The Future Of Broadband Technologies [Infographic]

The invention of the Internet has made it infinitely easier for people all over the world to communicate and engage in business with one another. Nowadays, it is difficult to think of a single facet of life that has not been improved in some way by the Internet. Whether you use the tremendous network for your entertainment or financial purposes, you have a connection present that defines the way you go about your day-to-day activities. That said, what if service providers or interested government agencies placed limits on what you could do with the time you spend online? The expanding nature of the Internet has raised numerous concerns regarding website content and the services provided by Internet companies.

Many of these problems revolve around the concept of net neutrality and how any form of online regulation will violate it. There is widespread concern about what these violations could mean in the future, leading to a multitude of questions regarding the ethics of regulatory actions. Subjects involve things such as the nature of internet service providers and the direction in which broadband is moving. To understand these concerns, one must first understand the core concepts, and why they are so vital to the Internet’s operation.

In the United States, $210 Billion dollars were spent on investments made by cable companies over that last decade to upgrade and expand U.S. Broadband networks, and consumer-purchased broadband connection speeds have double since 1997. Also, 85% of Americans have access to at least 100 mbps, while 54% of Europeans have access to at least 30 Mbps.

To learn more about net neutrality, check out the infographic below created by the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s online Master of Science in Electrical Engineering program.

Amazing Infographic - What’s New in iOS 8 ?

In June this year, Apple unveiled the next version of its mobile operating system - iOS 8. The all new iOS 8 marks the second major release of Apple's mobile operating system since 2007 and biggest overhaul in its OS since then.

Apple claims that this new iOS 8 is world's most advanced mobile operating system, iOS 8 is the biggest iOS release ever even for developers. Dot Com Infoway has released an infographic detailing the highlights of iOS 8 for developers, marketers, as well as users. What's New in iOS 8, is an infohraphic designed to provide a better understanding of the new offerings within the OS.

The infographic focuses on the APIs that are sure to guide the next generation of iPhone and iPad apps. These game-changing APIs will allow developers to create more engaging apps, and also more customized and smoother experiences for users.

The infographic also include a section that draws attention to the major changes in the iTunes App Store, and illustrates how these changes will help developers, marketers, and users.

The State Of Online Cab Booking In India [Infographics]

The car rental space in India is making its presence felt online by offering cab booking straight from website and mobile apps of online cab service providers. After e-commerce, the taxi booking space is seen as the next big thing by investors also.

Leading providers of online cab booking service in India are Olacabs, Merucabs, TaxiForSure, TaxiGuide and BookCab who offer mobile apps for different platforms including Android, iOS and Windows Phone which makes cab booking a breeze requiring just a few touches of your fingers.

We can categorize online cab booking service providers in two categories - Cab Operators and CaB Aggregators, where cab operators are - MeruCabs, EasyCabs, MegaCabs, in 'Cab Aggregators' falls online service providers like OlaCabs, BookCab, Savaari,TaxiForSure and TaxiGuide.

With recent $210-million investment from Japan-based SoftBank Corp, online cab aggregator Ola (earlier known as Olacabs) has made aggressive plans to spread its wings across the country

BookCab gives an interesting insight over online cab booking market in India which includes their geographical coverage in India as follow:

Marketing Automation - How to make it work for you [Infographic]

Marketing automation refers to software platforms and technologies designed for marketing departments and organizations to more effectively market on multiple channels online (such as email, social media, websites, etc.) and automate repetitive tasks.

Marketing automation has range of benefits, including improving the quality and quantity of lead. It helps improve the customer experience online, making customers more likely to buy, stay loyal, and become advocates. Some of the most used marketing automation tools used in companies, organizations and startups are - Marketo, Constant Contact, HubSpot and Eloqua.

A study founds that for companies using marketing automation 44% are likely to see ROI within 6 months and 77% are likely to see ROI within one year of implementation.

Team at Adeccousa decided to take a look at the best ways to implement it in order for a business to actually make money out of it, while attracting more quality leads.



By 2015, the use marketing automation technologies is expected to increase by 50%.

Amazon's India Gameplan to capture India e-commerce: Infographic

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, which entered India last year only is giving tough competition to other e-commerce giants in India, be it India's home-grown e-commerce store Flipkart, Myntra or Snapdeal or foreign e-commerce store eBay.

