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 Saturday, September 27, 2003
 Posted by Roberto
 11:20 AM   0 comments   

SMS, THE CASH COW FOR CHINESE WEB PORTALS

SMS traffic in China:
2001 :: 6 billion
2002 :: More than 80 billion

Why is SMS so hot?
  • It is cheap: in China an SMS message costs about 80% less than one minute of voice transmission. About one European cent per SMS message.

  • It can be used on basic wireless handsets which account for more than 90% of the Chinese market.
  • In China more people own mobile phones than personal computers.
    In 2001 there was an average of 13.31 computers for every 100 urban households. In major cities such as Beijing, more than 75% of the population owned a mobile phone in 2002. In Shanghai the rate was 55%.
  • It allows Web portals (Sohu.com, NetEase.com, Sina.com) to move news flashes, sports updates, anonymous dating services and chat rooms to the SMS platform for mobile phones, allowing them to bill users for the content.

Sohu facts:
Sohu.com Q4 2002: Revenues: 10.6 million. SMS-related accounted for 5.1 million.
Sohu.com Q2 2003: Revenues: 19.4 million. SMS-related revenues rose to 11.5 million.
 

Today, the revenue-sharing agreement with China Mobile still gives the lion's share of revenues, 85%, to the content providers.

 

 Tuesday, September 23, 2003
 Posted by Roberto
 8:59 AM   0 comments   

PAY TV SERVICES VIA ADSL

Asian phone companies are rolling out new pay TV services using their broadband Internet networks.

New pay TV services based on DSL have recently emerged in Hong Kong from local phone companies PCCW Ltd and City Telecom (H.K.) Ltd and in Japan by Softbank Corp's BB Cable TV.

In Taiwan, Chunghwa Telecom is preparing to roll out a service. In Singapore, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd could use its DSL platform to offer services if it bids for and wins the country's second pay TV license.

Most of the new services use set-top boxes to feed the DSL signal into a television set, and the broadband Internet service continues to flow uninterrupted to the subscriber's computer.

Full Article

 

 Wednesday, September 17, 2003
 Posted by Roberto
 2:18 PM   0 comments   

COMPANY FOCUS: NEOMEDIA

NeoMedia markets services which link physical information and objects to the Internet under the PaperClick trademark.

NeoMedia just announced the first in a new series of applications of a patented wireless technology, which links camera phones directly to the Internet ("New 'Killer Wireless App' for Nokia® Camera Cell Phones 'Turns Internationally-Popular Toys Into Internet-Enabled Business Tools" Business Wire, Sept. 8.).

NeoMedia's PaperClick for Camera Cell Phones(TM), available first for the Nokia® 3650 camera phone, reads UPC/EAN and other bar codes through the camera to link the user quickly and directly to the corresponding Web site or information.

Radio Frequency identification (RF-ID)
RF-ID employs "tags," electronic chips which hold information similar to information held by UPC/EAN bar codes, but can also track specific parts, pieces or items from manufacturer to user, through the supply chain. RF-ID tags communicate automatically, without human intervention, with scanners, readers and computers.

Chas Fritz, chairman of NeoMedia said "cell phones, too, will be enabled for RF-ID in the future, with NeoMedia providing technology."

Neomedia Profile on Yahoo finance

 

 Tuesday, September 16, 2003
 Posted by Roberto
 3:55 PM   0 comments   

FROM PDAs TO PEOs

The Sony Clié PEG-UX50 ($700), is a great PEO (personal entertainment organizer).

Features:
It combines a digital camera (resolution is 640-by-480, about a third of a megapixel), an MP3 player, a decent keyboard, a half-VGA TFT monitor (480-by-320), 104MB of onboard memory including 16MB available for backup, 16MB for user files and programs, and 29MB reserved for multimedia files.

Connectivity:
Built-in 802.11b and built-in Bluetooth (comes with presets for connecting to leading Bluetooth-enabled phones).

My opinion:
The best companion to your bluetooth-enabled phone.

Sony Clie Website

 

 Wednesday, September 03, 2003
 Posted by Roberto
 8:00 PM   0 comments   

MEGAPIXEL-CLASS IMAGE SENSORS IS AN EVOLUTIONARY STEP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CELLULAR HANDSETS WITH EMBEDDED CAMERAS

Today, I was on the roof of SES Global in Luxembourg...
so I shot a picture with my T610 and the result is:

No wonder in Japan consumers are buying handsets with megapixel cameras built in. The mobile phone is the device we always have with us and adding a decent image sensor and a memory card slot is the natural evolution of the cellular handset.

 

 Tuesday, September 02, 2003
 Posted by Roberto
 6:36 PM   0 comments   

SECOND QUARTER 2003, 115 MOBILE PHONES HAVE BEEN SOLD WORLDWIDE!

This year, the mobile phone industry might sell between 450 and 460 million phones.

In emerging markets, sales rose 11.9 percent year-on-year and cheap models have been driving sales.

In July, India's Reliance Infocomm has signed up one million customers in just 10 days.

In Japan sales also rose, probably driven by consumers buying handsets with very high-quality cameras built in.

Who is gaining market share?
:: Nokia
:: Sony-Ericsson
:: LG
:: Samsung

Who is losing market share?
:: Motorola
:: Siemens

Full Article

 
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