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(Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) DUBAI – Like other parts of the world, smartphones segment is growing fast in Gulf and Nokia will continue to invest in the region, general manager of lower Gulf Vithesh Reddy said.

Reddy claims that at least six out of 10 consumers use Nokia devices in the Middle East. Including other models, the world’s largest maker of cellphones by volume sold 12 million smartphones, accounting for €1.7 billion sales in the first quarter of 2012.

“In Gulf, I see opportunities are very interesting because these are countries with high GDP [gross domestic product] and a lot of people are very trendy and want to have latest and greatest gadgets or devices,” Reddy told Khaleej Times in an interview.

Citing another reason, he said: “We noticed and acknowledged that the Middle East consumers tend to replace a little bit more frequently compared to other markets.”

Nokia recently introduced its Asha device, means hope in Hindi, in the Middle East market, which is available with starting price of Dh288 and it goes more than Dh500 for dual-sim model. It will be officially launched on tomorrow in Dubai.

Talking about Asha, Reddy said it’s targeting a huge community of expatriates who cannot afford $500 smartphone. “Asha can download apps and you can even get push mails,” he added.

Reddy got his new position as general manger for lower Gulf GCC excluding Saudi Arabia and Yemen, after more than seven years of association with the Finnish company. “My priorities in my point of view is to continue investing and supporting our consumers through specifically retail experience as I think retails is very important,” he said.

Nokia launched its new line of Lumia-branded Windows phones last year. It started selling two Lumia models in November and unveiled two more this year in America. The Middle East launch of Nokia’s Windows phones is still awaited.

Defending the delay for Windows phone in the region, Reddy said that it’s a new platform and the company wants to ensure local relevance, local apps and Arabic is key requirements.

“We don’t want to compromise on consumer expectations and we are waiting for everything is ready for consumers before the launch of Lumia device in the region.”

He said: “We are very keen to see the success of our Windows strategy on our smartphones side.” Without mentioning the date, he said there will be a major announcement for the Windows phone in the region in near future.

“In the regional market it needs to be the best experience and it needs to be locally relevance that’s why we will do so carefully,” he added.

In the region the company is very much focused on local apps and local relevance and that’s the reason it records four million downloads per week in GCC. Most popular downloads are social networks such as facebook and twitter, Reddy said, adding that Saudi Arabia is ranked six globally in downloads.

“We have over 90,000 apps at the moment and out of that we have got over 2,500 local apps,” he added.

The Middle East market is very important for Nokia and the company had a lot of success in this market and Nokia is still a leading mobile vendor.

“We will keep investing in this market and also support local developers to go global,” he said.

Citing an example, he said in Kuwait a 19-years old student’s app, through Nokia store, touched by consumers in Paris, Singapore and Thailand.

Nokia devices are well designed and it’s very important along with innovation, he said, adding that delivering a right consumer experience is the company’s priority. I can humbly say: “We are serious what we want to do and where we want to go.”

Talking about competition with android and other app stores, he said Nokia respects competition and also enjoy competition. For us it’s a marathon rather than race, he added.

Direct billing

For the first time in the UAE, Nokia offers its consumers the option to purchase content from the Nokia Ovi store and directly bill them to their mobile operator either etisalat or du. Customers are able to conveniently and securely pay for any applications via their respective operator account and the costs will be automatically accrued. The service will either be charged as part of the customer’s monthly bill for post-paid accounts, or against their pre-paid airtime credit total.

The Nokia Ovi store is a one-stop-shop where consumers can download mobile games, applications, videos, images and personalized content to their Nokia devices and Nokia smart phones. Globally, Nokia consumers download over five million apps a day.

In addition to mobile account billing, consumers will continue to have the existing payment option via credit card. The mobile account billing is now available in the UAE and Saudi Arabia by four telecom operators, Reddy said. Main beneficiaries of this option are operators and developers on the one hand and consumer on the other hand, he added.

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Telecom Lead India: Vserv.mobi, a global mobile
advertising network for app developers, has appointed Vikas Gulati as vice
president of business development for South East Asia.

Based in Singapore, Vikas will be looking after the
company’s growth in this
region.    

