China Mobile ‘in talks’ to Apple about offering iPhone

admin | May 17, 2012 | No comments

The world’s biggest network of  mobile phone, China Mobile, could possibly soon offer its customers Apple’s iPhone.

China Mobile
China Mobile

The chairman of Chinese carrier’s has confirmed the two firms are in talks.

Compatibility issues between the China Mobile’s 3G networks and  iPhone mean that currently Apple’s handsets just work on the much slower 2G service.

The problem could be resolved with by the  launching of the next iPhone, it is rumoured to happen this summer, and when China adopts the 4G standard, analysts say.

China Mobile is the biggest country’s mobile phone network, and in terms of users is  the world’s largest, with customers reach more than 660 million.

Although  the iPhone isn’t yet in China Mobile’s official product line-up, but about 15 million of the company’s customers are thought to be iPhone users already, by  having bought the phone through different channels.

Despite of  being the biggest telecoms provider, China Mobile is the only operator country that doesn’t support the iPhone.

China Mobile’s market share is about 67 percent, a lot more than its two rivals China Telecom and China Unicom – but it has been slipping steadily in past few years.

Officially offering the iPhone to its subscribers will help China Mobile to get back the consumers that  has lost to other carriers.

Xi Guohua ,China Mobile chairman said that, the ongoing discussions between the two firms at a shareholders meeting in Beijing.

“We have been actively talking to Apple on how we can cooperate,” he stated.

“I cannot give you the details, but I’d like to say once more that both sides do hope to boost our cooperation.”

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Some Tips for Good Service May Hinder the Employer from Wage Policies

admin | May 16, 2012 | No comments

Today in US reported that, “The Supreme Court would allow  the bartenders and servers who make part of their money from tips to file lawsuits for more money when they do work and that doesn’t involve tips.”

business restaurant

Restaurants are currently allowed to consider tips as part of employee salary in avoidance of having to pay a full minimum wage. Whether the good service should be something that a consumer should have to reward, or whether the restaurants and other service-oriented markets should be required to ensure that those they hire are accurately accounted  when formulating a business plan, is The concern regarding server tips.

Some Tips are awarded as part of the experience. But However, there are more than 5,500 current and former restaurant servers and bartenders have sued their employers in protest of some of the work they have committed to perform, even if it is  understood as being part of the position they have been hired to do. The complaint suggests that the time which is spent on work  is part of the consumer experience, but not relevant to any one individual consumer, i.e, in opening and closing the restaurant, in cleaning and stocking, anything that doesn’t involve an extra incentive on a consumer level, should require additional compensation to the employer.

The courts agreed and now the controversy over whether or not servers should be paid regarding to a business idea of satisfied costumer with the quality of the experience as being deliver, can be hired and included as part of  experience, or whether it is just recommended and encouraged by the consumers gratuitous contribution.

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Galaxy smartphones fuel Samsung profits since it trumps to Nokia and Apple

admin | April 25, 2012 | No comments

A surge sales in Galaxy smartphone fuelled earnings at Samsung Electronics to a high record in the first quarter, usually a hard season for the global consumer electronics industry, outshining handset rivals such as Nokia Corp.

Galaxy smartphones

Galaxy smartphones

Samsung  has sold more smartphones in the first three months of the year than Apple Inc. and its profit operation from mobile businesses raked in more than 70 per cent. Shares of Samsung Electronics Co. rise up nearly 3 per cent.

Nearly doubled Net profit from a year earlier to a record 5.05 trillion won (£2.76 billion) for the fiscal quarter ended  on 31 March.

Operating profit also logged a record high: 5.85 trillion won, that was in line with the company’s guidance provided  in the earlier this month. Sales rose up 22 per cent from a year earlier.

High  demand for high-end smartphones, such as the Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy Note introduced last year, helped mask lower profit from memory chips, another flagship business  from Samsung.

Lee Ka-keun said “It was a shock for semiconductor,  what a surprise for handset,”, a Seoul-based analyst at Hana Daetoo Securities.

Korea-based company ,The Suwon expects to outdo its record profit in the following quarters. Next week ,It would announce a new version of the Galaxy phone and global demand for personal computers is picking up, bringing more cash for the  memory chipmakers.

Robert Yi, head of investor relations, said “We cautiously expect our earnings momentum to continue going forward, as competitiveness in our major businesses is enhanced,”

Last year, after narrowly beating Apple, Samsung’s smartphone sales in the first quarter exceeded Apple’s by a large margin. Samsung became the world’s top smartphone maker, selling 44.5 million handsets in January-March period, followed by Apple’s 35.1 million , said Strategy Analytics.

Yet iPad and Apple’s iPhone business remains more lucrative., California-based company, The Cupertino earned £7.2 billion in January–March quarter, twice more than as much as Samsung, although  its revenue was less about 10 per cent.