In just 1 year Amazon is now selling over 1.5 crore products, within 3 months of it launching in India Amazon India introduced Mobiles & Accessories, Camera & Photography, Portable Media Players stores,Toys & Games, Baby products, Personal Care appliances and Healthcare devices.

India's e-commerce market was worth about $14 billion in 2012, however about 75% of this is travel related. India has close to 10 million online shoppers and is growing at an estimated 30% CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) vis-à-vis a global growth rate of 8–10%, this what that makes India a lucrative geographical location to attract e-commerce giants across the globe.

Currently, India's e-commerce market estimated to be $2-$3 billion and Research firm Forrester expects India’s online retail spending to grow at a CAGR of more than 50 percent over the next five years and reach $16 billion by 2018, an eight-fold increase from 2013.

Firstbiz decided to list out the measures adopted by foreign player Amazon since it first entered India in June 2013 and depicted Amazon India story as an Infographic below:

The Evolution of the Cell Phone - Infographics

Did you know that first mobile phone was invented by Motorola which was acquired by Google in August 2011. Motorola built World's first mobile phone DynaTAC 8000x in year 1983 for the whooping price of $3,995 and size of the phone was almost of a brick. In year 1992 it was Nokia who then built Nokia 101 cellphone which one can easily carry and much smaller in size.

Since 1983 to year 2013 the evolution of cellphones has been very dramatic, where 30 years back it just two players - Motorola and Nokia who were manufacturing cellphones now there are thousands of manufacturer with major players such as - Apple, Samsung, LG, BlackBerry, HTC  and other country based local manufacturers as well.

For years, Nokia and Motorola ruled the cell phone industry. But that all changed with the development of the mobile phone from just a cellphones to now smartphones & PDAs. With all of the mobile phone manufacturers still producing today, which are the most successful? Let's take a look at cell phone trends and sales throughout the years, from the very first Motorola in 1983 to the Apple iPhone 5S of 2013.

The infographic below is prepared by ComputerScienceDegreeHub.

Interesting Diwali Online Shopping Trends 2013 (Infographic)

One of India’s major festival Diwali is coming up next month and its also shopping season & reason for Indian population. As e-commerce is on boom probably a large part of people will shop online, on this phenomena, CashKaro.com, a cash back and coupons site conducted a survey of 1,032 people about their online shopping plans for Diwali.

As per the survey a whopping 83% of respondents are planning to shop online, with the majority buying clothes, mobiles & electronics. This is in line with recent reports from Assocham where 65% increase in online shopping in 2013 has been predicted. Websites like Flipkart, Snapdeal, Myntra, Jabong, Freecultr, Zovi are running special festive offers to further attract customers.

Survey participants were 69% male and 31% female. 61% were less than 25 years old, 36% between 25-40 years old and 2% over 40 years old.

Below is the infographic of survey conducted:

• Why are people shopping online: 36% said that cheaper prices is one of the main reasons they shop online. With sites like Cashkaro.com, people can now get discounts, cashback and coupons, which makes online shopping even cheaper. 32% respondents picked convenience as a reason to shop online, especially as they look to avoid traffic jams and maddening rush on streets during Diwali. More variety online was chosen by 29%. This is especially true for tier 2 and tier 3 cities where spending power is growing but variety is limited and many popular brands are not available in local malls and markets.


• What will people buy the most this Diwali: Clothes and accessories topped the list at 30%, followed by mobiles and electronics (25%), diyas and decorations (13%), dry fruits and chocolates (12%), gold coins and fire crackers (yes they are available online and you can even get deals on these!) were chosen by 6%. 10% more men said they will buy mobiles and electronics compared to women.


• Money spent during Diwali: 56% said they spend less than Rs 10,000 during Diwali (online and offline combined) while 36% said they spend between Rs 10,000 and Rs 25,000. Only 8% of the participants are expected to spend over Rs 50,000 on Diwali this year. As one would expect, age is directly correlated to the spend amount. The 25-40 year age group is expected to spend 20% more than the under 25 age group.


• Proportion of online vs offline shopping: At this stage, 72% respondents do less than 50% of their total Diwali shopping online, as a large chunk goes towards local mithai houses and local vendors. This trend is set to change in future as already 28% respondents do over 50% of their Diwali shopping online and Indian e-commerce grows in general. Seeing the increased traffic on sites like Myntra, Snapdeal, Flipkart even brick and mortar stores like Shopper's Stop, Bata, and Big Bazaar have started selling online.


