Telecommunications & Technology
S Mobility Limited [Spice], India’s leading mobile internet company, today launched Smart Flo Pace 3, the 5 inch slim capacitive touch screen smartphone, supported by Jellybean 4.2 and a 1.3 GHz Dual Core Processor.
Smart Flo Pace 3 (Mi-502n) features connectivity facility through EDGE/GPRS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Micro USB and Proximity Sensors. Apps such as Hoopz, Nimbuzz and WhatsApp come pre-loaded on Spice Smart Flo Pace 3 and it also features a 3.5 mm universal jack for the best music
These days it is common to see when performing online activities, consumers prefer to move between devices[Browsing Web on your iPad and accessing Facebook / WhatsApp on Mobile]. In addition, increasingly, consumers apply two or more devices simultaneously, such as finding critics’ reviews or cast information on mobile phones while watching a movie. Given consumers’ multi-screen activities, cross-platform marketing strategies demonstrate favorite outcomes, especially those campaigns that are packaged with mobile ads.
Multi-Screen Mobile Advertising Strategies
Thus, we think that mobile ads could be more effective
A disruptive technology is an innovation which creates a new market or value network and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market or network.
The concept of ‘disruptive technology’ (or ‘disruptive innovation’, since it can consist of business models too) was invented by Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma.
Christensen focused on innovations that break the usual pattern of companies producing higher-spec products at a higher price (he called these conventional advances ‘sustaining technologies’). Disruptive technologies, at least in their early years, typically offer
The mobile games market in Asia is starting up rapidly in South Korea and China with the uptake of smartphones. We estimate that the leaders in terms of billings have already reached monthly sales of the ¥1bn level, and that many titles now have sales that bear comparison with top-class native apps in Japan—apart from Puzzle & Dragons with its monthly sales exceeding ¥10bn.
ARPU improvement now looks likely, driven by smartphone uptake and enriching of game content. Against this backdrop, some Japanese packaged software makers and social app providers have started to launch Japanese-made game titles in South Korea and China, and are taking steps aimed at achieving profitable operations. We spotlight the success of Square Enix Holdings’ Kaku-San-Sei Million Arthur as a forerunner of this
Yandex operates a number of web sites and services including Russia’s most-popular internet search engine (~60% market share), which uses the company’s proprietary algorithms, as well as other services including Yandex – Maps, Mail, Videos, Classifieds, product comparison, weather and Yandex.Market. The company has recently expanded into providing mobile applications as well as its own proprietary browser. Geographically the company serves primarily the markets of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey
Yandex generates currently
As traditional online access forms the majority of traffic and revenues for internet stocks but companies are actively pursuing mobile opportunities, the increased migration of traffic to mobile access is both a major threat (should companies not be able to adapt quickly enough) and a major opportunity (as mobile creates opportunities for increased traffic and new potential for monetisation).
As per J’son & Partners Consulting, mobile internet access penetration in 2012 is as shown in the chart below.
Industry checks and Chinese news indicate that the telecom regulator, MIIT, may consider policy changes in interconnection fee favoring China Unicom/China Telecom, and allowing China Mobile to enter the Broadband market.
(MIIT), the industry regulator, may consider introducing two policies to the telecom industry: (1) permitting China Mobile (CM) to provide broadband services; and (2) reducing interconnection settlement fee from RMB0.06/min to RMB0.03/min when China Unicom (CU) and China Telecom’s (CT) mobile calls terminate on CM’s network, while CM will continue
Tata Communications, a leading provider international Bandwidth like Flag Telecom, has launched its Mobile Messaging Exchange service. The exchange will enable Over-the-top (OTT) providers [Wechat, WhatsApp, etc] and SMS aggregators to connect to a large community of MNOs globally, while allowing MNOs to monetize the SMS traffic with an added layer of security. This service provides a mutually favourable and profitable solution for all the stakeholders in the value chain.
The new Mobile Messaging Exchange stands to create an effective ecosystem built on efficiency, trust and transparency. It will not only bridge the user communities served by the OTT and SMS aggregators, who want to reach more mobile subscribers, but also MNOs, who want to
Database Giant, Oracle is looking to take advantage of CPU, DRAM, and Flash memory architectures to deliver in-memory solutions that enhance transaction processing and analytics. Along these lines, Oracle highlighted a comprehensive in-memory solution stack including the inmemory Exalytics appliance, in-memory middleware and business analytics, in-memory data cache (Times Ten) and the Oracle in-memory data grid (through Coherence), the inmemory
database (Times Ten) and an in-memory compute platform.
In-memory option for the Oracle 12c Database. With this option, the company expects to drive 100x faster queries and real-time analytics against OLTP or data warehouses, while also doubling transaction processing rates (i.e. insert rows 3-4x faster). In part, these improvements are
Vodacom has entered into exclusive discussions to acquire a 100% stake in Tata Communications subsidiary, Neotel. Neotel is the second fixed-line operator in the South African market and caters to carrier and enterprise demand with a 7% market share in FY13. TCom owns a 67.3% stake in Neotel as at FY3/13. Vodacom, which is majority-owned by Vodafone Plc, is a mobile operator in South Africa and four other African countries.
Neotel has the assets that would interest Vodacom’s