Mobile Payment Will Break $1 Billion Landmark in 2013

Mobile payments are no more phenomenons, now it is traditional practices by having smartphones in hand and instantly you may feel to buy and purchase it. According to the eMarketers who have projected those mobile payments will break the land mark of figure $ 1 Billion in US particularly.

But amazingly if we see the future predictions of eMarketers then there would be massive hit in the area of mobile payments and transactions in the years 2017, which are estimated $58 billion.

Further eMarketers define payments will be related to goods or services made by scanning, tapping, swiping or checking in with a mobile phone at the point of sale.

It is totally different from mobile commerce which counts to purchasing items from mobile handsets by surfing eCommerce websites and made the payments online.

Further eMarketers are estimating that also mobile eCommerce payments will cross the amount of$38.4 billion in the current year.

As we know there is rush of technologies which are coming in rapid phase so eMarketer also facing hurdles to estimated closed projected mobile transaction figures.

Any new innovation and technological update will over cross the ideas and projections of eMarketers which are not top $ 20 billion up to the year of 2016.

Nokia Announces its Best Windows Phone Yet: The Lumia 1020 with 41 MP Camera

Windows Phone fans, the moment you all have been waiting has arrived as Nokia, the most-prominent WP8-utilising company announces its next flagship.

The new Lumia 1020 smartphone marks a huge moment, both for the platform and for the smartphone industry in general. The phone’s announcement wasn’t as exciting however as almost all of the specs and introductory videos were already leaked online before the official word. Here’s the phone in detail:

Tech Specs

• Display: 4.5” AMOLED WXGA (1280×768), 2.5 D sculpted Corning Gorilla 3 Glass, ClearBlack, high brightness mode, sunlight readability, super sensitive touch
• Battery: 2000 mAh battery, wireless charging supported via cover
• Processor: 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon
• Main camera:PureView 41-megapixel with optical image stabilization, Resolution: 7712 x 5360. Includes Nokia Pro Camera. Xenon flash for still images, LED flash for video
• Front facing camera: HD 1.2-megapixel wide angle
• Memory: 2GB RAM, 32GB internal memory; 7GB free SkyDrive cloud storage
• I/O USB2.0, BT 3.0, NFC with SIM based security, WLAN a/b/g/n, A-GPS and Glonass, 3.5 mm audio connector
• Size/weight 130.4 x 71.4 x 10.4mm, Weight: 158g

5% of Apps in Apple App Store are Zombies

What is the criteria of having a good App Store? Is it the number of apps? Or should quality be preferred over quantity. For most companies, its the quality that matters. Apple is known to have boasted a lot about the 900,000 apps figure even though it doesn’t represent the entire figure.

According to Adeven, a new analytic company, most apps in App Store haven’t been downloaded more than a few times.

“579,001 apps out of a total of 888,856 apps in our database are zombies,” Adeven says. These apps have never ever taken a spot at the top thousand rankings.

But while Apple has never released figures for such apps, these ‘zombie’ apps may not be so much of a failure at all, but still don’t encourage app developers to keep developing.

“They may still receive a couple of downloads every day – maybe even up to 100 or so – but that is not going to be enough for a developer to capitalise on or draw motivation from to support the app.”

According to another research some time back, the App Store contained 9,000 flashlight applications which alone explains the whole situation.

Still, this again proves that when it comes to application stores, its the top quality apps which matter most. As long as the basic ones are covered, the store can be deemed reputable. And it won’t be wrong if said that it were those 35% apps which achieved the 50 billion downloads figure.

Lenovo Overtakes HP to Become World's Largest PC Maker

The ailing PC market is currently seeing its condition get from bad to worse, as once flourishing computer manufacturers are folding and seeing the inevitable fate becoming a reality quickly.

HP, just one among them, has been seeing such times as well since quite a long time and now has seen itself being overtaken by Lenovo to slip down the rank of the world’s largest manufacturer.

The new statistics by Gartner tell us that the Chinese company shipped 12.6 million PCs in the last quarter, attaining a marketshare of 16.7 percent, compared to HP’s 12.3 million (16.4 percent). Dell and Acer filled the next spots by shipping 9.2 and 6.2 million PCs respectively, followed by ASUS which shipped 4.59 million units.

The PC market overall dropped 14 percent over the last year, shipping only 75.6 million units. This happened despite the fact that new Windows 8-running systems flooded the market.

The times certainly won’t be changing anytime soon for the PC vendors have customers flocked towards the tablet & portable gadget markets, keeping well clear of the formerly-ruling industry.

Still, some markets such as India showed some positive signs so instead, this time it might be the developing markets which will lead the way forward.

SanDisk Announces World's Fastest Memory Cards

SanDisk, the famous company which specializes in making storage devices has announced the world’s fastest SDXC cards yet. The new Extreme Micro-SDXC lineup will have reading speeds of up to 80 MB/s and 50 MB/s writing speeds.

That’s almost double the speeds of its predecessor, the Ultra Micro-SDXC lineup which had speeds of 30 MB/s. According to SanDisk, this will prove to be a big step towards fast data transfers, video streaming and in photography, where the high bitrate in things like 1080p video and burst-shooting is a bit of a drag on current cards.

The cards will be available in 16 and 64 GB versions. They will be available for $59.99 and $199 respectively which is considerably more expensive than the previous cards.

Availability details are unknown as of now but it should be available later this year.