Saturday, July 30, 2005

LG Gets Bullish On Handsets Market In India. Exchange4Media: Kwang-Ro Kim, the LG Electronics India CEO, who might leave early next year, has an unfinished agenda, to make the company number one in GSM handsets in India. To begin with, LG's assault on the GSM handset market will be routed through the rural areas. Says Salil Kapoor, its marketing head, "We will focus on areas outside the metros where LG is a better known brand than Nokia.
LG could also be counting on an boom in third generation mobile services in India. Earlier this year, it launched the country's first 3G handsets. [ContentSutra]
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Trai wants unified licensing regime. Screen Weekly: Indian telecom and broadcast regulator Trai has made a strong case for introduction of unified licensing regime in the country, which, it said, would help in unification of networks and services like telecom, broadcasting and Internet leading to advanced and cheaper services to customers through Next Generation Networks orNGN.
The regulator argued that just like access problems were sorted out through a unified access service licence, âo[ogonek]if we are to move further towards convergence, we have to be in a unified licensing regime.âo? [ContentSutra]
5:20:50 PM    comment   

Oops

As I noted a couple of days ago, Bank of America has an ad out that touts the prowess of its check-processing software. Well, live by custom code, die by custom code. David Berlind, who viewed BofA's marketing claims as evidence that IT can provide a competitive edge, now reports that the bank just suffered an embarrassing system breakdown. Yesterday, Berlind received the following message in an email: "If your paycheck is directly deposited into your Bank of America account, you will have noticed that your deposit has not posted for today. Bank of America has confirmed that they are experiencing system problems and currently do not know when the problem will be resolved and your accounts credited."

As I recommended back in IT Doesn't Matter: Focus on vulnerabilities, not opportunities. It's awfully tough to seize a competitive edge with distinctive IT anymore. But it's still awfully easy to put yourself at a disadvantage from faulty IT.

- nick (nick@roughtype.com) [Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog]
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PluggedIn: Wireless Wallets Come Closer to Reality. With consumers in Asia and Europe already using their mobile phones to pay for soda and parking fees, the long discussed concept of the wireless wallet could be slowly creeping closer to reality in the United States. [eWEEK Technology News]
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MoCoNews.net: ESPN MVNO Update. : Just posted an interview at sister site MoCoNews.net with ESPN SVP Manish Jha, who is responsible for the network's upcoming MVNO. ESPN Mobile will be in limited cities later this year and will roll out nationally early next year... [PaidContent.org]
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Broadband Content Report: July 29, 2005. -- UK company to offer legal movie download: The British Internet Broadcasting Company (BiBC) plans to launch an online movie portal in UK. Companies that have signed up to deliver their content via BiBC's digital box office include Sanctuary, V2,... [PaidContent.org]
5:19:48 PM    comment   

Premium TV's Aggregation Play. : Another broadband content aggregation player has arrived in UK: The new offering, from digital rights company Premium TV, includes content from the Football League, ITV and Playboy TV UK.... [PaidContent.org]
5:19:36 PM    comment   

Commoditization and the Future of Content Delivery Networks. : A very good overview of CDN vendors in the space. Akamai, VitalStream, MirrorImage, among others. It takes a look at how CDNs are working to differentiate themselves in a highly competitive marketplace and in the face of an unknown... [PaidContent.org]
5:19:20 PM    comment   

Broadband Consumer Choice Act of 2005: Full Text. : On Thursday we mentioned the "Broadband Consumer Choice Act" introduced in the Congress by Sen. John Ensign. The full text of the act is here (PDF file). The bill, if passed, would eliminate the need for cable, telephone company,... [PaidContent.org]
5:19:08 PM    comment   

Japan: Successful WLAN to 3G Trials. Ericsson Co. and the Softbank group succeeded in a trial experiment for seamless handover for voice of circuit switching and the combination service of the image using IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) on mobie network and wireless local area network (WLAN) 3G. This live demonstration was executed on the mobile WCDMA 3G network operated with 1.7GHz radio frequency belt of mobile BB that wireless LAN network and Ericsson of "Yahoo BB ADSL" from Softbank BB Ltd. [Daily 3G News]
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From Intel to Health Care and Beyond. Intel's Andrew S. Grove urges the health care industry to adopt some of the same practices as the microchip industry. By JOSEPH NOCERA. [NYT > Technology]
5:18:41 PM    comment   

Talk Is Cheap, but Not That Cheap. Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, services convert your voice into a data stream that can be transmitted just like e-mail, but the low prices don't tell the whole story. By M.P. DUNLEAVEY. [NYT > Technology]
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