An eMarketer study estimated some interesting data for the mobile market for the next 5 years:

• Mobile internet users should reach 135 million, with a market penetration of 43.5%, which is double the number of users in 2008.
  
• Smartphones sales will grow 3.4% in 2009. And 22% in 2010!
  
• Smartphones will be responsible for 14% of all sales worldwide this year. In 2013, 38%.
  
• 2.7 billion dollars will be spent on mobile apps this year. In 2012, over 13 billion.
  

More info here.

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It’s been expected for some time now, but it hadn’t become real over here. So now Samsung announced a deal with Terra (Brazil’s biggest internet portal) to offer content directly on some TV models already available in stores – the ones that have the Internet@TV feature.

Internet access is provided via network cable or USB WiFI, minimum speed of 1Mb. The content, which will be exclusive to Samsung models for one year, include Sports, World news, Technology, weather forecast and Entertainment.

Terra videos and special content about the 2010 World Cup are next. You can also watch YouTube videos and customize your widgets, adding new ones and having new features according to your preferences.

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When Google starts messing with database, electronics companies mess with netbooks and computer manufacturers get into the smartphone market, did you really think that the oldest informatics giant would just sit and watch?

So IBM declared it will invest 100 million bucks within the next 5 years in research for the mobile market. Specially after internal documents estimate this market will grow almost 200% by 2011, reaching an audience of one billion users.

An appetizer of what we can expect from the Big Blue is already being tested in the form of managing systems for content created and updated by users, as well as application management services on the go for external workers and “analyzing customer information to get manageable business intelligence based on evolving user preferences, users context and transaction history, allowing companies to customize mobile portals and recommend the right products to the right customers at the most opportune time”.

As IBM’s chief technologist said, "Mobility and the associated analytics will change virtually every enterprise business process". Better take it seriously…

More here.

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iPhone’s OS3 was officially released today, including features long wanted by users, as video recording, mms and push notifications. It is Apple’s great punch, along with the new 3G S model, to keep the device standing and fighting as the most desired one – even though BlackBerry Curve has taken the lead in sales in the U.S.

In order to prevent a K.O., T-Mobile announced that it will give more details next week about its second Android device. Like G1, myTouch 3G will also be manufactured by HTC. There’s an estimate that by the end of this year we’ll have 18 devices with the “Google inside” label.

As for RIM, realizing why their models have been a success, the company announced BlackBerry Tour, a model based on Curve and Bold, trying to get the features that appeal to common and corporate users, meaning lots of cool stuff and simple data and voice network access when users are abroad.

[bell] Let the new round begin…

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Less than a month ago we talked here about Google Wave, a platform that aims to integrate instant messaging with email, doc sharing, twitter, videos and a bunch of other stuff. So the company takes another step towards world domination, Karas. (if you watched Spectreman, you know =o)

On its official research blog, Google revealed its effort to make database use easier, faster and cheaper. To do so, it is launching Fusion Tables, which intends to solve syncing and file format problems among different servers.

Since we know Google does not enter a market for fun, is betting on cloud computing and always tries to come up with a collaborative environment solution, Microsoft and Oracle better watch out…

PS: what is Google missing in world computing domination? Take over Windows?

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Contrary to what other researches praised, Nielsen claims that there are as many 55+ year old users as the 13-24 demographics. Some other interesting data they found about the U.S. users:

• 37% watch videos on iPhone, which is 6x more likely than “regular” users;
  
• 40% have an income of over 100 thousand. That’s double compared to the 20% of the general market;
  
• 88% surf the web – 4x more than the “regular” user;
  
• 75% download apps – 5x more;
  
• Roughly, 1.2% of all blog posts are about the iPhone. Including this one. =o)
  

More info here.

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Tell me, you’re just happy to write tiny 140-character posts on Twitter and don’t mind not getting a dime for it, right? Well, on the other  hand Dell has profited over 3 million bucks over there.

It’s what this article from NYT claims. Just in the past 6 months the company sold a million dollars just by posting promotions and links do Dell Outlet. Another million came from users who clicked from Twitter to Outlet to Dell’s official website.

Meanwhile, Twitter is still considering whether they’ll charge for business use of their service…

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So, the new iPhone model, called S, was released yesterday. Engadget put together a quite nice comparison between the two so you don’t have to read tons of stuff to check what’s really new and cool – like the video recording, better camera, doubled processing power and internet access, voice control and, of course, higher prices. Here it is:

You may also see it in action before deciding to upgrade or get a new one:

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After a whole lotta time, lack of effort from manufacturers and complaints from users, it look like we’ll finally have Flash for iPhone and other devices.

Since Flash Lite has not become a success, even though it earned Adobe 115 million dollars last year (by no means a small figure, yet little compared to the 3.6 billion dollars of the total revenue), the company decided to take the matter into its hands and bet on a version that works with PCs as well as iPhone and BlackBerry and devices from several other manufacturers.

To show how serious they are, since February Adobe and Nokia have created a 10 million dollar fund for developers who wish to create apps for mobile devices. More info here and here.

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It sounds as a prank, but it’s not. Neither is a mistype. A new technology could improve the access to your hard drive a hundred thousand times faster.

The process, known as spintronic once it not only uses electrons and its charge but also the spinning of them to read information, happens with the use of ultrashort laser pulses. This was all derived from the  magnetoresistance discovery of a French and a German scientists that got the Nobel in physics in 2007.

Now, picture that 10 TB dvd being read 100 thousand times faster. More info here.

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