EL SEGUNDO, USA: Combined revenues from the four major mobile application stores run by Apple Inc., Google Inc., Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. will leap 77.7 percent in 2011 to $3.8 billion, with the Apple App Store projected to eat up a gargantuan three-quarters share of the total market, according to new IHS Screen Digest research.
“With consumers continuing to show robust, unflagging interest in downloading games and other applications to devices like smart phones and tablets, collective revenues from the four stores will climb sharply this year,” said Jack Kent, analyst, mobile media, for IHS.
Combined revenue for the four stores in 2011 will rise from $2.1 billion in 2010 and from $830.6 million in 2009. Application store revenues were first tracked in 2008 in a market worth just $206.01 million, with the Apple App Store the only viable presence at that time.
Total download revenue from games and other applications are projected to continue rising in the next few years, jumping to $5.6 billion in 2012, $6.9 billion in 2013 and $8.3 billion in 2014. The four app stores are the major players at present in the field, but other sites, such as Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace, conceivably could gain enough size and presence in the future to shake up the market.
Apple App Store to account for three-quarters of market
To no one’s surprise, the Apple App Store continues to head off all competition. Projected figures for the Apple App Store this year call for revenue of $2.91 billion, up 63.4 percent from $1.78 billion in 2010. Given that Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPod and iPad are the market leaders in their field, the company’s App Store is expected to take in 76 percent of revenue this year and retain 60 percent market share by 2014, despite efforts by the other stores to match Apple’s ability to monetize its users, IHS believes.
Apple also will lead the way with revenue gained from in-app purchases—or additional purchases made within a paid application, such as bonus game levels—which will serve as a key growth driver for revenue up to 2014.
Google Android market on the rise
Making a serious bid for consumer dollars, however, is Google’s Android Market, which will see the fastest growth in 2011. Android Market revenue will soar 295.4 percent this year to $425.36 million, on its way to become the second-largest application store.
The ascension of Google Market to runner-up position means a fall in ranking for last year’s second-place finisher, Research In Motion (RIM). This year, the BlackBerry App World will finish third with expected revenue of $279.11 million. Despite 69.2 percent growth in 2011 that will rival Apple’s App Store revenue expansion, BlackBerry App World will have the fewest downloads, numbering about 772.2 million, compared to a staggering 10.3 billion downloads for the Apple App Store and 5.8 billion downloads for Android Market.
In last place this year will be the Nokia Ovi Store, with $201.48 million in anticipated revenue and 1.1 billion downloads from Nokia’s Symbian smart phone users. Both the RIM and Nokia app stores will continue over the next few years to be relegated to the two lower positions as Apple and Google remain the dominant players, IHS Screen Digest figures show.
The total number of downloaded applications in 2011 is expected to reach 18.1 billion by year-end, compared to 9.5 billion last year, 3.1 billion in 2009 and 419.2 million in 2008. By 2014, downloaded applications will top some 33 billion.
Source: IHS iSuppli, USA.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Comtrol's new RocketLinx ES7528 managed switch delivers advanced PoE Plus capabilities
MINNEAPOLIS, USA: Comtrol Corp., a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products, introduced the RocketLinx ES7528, a rack mount high port density PoE Plus switch. The RocketLinx ES7528 is a fully IEEE 802.3at compliant PoE Plus rack mount switch that features 24 10/100BASE-TX PoE Plus Ethernet ports and four Gigabit uplink/SFP combo ports.
The RocketLinx ES7528 is designed exclusively to meet the expanding installations and power requirements of high power PoE surveillance and wireless networking devices being used for communications and security in large-scale applications such as airports, buildings, and campuses. Supporting advanced management and redundancy capabilities, convenient 1U rack mount design, and full 802.3at PoE Plus conformance, the RocketLinx ES7528 delivers a high-power single-cable connectivity solution for control room to edge of network device connectivity.
“As we continue to pursue business in the security market with a focus on video surveillance and wireless access points, our PoE product offerings have become extremely important and we are now excited to be introducing a 28-port PoE switch,” said Bradford Beale, president of Comtrol.
“The RocketLinx ES7528 switch helps complement Comtrol’s lower-port density RocketLinx Ethernet switch family, filling the need for a flexible, high-port density enterprise-class switch perfectly suited to large-scale PoE installations.”
