CTIA Wireless 2008
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: April 1-3, 2008
Venue: Las Vegas Convention Centre

InnoInco Wireless is exhibiting at Mobile World Congress 2008 on Stand 1G67 in Hall 2. We look forward to seeing you!





GSMA Mobile World Congress
GSMA Mobile World Congress
February 11 – 14, 2008
Barcelona, Spain

With more than 970 man years combined experience in web application development, InnoInco.com has huge experience creating custom social networks and media streaming web sites. Our development department stepped into the Facebook application development market as soon as Facebook opened its API. Our Facebook application developers can handle development of Facebook applications of any level complexity and any subject, including E-commerce, Real Estate, Healthcare, Web 2.0, Entertainment and Media, Legal etc.

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InnoInco.com offers comprehensive experience in Mobile, PDA, Embedded and Wireless technologies. We successfully completed over 150 software development and software testing projects in PDA & Mobile domain which involved custom development for J2ME, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian, BREW, iPhone and other platforms.

InnoInco.com - Canadian software development outsourcing company with development centers in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)

After you spend $500 on an iPhone, what will you be able to do with it? Not enough, unless Apple makes it easy for third-party developers to build applications for it. Is Apple doing that? Not yet.

I talked this issue over with Alykhan Jetha, CEO of Marketcircle, a builder of Mac applications in Toronto, while he was in San Francisco staffing the booth at Macworld. "We've asked. They're being tight-lipped about a software development kit for the iPhone. Right now, the answer is no," says Jetha.

Jetha doesn't take that to mean that Apple plans to keep the iPhone application market to itself. On the contrary, he says Apple has been good about sharing a software development kit with third parties to make it easy to develop applications for the Mac OS X.

For example, Marketcircle uses the Mac OS X software development kit's frameworks to build its Daylite productivity, Daylite Mail, and Billings applications for Mac-using professionals. The frameworks speed the developer's ability to interface an application to the networking, user presentation, and calculating capabilities of the Mac.

The iPhone is another OS X device, but it's different than the desktop machine, of course. Developers will need to know how to invoke interfaces to such things as the iPhone's cover flow mode, where the screen orientation shifts from vertical to horizontal, or the iPhone's Maps or Calendar, so their applications can take advantage of these features.

Apple in the past "has been good at offering frameworks that invoke interfaces into its OS X operating systems," says Jetha. "We need a SDK for the iPhone that's similar to the SDK for OS X." The kits allow developers to produce third-party applications that add value to the device that they support.

So before asking where's my $500 iPhone, ask Apple whether your favorite third-party developer has gotten his iPhone SDK yet. That's one way to guarantee your iPhone will have lots of applications to run and be worth its price tag. The iPhone's coming in June. Third-party software development support soon to follow?

InnoInco.com offers comprehensive experience in Mobile, PDA, Embedded and Wireless technologies. We successfully completed over 150 software development and software testing projects in PDA & Mobile domain which involved custom development for J2ME, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian, BREW, iPhone and other platforms.

InnoInco.com - Canadian software development outsourcing company with development centers in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)

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With Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones, you have wireless access to:

* Home screen notifications — so you know right away when you have a new Facebook event like a wall post, message or poke
* The full text of new messages or wall posts, new photo tags and friend requests. Plus send your own messages, wall posts, pokes and friend requests
* Your Facebook status and the Facebook status of your friends — change yours from the road!
* All of your Facebook contacts
* Photo-sharing — simply snap a picture with your BlackBerry smartphone’s camera*, then post it to Facebook with one click. Even tag friends in photos
* The Facebook environment you’re already familiar with, optimized for your BlackBerry smartphone

InnoInco.com offers comprehensive experience in Mobile, PDA, Embedded and Wireless technologies. We successfully completed over 150 software development and software testing projects in PDA & Mobile domain which involved custom development for J2ME, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian, BREW, iPhone and other platforms.

InnoInco.com - Canadian software development outsourcing company with development centers in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)

We are going to be at the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Conference from Jan 22nd through Jan 24th. It takes place at the Sun Microsystems Santa Clara Campus Auditorium, located at 4030 George Sellon Circle in Santa Clara, CA.

