Iphone India

AfterDawn is looking to expand it’s services in the Nordic countries. We already have a strong presence in our home country, Finland, but we also have localized sites available in Swedish and Norwegian, with a Danish version under construction as well. AfterDawn.com launched Tom’s Hardware Finland in August, 2010, and other Nordic countries will follow during the Spring 2011.



We are now looking for people interested in joining our team at AfterDawn.com, and working with translations and content for both AfterDawn and Tom’s Hardware in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian.



Your work will include:

• translating English content (in-depth technology articles that can be 5-40 pages long) to your own native language
• writing news (i.e. not just translating from source material) in your native language on a regular / daily basis
• communicating with other members of the staff for coordination (via email, instant messengers and IRC)

What we are looking for in you:

• you’re a native speaker of one of the languages mentioned (no, good Google Translation skills don’t count
• a person with good English language skills (English is the communication language between different AfterDawn teams — and your news sources, translation materials, etc will all be in English — but you don’t need to produce content in English)
• a strong grasp on PC technology (and related terminology), including motherboards, graphics cards, CPUs and GPUs, mass storage etc.
• ability to write fluently and grammatically correct in the target language
• commitment to agreed deadlines, NDAs, content targets etc.
• ability to work remotely, using ICQ and email as primary means for communicating with other members of the staff
• basic HTML and image editing knowledge (nothing dramatic here, just the understanding of basic tags, image resizing, etc)
• prior experience with content management systems is a bonus, but not required (we use a custom CMS anyway)

What will you get in return:

• an opportunity to work with a launch of one of the leading technology sites in the world – in your native language
• flexibility in arranging your working hours and holidays — this is not a nine-to-five-job
• .. and of course a salary based on your content output and an opportunity to a bonus, based on the performance of the site

That’s it really. Questions? Contact us via our feedback form or comment on this article.



To apply, please visit:



http://www.afterdawn.com/general/apply_for_position.cfm



Deadline for applications is Sunday, February 23rd 2011 at 23:59 UTC.

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Source: Pradeep Rao

Indians have adopted some typical habits and they all relate to smartphones. Cornell University’s Professor Trevor Pinch and Nokia conducted a study, in which 5022 smartphone users were surveyed. These users are from 10 different countries across Asia, Europe, UK and USA. The motive of the study was to learn the smartphone behaviour of the typical consumers of these countries.

Mobile apps have become a way of life. All major mobile operating systems have their very own app stores. Android has over 200,000 apps in the Android Market, iOS has over 300,000 apps in the App Store. Nokia’s app directory, OVI Store is growing everyday. We have also heard that Accenture and BSNL will be launching their very own mobile app stores. There are thousands of developers working at this. The reason being, we the consumer want better apps everyday to make our life a bit easier.

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The study revealed that 58% Indian smartphone users think mobile application programs are for benefiting them. While at home consumers use 31% apps and at the time of travelling and at work they use 24% and 10% apps respectively. The research also shows that consumers are up to quality, not quantity. The number of mobile apps available isn’t the most important thing for them, which the quality and user-friendliness are. Amongst the surveyed users, 70% said they have around 30 apps in their smartphones, most of which are redundant. They said they are looking for a better app to show up, then they will hastily delete the extra ones.

Karl Marx once said that man will one day bend down on his knees before his creation. Professor Trevor Pinch echoed this by saying; “Our relationship with them has turned from occasional use into a real dependency. It is because of this that our personal apps ‘collections’ represent our unique needs, personality and interests. We can learn much about a person’s behaviour via a mix of their choice of apps, personality variables, use variables and competence variables.”

The study revealed few other details about consumers and they are quite interesting. Entertainment and social networking prevail over business as the percentages of music and social networking apps downloaded are higher than the percentage of business apps downloaded. Utilities are as important as games since both share the same percentage (21%) of downloads. Indian girls had reputation of being overly chatty, they proved it right as the percentage of women who are up for social networking (43%) is higher than that of men (38%). Not to mention that the teenagers download social networking apps most, because they have huge lists of friends, unlike adults.

Country wise, the behaviors pertaining to using apps differ. For example, Indians want to get their grips on cutting edge technologies and prefer business-focused apps like email and expense managers, while 17% of them prefer downloading free apps. Brazilian users like downloading music apps while Germans prefer workable applications like flashlights, alarm clocks etc. Consumers from Singapore like playing online games and download gaming apps most and a large number of Italians rely find their mobile apps substitutes for travel guides.

Apps have become so dominant in our lives that we decide whether a phone or OS is good, not by its specifications but by the inventory of apps it provides. This is the reason behind Symbian, BlackBerry and WP7 losing out to the likes of Android and iOS. The galore of apps the two have provided has changed the future of mobile communication.

Based on the findings of the study, George Linardos, VP of media at Nokia said, “Apps are the way in which we bring our devices to life and empower them to be like our own personal magic wands.” And he was right in saying this. We don’t notice it, but apps shape us.

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