In the first hour in 2010 Kyivstar subscribers carried around 27 million calls and sent about 7 million SMS . If we consider the number of messages sent, that in 17,5 times higher than on ordinary days, when the SMS-traffic is about 400 thousand SMS per hour.   In general, during 31.12.09 - 01.01.10 there were more than 425 million calls and sent more than 79 million SMS in a network operator. In terms of a single subscriber is around 19 calls and 4 SMS-messages.   The company noted that to ensure the normal functioning of the network in the New Year holidays has been used technology "signal compression", to add extra equipment in the field of holiday events, and was organized around the clock shifts strengthened technical staff. Source: GSMPress ®   

Ukrainian mobile operators from January to October 2009 have provided communications services residents of Odessa and the area of over 1,7 billion UAH as reported by the Department of Statistics in the Odessa region. This amounted to about 45% of the total services provided to citizens. Long-distance, urban and computer communication was respectively 12%, 11% and 10% of the total amount available for the year of communications services. The volume of communication services grew by 7% compared with last year. And also it became known that the use of computer communication has become in 2 times more Odessa.   Source: GSMPress ®

Since the beginning of the year on the territory of Ukraine imported 4.162 million legal mobile terminals of different standards (GSM, CDMA). These are figures the head of the Ukrainian State Center of Radio Frequencies (UCRF) Paul Slobodyanyuk. According Slobodyaniuk, a system of control over the legality of mobile first goal pursued not so much fight smuggling (it is the task of Customs), but rather protect the interests of Ukrainian citizens and providing them with high quality connection.   At the same time, he noted that in UCRF accessed by users, phones are not included in the generalized database IMEI. For example, a resident of Poltava is sent to the center itself illegal mobile, complaining that his code is not entered in the database. Center specialists legalized phone and even got to him sim-card. But such cases are rare in Ukraine, said Slobodyanyuk.   Recall that since February 16, 2010 in Ukraine will start to turn off mobile phones, IMEI codes are not included in the overall framework. This will disable the devices, rather than sim-card.   Register the IMEI code of your mobile phone in the section Passport . You can protect yourself against possible loss or theft of your mobile phone. Register your phone in an

Company Sony Ericsson has recently started selling a mobile phone Sony Ericsson Aino. But now the sale of the vehicle stopped. The cause of yield with the implementation provided the number of errors in the software, which subsequently led to problems at work with touch screen. This is the second phone company Sony Ericsson, withdrawn from sale in the UK. Earlier this week, stopped trading cameraphone Sony Ericsson Satio. Almost all purchased vehicles were returned to their owners with complaints about the ugly work of software. Representatives of Sony Ericsson claim that the problems with its products relate only to the British party and promise to fix any problems as quickly as possible.   Source: GSMPress ®   

According to the head of the State Customs Service of Anatoly Makarenko-importation of illegal mobile phones in 2009 in Ukraine has significantly decreased from 90 to 10-15%. "Today, according to our estimates," gray "shadow market segment is about 10%, from 10 to 15%. This pyramid, which was previously 10% "white", transparent import, today reversed, and we see further work in this direction ", - he said. This result was achieved by controlling the importation and registration of the domestic market of mobile phones by codes IMEI. Since the beginning of the legalization of imports of mobile phones has provided additional revenues of customs payments in the amount of 333 million UAH. We suggest you enter the IMEI code in the international database and check your phone to legality. Passport service  is designed to determine the originality of your mobile phone, as well as for tracking the status of its owner! You can protect yourself against possible loss or theft of your mobile phone. Register and add your phone into an international database, as the saying goes "Better safe than sorry!" Source: GSMPress