With 24 PoE 802.3at-compliant Ethernet ports, four Gigabit uplink ports, fiber communication via SFP, and complete layer 2+ management capabilities, the RocketLinx ES7528 offers Comtrol customers an industry-leading rack mount switch capable of forming the backbone of the most demanding and complex PoE installations.
The RocketLinx ES7528 is designed exclusively to meet the expanding installations and power requirements of high power PoE surveillance and wireless networking devices being used for communications and security in large-scale applications such as airports, buildings, and campuses. Supporting advanced management and redundancy capabilities, convenient 1U rack mount design, and full 802.3at PoE Plus conformance, the RocketLinx ES7528 delivers a high-power single-cable connectivity solution for control room to edge of network device connectivity.
“As we continue to pursue business in the security market with a focus on video surveillance and wireless access points, our PoE product offerings have become extremely important and we are now excited to be introducing a 28-port PoE switch,” said Bradford Beale, president of Comtrol.
“The RocketLinx ES7528 switch helps complement Comtrol’s lower-port density RocketLinx Ethernet switch family, filling the need for a flexible, high-port density enterprise-class switch perfectly suited to large-scale PoE installations.”
With 24 PoE 802.3at-compliant Ethernet ports, four Gigabit uplink ports, fiber communication via SFP, and complete layer 2+ management capabilities, the RocketLinx ES7528 offers Comtrol customers an industry-leading rack mount switch capable of forming the backbone of the most demanding and complex PoE installations.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Add telephony to your applications with Aculab Cloud
MILTON KEYNES, UK, USA: Aculab, a leading provider of telephony hardware and software, releases an updated version of its cloud-based telephony development platform. New enhancements include an improved User Interface, conferencing and call transfer. Aculab is currently inviting developers to register for a free developer account and try out the latest Aculab Cloud release at cloud.aculab.com.
So how does it work? Aculab Cloud provides a framework in which you can rapidly develop telephony applications, using modern, productive, high-level languages (C# and Python). There are two components – the Aculab Cloud and a User Application Server (UAS). The call APIs provide control functions, which allow you to write applications that manage interactions and call logic (what happens when a call is made or received).
The Aculab Cloud handles the actual calls and implements the call logic – transfers calls, plays messages, adds calls together in a conference, etc. Once the application is written, you simply direct the UAS at the Aculab Cloud nearest to you to start making and taking calls.
Aculab Cloud is a robust, scalable and cost-effective platform that hides the complexities of creating telephony-based applications,” said Faye McClenahan, Aculab’s Head of Strategic Marketing. "Built on Aculab’s technology heritage and expertise, Aculab Cloud lets all manner (or: any number) of developers harness Aculab's know-how to power a wealth of new, telephony-centric innovations," she added.
So how does it work? Aculab Cloud provides a framework in which you can rapidly develop telephony applications, using modern, productive, high-level languages (C# and Python). There are two components – the Aculab Cloud and a User Application Server (UAS). The call APIs provide control functions, which allow you to write applications that manage interactions and call logic (what happens when a call is made or received).
The Aculab Cloud handles the actual calls and implements the call logic – transfers calls, plays messages, adds calls together in a conference, etc. Once the application is written, you simply direct the UAS at the Aculab Cloud nearest to you to start making and taking calls.
Aculab Cloud is a robust, scalable and cost-effective platform that hides the complexities of creating telephony-based applications,” said Faye McClenahan, Aculab’s Head of Strategic Marketing. "Built on Aculab’s technology heritage and expertise, Aculab Cloud lets all manner (or: any number) of developers harness Aculab's know-how to power a wealth of new, telephony-centric innovations," she added.
Arista advances Extensible OS for cloud networks, creates open developer community
SANTA CLARA, USA: Arista announced the expansion of Arista EOS – the world’s most advanced network operating system. Building upon the widely deployed and resilient foundation of Arista EOS, this adds an open development platform, a developer support site, multi-system management capabilities, and new operational features for cloud networking.
Arista EOS is the first network OS to enable native third party development. This is possible because it is built upon a stable, open source Linux core with a central state database that makes EOS inherently self-healing, in-service upgradeable, and extremely robust.