Samsung’s rise largely came at the expense of Nokia. The giant Finnish handset, which since 1998 had been the world’s biggest handset maker, reported a dismal loss in the latest quarter and fell behind Samsung in shipments., Nokia sold about 10 million fewer handsets than Samsung in the quarter, According to Strategy Analytics data.

Shin Jong-kyun, Samsung’s mobile business president,  in February told  the reporters that it eyes 380 million handset sales this year, including 200 million smartphones. In 2011,The company shipped 330 million handsets, including 97 million smartphones.

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5 Tips for Adapting Your Web Site to the International Customers

admin | April 10, 2012 | No comments

Why an English-only Web site won’t make it?.

 

One thing’s for sure that an English-only Web site will not deliver the results your international brand deserves. the potential customers are searching, browsing, purchasing, and rating products through  online in their native languages ,and they would not have it any other way. Research  show that buyers /consumers shy away from making purchases in other languages, especially when the currency isn’t  their own. So if  you would like shoppers finding  your online store and buy your products in the international digital space, the best way is with a Web site that made just for them, in their language and depends  to their local customs.

So how  to adapt your current Web site for international customers? Let’s start it with 5 practical tips to get you speaking the language of E-commerce translation and moving you down the road to multilingual retail.

1. Look , sound and act like a local. More and more search engines are taking the domain location of a search into consideration. A search made in Indonesia favors .id sites over other possibilities, for example, so U.S. is based pages are less likely to rank highly in search results. The solution is to find the right domain extension for each locale that you are targeting, such as .br.nl, .eu, .au, .de, .it, , .jp, or .uk. If it is possible, find a local hosting solution to supply your site with a local IP address as well. By This way, you’ll be instantly friendlier to international search bots’ local bias.

2. Using  the  global ready content management system (CMS). When  you add languages to your site content, maintenance becomes more complex. A global ready CMS streamlines will updates for a frequently changing site, offering support for all targeted languages, smooth workflows, and the ability to easily export and import XML content. The CMS that is fully compatible with Unicode support will enables your site to handle all characters in all languages with no glitches.

3. Adapting  your site design to fit your market. Researching the design norms of your target markets is a key component of successful localization. For example, Japanese users are more attracted to sites with lots of graphics and banners that give multiple entry points, while Western standards tend to favor simpler layouts. Knowing the symbolism of colors, numbers, and preferences—such as typical button size—in your market can help you make these strategic UI design decisions. Red is a popular color in China since it is associated with good luck and prosperity, but the number four is feared (called tetraphobia). If you are sensitive to these subtleties, you’ll make a good first impression.

4. Having a customer-controlled language selector. Automatic selectors based on IP addresses can often backfire in a country with multiple languages, like in Switzerland or  in India. Letting  customers select their own language and country from a list, you will put them in control of their shopping experience right from the beginning, and making them more comfortable with buying your products.

5. Give your content a plenty of breathing room. When the content translated from English, many languages tend to be expanding, making content anywhere from 20 % to 50 % longer. For Mandarin and Arabic, reversing is true, so your text will take up less space, often becoming illegible if sizes are not bumped up a few points. Fit your content into your culturally relevant UI design means a boilerplate solution for all languages might not be the best ; so be aware of what could get cut off or become unreadable.

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Interruptions may Impede Productivity

admin | March 10, 2012 | No comments
interruption

interruption

For professionals career, seeking to be highly productive, interruptions represent a “breaking apart” of their ability to stay focused on their work  and strive for completion of the task at hand. In many work environments today , the traditional office as well as in mobile settings  each of us are prone to too many interruptions to even approach our potential level of productivity. Why?  Because We are subjected to more potential interruptions than any previous workforce since homo erectus emerged from  the caves.

 It is Unprecedented challenges call for unprecedented solutions.  Turning  your cell phone’s ringer off is not enough. It is insufficient to believe that merely closing your office door will safeguard you from the intruders. It’s folly to believe that tomorrow is somehow going to be better than today if we don’t take a certain number of measures that guarantee we can work for 40, 50, or 90 minutes undisturbed when we need to.

Many years ago,  the CEO of the Planning Research Corporation (PRC) in his office on the top floor of a building on K Street in Washington D.C. From this vantage point, he could look out of large picture windows in three directions, including  the west for dozens of miles into Virginia. His office, the foyer leading into it, the receptionist’s area prior to that, the hallway lead to that, and the entire floor was notably more quiet than any of the floors under it. Like so many other top executives, he knew the importance of being able to marinate in his own thoughts.

Most of career professionals, sometime throughout the week, have a change to take command of their immediate environment through a variety of procedures that are quite well known but unfortunately not put into practice as often as one might do so.

