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Re-Think Wireless ran a great story today about how Nokia says that they are gonna help people not get lost in London (which is so easy to do) After talking to about 12,500 people all over the planet, Nokia map-enabled devices can help lower getting lost in London. But it’s not just London that people get lost in, Nokia says they have identified the five “lost cities” on the planet and after London, Paris was the next hardest city to navigate followed by Bangkok, Hong Kong and Beijing. We can’t tell you how glad we are that Re-Think ran this story, it not only makes us chuckle a little, but it’s so full of excellent little pieces of trivia that we can only smile at the people that sat around thinking about turning this into a press release. The country with the best sense of direction? Germany – apparently one-third of people claim they have never lost their way – but the German’s also have the highest reliance on satellite navigation. Hmmmmm.
On of our favorite statistics is that Nokia found that 93% of those surveyed get lost regularly, with the average person wasting 13 minutes each time they do. An average person – what is an average person exactly in this scenario?
Tags: Germany, London, Nokia, Re-Think Wireless
For two days beginning December 1, ink Communications’ President and bGrand Co-Founder Jennifer Hicks will share her knowledge as an expert reviewer and academy coach at e-Unlimited’s second European Venture Summit in Dusseldorf. The city is Germany’s major biotechnology hub, so we can understand why biotech, industrial biotech, new energy and information technology entrepreneurs are flocking to the event. The entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to make international investment partnerships and do all the networking they can handle within those two days. On December 2, Hicks is moderating a review session at 13:20 which includes companies such as Spaezuvius VOF (Nulaz), Wadja Media Limited, Vocab AB, Entym Solutions and Favy Ltd. Devor Hebel of Fidelity Ventures, Philipp Schroeder of Active Capital Partners and Christian Nagel of Earlybird Venture Capital will also be on the panel to help these start ups get to market and find funding.
– LRT
Tags: Active Capital Partners, bGrand, e-Unlimited, European Venture Summit, favy, Fidelity Ventures, Jennifer Hicks, venture capital, Wadja
The one, the only Joe O
One of Tattletech’s most favorite media men, C2M monthly editor Joe O’Halloran gives us strategic insight into today’s mobile industry. Sure, he is fun to hang out with and yes we might have a tiny crush on him, but we know how to keep it real and this month Joe covers some good ground in his e-cast Newsletter for C2M.
He reports that INFORMA completed a study that showed that more than half of all the data traffic will come from the home over the next five years. The new survey showed that mobile data traffic generated in the home environment was estimated at 40% in 2007, but by 2013 it is expected to reach 58%. INFORMA goes on to say in the report that such a rise, will likely spur a sharp rise in deployments of technologies such as femtocells in order to help operators offload mobile traffic to fixed networks via broadband connections.
OK – Femtocells – translation it is just a small cellular base station for residential usage and esentially lets your service provider give you coverage indoors instead of standing out side freezing to death.
Tags: C2M
Posted by Tattletech on Nov 26, 2008 in
Cool stuff,
Innovation,
Social Networking 
Folks that say they don’t get social networking are usually those that aren’t on the Internet much or maybe have too many kids and not enough time, or my husband who says “social networking – I’ll show you social networking” – who knows why really (well I am sure someone does know why – CNET says that MySpace alone has 60 million visitors) but the fact is that it’s the current defacto connectivity standard of humans today other than meeting down a the coffee shop or water cooler at the office (but with budget cutbacks those water coolers are now gone too) So, when we found Glubble- we thought cool. Here is a company that embraces the social networking generation and has created an enviroment for families – where they can create family pages, learn and social together or with their family unit friends. Check em out – they also won Rookie of the Year from the Next Web Awards.
Tags: Gubble, The Next Web
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Yea, normally we don’t read Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge for a number of reasons which we won’t go into, but this recent article about how Social Media Leads the Future of Technology is worth the read – you might even be inspired to pull out a pipe while reading it. The reason we find it so interesting is that recently, Tattletech has been doing a serious of interviews with emerging techs, small to medium sized businesses and bigger brands for a feature called TattleTech Hot seat and its been interesting to note which types of companies jump on board quickly and which don’t. Here’s a suprise -the big guys and the emerging tech guys are all over it – the SMB’s are leery and seem to want to follow an old school approach – intersting to us. So to all of you who are on board with the interviews – large and small – good for you.
The article has so many excellent points to make but a few we wanted to draw you attention to were by Susan Decker of Yahoo who nails it right on the head in terms of were innovation will come (this BTW was a Tattletech 5 question coming up soon) Ms. Decker says that innovation will serve people who want simplicity of technology usage. As the network gets larger it becomes less relevant to individuals, she adds, so people want to organize their experience according to their own interests. “Companies that will do pretty well will create a dashboard of simplicity that is very open to the whole Internet, not just to the company it may be associated with, and will elevate social connections in a way that drives dollars.”