Arista is delivering the largest networks with a simple two-tiered cloud network that scales to over 18,000 10Gb attached hosts. The introduction of Arista EOS 4.7 sets a new standard for scale with a single management view, and lays the foundation for future innovation as well. EOS 4.7 simplifies manageability with features such as Arista CloudVision, Latency Analyzer (LANZ) for congestion management, and Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for rapid deployment of dense computing.
To extend the open source development models and create a repository for ongoing developer support, Arista is also introducing a DevOps community site called EOS Central. EOS Central will house projects like CloudVision, Chef, Puppet, and Wireshark which can be downloaded and integrated into Arista EOS either natively, or in a local virtual machine.
“With a radically different software architecture, management system, and philosophy around standards based development this is the crown jewels of Arista,” said Douglas Gourlay, Arista’s vice president of marketing. “We can’t wait for Arista users to experience its stability, openness, and artistry.”
Arista EOS is the first network OS to enable native third party development. This is possible because it is built upon a stable, open source Linux core with a central state database that makes EOS inherently self-healing, in-service upgradeable, and extremely robust.
Arista is delivering the largest networks with a simple two-tiered cloud network that scales to over 18,000 10Gb attached hosts. The introduction of Arista EOS 4.7 sets a new standard for scale with a single management view, and lays the foundation for future innovation as well. EOS 4.7 simplifies manageability with features such as Arista CloudVision, Latency Analyzer (LANZ) for congestion management, and Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for rapid deployment of dense computing.
To extend the open source development models and create a repository for ongoing developer support, Arista is also introducing a DevOps community site called EOS Central. EOS Central will house projects like CloudVision, Chef, Puppet, and Wireshark which can be downloaded and integrated into Arista EOS either natively, or in a local virtual machine.
“With a radically different software architecture, management system, and philosophy around standards based development this is the crown jewels of Arista,” said Douglas Gourlay, Arista’s vice president of marketing. “We can’t wait for Arista users to experience its stability, openness, and artistry.”
alwaysON partners with SIPCOM to enhance hosted voice solution offerings
UK: The partnership between alwaysON and SIPCOM has been shaped with specific focus on the enhancement of alwaysON's voice and unified communication solutions. SIPCOM specialise in hosted solutions and bring new capabilities to the alwaysON portfolio.
The new relationship will enable alwaysON to replace their existing hosted IP PBX solution with Hosted Voice from SIPCOM. SIPCOM's Hosted IP PBX is an affordable, easily scalable and flexible platform that can be setup up in a fraction of the time of other voice systems. This means that businesses can be responsive and agile, irrespective of size, number of offices and geographic location.
alwaysON will also benefit from the addition of multi-tenanted hosted voice for their Microsoft Lync solution. Lync is an enterprise grade, real-time unified communications platform, offering presence management, instant-messaging, voice and collaboration capabilities from a single user interface. The addition of multi-tenanted hosted voice from SIPCOM provides a unique selling point that few providers are able to boast.
"Our partnership with SIPCOM adds tremendous scope and depth to our voice and unified communications capabilities and is a natural evolution of our proposition. Through SIPCOM, we are effectively enhancing both our voice solutions and hosted PBX offering. Our unified communications solutions are extended with the addition of multi-tenanted hosted voice for Lync. SIPCOM also offer a hosted SharePoint solution that our customers will be able to leverage via our new partnership," said James Byles, MD, alwaysON.
Daniel Allen, SIPCOM CEO, commented: "We are excited to be partnering with alwaysON, this partnership will strengthen both parties ability to capitalise on the growing hosted services market place. Services such as Hosted IP PBX and Lync are real gateways to leveraging higher recurring revenue through increased ARPU and overall product margins."
The new relationship will enable alwaysON to replace their existing hosted IP PBX solution with Hosted Voice from SIPCOM. SIPCOM's Hosted IP PBX is an affordable, easily scalable and flexible platform that can be setup up in a fraction of the time of other voice systems. This means that businesses can be responsive and agile, irrespective of size, number of offices and geographic location.
alwaysON will also benefit from the addition of multi-tenanted hosted voice for their Microsoft Lync solution. Lync is an enterprise grade, real-time unified communications platform, offering presence management, instant-messaging, voice and collaboration capabilities from a single user interface. The addition of multi-tenanted hosted voice from SIPCOM provides a unique selling point that few providers are able to boast.
