Recently India is investigating whether RIM’s blackberry has a security problem. The official said that smartphones have the potential to be misused by militants. Now mobile security is a hot issue. Because smartphones adopt Wi-Fi and bluetooth, the problem is getting serious. And in Korea, Google is investigated by police for the reason why they […]
If mobile cards spread out and coupons are provided by mobile internet, what will happen? Maybe it needs new media that can organically contains those applications. i.e. virtual wallet(mobile wallet). Most of us use wallets. And it’s the common thing that people carry important photos in their wallets as well as money and credit cards. […]
A month ago there was press release on social commerce business by Amazon and Facebook. Like Zynga’s social game, Amazon may use Facebook’s open API and they can offer some items to customers or strengthen shopping reviews. It’s rather easy to anticipate the effect of social commerce. Because social commerce is relied on human network, […]
A smartphone changes and makes a lot of trend in internet world. Mobile card is one of them. And if NFC(Near Field Communication) is successfully distributed worldwide, it would be very convenient to touch a phone to a dongle for electronic payment. In former days, Compared with Japan, other markets have not been developed mobile […]
Police raids Google for gathering private information illegally. It’s because of the service-Google Street view. Road Street of Daum-the 2nd web portal site in Korea- also had some trouble about infringing privacy. Nowadays, map is not enough for providing more detail position and newer experience. After the advent of various technologies, LBS rapidly changes. Like […]
Internet world has its own characteristics. One thing is that the marginal cost of internet business is closed to zero. And this bases on the numbers of users or subscribers. And we call this power. If many people use a certain service, it means that the service has enough method to make money. So many […]
When Apple released their first mobile phone-iPhone, many people applauded its design and performance. And though iPhone is not a cutting-edge product, its fantastic user interface is attracting a lot of fanatics worldwide. Would Apple’s App store be the irresistible conqueror of this market? This trend may be the accidental boom-up or vice versa. From […]
A few years ago, freeconomics was the popular word which can explain many kinds of web service model. And the thought are effective until now. Even it develops into detail revenue structures including referral fees and freemium as well as advertisement. And an advertisement business model is no longer than a simple CPC model. It […]
When IPTV shows up, many people think it would be a new substitutue of cable TV and theaters. But there is no change. And today’s article on Best Buy’s new try is not that innovative. Though its similarity with IPTV, Bestbuy’s new model differently affect to the contents aggregation market. They have enough distribution channel […]
Wi-Fi is a kind of wireless local area network. It’s rapdly distributing worldwide after the launch of Apple’s devices – i Pod touch and i Phone. According to data from JiWire’s insights, the CAGR of public Wi-Fi hotspots is 137% from 2004 to June 2009. But so far this network techonology doesn’t popularized well in […]