Operated by Agis, the service will be the first DMB based Mobile TV service outside Japan and Korea, where the technology was pioneered and successfully launched in 2004 and 2005 respectively.
Invented by Toshiba in 1996, DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) is an ITU adopted standard and the most mature mobile TV technology available today with over 2 million subscribers and extensive handset and device support.
Unlike cellular based 3G streaming, DMB does not require extensive telco infrastructure and can scale as easily as a TV broadcast. And unlike other mobile TV technologies based on precious UHF frequencies, DMB can be operated on many nationwide or region-wide frequencies currently vacant and assigned by the ITU for DMB. This means DMB can cover Indonesia's over 200 regions with one frequency, allowing subscribers to watch the same programs anywhere in the country, and in the future, throughout the Asia Pacific region.
"With a youthful population and low but fast growing mobile penetration, Indonesia is the perfect market for a broadcast-based mobile TV service," said Ms Anna Maria, Senior Officer at Agis, Indonesia's leading electronics distributor and retailer who will operate the service. Agis will import and distribute these new mobile handsets and devices throughout the country. "Our service will combine best-of-breed technology, compelling content and a large handset selection that will make it an instant hit with mobile users all over the country,"
"DMB has been exceptionally successful as a mobile TV technology in Japan and Korea and we are excited to be part of the first service launch outside these two countries," said Mr Masashi Suenaga, General Manager of DMB Business Development at Toshiba Corp, who will supply major head-end and transmission equipment, management software, and provide technical and operating expertise.
"DMB provides efficient spectrum usage which is a major advantage over other technologies that require UHF frequencies," said Mr Jeffrey Soong, CEO of systems integrator BNS (Broadband Network Systems, Ltd.). "It makes this technology ideal for a vast country like Indonesia and we're excited to follow our recent IPTV and mobile TV projects in the region with this project".
In preparation for the service launch early next year, Agis is in discussions with potential partners such as mobile operators, content owners and others to discuss collaboration opportunities.
Other details of the service such as the service name, launch date, subscription details, device cost and content line up will be announced at a later stage.
Agis, BNS and Toshiba Form Partnership to Launch a Broadcast Mobile TV Service in Indonesia
DMB-based service will cover Indonesia's over 200 regions with one frequency.
Jakarta, Indonesia (PRWEB) July 16, 2007 -- Indonesia's leading electronics company PT Agis Tbk, IPTV and mobile TV systems integrator BNS and mobile TV pioneer Toshiba have announced a partnership to jointly build a broadcast-based, nationwide mobile TV network in Indonesia .
Operated by Agis, the service will be the first DMB based Mobile TV service outside Japan and Korea, where the technology was pioneered and successfully launched in 2004 and 2005 respectively.
Invented by Toshiba in 1996, DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) is an ITU adopted standard and the most mature mobile TV technology available today with over 2 million subscribers and extensive handset and device support.
Unlike cellular based 3G streaming, DMB does not require extensive telco infrastructure and can scale as easily as a TV broadcast. And unlike other mobile TV technologies based on precious UHF frequencies, DMB can be operated on many nationwide or region-wide frequencies currently vacant and assigned by the ITU for DMB. This means DMB can cover Indonesia's over 200 regions with one frequency, allowing subscribers to watch the same programs anywhere in the country, and in the future, throughout the Asia Pacific region.
"With a youthful population and low but fast growing mobile penetration, Indonesia is the perfect market for a broadcast-based mobile TV service," said Ms Anna Maria, Senior Officer at Agis, Indonesia's leading electronics distributor and retailer who will operate the service. Agis will import and distribute these new mobile handsets and devices throughout the country. "Our service will combine best-of-breed technology, compelling content and a large handset selection that will make it an instant hit with mobile users all over the country," she said.
"DMB has been exceptionally successful as a mobile TV technology in Japan and Korea and we are excited to be part of the first service launch outside these two countries," said Mr Masashi Suenaga, General Manager of DMB Business Development at Toshiba Corp, who will supply major head-end and transmission equipment, management software, and provide technical and operating expertise.
"DMB provides efficient spectrum usage which is a major advantage over other technologies that require UHF frequencies," said Mr Jeffrey Soong, CEO of systems integrator BNS (Broadband Network Systems, Ltd.). "It makes this technology ideal for a vast country like Indonesia and we're excited to follow our recent IPTV and mobile TV projects in the region with this project".
