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Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Posted by Roberto
11:48 AM 0 comments

THE BIOCHIP PHONE

About 650 million mobile phones are expected to be sold to consumers this year, and over 1.5 billion people around the world use one. Most phones emit radio signals at Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) levels of between 0.5 and 1 W/kg. SAR is a measure of the rate of radio energy absorption in body tissue, and the SAR limit recommended by the International Commission of Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection is 2 W/kg.

According to a new study majority-funded by the European Union, radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA in laboratory conditions. The research project, which took four years and which was coordinated by the German research group Verum, studied the effect of radiation on human and animal cells in a laboratory. After being exposed to electromagnetic fields that are typical for mobile phones (SAR of between 0.3 and 2 watts per kilogram), some cells showed a significant increase in single and double-strand DNA breaks. The damage could not always be repaired by the cell. This means the change had procreated.

The Biochip Phone: the world's first cell phones with harmless radiation.
In October 2004, G-Hanz EMF Telecom, a joint-venture between leading consumer electronics company G-Hanz and EMX Corporation, announced the global launch of the world's first cell phones with harmless radiation. The EMX BioChip technology is designed to block the harmful radiation by superimposing a random noise field that is neutral to the human tissue, thus mitigating the possible harmful effects to human cells.

G-HANZ EMF TELECOM

Monday, December 13, 2004
Posted by Roberto
6:01 PM 0 comments

JAPAN
THE WORLD'S MOST-ADVANCED CELLULAR MARKET

Japan is the world's most advanced 3G market (the service is in its fourth year). NEC, Panasonic, and Sharp are ahead in the mobile-Internet business but they are facing a rapidly maturing market where the average profit margins have slipped to just 4% (11 Japanese mobile-phone makers = cutthroat rivalry).

The days of double-digit profit margins are over. The production cost of 2G phones was about 20% less than that of 3G handsets but the selling price is about the same. All of Japan's handset makers combined have a smaller share of the global market than Nokia alone: 16% for the Japanese, compared with 29% for Nokia. Factor out their home market, and the Japanese share drops to just 6% (less than Motorola's 14% or Samsung's 13%).

With their home market saturated, Japan's handset makers have to go after international markets to sell superior third-generation mobile phones.

Posted by Roberto
1:00 PM 0 comments

GOOGLE SUGGEST
ENHANCING SEARCH

Search tools are a fascinating space to watch these days. Fierce competition among the big players is stimulating the release of brilliant services that are setting new standards in the Search Market.

Google has just launched the Google Suggest Tool in Beta and it's remarkable.
It shows ten possible and or likely ways to complete any word you begin to type in the search box, and beside each of those possible word combinations you can see how many times that option is searched at Google. Yes, it shows you what others have typed into the search box and how often! Google Suggest appears to filter the most commonly searched adult terms on the web as it would reveal words that children using the feature shouldn't see.

Try the Google Suggest Tool, and realize how this competitive differentiator has the potential to convert Yahoo or MSN users back to Google.

Google Suggest

Thursday, December 02, 2004
Posted by Roberto
7:13 PM 0 comments

WATCH WHAT YOU WANT
WHEN YOU WANT TO

Broadband Internet
The total number of Internet users in Europe has reached 100 million in October 2004. 54.5 million Europeans surfed the Web over a broadband connection, a 60 percent increase from 34.1 million 12 months earlier (Nielsen/NetRatings, December 2004).

Home Wireless Networking + DVR
Today, only 5% of households now own a DVR, and only 11% use a home computer network, according to Gartner. But these numbers are growing, and the existing technology is getting cheaper, more reliable, and easier to use. Very soon, we'll watch any program from any room in the house.

TV Won't Come From One Provider Anymore
Just as the service known as voice over Internet protocol is poised to revolutionize the phone business by offering a low-cost Internet alternative to traditional phone service, IP-TV could provide new opportunities to traditional phone companies that have built their businesses around wire lines. A DVR could then pull independent programming off the Internet, in much the same way as it records shows from regular TV today. Already, small companies like Mag Rack provide 20 different niche channels that a home user can view either by streaming directly from the Internet or downloading on-demand using a DVR. In this context, on-demand choices may one day predominate over broadcast TV.