We've seen a lot of iPhone 5 concept designs, but this one takes the cake.
Created by 17-year-old Dakota Adney, the mock-Apple commercial shows a realization of how the iPhone 5 could look with a transparent screen and virtually projected keyboard.
In the video above, Adney shows the viewer various applications from Twitter to Instagram To write a text message, the iPhone 5 concept user sets down the device flat on the table and begins typing on a virtual keyboard created by a laser projector on the lower left side of the device.
But what may be most impressive about this fake Apple commercial is its creator. Adney is a 17-year-old Oklahoma high school student with some pretty advanced production skills.
This iPhone 5 concept is not his first faux Apple creation. Under his production name, Adney Films, Adney also created a similar iPad 3 concept video last year, and more recently debuted a clever MacBook Air promo. His iPhone 5 design is similar to the iPad 3 with its translucent screen and slim look.
Adney described the features of the iPhone 5 concept in the video's description.
Clearly amazing. The quad-core A5 chip delivers even more power. The laser projection keyboard liberates your thumbs. The new iClear Retina display presents sharp graphics and stunning images. iOS 6 will take your iPhone experience in an entirely new direction. And if there's anything else you need, just ask Siri.
Watch the video for yourself above, and check out the gallery below to view a more down-to-earth iPhone 5 mock-up, courtesy of TechnoBuffalo.
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'Leaked' iPhone 5 photos look good enough to be real - FOX News
Is this the new iPhone 5?
Images published on a Chinese tech blog purportedly show “leaked” photos of the unannounced, unreleased, unavailable Apple iPhone 5 -- the hotly anticipated next version of the device that rewrote the rules for smartphone makers.
The images show a sleek, two-tone design, described by popular tech blog Gizmodo as a shocking change. The site's editors came around, however, admitting that “the first appearance of the stylized, 16/9 design with its unibody … looks kinda beautiful.”
Or did, before pulling down the post -- fooled by the phony knock-offs of a 36-year-old industrial designer.
“It’s been amazing and a lot of fun to see how many 'knowledgable' people fell for them,” Dutch designer Martin Hajek told FoxNews.com. Gizmodo wasn't the only blog to fall for his pictures. They have been posted on about a dozen popular sites so far, including BGR.com, Ubergizmo, Apple Insider, and more.
'It's a testimony to how embedded Apple has become in our daily life.'
- Dutch designer Martin Hajek
“It's a testimony to how embedded Apple has become in our daily life,” he said.
The images are a series of renderings Hajek created and posted to his Flickr site based on leaked images he had seen on various tech websites. He describes his passion for smartphones and tech design as his hobby.
“As a (former) industrial designer I like to play around with 3D modelling and visualizing,” Hajek told FoxNews.com. “Apple's unreleased products lend themselves perfectly to play with.”
Hajek works as an engineer for a large Japanese consumer electronics company he declined to name -- not in the design department but still quite close, he said. He cut his teeth at GRO design, a small design consultancy in the Netherlands, and still lives in Utrecht, “dead-center” in the Netherlands.
“One of my previous employers at GRO design attended the same college in the UK at the same time as Jonathan Ive did,” he noted.
Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, made waves in the week’s before Apple launched the latest MacBook Pro at its Worldwide Developer Conference. He told London paper the Telegraph that neither the iPad nor the Macintosh nor the iPhone is the most important product the company has ever done.
It's the secret something he’s currently working on that has his heart racing.
“What we’re working on now feels like the most important and the best work we’ve done,” Ive told the paper, when asked what he would like to be remembered for.
So which version of the iPhone does Hajek carry around?
“I’m actually ashamed to say that our company's choice of cellphone is a Blackberry Bold 9780,” he told FoxNews.com, “which I hate with a passion.”
iPhone 5 leaked images are fake - PC Advisor
The latest set of leaked Apple iPhone 5 images have fooled many but are in fact faked.
Latest batch of iPhone 5 images look good but are rendered
The crop of images circulated round the web yesterday with many sites saying they are authentic. However, the photos posted on sharing site Flickr were rendered in modelling software Rhinoceros 3D.
The images depict what the iPhone 5 could look like based on various pieces of leaked information, including a 4in screen and a smaller dock connector. It also shows a metal rear cover, bottom mounted headphone port and larger speakers.
It is still unknown as to when the iPhone 5 will launch and even if it will be called the iPhone 5. It's likely that the smartphone will tip up this autumn, possibly September, in-line with the launch of iOS 6 which Apple announced this week at its worldwide developer conference (WWDC).
