ESRI honours PTCL with Special Achievement in GIS Award 2012 - Pakistan Daily Times

ESRI honours PTCL with Special Achievement in GIS Award 2012

KARACHI: US-based Environment Systems Research Institute (ESRI) honoured Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) with the ?ESRI Special Achievement in GIS Award 2012? for its outstanding achievements and organisational performance in geographic information systems (GIS) and programmes.

?PTCL?s GIS programme stood out from amongst more than 100,000 others worldwide for its outstanding use of GIS technology in the existing network,? said founder and President ESRI, Jack Danger. We have selected PTCL for this year?s award on the basis of its innovative applications of GIS technology in Pakistan.

PTCL has been recognised by ESRI for its expert deployment of GIS in Islamabad region based on ESRI?s ArcGIS platform with telecom intelligence added through Telcordia?s NE software for purposes of access network planning and documentation. staff report

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Users still getting the message with texts - Irish Times

The Irish Times - Thursday, May 31, 2012

Communication: Text messaging will stay popular over the next five years, despite rising competition from mobile messaging apps, according to research firm Informa Telecoms Media.

Applications such as WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage may have eaten into SMS revenues, but analysts say operators will still pull in about $722.7 billion between 2011 and 2016 as users send a total of 9.4 trillion messages.

Western Europe will continue to lead in terms of generating revenue, accounting for $174.1 billion over the five years.

In second place, Informa says, will be the Asia Pacific developing market, with a total of $173.8 billion.

Overall, global revenues from text messaging are set to rise at a compound annual growth rate of 3 per cent, although there will be some slowing of growth expected in developed regions, with the potential for a small decline.

“There will not be a uniform decline in mobile operators’ SMS traffic and revenues as a result of the adoption and use of over-the-top messaging services,” says Pamela Clark- Dickson, senior analyst in Informa’s mobile content and applications division.

“Factors such as the operators’ pricing strategies and the penetration of smartphones and mobile broadband in a market will determine how quickly and to what extent substitution occurs.”

However, its share of global messaging traffic is expected to decline to 42.1 per cent, compared with 64.1 per cent recorded in 2011.

Mobile instant messaging, in contrast, will increase from 1.6 trillion messages to 7.7 trillion messages, with a 34.6 per cent share of the traffic.

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US ruling won't affect Samsung's Tab sales - Korea Times

Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Tab 10.1By Kim Yoo-chul

Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it will continue to sell its 10.1-inch tablet PCs ? Galaxy Tab ? in the United States despite an appeals court’s ruling Tuesday that revived Apple’s bid to bar the sales of Galaxy Tab there.

Samsung, the world’s biggest technology company by revenue, simply downplayed the effects of the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for the sale of its tablets and stressed the company will push its distribution channels to sell the devices.

The court ruled Monday that Apple could push for its bid for an immediate injunction to bar the sale of some tablet computers made by Samsung Electronics. It sent the case back to the district count for further review.

``The decision doesn’t mean that Samsung should stop selling the Tabs, immediately. This isn’t a preliminary injunction,’’ said Samsung said in a statement.

``We don’t think the latest ruling from the United States is unfavorable for us. We will prove that Apple’s claims are totally groundless by using all our legal power. Samsung will keep our intellectual properties,’’ according to the statement.

This isn’t the first time that the Cupertino-based Apple tried to block the sale of the Samsung tablet, with a previous case in Germany, which led to Samsung modifying the tablet and another in Australia.

Earlier, a German court made a favorable ruling to Apple. Shortly after, Samsung changed the bezel, location of speaker grills and name of the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 as part of its strategy to avoid the injunction in Germany.

It’s uncertain whether Apple will demand an immediate block on Samsung tablet sales.

If Apple presses for a ban, that could be seen as a signal that it will continue litigation against Samsung. But if Apple holds off, it could imply that Apple is willing to compromise with Samsung, ending the patent war.

Apple spokesman Steve Park declined to comment on the issue.

Since last year, Samsung has been engaged in a legal battle with Apple in 10 different countries and 30 different cases after Apple claimed that Samsung copied the design of Apple’s iPhones and iPads.

Although Samsung was late in the market for smartphones, the Korean company rose to become the world’s biggest smartphone maker last year thanks to Samsung’s undeniable competitive edge in manufacturing.