URLFAN has ranked the top 100 sites, which are often mentioned in blogs. According to this resource in the top three most influential sites are English language version of Wikipedia, video service YouTube and Flickr. One year ago: / / URLFAN published a similar rating, and compared with November's figures in 2008 three leaders remained the same - YouTube, only moved to third on Flickr. Top Ten Most Influential Internet resources (in brackets the position in last year's rating of the site): 1. en.wikipedia.org (1) 2. youtube.com (3) 3. flickr.com (2) 4. twitter.com (9) 5. google.com (4) 6. myspace.com (6) 7. facebook.com (-) 8. imdb.com (5) 9. nytimes.com (7) 10. apple.com (8) During the year of the first ten specially not changed. Only social network Facebook, took 7 position. Top ten left the site of the newspaper The Washington Post. The highest growth rate showed a resource Twitter, which rose from 9 to 4 position, and the world's largest site on the film slipped from 5 to 8 seats.    

Scientists of the Swedish University of Örebro University gave the public one more fact that mobile phones affect the human body. Namely, it was found that they cause changes in the brain. During the study, researchers found that after prolonged use of mobile phones in the human brain increases the level of protein Transthyretin (transthyretin). Scientists have so far refrained from commenting as this is good or bad for human health, but many organizations have already taken preventive measures. For example, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to revise the permissible limits of radiation of mobile phones. Swedish scientists emphasize that the skull adolescents thinner than an adult, and therefore their brains are more vulnerable to radiation. While further studies are conducted, scientists call for fewer opportunities to use mobile phones to talk, and adolescents to communicate recommended to use text services.   Source: GSMPress ®   

In the third quarter of 2009, sales of mobile phones worldwide reached 308.9 million units, it is by 0,1% more than the result for the same period in 2008 This was confirmed by the data research company Gartner. According to the researchers, the growth of the world market mobile handsets to promote the sale of "gray" markets such as China, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region.   Market leader in the reporting period was the Finnish Nokia, realized 113.4 million phones, and took part in 36,7%. Second place - South Korea's Samsung (19,6%), managed to sell 60.6 million mobile handsets.   LG Electronics was the third with a market share of 10,3% (31,9 million handsets), the fourth position - the U.S. Motorola (13,9 million tubes, 4,5% of the market), and closes the top five leaders of the Swedish-Japanese company Sony Ericsson, handset sales which amounted to 13.4 million units (4.3% market share). The volume of sales of smartphones in the third quarter broke the mark of 41 million units;-year growth of 12,8%. In the Gaza smartphones leader again - Nokia, which has taken a 39.3% market share (16.156 million vehicles). Second line rating is Research in Motion (20,8%) with 8.5 million sold devices. Followed by Apple

In October 2009, the organization ICANN, responsible for addressing the Internet, approved the procedure for registration of domain names that use not only Latin, but also the characters and alphabets. First applied for the creation of domains in the native alphabet of Russia, for her - Egypt.   Now Ukraine has applied to the corporation ICANN to register Cyrillic Internet domain. Ukr. This domain will create sites with the Internet address of the Ukrainian or Russian language.

The creator of mobile phone, Martin Cooper, who was the lead engineer in the department of Motorola, develops the first cell phone, criticized modern mobile phones. 80-year-old Cooper said that the multifunction device mediocre inherent in each of their functions. He argues that the future of several specialized units, each of which performs well only his task. Previously, creator of mobile saying that the smartphone Apple iPhone has a cumbersome interface. Nevertheless, the world has already sold about 50 million devices on a platform of iPhone OS. Martin Cooper in April 1973 made the first wireless call. As he recalls, the first mobile phone weighed a kilogram, and its battery is little more than 20 minutes of conversation. Cooper noted that it was very useful, because the hand still could not stand longer than twenty minutes. Now modern man is very convenient, when one mobile phone combines multiple devices: camera, media player, Bluetooth, and sometimes even difficult to imagine, unless the phone access the Internet. Therefore it is very unlikely that mankind renounce their smart phones, camera phones, etc. muzofonov. The future for most multi-functional devices that easily can perfectly perform multiple tasks. Source: GSMPress