She also added that how exactly social connections will drive dollars remains to be seen. “Although some sites such as Yahoo! include premium services that require fees or subscriptions, the largest business model by far is advertising: a $45 billion industry globally that has been growing about 20 percent per year, said Decker. Advertising on the Web is very effective in the sense that advertisers can reach great scale and do precision targeting. The challenge is to discern consumers’ intent”
Tags: Harvard Business School, social media, Susan Decker, Tattletech, Yahoo
Posted by Tattletech on Nov 25, 2008 in
IPTV World,
Technology,
Telecoms We talked to two companies – both delivering IPTV to the hotel industry – but from different market positions. We asked them the same question around customer satisfaction and revenues and here is the result.
Tattletech: How much can IPTV help hotels differentiate themselves to customers through their in-room technology offering as well as increase customer satisfaction and loyalty and at the same time boost in-room revenues?
Ervin Leibovici, CEO, BitBand
Similar to operator offerings for IPTV residential networks, when offering IPTV to hotel guests, focus needs to be placed on personalized content, programming availability and Quality of Experience. Traditionally, hospitality deployments offered simple PPV/VOD systems utilizing a standard content distribution system, and based on a revenue sharing models. Current offering supports advanced ON Demand TV services, while allowing for flexible business models.
Typical deployments in the hospitality/MDU market segment are relatively easy in terms of technology and infrastructure; therefore resources can be allocated towards differentiating the content offering itself i.e. blockbuster content and long tail content. The opportunity to differentiate and boost revenue is based on the ability of the hotel to offer relevant content to the guest, for example, by bundling services for various targeted groups, such as families’ package, business travelers package, etc.
Further down the line, we expect to see personalized content to emerge along with content preferences of the guest and local targeted advertising. All these options and many others are enabled by the flexibility of IPTV, which allows for a customized system for each hotel, flexible pricing models and service branding.
Juan Aguirre, International Director of Sales, Acentic
Eighty to 90% of guests switch on the television when they enter their hotel room. So, the television and its associated services become a key part of the in-room customer experience. Since guests increasingly have access to digital quality broadcast TV as well as interactive services and on-demand entertainment in their homes, hotels which were once renowned for being ahead of the consumer market, are now lagging behind.
In order to increase customer satisfaction and receive an appropriate return on investment, hoteliers must look at the services and the quality of picture they wish to offer, regardless of whether the delivery mechanism is IPTV or DVB. Elements that hoteliers must take into account include end-to-end digital picture quality for broadcast TV, end to end digital picture quality for entertainment and interactivity and a digital lifestyle user interface.
Tags: IPTV, Quality of Experience
Word on the Web design street is that icon22 and ink Communications, both bGrand companies, have earned a spot on the prestigious Web Index 2009. We will keep you posted, but the issue is slated for publication in March 2009.
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Inspired by Jay Baer’s Twitter20 and Esquire’s ‘What I’ve Learned‘, and the fact that we when we read we actually want to learn something and be entertained, we bring you the Tattletech Hot Seat and Tattletech5.
Tattletech Hot Seat is an interview with industry execs who are taking risks, exporing new paths to market and generally are interesting people – through I series of five questions we aim to get to the heart of what makes them tick. First up is the CEO ad Co-Founder of Oculsai.com, Siamak Ayani.
The Tattletech 5 is a birdseyeview of different industry execs – venture, telco, emerging tech, web 2.0. – answering the same question and lets you see how one person can approach a problem in the same or completely opposite way as someone in the same industry.
Keep on reading.
Posted by Tattletech on Nov 18, 2008 in
Emerging tech,
Entrepreneurs,
Venture,
Web 2.0 stuff 
According to TechCrunch and brilliantly witty reporter, Eric Schonfeld, reported that EyeView Digital not only raised some good seed capital — even though it was un disclosed most likely it was between $500,000 and $1 M USD. EyeView believes it has come up with a better way to convert web site visitors into buyers/customers/etc., through Flash tutorials that have TattleTech’s favorite buzz word, ” a call to action”. EyeView is made up of super smart people and former AmDocs folks – their Co-founder the charming Tal Riesenfeld used to work at YouTube on its monetization team so says Mr. Schonfeld and in true form which made these girls giggle, he added this “Yeah, I didn’t realize they had one either”. In case you don’t get it or are too lazy to read the TechCrunch story, he is referring to the fact that he didn’t realize that YouTube had a monetization team. Get it?
Tags: AmDocs, EyeView, EyeView Digital, Seed money, TechCrunch, YouTube
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In another fantastic Twitter 20 interview by Jay Baer, Convince and Convert, he asks fellow social media guru Jason Falls about the issue of where social media belongs these days in terms of its position as a marketing, sales or PR tool and this is a good question as we see lots of corporations adopting it as a method to reach their users/buyers/subscribers/customers (Ford), etc. Jason answers this more than succinctly (praise be to 140 characters on Twitter but also in a practical, straight forward manner which illustrates how he has mastered the tool – he says that social media is an extension of good public relations, but should be a company-wide approach that PR helps manage and facilitate. Exactly, you can’t have a marketing or PR strategy that is balkanized anymore. Read, tweet and learn, these guys not on board for the trend, they are executing and getting results.
Tags: Jason Falls, Jay Baer, Public relations, social media, Twitter, Twitter 20, Web 2.0
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