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Actually they do! a stones throw from Blacks! :)
RT - .42 x .43 eom
Kokonutguy, I was thinking the same thing, why so cheap... but the big picture tells the story, better to get on the train instead of getting run over by it...!
JP, see any implications for NEOM?
Yellowjacket, thanks for the insight! - eom.
OT - Success, Steelers Fan, congrats! -eom
DD - (infringing?)WEA Corp. and Tower Records Make History With First Point of Purchase "Snap and Win" Sweepstakes at Retail
(Wow... Virgin should be shortly behind... Are these guys infringing?)
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/050720/091316.html
Mobot Technology Lets Music Fans Enter to Win Using Their Mobile Phones
NEW YORK, NY and BOSTON, MA--(MARKET WIRE)--Jul 20, 2005 -- WEA Corp. (NYSE:WMG - News), Warner Music Group's U.S. sales and retail marketing company, and Tower Records unveiled a groundbreaking sweepstakes on July 7th that gives music fans a chance to win a trip to see Warner Music Group artists Transplants and My Chemical Romance on the VANS Warped Tour simply by snapping a picture with their mobile camera phone.
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Massive tours and huge outdoor festivals like the VANS Warped Tour have become a summer ritual, attracting hundreds of thousands of people each summer. Fans naturally want to get their hands on albums by bands on tour in advance of the concert and to relive their experience at the show. WEA and Tower Records make it easy for music fans to "Get Your Hands on the Bands" by featuring CDs from performing artists from the summer tours in custom standup displays available nationally at all 83 U.S.-based Tower Records stores now through August.
These 6-foot stand-up displays are the focal point for the "Get Your Hands on the Bands" sweepstakes powered by Mobot, a leader in visual search and recognition technology. Customers visiting Tower Records stores can enter to win by taking a picture with their mobile camera phone of the official "Get Your Hands on the Bands" logo located on the retail displays. Mobot's visual search and recognition technology recognizes the image and, within seconds, sends back a message to the phone confirming entry into the sweepstakes. An alternate method to enter the sweepstakes is to take a picture of the full-page "Get Your Hands on the Bands" advertisement running in the August issue of Alternative Press magazine (street date July 7) or enter online at www.tower.com. The sweepstakes ends July 21st and one lucky entrant will win a trip for two to New York City on August 13th to see Transplants and My Chemical Romance appearing as part of the VANS Warped Tour.
"The Mobot sweepstakes is a brilliant idea! It's easy to understand and a fun way for fans to participate. We expect it to drive a tremendous amount of foot traffic into our stores," says Tower Records head of National Audio Advertising, Joe Andrules.
"The Mobot sweepstakes makes our in-store, print advertisement and marketing campaigns more interactive for consumers," said Adam Mirabella, Senior Vice President, e-Commerce, WEA Corp. "We are thrilled to work with Tower Records for this offering as a new and exciting way to enhance our fans' experience."
"We are excited to offer WEA and Tower Records a powerful new tool to interact with their customers," said Russ Gocht, CEO of Mobot, Inc. "Mobot lets customers react to an offer instantly -- right at the moment their interest is piqued. With the Mobot technology we help make print ads, CD cases and retail displays interactive. We can easily incorporate artist information and gameplay like scavenger hunts that makes it fun for customers and puts the focus on products."
For a retailer or advertiser, Mobot is easy to deploy because it doesn't require any changes to the visual -- no URLs, short codes, or product codes are necessary for Mobot to recognize an image. To ensure the widest user adoption, Mobot is available on all national U.S. wireless carriers and works with all camera phones.
About WEA Corp.
WEA Corp. was the first major music distribution company in the U.S. and has continued to set the standard for sales and marketing in the music industry for more than thirty years. In addition to the Warner Bros., Elektra and Atlantic labels, WEA distributes audio and video releases from Rhino Entertainment, Asylum Records, East West Records, Word Entertainment, Time-Life Music, Warner Music Latina, and Curb Records, as well as several other labels. Headquartered in New York, WEA Corp. has regional offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York and Minneapolis. WEA Corp. is a Warner Music Group company.