“Over the last two years, Vserv.mobi has grown to be an
admirable company in the segment. With our differentiating proposition in the
marketplace, we are attractively poised to capitalize on this growing demand of
the mobile medium amongst developers, publishers and advertisers in South East
Asia,” said Vikas Gulati, vice president , business development, Vserv.mobi.

Having over 14 years of experience, recently, Vikas was
serving as vice president, marketing and business development, Asia at
Sprice.com, which is an online travel network (now a part of Travelport).

At Sprice, Vikas was instrumental in raising the
company’s revenues and company profile in Asia Pacific through business
development, partnerships and marketing programs.

“Expanding our operations in the burgeoning mobile market
of South East Asia is a key phase of our growth strategy. Vikas’ solid
experience and customer relationships in this region will help us leverage
newer opportunities and strengthen our goal of being the #1 Mobile Ad Network
in emerging markets,” said Dippak Khurana, co-founder and CEO of Vserv.mobi.

Vserv.mobi generates 5 US$ eCPM global monetization for app
developer from South-East Asia on Nokia Ovi

Last year, Vserv.mobi announced that it
generates maximum Ad-monetization for No. 1 App Developer Company, Twist
Mobile, from South-East Asia on Nokia Ovi store.

Twist Mobile is the 1st Asian company to receive
10MN downloads on Nokia Ovi with a total of 15 apps in their portfolio.

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Xoriant announces that the app – Wiki Encyclopedia, developed for Appsongo was selected as a winner in Nokia’s Create for Millions developer contest. It is an application designed and developed for Nokia Windows S 40 platform. For Wikipedia users, this application allows access to Wikipedia content quickly and conveniently.

“We are extremely thrilled to find our application so widely accepted and used by the user community across the globe. Our endeavor in making the application as user friendly and as helpful as possible was successfully achieved and appreciated by the Nokia developer’s forum. To be placed as a winner over 1300 entries across various categories is a significant achievement for us,” said Ritu Rungta, Marketing Manager at Appsongo.

Xoriant’s extensive experience in developing mobile applications across platforms including Windows and their Mobile Center of Excellence provided a strong ground for them to develop this award winning Wiki application for Appsongo. Xoriant has developed many other consumer mobile applications in various categories like Finance, Productivity, Games, Lifestyle etc. for Nokia Smartphones for Appsongo.

Detailed information about the Wiki Encyclopedia app can be viewed on http://www.xoriant.com/wiki-encyclopedia-nokia-S40.html

“Xoriant’s effort to continuously deliver high quality mobile applications saw another benchmark being created while developing Wiki Encyclopedia application on Nokia Windows S 40 platform for our client Appsongo. The idea of allowing users to access the rich Wikipedia information on their Smartphones and enrich them with the experience was very exciting,” said Pankaj Sharma, Client Partner, at Xoriant Corporation.

Please visit our mobile application page(http://www.xoriant.com/mobile-applications-smartphones-multiple-plaftorms.html) for details on our rich and diverse mobile application portfolio.

About Xoriant

Xoriant Corporation http://www.xoriant.com/ is a Product Consulting and Product Development/Engineering Services company. It provides full life cycle software development, engineering services, product implementation and integration services to businesses from its headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA and global delivery centers in New Jersey, United Kingdom and India. Xoriant helps its clients realize their business vision through best practice based implementations and customized technology solutions.

About Appsongo

Appsongo is a specialist mobile application development company involved in complete mobile application development from conceptualization to submission of application to the Nokia OVI store. Appsongo has been developing custom mobile applications in Nokia Qt framework for a range of Nokia devices. Our experienced team is dedicated to developing innovative and high quality applications for Nokia Smartphone platforms.

“Waze was developed to alert and route drivers around
slow-moving traffic, road hazards or accidents,” says Uri
Levine, the co-founder and President of Waze. “In doing so,
drivers benefit from time saving as well as less spend on
fuel and reduced stress levels linked to driving in heavy
traffic.”

“Waze uses existing technology to overcome the debilitating
traffic problems that many people face on a daily basis,”
says Charles Tasker, Managing Director of MiX Telematics
(International). “Also, the beauty of Waze, besides the
fact that it’s free, is that the more people use it, the
more the community benefits from the data collected and
shared.”