"Our partnership with SIPCOM adds tremendous scope and depth to our voice and unified communications capabilities and is a natural evolution of our proposition. Through SIPCOM, we are effectively enhancing both our voice solutions and hosted PBX offering. Our unified communications solutions are extended with the addition of multi-tenanted hosted voice for Lync. SIPCOM also offer a hosted SharePoint solution that our customers will be able to leverage via our new partnership," said James Byles, MD, alwaysON.
Daniel Allen, SIPCOM CEO, commented: "We are excited to be partnering with alwaysON, this partnership will strengthen both parties ability to capitalise on the growing hosted services market place. Services such as Hosted IP PBX and Lync are real gateways to leveraging higher recurring revenue through increased ARPU and overall product margins."
Monday, May 2, 2011
EnOcean Alliance advances support for IP-based wireless energy harvesting sensor and control technologies
SAN RAMON, USA: The EnOcean Alliance, a consortium of companies working to standardize and internationalize energy harvesting wireless technology for green intelligent buildings, announced that its wireless, battery-less energy harvesting sensors and associated control systems are now fully interoperable with TCP/IP.
With escalating customer demand to manage and monitor building automation controls over IP networks, the EnOcean Alliance has responded, enabling building owners to fully leverage the flexibility of IP technologies that offer interoperability and convergence advantages to more effectively manage their facilities’ energy consumption.
By establishing TCP/IP interoperability with its wireless, battery-less enabled end-devices and their associated IP-based control systems, the EnOcean Alliance offers a complete building management solution for maximum energy and operational efficiency. Building owners and facility managers can now monitor, manage, and control these systems centrally and from any web-enabled device, from anywhere in the world.
“This trend to centralize and converge building energy management is key, given the fact that only five percent of small and medium sized buildings (100,000 square feet or less) are equipped with a building management system,” said Kirsten West, principal analyst at West Technology Research. “Small- and medium-sized facilities account for 98 percent of all buildings and 65 percent of floor space, making this segment the largest underserved market in the industry by far. That’s why the ability to populate a facility with sensors that can communicate over TCP/IP to a centralized building automation system is key to this Greenfield market segment.”
Small-to-medium-sized buildings are seldom equipped with building automation systems because of the relatively high up-front costs and longer payback periods. Up-front, fixed costs, such as software and dedicated servers, are proportionally more burdensome for smaller installations. In contrast, IP and web-based solutions offer an alternative to these hurdles either through more cost-effective building management systems or more mobile and accessible interfaces.
Variable costs incurred by labor have also limited the penetration rate of building automation systems (BAS), making IP-based sensor and control technologies more attractive. EnOcean Alliance-based wireless technologies can greatly reduce labor costs related to wiring, including opening and closing walls to connect and network devices together.
EnOcean Alliance member companies such as BSC Software and SCL Elements are leading providers of EnOcean over IP, offering turnkey solutions that are poised to revolutionize the industry. SCL Elements’ CAN2GO brand offers a complete line of wired and wireless building automation controllers that are also BACnet/IP (and BACnet/Ethernet) compliant web servers. Each unit (controller) is an autonomous server, hosting a complete building management system (BMS). When connected to the same network, they “merge” to provide customers with a single, centralized management interface either locally or remotely.
With escalating customer demand to manage and monitor building automation controls over IP networks, the EnOcean Alliance has responded, enabling building owners to fully leverage the flexibility of IP technologies that offer interoperability and convergence advantages to more effectively manage their facilities’ energy consumption.
By establishing TCP/IP interoperability with its wireless, battery-less enabled end-devices and their associated IP-based control systems, the EnOcean Alliance offers a complete building management solution for maximum energy and operational efficiency. Building owners and facility managers can now monitor, manage, and control these systems centrally and from any web-enabled device, from anywhere in the world.
“This trend to centralize and converge building energy management is key, given the fact that only five percent of small and medium sized buildings (100,000 square feet or less) are equipped with a building management system,” said Kirsten West, principal analyst at West Technology Research. “Small- and medium-sized facilities account for 98 percent of all buildings and 65 percent of floor space, making this segment the largest underserved market in the industry by far. That’s why the ability to populate a facility with sensors that can communicate over TCP/IP to a centralized building automation system is key to this Greenfield market segment.”