About Tower Records
Since 1960, Tower Records has been recognized and respected throughout the world for its unique brand of retailing. Founded in Sacramento, CA, by Chairman, Russ Solomon, the Company's growth over four decades has made Tower Records a household name.
Tower Records stores are represented in fourteen countries throughout the world and in 218 different locations as wholly owned operations, licensees and affiliations. The company opened one of the first Internet music stores on America Online in June 1995 and followed a year later with the launch of Tower.com. The site was named among the top 50 retail websites by Internet Retailer magazine.
Tower Records' commitment to providing its customers with a superior and specialized shopping experience is key to the organization's retail philosophy. Tower forges ahead with the development of exciting shopping environments, presenting diverse product ranges, artist performance stages, personal electronics departments, and digital centers. Tower Records maintains its commitment to providing the deepest selection of packaged and digital entertainment in the world merchandised in stores that celebrate the unique interests and needs of the local community.
About Mobot
Mobot is the leader in visual search and recognition technology that makes marketing effective and innovative using mobile devices. Launched in 2004 to help companies cultivate rewarding relationships with the world's 1.5 billion mobile phone users, Mobot gives marketers, content providers and carriers the tools to make it easy for any consumer with a mobile device to interact with their environment. For more information about Mobot, please visit www.mobot.com.
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DD: Emerging markets pushing cell-phone growth
By Shihoko Goto
UPI Senior Business Correspondent
Published July 20, 2005
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050720-042151-2622r
WASHINGTON -- Cell phones no longer are rare status symbols in developing countries. In fact, mobile-handset manufacturers worldwide should be looking to emerging markets for the bulk of their sales in the near future, an industry analysis firm predicts -- although there is concern strong sales will not necessarily lead to high profits.
This week the British arm of Gartner Group, an international telecom research firm with headquarters in Stamford, Conn., reported that mobile-phone sales worldwide will reach 1 billion units by 2009.
he world's appetite for mobile phones has exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. Mobile phones could go on to be the most common consumer electronics devices on the planet," Ben Wood, Gartner's research vice president for mobile terminals, said in a news release.
The company estimates mobile-phone sales will increase 16 percent this year to 779 million units, with one in every four phones sold worldwide in the Asia-Pacific region. Moreover, Asia-Pacific demand is expected to continue to expand and by 2009 account for one in every three phones sold -- with India surpassing China as the biggest market.
The Gartner forecast added that Latin American sales also will be brisk in coming years, with demand in Brazil particularly strong.
Such findings were in line with recent research by the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, which reported in May that about 20 percent of the global population now uses mobile phones, compared with 0.3 percent as recently as 1991. Furthermore, the ITU said about 80 percent of people worldwide are within reach of a mobile-phone signal, and about 50 percent of all households will have phone access over the next decade.
The question is whether there is profit to be made in soaring sales.
One telecom executive, who spoke to United Press International in a telephone interview, said as demand grows there is "even more competition among manufacturers to make cheaper, affordable handsets," so the profit margin in selling phones is shrinking.
Other observers, however, think the exploding market in developing regions will provide opportunities beyond those available now from selling ever-more-complex mobile phones to the U.S., European and Japanese markets. For instance, Infineon in Munich said it will slash cell-phone production costs by nearly one-half, to under $20 from the current $35, within the next few months.
"Around 3.5 billion people now living in areas with mobile phone coverage cannot afford their own mobile phone, but this could soon change," Infineon said in a statement, adding that it will seek to cater to that growing market.
The mobile-phone market is growing rapidly because developing countries are finding it more cost-effective to build cell-phone towers than to bury fiber-optic cables to set up landlines. In some parts of the Middle East and Africa mobile phones are more common than landline phones.
That is the case in Iraq, where one local entrepreneur is trying to expand his company's mobile network.
Humam Abuamara, chief executive of Asiacell, told UPI that cell-phone demand in the country is strong, adding that his company expects to double the number of its subscribers to about 1.5 million by the end of this year.
Iraqis "are becoming richer ... and they want more," Abuamara said. That includes better telecommunications networks.
Success, Koko & Personalizit, just want to reiterate what JP has said... thanks for keeping the board focused on DD and away from emotional, off-topic, panic-attacks...
