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The Competition In The Cell Phone Market Between Iphone And Android

The competition in the cell phone market between iPhone and Android leads to an endless conjecture of the cell phones industry.

According to the China National Radio Broadcasting Network Beijing time on August 7th, it was reported by the ” Evening Peak News ” of Voice of China at17:33 pm that recently, the competition in the cell phone market between iPhone and Android had led to an endless conjecture of the cell phones industry .

At first, “The Wall Street Journal” reported the data that comes from a market research firm, in the first half of 2010, the sales volume ratio of cell phone users who selected the new smartphone with Android system to the total sales vloum of smartphone in the U.S. was 27%, while the sales volume of Apple iPhone cell phone accounted for only 23%.

Then, the market research firm iSuppli issued a notice at the weekend; they said that the number of worldwide users who used Google Android operating system cell phone would surpass Apple iPhone in 2012. iSuppli also predicted that this gap would continue to expand by 2014, then the market share of Android smart phone in the global would reach to 23%, while iPhone would drop to 15%.

At the same time, the IT industry experts are warmly discussing the dispute between iPhone and Android through blog in these two days too. There is a very remarkable title, “Apple iPhone dominates today, Google Android will control tomorrow.” The analysis showed that Apple iPhone was a man who joins in the combat, iPhone was a closed system of “home country”, iPhone system was only used for Apple’s own cell phone, but Android was a completely open and all-inclusive system, the cell phones Manufacturers such as Motorola and HTC all could use this system ( China cell phone ). Perhaps just as a number of bloggers said, if the cell phone market dominated by a closed system, it would be a “cups” (tragedy) of the world.

How virtualization benefits tax and accounting practices

An increasingly popular way of delivering IT services is through virtualization, which comes in several flavors. With server virtualization, a physical server is split into multiple virtual servers. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and these operating systems can be different from one virtual server to the next. The physical server typically runs a hypervisor program to create the virtual servers and manage the resources of the various operating systems. Then each virtual server can be employed as if it were a stand-alone physical server, thus reducing the number of physical servers needed in an IT shop and saving the organization money and space.

By desktop virtualization, whatever user sees on his/her desktop is completely isolated from the physical machine and accessed through a client/server computing model. This virtualized desktop environment is stored on a server, rather than on the local storage of the desktop device; when the user works from his or her desktop device, all the programs, applications, and data are kept on the server and all programs and applications are run on the server. In this kind of practice, the server does almost all the work and a thin client can be a normal desktop or it can be even notebook, smartphones.

The above virtualization model can serve ideally to the tax and accounting professional. For a general accountant or CPAs, the desktop consists of tax and accounting applications as well as many other supportive tools to process their operations. These applications require heavy system resources to function and there is even desperate need of any expert technician to manage their setup. Having separate desktop setup for each individual in the office not only costs in the term of licensing but also gives us huge burden of resource setup and management. A centralized server helps us to address these concerns.

Tax and accounting professionals can opt to use cloud computing to host their resources. Cloud computing is the latest form of the virtualization technology. By implementing cloud for tax and accounting practices, all the benefits of cloud computing get inherited to the operations of tax and accounting jobs. The major benefits of cloud computing are: increased performance, high availability, anywhere and anytime access and reduced expenses which can be very helpful to boost the performance of accounting firms or departments.

It is not necessary to have our own cloud computing or virtualization infrastructure to share the benefits of these technologies. We can choose any hosting provider to host our tax and accounting applications to get these features of technology. We even get full technical support on our resources. The hosting provider becomes responsible for setup, management and to fix the issues.

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