Singapore - Oracle is moving into solutions for media and entertainment companies in Asia Pacific. China’s language search engine company Baidu and Xinhua News Agency; India’s Amar Ujala and Tata Sky; and Indonesia’s Global TV are among Oracle’s latest clients in the region. Solutions that manage information and content assets, protect intellectual property rights, ensure information quality, manage projects, revenues and financials, as well as reduce infrastructure costs … [Read more...] about Oracle muscles into media solutions
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Disney teams with Softbank for mobile services
Tokyo – Disney-branded mobile phones and content services are expected to hit the market in Japan in spring 2008, following the announcement of a deal between Walt Disney Co. Japan and Softbank Mobile Corp. Disney has been offering mobile content services in Japan for over a year, claiming 3.5 million registered users. Handsets and Disney Mobile services will be available at Softbank’s 2,400 stores nationwide and for Softbank Mobile’s subscriber base of around 17.2 million. … [Read more...] about Disney teams with Softbank for mobile services
Cable TV boosts subs as revenues and profits fall
Hong Kong – Cable TV added 59,000 subscribers, boosting the total to 845,000, in the first nine months of 2007, up 7% on the prior year, although broadband customers slipped by 3% to 316,000. Blaming an “unfavourable” operating environment due to intensified competition with nowTV, parent company i-Cable Communications Ltd. reported pay TV revenues fell by 16% to HK$1.2 billion (US$155.7 million), while operating profit slumped by 30% to HK$132 million (US$16.9 million). The … [Read more...] about Cable TV boosts subs as revenues and profits fall
Mobile games market to reach US$10 billion by 2009
Hampshire, England – Booming popularity of casual gaming, combined with a steadily increasing variety of gaming-friendly handsets offering high quality 3D graphics aimed at core gamers, will help drive revenues from mobile games to nearly US$10 billion in 2009. So says Jupiter Research, which estimates more than 460 million mobile users will be downloading games by 2009, more than double the current number. Much of this growth will be generated by emerging markets such as the Indian … [Read more...] about Mobile games market to reach US$10 billion by 2009
Mobile video phone sales forecast to more than double by 2010
Campbell, California – Sales of mobile video phones hit close to US$58 billion worldwide in 2006 and are forecast to more than double to nearly $125 billion by 2010, according to Infonetics Research. The number of mobile video subscribers is forecast to jump from a few million in 2006 to 58.6 million in 2010, driven by increasingly powerful and efficient phones and analogue broadcast signal switch-offs. Asia Pacific accounted for 53% of mobile video subscribers worldwide in 2006, followed … [Read more...] about Mobile video phone sales forecast to more than double by 2010
Two deals point to growth in China’s digital cable
Beijing - Deals involving cable MSO Beijing Gehua and digital solutions supplier China Digital TV Holding underline the growing potential of the digital cable industry in China. The digital cable TV market will generate RMB5.8 billion (US$775 million) in subscription revenues by the end of this year, according to Media Partners Asia. By 2010, MPA expects almost half of China’s cable TV subscribers will have been converted to digital, equating to 84 million digital subs and RMB26.4 billion … [Read more...] about Two deals point to growth in China’s digital cable