• Everyone likes a deal: An astounding 96% said that they would like to get cash back and coupons to save on their online shopping. It's a no-brainer as thousands of rupees can be saved every year.

State of Mobile 2013 - Infographic

By the end of year 2013 there will be more mobile devices on earth than people and 56% people of the world own smartphones in May 2013 comparing 35% in May 2011. These are some of stats and figures you will see in the infographic below that predict some of the important state of mobile world in year 2013.

The infographic prepared by Super Monitoring, a website availability monitoring company and the pictorial graphic depicts  stats such as mobile phone adoption rates, smartphone penetration rates, most popular mobile browsers, mobile/tablet sales figures, media consumption habits on mobile devices.

Some of the primary statistics shown in the infographic are:

• More than 2 billion mobile devices will be shipped globally this year.


• Android devices rule the mobile OS market with more than 1000 million Android devices expected to sell in 2014


• 50% of mobile phone users, use mobile as their primary Internet source


• 80% of time on mobile is spent inside apps


• 72% of tablet owners purchase online from their tablets each week

Infographics - How India’s Parliamentary Elections Work

Did you ever wondered how India's parliamentary election works, Carnegie Endowment has built an interesting infographic about the same. It's depicted in pictorial form that how people democratically elect state assemblies members and Lok Sabha members (lower house members) which they in turn elect a PM candidate.

It also sate some very useful facts of history of elections in India such as - No single party has won parliamentary majority since 1989 and India's first election was held in 1952.

In India there are 543 constituencies with 8070 candidates of 370 registered different political parties with 717 million registered voters out of about 1 billion population of India.



[Via - CarnegieEndowment.org ]

Shared History of Nokia & Microsoft - Infographic

For past few years Microsoft and Nokia has teamed up so well that no other brands have carried so well. Moreover recently Microsoft announced to have bought Nokia's devices & services division and patents for whopping $7.2 Billion. Microsoft Windows mobile platform would have died without Nokia in mobile market, it's because of Nokia Windows phone such as Lumia, that Microsoft Windows mobile has come a long way so far.

Not many people know that Nokia was established in 1865 as a paper manufacturer its year 1963 when Nokia actually start working in telecommunication sector.  12 years thereafter in 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft and in 1985 launched Windows operating system.

Notably, in 2004 Nokia launched touch screen phone which is way much earlier when Apple iPhones came into existence and everybody knows both the companies had filed law-suits on each other for copyright and patent violation.

Nokia partnered with Microsoft in 2011 i.e. hardly 2 years back and the partnership was so fruitful that Microsoft ended up with acquisition of deal of its devices and services division. It is also rumored that Nokia is building a 10.1 inch Windows-based tablet in order to compete with Apple iOS and Android tablets already in market.

In infographic below, you will see chronological history of both Nokia and Microsoft since 1865 till 2012, all the invention, innovation has been marked in picture below:

P.S. - Some of the innovation depicted in infographic below are not by Nokia or Microsoft

Google vs Apple in App Store Race [Infographic]

Since 2008 mobile apps are becoming one of the important things in daily life of urban population, when two big tech companies Google & Apple released their app stores for Android and iOS respectively. Neomobile has done an infographic analysis for both major app store market.

In 2013 Google claimed that the number of Android activations will reach 900 million, compared with 600 million of activations of Apple's iOS devices. Apple recently announced historic 50 billionth download on iOS app store, one other hand Google said to have 48 billion from its app store - Google Play, with 2 billion downloads/month versus 1.8 billion/month of Apple iOS app store.

In terms of revenue Apple is ahead of Google Play store, Apple's daily revenue of applications in the top 200 grossing was $5.1M in April 2013, which is 4.6 times higher than the 200 top applications in Google Play store, which had daily revenue of $1.1M.

WhatsApp Messenger a mobile app by WhatsApp, Inc. is a free app in Google Play but a paid one in the Apple app
store, it still made more money in Google Play in three large European countries: Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Apple also leads Google in terms of total downloads per device sold which is 83 Apps per device sold on other hand Google's Android downloads per android device activation is 53 apps.