Wazers can also create or join groups with friends,
colleagues and/or drivers that share similar routes. This
enables users to communicate directly with the members of
that group to inform them about things like accidents, road
conditions or closures that are specific to their
particular route. For safety purposes though, typing is
disabled while driving and users are advised to only use
Waze in conjunction with a hands-free car kit.

Gamers will also appreciate the “geo-gaming” aspect of the
Waze app where users can gain points for activities such as
reporting traffic information, validating roads and
collecting drive-through “candies” that are randomly
scattered throughout the map.

Ultimately these points count in the user’s favour if he or
she applies to become an area manager. On applying to
become an area manager, a user’s status is evaluated and if
they’re granted permission they are then able to process
pending road deletions and update requests from other users
on the map in their chosen area.

Much like the Wikipedia model, the Waze community ensures
that the data users input is legitimate and that any
incorrect map data entered is corrected in order to improve
everyone’s driving experience.

The global success of Waze has seen adoption figures grow
from five million users in July 2010, to 12 million users
in the past six months. To date, Waze has over 30 000 early
adopters in South Africa, but if the global figures are
anything to go by, this figure is set to increase over the
course of the year.

The involvement of MiX Telematics in bringing Waze to South
Africa is highly valuable as local users get a head-start
in the form of a base road grid across South Africa. This
is made possible by the injection of MiX Telematics’
existing positional data into the Waze app, thus ensuring
all the major roads in SA are covered, though Wazers will
still be able to map lesser-known roads as they drive them.

Waze is freely available on the Apple AppStore, the Android
Market Place, the Nokia Ovi Store, BlackBerry’s App
World and Windows Market. Waze South Africa can be found on
Twitter (@WazeSA) and Facebook
(www.facebook.com/WazeSA).
The only cost to users is the data that the app consumes
and as such, users are encouraged to use the app in
conjunction with a mobile data package.

Global Mobile Applications market to grow at a CAGR of 28 percent over the period 2010–2014

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Analysts forecast the Global Mobile Applications market to grow at a CAGR of 28 percent over the period 2010–2014. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing adoption of smartphones. The Global Mobile Applications market has also been witnessing multiple OS platforms leading to development of multiple mobile applications. However, the inability of mobile applications to meet certain specific end-user needs could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.

Key vendors dominating this market include Apple Inc. – Apple App Store, Research In Motion – Blackberry App World, Nokia – Ovi Store, and Google – Android Market.

The Global Mobile Applications Market 2010–2014 has been prepared based on an in-depth analysis of the market with inputs from industry experts. The report, which covers the Americas as well as the EMEA and the APAC regions, covers the different challenges, drivers, and trends in the market. The report also includes a discussion on the key vendors providing mobile applications in this market.

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Nokia (NYSE:NOK – News) recently launched their fourth Lumia series of handsets called Lumia 610 affordably priced at $254. The new series of handsets is mainly targeted toward the youth of the society. The new phone is expected to hit the stores in the second quarter of fiscal 2012.

The new low-priced Nokia Lumia 610 provides easy access to popular Xbox Live games, supports Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, Nokia Transport and Nokia Music. One can also gain access to more than 55,000 applications available in the Nokia OVI store through the new device.

Moreover, the new Lumia handsets will benefit the young population not only to access different social network sites but also to maintain a single address book rather than maintaining different contact information in email, Facebook, Twitter and other social network sites.

Earlier, in November last year, Nokia launched their first Windows-based smartphones called Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710. At the end of fiscal 2011, the company sold more than 1 million handsets. Moreover, the company plans to ship the latest Lumia phones in the lucrative markets of China and Latin America from the second quarter of fiscal 2012.

Nokia plans to launch a huge array of products in the end of second quarter of 2012. During that period, the company is planning to ship their firstLTE-based Window smartphone called Nokia Lumia 900. The company also plans to launch their next-generation tablets based on upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Such devices coupled with other product launches will certainly help the company to gain market traction going forward.

