m2m Corporation Limited ("m2m" or "the Company") (ASX: MCL) advises that through its Hong Kong subsidiary, Starband Communications Ltd ("Starband"), it has formally settled a joint venture with Baipin Technology Co., Limited ("Baipin") to increase sales and distribution of internet related services in China.
Occupational & Medical Innovations Limited (ASX: OMI) today announced the receipt of its opening US sales order from its leading North American distributor for the auto retractable safety syringe.
Asia has been providing serious global leadership in its application of FttH. Not appearing to be constrained by the same desire to protect legacy networks that is found in other parts of the world, a number of Asian markets are already pushing strongly into fibre networks in various forms. With Japan out in front yet again, FttH has quickly emerged as a serious broadband platform in that country. The technology in Japan has jumped from 1.5 million FttH subscribers in mid-2004 to around 10 million in mid-2007.
MobileMonday Tokyo announce the next gathering, 22 October, at the fabulous Designing Studio, will feature presentations from Dr. Hitomi Murakami, former executive director and principal research engineer at KDDI's R&D labs, and Tomi Ahonen, best-selling author and strategy consultant for digital convergence and advanced mobile telecoms. Both gentlemen are long-time industry insiders and the evening promises to be extremely informative and very well-attended.
Sina, a leading provider of news in China, and Asia Business News (ABN Newswire), have agreed to a content distribution partnership in Chinese that will enable Financial news and Company News Announcements distributed by ABN Newswire on behalf of listed companies, to be published directly in real time onto the Sina Finance Portal in Simplified Chinese (Mandarin).
In 2006 and 2007 the market is seeing significant increases in carrier portal services; however they are coming from a rather low level and are still well below the PSMS market. Traditional Premium SMS (PSMS) also showed growth, but that market is set to remain static, due to the impact of the Vodafone prepaid caps restricting access to PSMS.
The future directions for the digital media is becoming clearer. The traditional media are moving into more innovative directions. The mobile and fixed telcos still keep posturing but have failed the lead they had in the market for the last 5 years.