Here are offered some suggestions for safeguarding your working environment and minimizing interruptions:

  1. Surrounding yourself with anything you need to fully engage in the change process, that also might involve assembling resources, people, and space, as well as to ensure that you have a quiet environment free of distractions.
  2. Giving yourself the hours or days you need to study, read and absorb what is occurring, and making decisions about how you’ll apply new ways of doing things and new technology to your career, business, or organization.
  3. Go “cold turkey,” which isn’t  recommended for most people! Suspend whatever else you are doing and engage in whatever it takes to incorporate a new way of doing things. This is enhanced by ensuring that you will have no disturbances, bringing in outside experts, and assembling any other resources you need to succeed.

The sooner  as possible we recognize that our interruption-based society is here to stay, at least for now— the sooner we will able to embrace and securely put into place those measures that will ensure that  we can be at our best, today and for the long run.

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Smart tips to Attract people’s Attention

admin | February 15, 2012 | No comments
attracting attention

attracting attention

No matter how accomplished or talented you are, you can’t always count on attracting and retaining the attention of others. so many options to compete for everyone’s attention, and they will multiply with each passing day. It will become more and more challenging to rise above the noise and hold onto the attention of those who matter to you.

The more people we attract and motivate to join us on a challenging quest or initiative, the more impact we will be likely to achieve. therefore, what are effective ways in  attracting and retaining the kind of attention that will helps us to address the challenges we face? Here are five smart steps that build on each other.

1. Embrace a mystery – Frame really gnarly problems that are suitable to you and must be solved. Helping people to understand why these are such a significant problems and why there are so many people have stumbled in trying to solve these problems. It may be  will not attract the people looking for easy answers or silver bullets, but it can attract those that are naturally curious and look for stimulating challenges.

2. Focus to inquiry – Do not try to suggest answers. Frame is interesting questions instead. Help people to gain a foothold by posing questions that intrigue and motivating them to start investigating the mysteries which is laying ahead.

3. to Excite the imagination – you must Provide some “what if?” scenarios to illustrate the possibilities that await those who manage to come up with a very interesting answers. Paint the pictures but make the picture clear these are only pictures. And then Stimulate people to pursue the questions with abundant energy and creativity.

4. Limit the availability – many people will seek you out if you are successful in exciting their imagination. If you try to connect with everyone, the conversations will spread you way too thin. You must Be more selective in your availability – you will often provide even greater incentive to tackle the problem, and rather than simply engaging in conversation.

5. Must be authentic – If you try to play this game, you will be found out and the backlash will be very significant. So, here is the catch ,if you are not authentically  engaged in addressing these problems yourself, you won’t  be able to sustain the attention and effort of others to come up with creative solutions. On the other side, if you are on a quest of yourself, leading by example, you can have a contagious effect and the encounter you have will help both sides to learn from each other.

Those are some tips to attract people attention, hopely they are useful to solve your problem in attracting people attention

 

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Mobile phone sales drop, Nokia reports loss

admin | January 25, 2012 | 3 comments

Giant Mobile phone, Nokia has reported in the final three months a loss for of last year, caused by sales of mobile devices fell significantly.

Nokia reports loss
Nokia reports loss

The firm experienced loss after tax of 1.08bn Euros ($1.4bn; £905m). Net sales fell about 21% on a year earlier to 10bn Euros.

Mobile phones Net sales were down by a quarter.

Nokia released  its first two Windows-based Smartphones In October ,in hopes will help it gain ground on Android-based competitors and Apple.

“2011 in The fourth quarter of  marked a significant step in Nokia’s transformation,” stated the chief executive Stephen Elop.

“, we, overall are pleased with the performance of our mobile phones business.”

A New models

Nokia as The former market leader in mobile phones has lost out to the other smartphones that use Google’s Android operating system or even with iPhone .

To try to catch it  up, to decided dumping its legacy Symbian software in favour of Microsoft for its new range of Smartphones.

Nokia  launched the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 models in October in Europe and Asia, and this month re-entered the US market and It has now sold more than one million of Lumias.

Nokia said that it will  launch the new smartphone models in China and Latin America in this year .The company said that, 2012 would continue to become a ” the year of transition” so it will not be giving any sales or profits forecasts.

On Wednesday, Nokia said,that they had sold its 1.5 billionth mobile phone based on its S40 OS

They estimated that there are currently about  675 million active owners of S40 phones in the world, and it is currently selling about 12 phones of the S40 family in every second.

 

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LG looking up to partner in strengthening its mobile phone business

admin | January 11, 2012 | No comments

LG is actively seeking partners to help strengthen its struggling mobile phone business, according to Reuters repots.