Recently, the company also launched HD camera centric smartphone called Nokia 808 PureView that features 41 megapixel camera. Such innovative product launch will give stiiff competition to camera manufacturers like Canon, Inc. (NYSE:CAJ – News) and Nikon Corp.

We believe that continuous loss of market share coupled with stiff competition from Android-based smartphones and Apple Inc’s (NasdaqGS:AAPL – News) iPhones are headwinds for the company going forward.

However, increased shipments of Nokia’s dual-sim handsets in the emerging nations coupled with aggressive cost reduction initiatives implemented by the company will act as growth catalysts in the forthcoming quarters. We, thus, maintain our long-term Neutral recommendation for Nokia.

Currently, Nokia has a Zacks #3 Rank, implying a short-term Hold rating on the stock.

Based in Espoo, Finland, Nokia Corporation is the largest mobile phone maker of the world. The company also provides Internet services, comprehensive digital map information, and equipment, solutions and services throughout the world.

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Whether you use it to travel to work in the city or to access a multitude of unique locations, the Sydney ferry is great way to get around the harbour.

Keeping track of what ferry goes to where at what time can be a little bit tricky, so My Sydney Ferries is here to make the journey a bit more manageable.

The app provides the user with access to the latest service information related to Sydney’s ferry network, with an active data connection used for real-time service updates and routes.

Time timetables and journey times are also accessible through the app, and your nearest stop and a the optimal route to get there will be displayed.

If you have a frequent ferry route that you use, it can also be added into a favourite list for easy future access.

Pros: Quick and easy way to access ferry information.

Cons: Limited to ferries in Sydney.

Verdict: Useful in navigating Sydney’s ferry network.

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Columbia, SC (Yahoo news) – Rovio Mobile’s Angry Birds application is the most downloaded app across the Amazon Appstore, the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, the RIM BlackBerry App World, the Google Android Market, the Nokia Ovi Store and the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Marketplace for 2011.

Angry Birds beat social networking app Facebook and VoIP calling app Skype to claim the coveted title. 

The ranking comes courtesy of app store analyst Distimo, a company that tracks apps and provides worldwide mobile application store analytics. 

“We matched apps together across all platforms, and also matched the free and paid versions of one app together for this analysis,” said Distimo. “The most downloaded app of 2011 – when looking at the total free and paid download volumes of these matched apps combined – is Angry Birds.”

Angry Birds was so popular with consumers that three different versions of the app appeared in the top ten chart for 2011.

In November Rovio announced that its Angry Birds games had been downloaded a total of 500 million times across various platforms.

Angry Birds also appeared at the top of Apple’s top ten paid iPhone apps of 2011 and was followed by Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds Seasons, Cut the Rope, Tiny Wings and Angry Birds Rio. Facebook was the most popular free iPhone app for the year according to Apple. Angry Birds Free, Skype and Twitter made it into the top ten free iPhone apps of the year list too. 

Additional consumer favorites that made it into Distimo’s 2011 top apps chart include Google Maps by Google, Apple’s digital book reading app iBooks, fruit slashing game Fruit Ninja and Talking Tom Cat, an interactive animated cat that can repeat and record what you say. 

Twitter’s microblogging on-the-go app nabbed the tenth spot on the chart. 

Top 10 apps of 2011 by downloads:

Angry Birds by Rovio Mobile Ltd.

Facebook by Facebook, Inc.

Skype by Skype Software S.a.r.l

Angry Birds Rio by Rovio Mobile Ltd.

Google Maps by Google, Inc.

iBooks by Apple

Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio Mobile Ltd.

Fruit Ninja by Halfbrick Studios

Talking Tom Cat by Outfit7

Twitter by Twitter, Inc.

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The track released on the Nokia OVI store has gone up the ranks and is currently at number 4 in the list.

The Fox Star India film stars Prateik and Amy Jackson.

“The fans have loved the music of Ekk Deewana Tha, composed by the Oscar winner musical genius A.R Rahman. The music has done justice to the lyrics penned by Javed Akhtar,” said an official spokesperson on Thursday.

With lyrics “Dil Hote Jo, Mere Seene Me do, Doosra Dil Bhi Main Tumhein Deta Todne Ko”, the song has been widely accepted and loved by the fans. (IBNS)

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