I think if many of the posters who waste time with worries about a 2 cents move in an otcbb stock spent that time and energy on connecting the dots, your jobs and our lives would be a lot easier...
Thanks for all the hard work...
DD: Microsoft to Plug and Play RFID
(no mention of cell phone, but that's next I guess... also, interesting comments from posters to this guys comments - see below)
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Jul/gee20050707031243.htm
Windows gets compatible
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posted 10:31am EST Thu Jul 07 2005 - submitted by Matthew
NEWS
With RFID tracking starting to get popular, Microsoft has decided it would be a good idea to make Windows compatible with the technology. To this end MS aims to make RFID Plug and Play-compatible with its operating system, and showed some early results this week.
Scott Woodgate, Business Processes group product manager at Microsoft, stated that the company's aim is to get as many of the competing RFID implementations compatible with Windows as possible. It will do this by creating standard and non-standard solutions, meaning that, from the end-user perspective, most RFID systems will just plug in and work.
A pre-release version of the system was displayed at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Amsterdam this week. That release was based on Windows Server 2003, but Microsoft hasn't stated which versions of Windows will end up with RFID-compatibility.
Microsoft also signed a deal with Alien Technology, a provider of RFID technology, on June 5th. That deal will ensure that Alien's business RFID offerings will be compatible with Windows in the future.
Read more at Silicon.com and the Alien Technology press release.
MATTHEW'S OPINION
This makes perfect business sense for Microsoft. It was unclear how popular RFID was going to be due to the privacy issues involved, but uptake seems to be progressing nicely. Cue Microsoft to spot an expanding market and a chance to sell more copies of Windows by offering businesses a simple solution for implementing RFID.
With Microsoft's still-dominant position in the operating system market, this new compatibility will probably make the spread of RFID quicker and more widespread. Rather than businesses having to buy hardware and software solutions, vendors will start to offer Windows-compatible back-ends, with the RFID system just plugging in to existing PCs. This will also stop the technology from being just a tool for big business, with RFID coming within easy reach of pretty much any small business as well.
RFID is here to stay, and Microsoft wants to take advantage of the emerging market. There are still many privacy problems to overcome, but don't be surprised if you start seeing RFID tech in all your local shops sooner rather than later.
USER COMMENTS 12 comment(s)
$1 / chip (10:40am EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
I thought they cost $1 per chip but according to this they are down to 20c each. that may almost be affordable!
http://www.rfidgazette.org/2004/11/
rfid_costs_and_.html - by k2h
Microsoft (10:58am EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
Mr Bill Gates does allot for charity. i take back all the nasty remarks i made about him being greedy and stuff,bill gates is a good guy. - by King Tux
The real problem (10:58am EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
Privacy is a concern but the real issue that few people seem to want to talk about with RFID is reliability. Low cost RFID tags are as dumb as a rock. The supported communications protocols are rather simplistic and thus error prone, particularly in a long range, multi-tag application environment such as inventory control. Rapidly sweeping a store or warehouse for RFID tags without missing a significant percentage of the items is still a pipe dream. For a really accurate count, items must be scanned individually at close range so you might as well use barcode. - by JQP
What the heck? (11:02am EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
What does it mean that RFID is 'plug-and-play' compatible? Is Windows including an RFID reader?
This sounds more like a marketing move than an engineering move. RFID is becoming big business, so Microsoft announces that Windows is RFID plug-and-play compatible.
It is kind of like those 'MP3 ready' speakers. Nothing but marketing BS. - by BS police
he he he (11:36am EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
That’s it! Im making an RFID Jammer..
If MS is going to supports this tech there will be holes in it.
I bought a shirt last week that had a nice little RFID tag in a label. The label did have directions to remove it after sale...but WTF its a label! how many people actually read the labels on any clothing?.
What will stop some ass packing pedophile from tracking the RFID in your kids shoe....hmmm? besides distance and the availability of some very sensitive receiver equipment...
Not blood much!