For all the up-to-date details on the illustrious device read our iPhone 5 release date, specs and rumour round-up.
Slim in talks for big chunk of Tel Austria: sources - Reuters UK
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LONDON/VIENNA (Reuters) - Telekom Austria AG (TELA.VI) shareholder Ronny Pecik is in advanced talks to sell his 21 percent stake to Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, who is seeking to expand his telecom empire into Europe, according to people familiar with the matter.
If the talks are fruitful, it would be a big step in Slim's effort to expand the footprint of his company America Movil (AMXL.MX) in Europe. Slim already owns 4.1 percent of Telekom Austria.
The Mexican telecom operator, which is now present in a roughly a dozen Latin American countries, has also mounted a raid on Dutch telecoms operator KPN (KPN.AS) via a tender offer for 28 percent of its shares.
Pecik declined to comment on Thursday.
A spokesman for America Movil declined to comment.
Telekom Austria said in January that Pecik, via an investment fund called RPR, had built a stake above 20 percent in the group. Pecik's partner in the investment is Egyptian entrepreneur Naguib Sawiris, who built his fortune in the telecom business and is now a liberal politician.
At a shareholder meeting of Telekom Austria on May 23, Pecik was elected to a board seat and said he was a long-term shareholder, seeking to dismiss concerns that he and his partners would aim for a quick profit by flipping the stake.
Pecik rose to prominence by building stakes with partners in companies such as Oerlikon, Sulzer, Saurer, Ascom and VA Tech before selling on at a profit.
Telekom Austria operates in Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. Tough conditions in Europe and fierce competition pushed its core earnings down nearly 9 percent in the first quarter but the company stuck to its 2012 outlook.
Its shares are down 13.5 percent this year, underperforming an 8.2 percent decline in the European telecom index .SXKP. Telekom Austria has a market capitalization of 3.5 billion euros.
The Austrian state remains the largest shareholder with a 28.4 percent stake held via holding company OeIAG.
Pecik had earlier described Telekom Austria as an undervalued pearl of industry despite a wave of corruption scandals - which erupted after he started building his stake - that has cost the group millions and tarnished its image. As an ex-state owned monopoly the group is also seen as overstaffed and having potential for cost cuts.
Sawiris, however, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on May 24 that he and Pecik were having difficulty convincing the company and its state shareholder that their strategy to cut costs to boost profits was the right one.
"If the government is not going to allow us to manage the company the way we want then it becomes unattractive for us," Sawiris said at the time. "I am an industrialist. I didn't do this deal to go in and buy and sell shares."
(Reporting by Michael Shields and Cyntia Barrera; Writing by Leila Abboud; Editing by David Holmes and Jon Loades-Carter)
10 interesting facts about India’s telecom sector - NDTV
In a wide-ranging report covering the growth of the telecom sector in the country, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has credited the ultra-low cost of handsets and low tariffs for the boom in the telecom sector.
According to the report, titled ‘Telecom Sector in India: A Decadal Profile’, the subscriber base in India, which stood at 943.49 million in February 2012 as against 28.53 million in April 2000, is skewed in the favour of urban India. It said urban teledensity in the country was 4.4 times that of rural density.
Here are 10 interesting findings of the report:
1. Available international comparisons show that India has the second largest number of telephone subscribers in the world (among 222 countries), accounting for 12 per cent of the world’s total telephone subscribers. It is also one of the fastest growing in terms of telecom subscribers.
2. Mobile tariffs in India are the second lowest in the world after Bangladesh. Countries with the highest mobile tariffs include Austria, Venezuela, Greece, Portugal, Australia, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, France, and Brazil.
3. Mobile phones accounts for nearly 96.6 per cent of the total telecom subscriptions, and more than 95 per cent of wireless connections are prepaid.
4. Around 431 million wireless subscribers in India subscribe to data services. This implies that 48.26 per cent of total wireless subscribers are capable of accessing data services/Internet on their mobile phones.
5. Wireless phones dominate the market in India and the wire-line phone segment constitutes merely 3.4 per cent of the total subscriber base.
6. The telecom sector has received on average 8.2 per cent of total inward FDI between 2000–01 and 2010–11. Most of the FDI has gone to the cellular mobile segment.
7. The share of telecom services (excluding postal and miscellaneous services), as a percentage of the total GDP of the country, has increased from 0.96 in 2000–01 to 3.78 in 2009–10.
8. From 2001 to 2011, the total number of telephone subscribers has grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 35 per cent. The comparable rates in the 1980s and 1990s were 9 per cent and 22 per cent, respectively.
