitoring foriegn individual data, some says due to political reasons.

Daily Mail report also quoted that for non-US citizen who are using this cloud data storage service opearted under Apple, Amazon, Google in this country will take prior permissions to US security agencies.

“It is possible for the US government (and European governments) to access  certain types of data via their law enforcement agencies. We think this kind of access to data merits serious discussion and more transparency.” as per media report provided by Google.

To store data through internet in a network server is basically known as cloud computing which differs completely from a hard disk or physical memory drive.

This FISA act was put into action by President George W. Bush in 2008 & renewed under President Barack Obama’s in 2012.

The agencies who can track data on to cloud servers like the US government, the CIA, the FBI, and Pentagon’s National Security Agency.

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