- by EGadz
RFID Jammer / Sensitive receiver (12:41pm EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
It takes a lot of power to generate a sufficient magnetic field to activate a standard passive tag from long range. This stuff isn't magic, the laws of physics are still in play. Tracking an RFID tag in someone's shoe over a distance of more than a couple of feet (pun intended) is just not practical. - by JQP
RE JQP (1:53pm EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
You are some what correct on all counts, however with the advances in technology (listening) and the use of a specific interference pattern at the desired frequency (see EM harmonics) these RFID could be rendered useless...after all you only have to transmit a little louder than the RFID in a readable pattern acceptable to the reader device.
There is nothing mentioned here that is technologically unfeasible.
At the current time it is only impractical .
- by EGadz
MS RFID readers (2:49pm EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
Your post mentions Alien, but completely fails to point out that Microsoft has been working for years with the RFID reader manufacturer SAMSYS on several projects....Alien is the follower. Samsys readers are also being used for the RFID default software created by IBM and the have partnered with Oracle and others. The Samsys reader line was created with a global perspective in mind, so they are able to read all the tags, at all the frequencies currently regulated. The point is that the national standards and frequencies may be of equal importance to the physics for RFID to succeed. Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and others are well aware of the need to develop global-friendly software...this will likely be accomplished at the reader interface.
- by Redman
Performance vs Flexibility (3:22pm EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
A friend of mine was at TechEd in Amsterdam. Microsoft put RFID tags on the badge holders. He visited the Samsys booth and the Alien booth to have his tag read. He said the Samsys reader would only read his tag out to a foot from the antenna. The Alien reader was able to read out to 15 feet. Flexibility is great, but not if it means only 1 foot of read range. - by CJD
CJD (3:37pm EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
Sounds like your friend is paid to spread BS...please provide the type of reader with specs and the ability to read Gen2 tags...good luck though...time will tell. - by Redman
Re: Performance vs. Flexibility vs. Reliability (4:24pm EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
Longer read range is not necessarily better and can cause problems in certain situations. For example, suppose you're trying to read the tag from the item in your hand. You may read something but are you sure it was the item in your hand or one that was 15 feet away? This is a part of the reliability issue I mentioned above. As a result, RFID may ultimately prove to be virtually worthless for many of the problems it is currently expected to solve. - by JQP
Better check receit (7:44pm EST Thu Jul 07 2005)
Wonder why it seems like an item cost too much. Opps they caught that new game system someone on the next ile was buying instead of your soda. - by ouch
DD: Microsoft gets its groove on with new patent
Company granted patent for personalizing searches for online media, music
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/07/HNmspatentgroove_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.info....
By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
July 07, 2005
A patent granted to Microsoft this week hints at the invention of new technology for personalizing searches for online media, particularly music titles.
The patent, granted July 5, is for a method that can train people to analyze media and apply "fundamental properties" that can be matched to computerized analysis such as DSP (digital signal processing).
"The present invention provides a system and methods for training a trainee to analyze media, such as music, in order to recognize and assess the fundamental properties of any piece of media, such as a song or a segment of a song," according to the patent documentation, originally filed Aug. 21, 2001, by inventors Geoffrey R. Stanfield and Eric Bassman in Seattle. "The process of the present invention includes an initial tutorial and a double grooving process."
The patent states that this so-called double grooving phase would use the skills of experts who have defined a set of classification terms for fundamental properties of music to train others to recognize those properties, and match results of the trainees' assessments with those of experts within "a high degree of tolerance."
"When a high enough degree of cross-listening consensus is reached, the new listener becomes a groover and can classify new songs or segments of songs," according to the patent.
The newly patented training system could be used to train developers to match certain accepted song characteristics -- such as volume, tempo and instrumental use -- to DSP technology to design new software, said Jeff Norman, a partner in the intellectual property (IP) practice of Chicago-based firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
"The person can be trained to converge [his or her] categorization with a DSP analysis so the computer can score you right or wrong," Norman said.
Such technology might be used to personalize an e-commerce user's search for online music on MSN.com, or may be integrated into a highly intelligent search engine that can identify similar music according to how a song actually sounds, Norman said.
"If a user goes to MSN music and wants to find music that is like Led Zeppelin's 'Black Dog,' how do they find similar music?" Norman said. "Do you look at what other people have ordered, do you look at other Led Zeppelin [titles]? It seems that Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) would like to implement a system where it would come up with characteristics of 'Black Dog' to offer a set of [musical] classifications a user would click on [to find related music]."