9. GSM continues to be the dominant technology for wireless phones with an 87.9 per cent share. Bharti is the dominant player in GSM segment accounting for 22.35 per cent of the market in terms of market subscriptions followed by Vodafone (18.80 per cent), Idea (13.53 per cent) and Reliance (12.05 per cent). There are as many as 14 operators using GSM technology compared to just six using CDMA. Reliance is the leading player in the CDMA market with 51.32 per cent share.
10. Urban teledensity is approximately 4.4 times higher than rural, showing the digital divide that exists in India. There are wide variations in penetration of telecom services across states. States such as Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab have relatively high teledensity. However, states such as Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, UP, Jammu and Kashmir and the North-Eastern states have relatively low teledensity. The numbers show that teledensity in Delhi is 5.1 times higher than that of Assam.
National Youth Agency and O2 Think Big to Create NCS Legacy with Social Action Funding - YAHOO!
Young people graduating from National Citizen Service (NCS) will have the chance to continue their community projects in four regions of England thanks to a Social Action Fund grant awarded to the National Youth Agency (NYA) supported by O2 Think Big.
London, UK (PRWEB UK) 14 June 2012
Young people graduating from National Citizen Service (NCS) will have the chance to continue their community projects in four regions of England thanks to a Social Action Fund grant awarded to the National Youth Agency supported by O2 Think Big.The Social Action Fund programme will provide NCS graduates in the North West, North East, Yorkshire and South East regions with cash awards, training and support from a team of specially employed youth workers.
The eighteen month project will see young people build social action projects to benefit their local communities and create volunteering opportunities for their peers. The aim is to provide young people and all who participate with skills and experience for their future and to leave a lasting legacy of social action and volunteering within communities.
The National Youth Agency has a strong and successful partnership with O2, which has evolved through working together to manage and deliver O2 Think Big. The programme funds and supports young people’s ideas to create or change something in their local community.
This partnership will drive and shape the new Social Action Fund project and O2 have provided an additional £500,000 to match the funded awarded. The young people participating in the Social Action Fund project will be provided with cash to develop their ideas, whilst gaining valuable guidance and advice from the O2 Think Big team and O2 Helpers to make sure their projects come to life.
Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd said: “We have awarded the National Youth Agency and 02 Think Big over £900,000 which they have match funded with £500,000. This will give this year’s National Citizen Service graduates the chance to continue their social action projects in their local communities.
“This is a great example of government, business and the voluntary sector working together to provide opportunities for young people so that they can improve their skills and take on new challenges.”
On being awarded the funding, National Youth Agency chief executive Fiona Blacke, commented: “Having the opportunity to build progression routes for young people who have been on National Citizens Service and had a taste of social action is great. We, at NYA, as well as our programme partner, O2 Think Big and our local delivery teams, are really excited about this project coming forward.
“We are going to use teams of paid interns and apprentices led by a youth worker to reach out to and engage young people and signpost them to programmes and funders that can support their next steps. Key to this is O2 Think Big which is providing funding and support for over 850 young people's projects which will drive the creation of volunteering opportunities for many young people.”
Ronan Dunne, CEO Telefónica UK said “We welcome this initiative to further strengthen the support given to young people. The investment announced today, in Britain’s biggest asset, its young people, is imperative. Working with the National Youth Agency and Social Action Fund will allow us to extend the Think Big programme and work with more young people across the UK.”
To deliver the Social Action Fund project, the National Youth Agency and O2 Think Big will be working with local delivery partners – Envision, Youth Action and Keyfund - in each of the regions and partnering with Durham University to evaluate the impact of this programme on young people, communities and O2 Helpers.
The Social Action Fund is managed by The Social Investment Business on behalf of the Cabinet Office, and will fund social action projects in England, from civil society organisations, public sector bodies and businesses with a track record of delivering social action programmes.
The Social Investment Business’ chief executive, Jonathan Jenkins, said: “The energy and vision of applicants has been impressive and we are pleased to manage a Fund that finances ambitious, life-changing social action projects which will really make a difference and bring people together to improve the quality of life in their communities.”
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Email: hollyd(at)nya(dot)org(dot)uk
Editors Notes
1. The NYA works in partnership with a range of private, public and voluntary sector organisations to support and improve services for young people. Our particular focus is n youth work and we believe that by investing in young people's personal and social development, young people are better equipped to live more active and fulfilling lives.
