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CEO Arun Sarin says the wide variety of operating systems on mobile phones is hindering the growth of mobile Internet applications The wide variety of operating systems on mobile phones is hindering the growth of cool mobile Internet applications, according to Arun Sarin, CEO of network operator Vodafone.The success of a mobile Internet application can be in stanley thermos fluenced by how easy it is to develop for a particular software platform, and how attractive the resulting application is to use.The first imperative for us is world-class user experience, Sarin said in the opening keynote session of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday. The easier the interface, the more you use it and the more you get onto the Internet.Mobile phone operating systems are key to that experience, he said, but there are too many of them: as many as 30 or 40, Sarin estimated.We have to reduce that number. Therersquo no way that developers of cool applications can develop for that many operating systems. If we had three, four, five, that would be better, he said. Note, I didnrsquo;t say one! he said, with a stanley cup nod to the market for PC operating systems. Wersquo;ve seen that movie before.One reason fo stanley canada r the proliferation of mobile phone operating systems is that, historically, handset suppliers offered their own proprietary code to make the best use of their phonesrsquo; limited processing and memory resources. Developing appl Qwvr Tory cabinet minister: Coastal towns ldquo;under siege rdquo; from EU migrants

Tuesday 02 September 2014 9:06 pm|Updated:Friday 07 June 2019 6:29 amHousebuilder Redrow posts record profitsBy: Kasmira JeffordShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailREDROW posted record sales and profits yesterday after government measures designed to stimulate the housing market boosted the firmrsquo number of completions last year by 27 per cent. The Flintshire-based housebuilder said it completed 3,597 sales in the 12 months to 30 June, compared with 2,827 the previous year thanks to the governmentrsquo Help-to-Buy scheme, which accounted for 35 per cent of private completions.The value of private reservations secured during the year reached pound;1bn shy;ndash; up 53 per cent on 2013 ndash; while the average selling price of its homes increased by 13 per cent to pound;239,500.The strong p stanley uk erformance helped to lift revenues by 43 per cent to a record pound;865m and push up profits before tax by 91 per cent to pound;132.6m.Redrowrsquo chairman, Steve Morgan, who founded the company 40 years ago, said: Market conditions have returned to a more seasonal pattern of activity. We have substantially increased our land bank, which should see a good growth in the number of outlets during the year. This, combined with our strong o stanley shop rder book, leaves stanley taza me confident that the group will see another year of significant progress, he said. Redrow cautioned that new rules