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Photo-sharing, new service opportunity

Many people think the 3 keywords of internet services are ‘Mobile’, ‘Local’, ‘SNS.’ After the strategic success of YouTube, it gives us the fact that power contents and SNS is the important factor for success. And someone said photo is the last niche for category-typed SNS. It may be right. ‘Instagram’ is very famous mobile […]

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Business Miscellany

Symbian, de Facto Nokia-only OS

Symbian is based on open source platform for mobile phones. But after the distribution of Android OS, many device makers such as Samsung and Sony Ericsson have been adopting Android OS instead of Symbian. Nokia released the its decision that Symbian platform would be controlled by the company, while Symbian foundation will take care of […]

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Free WiFi sponsored by Skype

People want to use WiFi service, but they don’t want pay for it. This dilemma is continuing. But Skype pays for the usage of public WiFi for the period of the first Internet Week Europe Festival(8~12 November). And it would be restricted in UK. Recently a lot of devices with WiFi show, but WiFi is […]

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Facebook, acquiring Drop.io

Facebook will acquire a small contents-share company, Drop.io. Drop.io provides “drop” which can easily upload and download the contents such as documents, audio files and video clips. Now there’s no special plan using Drop.io’s resource. After the alliance with Skype, Facebook empowers its power and service area. The following video clip shows how ‘Drop.io’ works.

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Blekko, human search engine

As time goes by, the websites and contents are getting more and more. So it’s the toughest work to find right information that we want. There are so many spam sites or unnecessary materials that Google and Bing can’t provide the moderate results that we favor. And here’s the interesting company which propose a different […]

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Google/ITA Vs. Online travel companies

Some onlice travel companies are opposing Google which is trying to aquire ITA, the airline ticketing company. Expedia.com, Kayak.com, Farelogix.inc, Sabre Holdings which owns travelocity are the alliance against the deal. They insist that if Google aquires ITA, it could control other travel companies’ usage of ticketing service. But it’s little difficult that the deal […]

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Book Business

Myspace, change for Y generation

A few years ago, Myspace was the name of SNS. But Facebook and Twitter has caught up with Myspace. And recently the span between them gets broader than last year. As Michael Jones, the president of Myspace, say that most members use services related entertainment contents such as music, movies and TV shows. And now […]

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Business

Apple stops bundling Adobe Flash player

Apple doesn’t include a Adobe’s Flashy player in its products including Macs. This action will keep users from playing various video clips in Youtube and other websites. If video files are made on the basis of HTML5, that’s not a problem. But many videos are not. And even Apple has some trouble with Sun. This […]

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Business

More interesting LBS(Location Based Service)

As smartphones are distributed explosively, recently LBS is highlighted as killer contents in the smartphone again. LBS has not been developed well except a few of services like navigation and map. Especially location related services such as “gypsii” has not been popular. There are some reasons why the service is not that successful. Though Nokia […]

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Facebook entering a LBS

Database is getting important in internet world. Recently it is spotlighted as the key of success. A few days ago, there was news about the investigation of police on Google in Korea and France. This problem is because of collecting private information including Wi-Fi location. Why do they focus on database? Exactly they need systematic […]