Samsung has confirmed that its Chief Executive Choi Gee-sung will meet Apple CEO Tim Cook on May 21 in a San Francisco courtroom to discuss a possible patent settlement.

If the companies fail to reach an agreement, the case will proceed to trial in late July, according to Samsung officials. A Samsung spokeswoman declined discussing the possibilities of the settlement, however, added there could be some breakthrough from the top meeting.

``We call Samsung’s current `mass customization’ strategy is far better than Apple’s `single customization’ strategy as the market for smartphones is booming. Therefore, chances are low that Apple will press its ban on Samsung tablets,’’ said Lee Sae-chul, an analyst at Meritz Securities.

Lee said Apple has stronger intent to sign a peace treaty in order to collect royalties from Samsung as early as possible as Apple’s top management believes a continued fight with Samsung is only going to hurt its business strategy.

The local brokerage said Samsung will continue its status as the world’s top smartphone vendor in the second quarter thanks to Samsung’s expanded product lineup.

Likewise, Apple is soon to release its next iPhone, which may or may not be the iPhone 5, in the latter half of this year, according to officials.

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German car infotainment major Blaupunkt sets up Indian subsidiary, considers ... - Economic Times

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Rice Technology Park to be launched in Koppal - Economic Times

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Tiny crystal 'revolutionises computer' - Hindustan Times

PTI
Washington, April 27, 2012First Published: 10:50 IST(27/4/2012)
Last Updated: 11:09 IST(27/4/2012)Scientists have made a tiny crystal which they claim will take quantum computing to the next level, creating one of the world's most powerful computers ever developed.

"Computing technology has taken a huge leap forward using a crystal with just 300 atoms suspended in space," said

Michael Biercuk at the University of Sydney, who led an international team.

He added: "The system we have developed has the potential to perform calculations that would require a supercomputer larger than the size of the known universe -- and it does it all in a diameter of less than a millimetre.

"The projected performance of this new experimental quantum simulator eclipses the current maximum capacity of any known computer by an astonishing 10 to the power of 80. That is one followed by 80 zeros, in other words 80 orders of magnitude, a truly mind-boggling scale."

The work smashes previous records in terms of the number of elements working together in a quantum simulator, and therefore the complexity of the problems that can be addressed.

In fact, the team, which also included scientists from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, Georgetown University in Washington, North Carolina State University and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa, has produced a specialised kind of quantum computer known as a quantum simulator.

It's revolutionary crystal exceeds all previous experimental attempts in providing "programmability" and the critical threshold of qubits needed for the simulator to exceed the capability of most supercomputers.

"Many properties of natural materials governed by the laws of quantum mechanics are very difficult to model using conventional computers. The key concept in quantum simulation is building a quantum system to provide insights into the behaviour of other naturally occurring physical systems," Biercuk said.

The findings have been published in the Nature journal.

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LA Times Taliban photos and mobile technology in the battlefield, drones and ... - Washington Post (blog)

Following the photos in the LA Times of soldiers in Afghanistan with dead Taliban members, CNAS’ Andrew Exum writes about how the U.S. military will be forced to deal with mobile technology on the battlefield. (Bloomberg)

“In February, President Obama signed into law a reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that requires the agency — on a fairly rapid schedule — to write rules opening U.S. airspace to unmanned aerial vehicles. This puts the FAA at the center of a potentially dramatic set of policy changes that stand to usher in a long list of direct and indirect benefits. But the FAA is not a privacy agency. And although real privacy concerns have arisen about these aircraft, asking the agency to take on the role of privacy czar for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would be a mistake,” write Ben Wittes and John Villasenor. (Washington Post)

“TARP and related interventions by the Federal Reserve helped reactivate credit markets long before they would have recovered on their own, helped to stabilize the housing market, helped save the U.S. auto industry and helped prevent recession from morphing into something worse. And they did so for far less than early estimates and prior rescues had suggested were possible,” writes Center on Budget and Policy Priorities scholar Jared Bernstein. (Washington Post)

AEI’s Jonah Goldberg on the art of the political distraction. (National Review)

Politico’s Arena asks: Can presidential dog taunts be brought to heel? Brookings’ Darrell West answers.

Room for Debate asks: Is prostitution safer when it’s legal? (New York Times)

Spring cleaning: Tom Ricks says to throw out the all-volunteer military. (Washington Post)

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Computer game can help you treat deperssion - Times of India

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