LG smartphone

LG smartphone

LG is  slow recovery prompted talk that the company may have to re-structure the unit amid a series of alliances and acquisitions in the industry. Last year, Google agreed to buy Motorola Mobility and Nokia also dropped Symbian to make phones using Microsoft’s Windows Phone mobile operating system.

Park Jong-seok, LG Mobile CEO, said  in an interview that today the company is “looking into almost every alliance that the mobile industry can think about”. The company announced a partnership renewed with Prada for the LG smartphone Prada 3.0 just this past month.

LG remains committed to mobile and does not have any plan to unload the unit even if a partnership fails to materialize, despite the issues the company has faced. “the company still plans to produce LTE handsets, as well as next-generation, quad-core hardware”. said LG’s Mobile CEO

In the past 6 reporting quarters, LG’s mobile business has lost nearly $1 billion dollars.

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A Global Survey of Finance: Coffers Opening, But Not For Business Travel

admin | January 3, 2012 | No comments

An annual survey of more than 500 senior finance executives’ in  large firms found that they are “hold the line on travel spending,” contrasting to the “positive signs to increase their budgets” respondents which is noted in 2011.

travel business

Even though 58 percent of this year said they expect to spend the same or even more on business travel during the next following year, that is down from 64 percent in 2011, that is quoted from the research from American Express and CFO Research Services. Respondents in the US were more bullish than the global average, with  about 71 percent saying that they would spend the same or more on business travel during the following 12 months.

“Companies will focus their resources on travel that is closely connected to revenue expansion to make the most of their travel budgets,” the report showed. “Almost nine in ten will spend the same or more on travel to meet with the current or prospective customers, with 38 percent seemly  to spend more.”

Tighter purse strings and stronger pressure will deliver return on investment exist even as, the study found, corporate coffers are opened. The number of finance executives said that they were likely to spend down cash reserves in this year outnumbered those who said that they weren’t . “it is an important change from last year, when a sizable majority of all respondents (62 %) were pursuing deliberate cash preservation strategy,” Amex/CFO stated.

Three-quarters of the respondents said that the cash would fund ongoing operations, with 70 percent citing expanded operations, 69 percent indicating increased capital spending,and 68 percent choosing increased research and development and 66 percent citing mergers and acquisitions.

It is Slightly more than one-quarter of the 541 survey respondents to the survey, fielded in February, were based in North America, with 35 percent of the respondent  from Asia Pacific, 30 percent from Europe, 1 percent in the Middle East and Africa and 8 percent in Latin America . Responding firms generated a minimum of $500 million of annual revenues. The study also included the information “in-depth interviews” with 20 senior finance execs.

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2012 Top 5 Small Business Ideas

admin | January 2, 2012 | No comments

Welcome  2012! Are you ready for  a new  business?

business idea

business idea

We have a lot of experiences  in 2011;  and entering 2012, there are several  mixed messages surrounding business owners –,will it be gloom and doom or will  the economic recovery ready to kick off? small businesses will continue to thrive and be the propeller of economic growth worldwide ,Either way.

So that , to take part in our campaign for better economy, 2rabbitsstudio.com presents you with 5 small business ideas that we think lucrative in 2012. Without further adieu, enjoy this list and  let me know what you think of them!

1. Online business.

Despite of the the potentially disruptive Stop online Piracy Act law issues on online businesses, online business is my all time favorite small business idea, that will continue to thrive. Web-based business’ role has increased steadily over many years, potential-wise and revenue-wise. Since  cloud computing become mainstream  and abundant  of web tools to help you build a web business easily, online income are more accessible to non-tech webpreneurs.

2. Social media business

Despite of social media campaign’s ROI is still trivial to figure out, social media continues to be  an important vehicles to enhance business branding, engage customers and increasing business profits. businesses need someone who is social media savvy, That being said. establishing a social media consulting, business hiring social media savvy people will be a great,  alucrative business.

3. Remote working services

Remote working will even be more prominent in 2012. Since many  companies are acknowledging the benefits of remote working, ranging from reducing office expenses to enhance employee morale, cloud and any other variations need any possible helps to support them; establishing cloud working services of  business and offering various of services to cloud workers , including services to plug their business/work to the cloud  proves to be a lucrative business.

4. crowdfunding  services

Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding is continuing  to be great ways to get projects done and  launched quickly. Crowdsourcing lets businesses to get great ideas, while crowdfunding lets budding entrepreneurs not to about project funding because they can focus on developing products or services. Starting the  crowdfunding business is  to faciliate project owners to get things done by allowing people to take part by offering their money or talents will present you with great chances of success in the future.

5. Products’ Personalized

A Custom made products will always attract  customers. Ranging from your own design  jewelries to make your own wines, starting a business offering not only customized products to total customer experience will always be lucrative.

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