Indeed, Microsoft stated in the patent filing that "current classification systems" for search and retrieval of music, such as those used by Amazon.com (Profile, Products, Articles) Inc. and BarnesandNoble.com, "are inadequate," which also suggests the software vendor is trying to come up with a better search experience for online media consumers.
Microsoft was not available for comment Thursday.
Patrick Mahoney, senior analyst with The Yankee Group, said that it makes sense for Microsoft to be exploring new ways to search for digital media content, as the technology has not evolved significantly since Amazon.com began recommending other products to users based on previous purchases.
"This is obviously the next step," Mahoney said. "If you look at the digital content market in general, categorization and search capabilities are in the formative stages at this point. To make more effective digital content services, search technologies need to be much deeper. That's obviously what Microsoft is toying with right now -- how do you make those more effective to more consumers?"
Microsoft has been working on better and more effective search engine technology to integrate this into the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and executives have publicly stated their aim to go head-to-head with current search engine industry darling Google (Profile, Products, Articles) Inc.
The vendor also is waging a battle with a host of companies, including Apple Computer (Profile, Products, Articles), to sell digital music online.
DD: 'Big Screen' Video to Cell Phone Users
(this could be big, pun intended...)
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050707/75402.html?.v=1
Thursday July 7, 9:27 am ET
French Telecom's Orange SA to Launch Wireless Multimedia Service Pairing Samsung Phones with MicroOptical's Video Eyewear Powered by Kopin CyberDisplays
TAUNTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2005-- France Telecom's wireless unit, Orange SA, will soon roll out a new mobile video service that will let cellular phone subscribers view TV, movies, photos and broadband Internet content with a big screen viewing effect using Kopin®-enabled video eyewear from U.S.-based MicroOptical Corp. Kopin Corp. (Nasdaq: KOPN - News), the largest U.S. manufacturer of microdisplays for mobile consumer electronics and military applications, has received an order for CyberDisplay® 230K microdisplays from MicroOptical for this application.
Source: Kopin Corp.
· View multimedia news release
Orange SA, one of the world's leading wireless companies with 52 million customers in 16 countries, will bundle a MicroOptical binocular video eyewear with Samsung's SGH-D600 cell phone as part of its new "Orange World" wireless multimedia service. The bundled package, unveiled in June 2005 at the European Research and Innovation Exhibition in Paris, is scheduled to be available to Orange subscribers in October 2005.
MicroOptical's video eyewear contains two of Kopin's full-color, QVGA-resolution (320 x 240) CyberDisplay 230K microdisplays. The sleek eyewear allows users to privately view large-size video or pictures equivalent to a 12-inch screen as seen from three feet away, yet simultaneously view their surroundings thanks to the small size of the frame and MicroOptical's patented optics which allow the user to see around the screen. Europe's AFP news wire service called the bundled technology "a sure fire hit," saying that the eyewear's "big screen effect" is stunning, especially when combined with built-in stereo earpieces.
"Kopin CyberDisplays are becoming the standard microdisplays of choice for mobile video applications thanks to their ability to provide the highest video quality in the smallest footprint and with very low power consumption," said Dr. Mark Spitzer, MicroOptical's founder and CEO. "We are very happy with our partnership with Kopin and really excited about being a part of Orange's multimedia wireless service. We are ramping up the production to meet the initial customer demand."
"The mobile video revolution is unfolding in the cellular phone market as we speak," said Dr. John C.C. Fan, Kopin's president and CEO. "Consumers want to be able to watch movies, music videos and TV, browse the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones on the go. But the phone's small screen has inhibited widespread consumer adoption. MicroOptical's innovative video eyewear is enabling the big screen capabilities that consumers demand, and yet is very lightweight and similar to eyeglasses."
The Kopin CyberDisplay 230K's tiny size (0.24-inch diagonal) enabled MicroOptical to design a featherweight (2.5 oz.), comfortable and stylish video eyewear solution for Orange SA. MicroOptical's binocular video eyewear delivers crisp, full-color video with a 17-degree field of view. The eyewear is connected to a cell phone through a thin cable, and allows up to five hours of video with three AAA batteries. Since it accepts composite video input (NTSC or PAL), the eyewear can be plugged into other devices with composite video outputs such as portable DVD players.