It’s going to be a fantastic venue to hear the latest on Java ME technology, and to get the opportunity to rub shoulders with a lot of great Java developers. We are going to be a poster presenter and will be handing out our free development and porting platform CD to all comers. Hope to see you there!

Overview:
https://developerdays.dev.java.net/index.html

"Ukraine's glory hasn't perished, nor her freedom," starts Ukraine's national anthem. Now independent, the Ukrainian nation, which lost several million people to Stalin's "taming by hunger" in the 1930s, enjoys a democratic government and freedom of speech. Ukraine also counts the largest capacity of productive soil in the world, glorious cathedrals, Carpathian Mountains, Black Sea and Azov Sea resorts and...a growing outsourcing industry.

Now Ukraine has a new, more appealing global image that contributes to turning the country into a new European business hot-spot. As Eastern Europe emerges as an outsourcing alternative to Asia, Ukraine now has all the chances to broaden its portion of the outsourcing pie.

The country currently has over 300 outsourcing companies that export ITO services. Analytical company MarketVisio, together with Gartner, estimated ITO services from the Ukraine to reach $150 million in 2005, which represents 50 percent growth in comparison to the previous year.

The current industry size is far below its potential. Among the factors that have hampered its development in recent years are the legislation and business climate. Ian Marriot, Vice President and Research Director at Gartner, still calls for caution when dealing with the country, as "Ukraine has been divorced from the international business community for a continuous period of time."

In contrast to Belarus, another former Soviet nation that borders with Ukraine and hosts the largest IT outsourcing companies in Eastern Europe, Ukrainian IT companies tend to be smaller. The vast pool of IT labour resources remains untapped and attracts companies from abroad. SaM Solutions, one of the largest IT outsourcers in Belarus, opened a development centre in Kiev in summer 2004. The centre currently hosts 70 software engineers. "One of the key drivers for us to come to the Ukraine was the vast and high-quality labour pool," says Larisa Rudak, Co-Director of SaM Solutions in Kiev.

Already, big foreign companies are rushing to explore Ukraine's pool of talent. Flextronics, a major global electronics manufacturing services provider, has placed around 1,500 of its 7,000-strong engineer force in the Ukraine.

The size of the labour pool, quality of education, and the labour cost base are all major criteria of offshore outsourcing decisions. Now Ukraine has high scores across all these dimensions. The country's population (47 million) is the sixth-largest in Europe, and its capital Kiev is a mere two-hour flight from major European cities such as London, Amsterdam, or Paris. To make the trip to Ukraine even simpler, its government has introduced a visa-free travel for the visitors from the EU, US, and several other countries. There is no wonder that this year the country expects to at least double its revenues from the incoming tourism.

Kiev is Ukraine's major outsourcing location. Recently, companies started to look further for the skilled IT labour, with the primarily targets being Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Lviv, and Odessa, each benefiting from a low cost of living and a continuous increase of IT graduates from well-established technical universities.

With average monthly salaries of just $500 - $1000 for IT professionals in Kiev, the country is perfectly positioned to provide low-cost software development services. However, having an image of a low-cost labour country is not enough for Ukraine. SaM Solution's Rudak says, "We need to change the image of Ukraine so it is also seen as a high-quality labour country."

Indeed, Ukraine has historically been strong in education and science; there are almost a thousand colleges and 600,000 students. The National Academy of Sciences, whilst reduced in the course of the 1990s "brain drain," employs almost 30,000 engineers and researchers. Today the Academy supports 170 scientific research institutes, including the internationally-renowned Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, and eight techno-parks which address the challenges of innovation.

So Ukraine promotes itself by letting world business leaders speak on its behalf. According to the Ukrainian president's press service, in January 2005 during the meeting of Victor Yushchenko and Bill Gates in Davos, Gates praised the high intellectual potential of Ukrainians and called for investing in Ukraine. The newly-announced Advisory Investment Council included Mr. Gates; the president of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, Jean Lemierre; Moody's Investors Service's Raymond McDaniel; and other prominent business figures, appointed to the Council by Yushchenko's decree.