Popularity touchphones in the world grows, more and more people are choosing phones with touch interface. Company Canalys has decided to hold large-scale study of sensory user interfaces. In the course of the study were questioned about three thousand people living in the UK, Germany and France. About 50% of respondents stated that their next mobile phone will have touch-screen interface. Among those people, who already owns tachfonom, about 38% stated that they prefer to interact with their device with their fingers, and about 16% - with the stylus. Surprising fact that only 47% of the holders tachfonov stated that they would like to use the same user interface in its next phone. Maybe they acquired the failed model? Greatest satisfaction touch user interface, users express the products of companies HTC and Apple, and the lowest rates from the company Sony Ericsson. Summing up the research analyst Pete Cunningham (Pete Cunningham) said that in the next few years the mobile phone market will appear more and more models equipped with touch screen, but many producers is to work hard to make a comfortable tactile user interfaces for working with text . Source: GSMPress

In January - September 2009, revenues from the provision of enterprise communication services in Ukraine decreased by 3,8%, compared to the same period in 2008, to 34, 0888 UAH billion. This is stated in the report of the State Statistics Committee. The overall decline in revenues was due to connection loss in revenues from mobile services (4,5%), postal services (by 9,4%), urban (by 14,4%), rural (at 19,1%) and long-distance telephone (by 19,6%). In I quarter 2009 revenues of enterprises from the provision of telecommunications services in 2008 amounted to 10.5959 billion UAH.   But the operator's revenue from providing Internet access has increased, compared with January-September 2008, at 43,5% to 2, 0688 billion UAH. In particular, revenues from providing services to the population amounted to 1 138 billion UAH. That on 76,7% higher than in January-September 2008. The share of revenues from the Internet connection, total revenues amounted to 6%. Source: GSMPress ®

  On October 14, 2009 in Ukraine will change the telephone numbering system - when dialing code will disappear "8". This decision was approved by 29 September 2008 order of the Ministry of Transport and Communication № 1200 Now to make a call to a mobile number, the Ukrainians will have to dial the number in the format "operator code XXX XX XX", not "8 operator code XXX XX XX", as is done now. The same scheme will be applied to national calls to landlines. In addition, in October to change the order of the set when calling from Ukraine abroad. Instead of 8 10 (country code) (area code) xxx xx xx set will be implemented through: 0 0 (country code) (area code) xxx xx xx. The only thing that stays the same, this is the procedure for dialing in Ukraine from abroad. As before, the set will be implemented by the scheme: 380 (city code / operator) xxx xx xx.    All changes are described in detail earlier on our site.    

 Apple Inc. on Sept. 28 announced the sale of two billion applications for the iPhone and iPod touch through the internet-shop App Store. Total world there are about 50 million devices that support such programs. In the App Store at the end of September, offered 85 thousand programs, and all the desire to develop applications for iPhone OS reported 125 thousand of developers. This makes the App Store's largest store for mobile applications. Billion downloads mark in the App Store came in April 2009. This store took nine months. Second billion applications, so users have downloaded in just five months. Only for the third quarter were downloaded half a program. Average per day from the App Store is downloaded 6.6 million program. Store applications for the iPhone and iPod touch was opened in July 2008. Initially, there were 500 programs. For the first month of the owners of the devices on the iPhone OS applications to buy 30 million dollars. Source: GSMPress ®  

Bronze Award at the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2009, held organization Industrial Designers Society of America, received a smartphone Samsung Social Campaign. Social Campaign is a smartphone without a keyboard, featuring a large touch screen. The main feature of this model is personaling replacement rear panel, through which the owners of the device will be able to celebrate their participation in various social programs (assistance for low-income and disabled people, environmental protection). It is anticipated that the icons and logos on mobile spur others to follow the example of a conscious citizen. At this point, this unit is known very little. Smartphone Samsung Social Campaign is at the stage of concept and is not known whether it created a commercial version. If Samsung Social Campaign will be widely sold, then surely catch the fancy «green» and philanthropist. The sample shown at the exhibition, is the only developed a prototype device. Source: GSMPress ®