Built with nanotechnology, the CyberDisplay 230K with approximately 230,000 pixel dots in 0.24" diagonal is the highest resolution transmissive display of its size. In addition to displaying standard text and graphics, the display operates at traditional video speeds and consumes only five milliwatts of power. Kopin's power-efficient CyberDisplay 230K is ideal for a range of portable consumer and industrial applications such as video eyewear and viewfinders for digital cameras and camcorders.
The New CEO of Disney has publicly stated that they need to embrace the new technologies... will try and find the quote tonight...
DD: Virgin.net Taps SageMetrics
http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0002123.html
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Virgin.net Taps SageMetrics
North Hollywood-based SageMetrics has landed a deal with Virgin.net, the ISP that is a joint venture between the Virgin Group and ntl. According to SageMetrics, Virgin will tap SageMetrics' behavior targeting and web analytics software for use in targeting advertising. Virgin has been using SageAMP, SageMetrics' behavioral targeting solution to better target advertising for its users. SageMetrics provides web site analytics and software for helping web site users understand their users and how they are navigating their web sites.
DD: Vodafone, Microsoft Link Up for PC-to-Cell Phone IM Service
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/44316.html
By Jennifer LeClaire
www.TechNewsWorld.com
Part of the ECT News Network
06/30/05 1:27 PM PT
"IM is a growing part of the increasingly important mobile messaging market. By bringing our collective customers together, we'll deliver more options for staying in touch when messaging. Our agreement will grow IM and SMS, meaning additional revenue for Vodafone," said Peter Bamford, chief marketing officer for Vodafone.
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Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) MSN and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) yesterday announced plans to launch an instant messaging (IM) service between PCs and mobile phones . The new service will bring together MSN Messenger's 165 million customers with Vodafone's nearly 155 million customers.
The service will allow customers to see the "presence" of their contacts and exchange instant messages between MSN Messenger on a PC and Vodafone Messenger on mobile phones and vice versa.
"By enabling our customers to see each other's presence on both PC and mobile devices, we are expanding our customers' ability to make smart communication choices and connect instantly via IM to the people they care about most," said Blake Irving, corporate vice president of the MSN Communication Services and Member Platform group at Microsoft.
Messaging Merger
The service will be based on the familiar mobile commercial model of "Calling Party Pays." As they do today, Vodafone customers will prepay or pay for the service through their monthly bill, while MSN Messenger customers will be able to pay through packages available in connection with MSN Messenger.
Building on and complementing the messaging success of SMS , instant messaging between PCs and mobile phones enables service benefits to customers such as immediacy, the ability to tell whether a contact is available to receive a message (presence) and the ability to see the text of whole conversations.
"IM is a growing part of the increasingly important mobile messaging market. By bringing our collective customers together, we'll deliver more options for staying in touch when messaging. Our agreement will grow IM and SMS, meaning additional revenue for Vodafone," said Peter Bamford, chief marketing officer for Vodafone.
'Blood from Turnips'
Will this merger between cell phones and IM catch on? Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox said businesses will likely adopt it, but consumer use will depend more on the pricing. Higher costs would diminish the technology's appeal.
"We haven't seen as great adoption of text messaging in the U.S. as in some other markets and one reason is cost," Wilcox said. "The carriers here want to squeeze blood from turnips. They try to extract as much money as possible for data. In the process, I would argue that this approach has stymied data adoption."
While businesses may also enjoy features like presence, analysts said employees may not appreciate the invasion of privacy . The concept of finding anyone, anywhere, at any time further blurs the line between work and home.
"We are talking about taking two forms of communication with fairly high expectation of immediate response and bringing them together," Wilcox said. " The idea is to make people more productive. But does work become your whole life?"
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Personalizit, that site is giving you a very, very rough guestimate, which looks like it's done by computer... imo, TA works, and to make it work you need volume, which this stock has... a lot of otcbb stocks do not... but we were in a great pattern - perfect channel with 5 reversals, so yeah, if you went by that website, run by a computer, it does not work... if you chart and understand the pattern you're in - for me - it works... jmo
Kokonutguy, I see the light and I fully expect it to get brighter and brighter... :)
JP, Kokonutguy, Success, all DD'ers, great work, congrats!
