Mobile Content Forum Results for 2012
MCF Japan Mobile market 2012 results: 2.3Tn Yen, $23Bn, up 123% YoY. Content $8.5Bn and Commerce $14.9Bn http://bit.ly/16WqioM
MCF Japan Mobile market 2012 results: 2.3Tn Yen, $23Bn, up 123% YoY. Content $8.5Bn and Commerce $14.9Bn http://bit.ly/16WqioM
Panasonic ships Digital Cordless Android based Home Phone! Usual bundle of features including video calls: http://bit.ly/19tb2ly
Sharp results for Q1 shows $6 Billion revenues, gaining 32% YoY, Thx to Yen and IGZO displays: http://bit.ly/1bMfH2S
All 3 telcos tout full NFC support for Sumitomo Mitsui Card Visa payWave, 31 handsets (A/B type) enabled: http://bit.ly/14P4VTf
Hearty Congrats to Brian Wong and team @kiip on the Yahoo! Japan app deal brokered by Digital Garage: http://bit.ly/13bWF3B

Let’s take a quick step back first to note my presentation at the recent Digital Media Asia event. While covering the Japan market, as requested, it actually focused on a niggly question for the several hundred attending delegates. Simply put: the legacy approach of their printing industry charged a cover price, say $1 for the daily newspaper, which did not cover the fixed cost of landing that product on the customers lap. The internet came along and “other people” took the PL risk to lay twisted copper and build base stations, while their “customers” paid the monthly connection fees – and – purchased hardware required to render all those digital bytes.