Since the Orange Revolution, the new government has demonstrated its intent to transform the country. Despite a Ukrainian economy heavily dependent on Russian oil and gas, Yushchenko is firm in his commitment to develop strong ties with the West. At the summit of NATO foreign ministers in Vilnius, Lithuania in April 2005, Ukraine was invited to begin an intensified dialogue on membership aiming to enter NATO in 2008-2009. It is also expected to enter the World Trade Organization by the end of 2005, and looks set for eventual membership in the EU.

InnoInco.com - Canadian software development outsourcing company with development centers in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)

To arrive at this list of the top 12 game development houses in Europe, we have weighted studios based on product sales and revenue in both the United States and Europe, using a variey of resources including available market research data. We have also taken the critical response to each studio’s products over 2006 and 2007, gathering that data from review score aggregate sites. In addition, we have predicted each studio’s future performance potential, based both on past performance and announced but unreleased products. This has not resulted in a purely scientific analysis, so some of the positioning on the list is also based on good old-fashioned intuition.

We have given each studio a point score based on the result of the analysis – the top rated studio on the list is worth 50 points, the number two studio 49 points, and so on. We have summed these points based on the developer’s home country, creating a leaderboard of the top European nations in the game industry. We present this leaderboard in the spirit of friendly international competition!

1. England – 887 Points
2. France – 109 Points
3. Scotland – 77 Points
4. Sweden – 58 Points
5. Germany – 51 Points
6. Denmark – 37 Points
7. The Netherlands – 16 Points
8. Ukraine – 12 Points
9. Norway – 9 Points
10. Romania – 8 Points
11. Finland – 7 Points
12. Russia – 4 Points

It is worth noting is that a lot of development houses may have studios across Europe or the world, or may have the primary corporate office in the United States but primary creative talent in Europe. In these cases we only considered where the creative talent was, and considered internal studios as individual entities if such delineations were clear. Only in cases where studio development was incredibly global and decentralized did we consider the corporate office the studio home as well.

By Joe Keiser
http://www.next-gen.biz/

Nine of out 10 corporate heads of IT outsource some functions, up from 85 percent a year ago, yet very few outsource the majority of their IT operations.

CIOs are doing more outsourcing, according to research recently concluded for CIO's 2008 "State of the CIO" issue.

The numbers show that 46 percent of IT leaders say that they outsource or otherwise contract out between 1 and 10 percent of the IT function, up from 41 percent last year. The number of IT executives who outsource nothing decreased to 9 percent this year from 15 percent last year.

Offshore IT services spending will grow 40 percent in the United States and 60 percent in Europe in 2008, according to research analyst firm Gartner. Where should those outsourcing dollars go?

Gartner used ten criteria (language, government support, labor pool, infrastructure, educational system, cost, political and economic environment, cultural compatibility, global and legal maturity, and data and intellectual property security and privacy) to compile a list of the top 30 global destinations for IT services by region:

* Americas
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico and Uruguay


* Asia/Pacific
Australia, China, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Vietnam


* Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
The Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Northern Ireland, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine

Destinations in the Americas are most attractive to buyers in the United States. Canada led in seven of Gartner ten list categories (faring worst in the region for cost of labor). Latin American countries are increasingly valued for their Spanish speaking employees, but IP and security concerns are more prevalent.

In the Asia/Pacific region, China, India and Singapore all demonstrated strong government support of IT services, but China scored poorly on language skills, according to Gartner. Political and economic risk are an issue with Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, says Gartner, while higher-cost locations like Australia, New Zealand and Singapore led for cultural compatibility, global and legal maturity, and data and intellectual property security and privacy.

Government support was generally low in the EMEA region, according to Gartner. Ireland, Israel, Northern Ireland and South Africa garnered good scores for English language. But the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania got extra credit for alternative language capabilities—attractive for an increasing number of continental European buyers. New EU members Slovakia and Romania, along with Russia and Ukraine were low cost leaders, though Gartner notes costs in the EMEA region are in a state of flux.