DD: Fast Network for Use on Trains and Planes
http://www.physorg.com/news4808.html
Business travelers on the go want to use the same state-of-the-art communication options they can access in their offices and at home. That’s why Siemens has developed solutions to meet this demand and is offering the technologies that make it possible to surf the Internet while sitting in a train or have a cell phone conversation aboard an airliner.
Now it’s possible to enjoy a stable broadband internet connection aboard a high-speed train, via satellite. For this project, Siemens integrated the broadband network in the passenger rail car and created the entire management system, including user identification and billing. While riding the rails at 300 kilometers per hour, a data transfer rate of four megabits a second for website downloads was achieved. That’s easily 30 times faster than an ISDN connection with 128 kilobits per second — and it makes surfing the Internet a pleasure.
The Belgian-French rail company Thalys will be testing the wireless Internet connection for three months in one of the company’s high-speed trains. After the project’s successful completion, Thalys is planning to equip all of its trains on the Brussels – Paris route with the fast Internet access.
And air travelers can also expect to be talking on their cell phones and surfing the Internet in the future — provided their devices are equipped with WLAN, Bluetooth or GSM. The German Aerospace Center (DLR), Siemens and Airbus have joined forces to build a mobile communications system that combines these different data transfer technologies and contacts base stations on the ground via satellites. An antenna extending along the entire length of the plane’s ceiling will ensure mobile communications by phone, PDA or PC for passengers in every seat. WLAN will make it possible for the travelers to access websites and e-mail accounts, and GSM will ensure they can use their phones. Plans call for this exciting new world of communications to become reality in Airbus planes beginning in 2006. A first airborne test has already been successfully conducted.
You see that a lot, tries to break out on low volume (fake breakout)... but the more times it hits the DT line, when it goes, it goes hard - as we've seen in the past... still in a great pattern imo...
DD: Verizon Wireless Expands Internet Service
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050628/ap_on_hi_te/high_speed_wireless_2
By BRUCE MEYERSON, AP Business Writer
Mon Jun 27, 8:56 PM ET
NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless is bringing broadband Internet service to 15 more markets, for a total of more than 50, extending its lead over Cingular Wireless and Sprint Corp. in delivering faster data transfers to laptop and cell phone users.
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The expansion of the Verizon data network, which can make mobile workers more productive and which fuels such new services as video on cell phones, includes Seattle, St. Louis, Cleveland and the Long Island suburbs of New York City.
The announcement, expected Tuesday, comes amid mounting speculation about possible snags in the launch of the same technology by Sprint and the further deployment of a similar service by Cingular.
Verizon's rivals both maintain they're on track with their wireless broadband strategies despite some substantial merger distractions.
Mindful of Verizon's publicity push, Sprint told The Associated Press on Monday that rather than waiting to launch its EV-DO technology across entire markets, it may start offering services in "dense business corridors" and airports in certain cities by early summer.
Sprint, hustling to complete its planned merger with Nextel Communications Inc., also said its EV-DO service will be available in about 60 metropolitan areas when its national build-out is complete in early 2006.
Cingular, which is working to integrate the AT&T Wireless network and operations it acquired late last year, already sells wireless broadband using a technology called UMTS in six cities and plans to add at least 10 more markets by the end of 2005.
EV-DO and the type of UMTS that Cingular is deploying are billed as providing download speeds from 400 to 700 kilobits per second.
That's on par with entry-level DSL and cable broadband services but well shy of the speed delivered by Wi-Fi connections at many airports, coffee shops and book stores.
But despite the slower speed, EV-DO and UMTS give users the flexibility of being to go online wherever there's a cellular signal. A Wi-Fi signal typically carries only a few hundred feet.
Wireless companies view mobile Internet access as one of more promising opportunities in an industry where price wars are weighing on revenues from phone calls and nearly two thirds of the nation's people are already signed up as customers.
Verizon, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC, charges laptop $80 per month for unlimited Internet access. For cell phones, Verizon's multimedia VCAST service costs $15 per month for unlimited use, not including fees for premium content such as music videos and 3-D video games.
