Microsoft OneApp - Unlocking the Potential of Feature Phones

Microsoft OneApp, software application that allows feature phones to run mobile applications like Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, and other popular applications. OneApp complements Microsoft’s existing mobile strategy by bringing mobile applications and services to feature phones in emerging markets.

OneApp’s software plus services design enables mobile apps to run on feature phones that have limited memory and processing capability. Customers will experience OneApp on their phone as a single application where they can easily access all of their mobile applications.

Technically:

• OneApp’s very minimal on-phone footprint of just 150 KB (whereas most downloaded mobile apps are measured in terms of MB) makes installing it quick and easy.

• OneApp will launch only the parts of a mobile app that you want to use; that cuts down on additional installation time and the need to store all of your mobile apps on your phone.

• OneApp uses data networks very efficiently to help lower data access charges, which can really create substantial savings for the customer.

• OneApp includes cloud services that can help shift processing and storage weight from the phone to the Internet, which improves overall performance.

As per Microsoft, Blue Label Telecoms in South Africa will be the first to launch their consumer mobile service using Microsoft OneApp. OneApp is part of the release of their service called ‘mibli, powered by Microsoft OneApp’ which will ship with over a dozen new mobile applications, including a Mobile Wallet. Customers in South Africa will be able to download and install mibli for free. They have plans to offer more applications which would be available over the next year, focusing on areas like healthcare.

As per Microsoft, they hope to develop new business opportunities for their partners like Blue Label Telecoms and create more opportunities for the industry as a whole. Software developers are going to be able to write new apps for OneApp using familiar industry standards like Javascript and XML. The OneApp software developer kit is expected to be available for developers by the end of this year.

For Demo video check: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5SuL3k8atk

Google Caffeine| The next generation of Google Search

The Web search giant hitting the technology world with an upgraded Google search engine.

This isn’t just some minor upgrade, but an entire new infrastructure for the world’s largest search engine. In other words: it’s a new version of Google. Google has been working Secretly on this project for the past some time & is still working on it.

Google specifically states that its goal for the new version of Google Search is to improve its indexing speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness.

Although The project is still under construction, but Google is now confident enough in the new version of its search engine that it has released the development version for public consumption & soon we all will be hunting more accurately on the web through the final released version of this new Google search engine - Google Caffeine.