2.Think Big is an innovative multi-million pound youth programme. It is designed to back young people across the UK and help them harness their ideas, energy and passion to run projects and campaigns in their local community. The initiative works by putting cash directly into the hands of the young people and supporting them to develop skills and to positively impact their community. In addition to the financial support, young people receive training and mentoring to help them tackle the issues that matter to them and affect them most.
3. The NCS Graduate programme’s aim is to create generations of socially active and responsible young people by maximising the impact of the core NCS programme.
4.There are still some NCS places available this summer. If you are 16 or 17 and want to see if this opportunity is still available where you live, you should go to http://www.direct.gov.uk/ncs or http://www.facebook.com/ncs
Holly-Marie Draper
National Youth Agency
0116 285 3764
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Datora Telecom Group Utilizing PortaBilling Oracularius to Manage Latin America and Global Telecom Opportunities - Yahoo Finance
COQUITLAM, British Columbia, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Datora Telecom Group (Datora), a Brazil-based telecom firm, provides VoIP services throughout Latin America and other parts of the globe. Engaged in telecom services for the past 18 years, Datora is a VoIP pioneer in Latin America, and boasts the first MVNO full license from Anatel, the national telecommunications agency of Brazil. Datora also recently founded Datora Mobile in order to meet the massively growing M2M in Brazil.
The company first partnered with PortaOne in 2007 when it selected an early version of PortaSwitch, a flagship VoIP infrastructure system. Datora experienced considerable growth in the ensuing years, and over time they expanded the PortaSwitch platform to manage their increased capacity needs and provide more redundancies. Datora's mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) and mobile-to-mobile (M2M) services allow its customers to provide a more customized experience to end users, with product and mobility convergence and deeper brand loyalty.
Wilson Otero, CEO of Datora Telecom, commented on the benefits of partnering with PortaOne: "The company's technical support engineers possess deep knowledge of the system and are able to provide us with very fast issue resolution, even for the most complex development issues. The PortaOne systems are vital to our continued growth as they allow our customers to manage their own accounts and it significantly improves the reliability and quality of our services."
Datora recently implemented an upgrade to PortaOne's PortaBilling Oracularius, a carrier grade converged VoIP billing and customer management platform that provides Datora with a reliable system within an Oracle Real Application Cluster environment. The system provides multiple billing capabilities including the usage event, usage, or periodic-based billing, and multiple services functionality. Additional features include custom charging formulas and pre and post-paid business models. It's a real-time billing engine that works in tandem with Datora's other telecommunication network equipment to enable action such as flexible call routing, profit-guarantee routing, and other plans designed to ensure efficiency and maximum return-on-investment.
"PortaBilling Oracularius allows our firm to handle multiple business needs on just one platform," continued Mr. Otero. "We upgraded to this system in order to manage our considerable growth without any interruption to our services. It provides instant scalability, and allows us to add capacity as needed to our Oracle RAC cluster or other components."
"We are very pleased to work with Datora Telecom and provide them with our scalable PortaBilling Oracularius solution," said Roman Khalenkov, sales and marketing director for PortaOne. "Datora is capturing significant market share in one of the world's fastest growing telecom environments, and we are there to make sure their customers receive the sophisticated VoIP functions they need to operate profitably."
PortaSwitch consists of a real-time billing system, class 4/5 SIP softswitch, and media applications that deliver converged VoIP billing and provisioning, SIP call control, unified messaging, IP Centrex and hosted IP PBX, callback management, IVRs, conferencing and more. For more information about PortaSwitch, email PortaOne at contact@portaone.com or call 866 SIP VOIP (866 747 8647) or +1 604 628 2508 outside North America.
About Datora Telecom Group:
Datora is a telecom company which has been offering innovative solutions for the past 18 years. As a pioneer in providing VoIP services in Latin America, the company was also the first to be granted the full MVNO license from Anatel (Brazil¹s National Telecommunications Agency). Recently, the Group founded Datora Mobile, a new company focused on developing solutions to support the emerging M2M market in Brazil. The Datora Telecom Group is a Brazilian multinational headquartered in Sao Paulo, with operations in four other countries: USA, Portugal, Spain and Guatemala. For more information, visit www.datora.net.
About PortaOne:
Based in Canada, PortaOne is a leading global provider of software for the telecommunications and utility industries. The company's products enable service providers, producers and carriers to run a broad line of retail and wholesale services within a single software package. PortaOne's flagship products, PortaSwitch and PortaMDM (www.portamdm.com) are a fundamental part of the business infrastructure at hundreds of service provider locations worldwide. To learn more, visit www.portaone.com.
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