Small-to-medium-sized buildings are seldom equipped with building automation systems because of the relatively high up-front costs and longer payback periods. Up-front, fixed costs, such as software and dedicated servers, are proportionally more burdensome for smaller installations. In contrast, IP and web-based solutions offer an alternative to these hurdles either through more cost-effective building management systems or more mobile and accessible interfaces.
Variable costs incurred by labor have also limited the penetration rate of building automation systems (BAS), making IP-based sensor and control technologies more attractive. EnOcean Alliance-based wireless technologies can greatly reduce labor costs related to wiring, including opening and closing walls to connect and network devices together.
EnOcean Alliance member companies such as BSC Software and SCL Elements are leading providers of EnOcean over IP, offering turnkey solutions that are poised to revolutionize the industry. SCL Elements’ CAN2GO brand offers a complete line of wired and wireless building automation controllers that are also BACnet/IP (and BACnet/Ethernet) compliant web servers. Each unit (controller) is an autonomous server, hosting a complete building management system (BMS). When connected to the same network, they “merge” to provide customers with a single, centralized management interface either locally or remotely.
OnMobile reports Q4 fiscal 2011 results
BANGALORE, INDIA: OnMobile announced the results of its fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, ended March 31, 2011. Revenue for the fiscal quarter was Rs 1,333 million, an 8 per cent increase versus the comparable period a year ago. Revenue at the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011 stood at Rs 1,229 million.
Financial highlights (Q4 fiscal 2011 as compared to Q4 fiscal 2010)
* Revenue increased 8 percent from Rs 1,229 million to Rs, 1,333 million.
* EBITDA increased 40 percent from Rs 219 million to Rs. 307 million.
* Operating margin increased 52 percent from Rs 107 million to Rs 163 million.
* Net profit increased 143 percent from Rs 111 million to Rs 269 million.
* Earnings per share increased 138 percent from Rs 1.9 to Rs 4.4.
Highlights of FY 2011 (as compared to FY 2010)
* Revenue increased 18 percent from Rs 4,544 million to Rs, 5,372 million.
* EBITDA increased 45 percent from Rs 831 million to Rs. 1206 million.
* Operating margin increased 64 percent from Rs 390 million to Rs 639 million.
* Net profit increased 109 percent from Rs 428 million to Rs 892 million.
* Earnings per share increased 106 percent from Rs 7.2 to Rs 14.8.
Arvind Rao, chairman, CEO and MD, OnMobile, said: “OnMobile’s double-digit growth in fiscal year 2011 validates our commitment to be a global VAS leader, building on our VAS pioneer credentials. This strong performance bears testimony to the success of OnMobile’s strategy to establish a broad global footprint with acquisitions, significant customer wins and continued technology investments.”
Financial highlights (Q4 fiscal 2011 as compared to Q4 fiscal 2010)
* Revenue increased 8 percent from Rs 1,229 million to Rs, 1,333 million.
* EBITDA increased 40 percent from Rs 219 million to Rs. 307 million.
* Operating margin increased 52 percent from Rs 107 million to Rs 163 million.
* Net profit increased 143 percent from Rs 111 million to Rs 269 million.
* Earnings per share increased 138 percent from Rs 1.9 to Rs 4.4.
Highlights of FY 2011 (as compared to FY 2010)
* Revenue increased 18 percent from Rs 4,544 million to Rs, 5,372 million.
* EBITDA increased 45 percent from Rs 831 million to Rs. 1206 million.
* Operating margin increased 64 percent from Rs 390 million to Rs 639 million.
* Net profit increased 109 percent from Rs 428 million to Rs 892 million.
* Earnings per share increased 106 percent from Rs 7.2 to Rs 14.8.
Arvind Rao, chairman, CEO and MD, OnMobile, said: “OnMobile’s double-digit growth in fiscal year 2011 validates our commitment to be a global VAS leader, building on our VAS pioneer credentials. This strong performance bears testimony to the success of OnMobile’s strategy to establish a broad global footprint with acquisitions, significant customer wins and continued technology investments.”
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