Although Apple leads the way with Google in terms of revenue as well, nevertheless Google Play store's growth has increased significantly over last six months. While only 19% of the combined revenue came from Google Play in November 2012, this share went up by 8 percentage points to 27% in April 2013.

[Top Image: Flickr]

Digital Habits of Indian School Students - TCS Survey [Infographics]

In Smartphones usage Tier-II cities' youths overtake metros youths, says TCS GenY Survey 2012. TCS IT Wiz, India's biggest IT quiz for schools, started in 1999, for students of class 8-12 as an educational initiative. The TCS IT Wiz participation is around 17,000 students across India and is nationwide study that would capture the trends and pulse of the youth across this nation with a focus on technology. As per survey 7 out of 10 high school students said they own mobile phones, 92% said they use Facebook, about 20 per cent said they use mobile phones to get access to the internet (compared to just 12 per cent in 2009). About 62 per cent said they bought movie tickets online, while 47 per cent purchased books, DVDs and music.

Below figure depicts summary of top trends among 17,478 Indian school students of 12-18 years age group in 12 cities with time period of August 2012-December 2012. It is Largest Survey of Urban High School Student in India.

An exclusive study of this scale in 6 metro cities & 8 non-metro cities captured information access trends, social networking preferences, future education mindset, career interests and youth aspiration products.

Metro -  Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai.

Non Metro - Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Cochin, Coimbatore, Indore, Lucknow, Nagpur and Pune.

Gadgets

On a surprise non-metro cities' youth population is one step ahead than youth of metro cities in many aspects such as - students in non-metro cities use home PCs more than metro students, around 51% of non-metro students have iPod/Mp3 players than  45% pf metro students.

Mobiles emerge as the first choice among students even ahead of the computers in 'Gadgets' section of this survey. Moreover Mini-metro children show greater usage of Gaming Consoles with around 18% of share than just 12.76 of usage among metro students, may be because of lack of time in metro-life and commutation problems which is more in metro than non-metro cities.


Android seems to be top-choice among youths of both metro & non-metro cities of India while smartphone usage is slightly more in non-metro students with 59% usage comparing to 58% of metro cities students. The Tablet device is emerging as a popular as MP3 players though the laptop is used more, the Tablet is more favourite among students than a Laptop as they wanted to own tablet than to have laptop. Samsung emerged as the most popular brand in gadgets with 48.28 per cent respondents agreeing they have at least one of this brand device, while Nokia and Apple followed with 46.46 per cent and 39.56 per cent respondents saying they owned electronics products of these brands.

Social Networking

There is hardly any difference between the Metro and Mini-metro cities on the top preferences and there is steep the rise of sites like Pinterest and LinkedIn, especially in the metros. Facebook, Twitter and to everyone's surprise Orkut (which is dead already) are among top social networking portal among India gen-youths with 83.38%, 29.43% and 27.85% usage respectively. 22.33% of Indian does not use social networking portals at all. Facebook, Twitter, Google and Twitter is among most preferred social networking sites among students of India and surprisingly students in non-metro cities use Twitter more than students in metro-cities.

Information Access

In terms of accessing internet, Internet access in metro schools is on the rise. With one in five children visiting cyber-cafes, it's still among most popular point to get access to internet in mini-metros. On the other hand Mobile Phone is popular internet access device in metros, 1 out of every 4 metro-city children browses on mobile-phones. Home is still the preferred place for access,although schools in metros are increasing access, students prefer browsing from Home for both metro & non-metro with 83.60% share for both accessing internet from home.

The device, access points and preference may vary between metro and mini-metro but time spent is more or less same for both. In survey its found that 1 out of every 4 children spends substantial - more than an hour on the Internet while 50% of the respondents spend more than 30 minutes.

As a reason for accessing internet project work and academic research for information is highest followed by social networking and accessing email. Interestingly 4 out of every 10 children are shopping online today.

LinkedIn Reached 200 million members, India being second: Inforgraphics

Just now LinkedIn has reached 200 million members worldwide and India being second with 18 million members just after US with 74 million members. According to LinkedIn 2 new members join second across the globe.  LinkedIn has a interesting infographic for same that says that most viewed profile of year 2012 is Barack Obama.

The infographic also says that in India most common first name in India is - Amit & Neha in male and female LinkedIn members respectively.