Drivers of Mobile Business Models: Lessons From Four Asian Countries

Mobile business models should consider the characteristics of a country’s mobile environment— value chain dynamics, technological opportunities and barriers, government regulation and user culture— in order to achieve success. This paper tried to analyze those characteristics in four countries (Japan, China, Thailand, and Singapore). The findings revealed that there were some similarities and differences among those countries dealing with those drivers and mobile business models might acknowledge these factors to achieve success.

Qualcomm Brews Up an Intriguing Software System

"Carriers do not want to sell standard services -- they are afraid they will be commoditized; instead they want to differentiate their services and charge customers a bit more for the ones that they offer," said Bob Egan, service director, emerging technologies at market research firm The Tower Group.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/51179.html?wlc=1257761766

Personalized Mobile services from Vodafone (Fiji)

What Is V- Live?

V-Live is a great new way to experience a world of entertainment, music, sport and information that goes where you do. With Vodafone live! your mobile gets you access to all the stuff you love, whenever and wherever you want it.

If you are sitting on the bus on the way home, on the beach with friends, or simply at home you can be playing the latest games, listening to the latest music clips, or reading the latest news from your phone.


The information shows the personalized experience a mobile user gets when subscribing to Vodafone Fiji. The only disadvantage at this moment is the cost per download.

Source: http://www.vodafone.com.fj/pages.cfm/personal/services/v-live.html

New Android 2.0 Operating System

Last week (or maybe the one before) Motorola released the Droid phone featuring Google's Android 2.0 operating system. So the epic battle between iPhone and Android rages on. TechCrunch did a pretty good 2 part review comparing the Droid and iPhone 3GS, see here and here. They also reached a pretty interesting conclusion (which I totally agree), but I'll leave it for you to find out what it is : )

Viral Video Making and Making Money

Hi, today i am going to write how many time do you use on YouTube everyday?

Viral Video Making and Making Money

Anonymously connect with people who share your experiences-- like those who say 'I Visit Youtube Every Day'. Read hundreds of true stories, share your own story anonymously, get feedback and comments, chat in the discussion forum, help others, meet new friends, and so much more....

Cheat Sheet: Google Android

Updated: Help! The robots are coming!

Google Android? I'm pretty sure this doesn't mean the software giant has started flogging humanoid robots.
And you'd be right. Android is Google's open source software platform for mobile phones - first announced back in 2007.

http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39170347,00.htm

Data Communicaiton

Accoring to the Nikkei.com, both sales and profits in the two biggest Japanese communication providers, NTT & KDDI, decreased from 2008 Apr-Sep to 2009 Apr-Sep because voice communications services dropped sharply.On the other hand, SoftBank, which is a third career in Japan, increased their both sales and profits because iPhone users multiplied from a year earlier and they use data communicatons services frequently rather than voice communications.
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/e/fr/tnks/Nni20091109D09JFA07.htm

Nikkei also says NTT DoCoMo and Softbank Mobile will release new some handsets which are based windows mobile OS and Android OS in next spring. They will likely focus on data commumication services.
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/e/ac/TNKS/Nni20091109D09JFA08.htm