In preparation for the service launch early next year, Agis is in discussions with potential partners such as mobile operators, content owners and others to discuss collaboration opportunities.
Other details of the service such as the service name, launch date, subscription details, device cost and content line up will be announced at a later stage.
About Agis
Established in 1981 and publicly listed since 1995, Agis has over 1,000 employees and 15 subsidiary companies. Agis' core business is consumer electronic distribution with over 600 dealers nationwide, 20 megastores and a network of over 25 service-chains in Indonesia. Agis recently partnered with M2B World Asia Pacific (based in Singapore) to provide IP-TV and Online Gaming services in Indonesia.
About BNS
Headquartered in Hong Kong, BNS provides IPTV-based content and technology solutions for broadband service providers and enterprises interested in maximizing their potential with IP-based solutions, such as Telco TV, Internet TV, MDU IPTV, Mobile TV and Enterprise A/V. The company has extensive hands-on experience in all facets of design, implementation and management of broadband networks in Asia and is the preeminent specialist on content across all platforms in the region. www.bnsltd.com
About Toshiba
Toshiba, a world leader in high technology, is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, and household appliances. Under its mid term business plan, Toshiba is working for enhanced recognition as a highly profitable group of companies, active in both high growth and stable growth businesses.
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When you talk about a little item that changes your BlackBerry and adds a very Apple, we now have one that will delight all Jugon with a theme based on the PlayStation 3, is available for 8300 and 8800 series, not that has happened to them that there is no version for the Pearl, and like the PS3 also be more kind to my mobile device reminds me of the PSP.
This topic is available at the store CrackBerry for $ 7.
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Google has changed the look of your home page access to mobile applications through mobile phones and devices.
Before we were to accede to a list of available mobile applications that now have altered the form of access and we will see a page where you will have to choose which option is our mobile device, sorted by brand and model in this way will appear exactly what we have available for our apparatus in particular as we avoid problems installing applications that we serve.
At the moment the interface is in English
The Amazon Kindle, Amazon's foray into hand held e-book reading devices, was released in November. The reader splashed onto the scene with a cover photo on Newsweek and Amazon hoped the Kindle would do for digital-reading-on-the-go what the ipod did for digital music. That is, make it a viable concept and business, replete with enthusiastic users.
However, there's not a whole lot of evangelizing going on around the Kindle.
Some people appreciate the palm-sized smallness of the Kindle, while others deride its small keyboard and awkwardly designed casing. The opinions are mixed and there are plenty of them.
Once you have the Kindle, you can visit Amazon's e-book store, where you can purchase brand new books for $9.99, which is a discount from what new hardcovers generally cost. Even though in this proposition you don't end up owning a tangible tree-made book, you get to enjoy the reading of it. But that brings up a principal issue for e-book readers.
Do people want to read books the same way they read blogs and news stories, via a computer screen? A lot of the issues that people have had with the Kindle--that's it's ugly, that the black and white screen isn't up to par, that the keyboard and scroll wheel aren't that well designed, and that it's too expensive--may stem from the fact that reading books on the Kindle e-book reader is not the same as reading a paper-bound book. The experience is not the same.
You get the information, but part of the joy is stripped from the experience. Another issue is that we expect a lot out of our hand held devices these days. The iphone has set a new standard--and that's a phone.
An e-book reader should have a high degree of interactivity with other Kindle owners that are friends. It should look as advanced and appealing as an iphone. It should be able to do most of what a high-tech cell phone can do in addition to the e-book reading functionality. It seems like it does too little if you can't use it to access maps, the yellow pages, and search engines. For $399, it should do some of these things. At the very least, you should be able to do Internet searches.
Computers have become so intertwined in our work and personal lives, that it seems logical that an e-book reader would be the next step. And maybe it is. But it shouldn't just be an e-book reader. It should be an e-book reader and a cell phone. I think the Kindle's designers misread the psychology of an e-book reader.
It's not bibliophiles who will be using this thing. It's the geek who wants his hand-held device to do more for him than he expects, and that he can wow his friends who don't have one.
Surprisingly or unsurprisingly, the Amazon Kindle is sold out. Or at least that's what it says on Amazon.
The Kindle makes sense on paper. But that's the problem.
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