The Verizon service is now available in 13 of the 15 new markets: Akron, Ohio; Athens, Ga.; Beaumont, Texas; Cleveland, Ohio; Indianapolis; Lake Charles, La.; Nassau and Suffolk, N.Y.; New London, Conn.; Portland, Ore.; Richmond, Va.; St. Louis; San Antonio; Seattle. The service will be turned on in Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y. on July 11.
As part of the latest rollout, Verizon is also adding service at airports in four more markets: Minneapolis-St. Paul in Minnesota, and Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose in California.
on my daily chart - holding above .45 would do it .. now we need a daily increase in vol, and we should start moving ...
on my daily chart - holding above .45 would do it .. now we need a daily increase in vol, and we should start moving ...
TA: imo we're just re-testing that DT line from the pattern we just broke out of, which should support us here, and expect us to bounce off it...
Jonesieatl, right on, and we'd break thru the 13dma which was tryin' to slap us down... I got us measured to $1.05 (on the break out of this pattern)
Alexandre, as this news gets disseminated the volume will follow... what's that line from Field of Dreams, build it and they will come? :)
CHMS_ Rig good call...eom
CHMS-great volume so far!
Rig-CHMS- finally busting out! .52 x .56
OT-Woogs sent it via private email! Thanks.
TA: Also notice the similiar stick on April 4th when we had the "selloff" to .16 - see what happened after that? Also technicaly, we're in a great pattern - perfect parallel lines now...
OT, McGrawsdad, wholly agree on the ignores... and I hit the links, well driving range, as well --- also notice how similiar this "sudden" drop is to the drop back on April 4th...
DD: Steam powers Appletiser text campaign
http://www.netimperative.com/2005/06/20/steam_appletiser_mobile
By Robert Venes
20-06-2005 12:04 PM
Related: Advertising Agencies Creative Marketing Mobile Wireless
Interactive marketing agency Steam and mobile solutions provider Netsize have developed a ‘Text n Win’ mobile promotion for Appletiser as part of the soft drink brand’s campaign to drive up purchases.
The ‘Win a Diamond’ promotion enables mobile phone users to enter a competition via an on-pack code, with all entries entered into a main draw to win £50,000 of diamond jewellery, designed by Tom McEwan, every day for three months.
The campaign launched this month with specially designed point of sale material, including off-the-shelf displays in selected multiple grocers, and point-of-sale kits for the on-trade.
‘Text n Win’ is also supported by a dedicated website for Appletiser, including a Queen of Diamonds competition.
“The Appletiser on pack promotion required an SMS entry application that would also act as a vehicle for communicating back to the consumer,” said Joe Rolls, account director for Steam. “The communication would acknowledge receipt of entry, drive traffic to the website and automatically inform the winner if they’d won.
“The messages would also change accordingly, pending on when they entered. Not only that, but the application was able to deter incorrect entries by recognising pre-programmed unique codes.”
Anuz Khanna, marketing manager at Netsize added: “The widespread acceptance of mobile phones as an interactive media experience has made it possible for consumers of all ages to participate in mobile marketing campaigns.”
DD: EU wrestles with digital patents
(this is one we have to watch...)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/21/business/patents.php
DD: Aussie firm to test mobile video
(imagine the advertising possibilities w/ something like in this article...)
http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=167418
TA imo needs volume, as for NEOM, we're definitely in a pattern - and a potent one at that... for me it visually re-affiirms what I already know, and removes the emotion equation... SAIC, Copus, Word Registry, Patience, know what you own...fwiw
All the "bad" news is built into the pps, Fwiw, I believe we turn around from here, we're also wayyy oversold, remember the mantra, SAIC,Copus, FCB, etc...
Fwiw, when everyone is losing control and selling, when panic is in the air, you're close to the bottom and its aGREAT buying opportunity ... wish i had more dough... also, technicaly we're at two lines of support...
DD: IDC: 3G to Boost MVNOS
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=75954&WT.svl=wire1_10
DD: JCB to Launch QUICPay Mobile Payment in Takamatsu Symbol Tower
http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=28248668&brk=1