Media Republic announced a new gizmo for your mobile, Eccky. Sort of a tamagotchi that you treat, feed and maintain interactively through MSN and your mobile phone. Having a soap on your mobile like Jong Zuid or FanTesstic on your mobile is one thing, this is the next. Interesting to watch whether there is a market for it among the "12 to 21 years youth". Still to go live.
Indeed, the display of your mobile phone has its limitations. So why not build a projector into your GSM? But first let’s get the built-in hard disc, MP3 player and navigation to market. And let’s do a complete overhaul of the user interface to deal with this increasing complexity.
Installed new blog picture, existing picture was redesigned by Pim to fit the Wordpress template I am using. Our house is recognizable for those who know us better. Thanks Pim!
Gartner reports:
“Booming demand in the third quarter, a 26 percent increase from the third quarter of 2003 – a total 167 million phones ended up in the hands of consumers – meant the $100 billion-a-year handset industry was now surely on track to ship 650 million cell phones in 2004. Samsung overtook Motorola as the world’s second-biggest mobile phone maker in the third quarter as the market continued to boom, a survey showed on Wednesday.”
| Company | Sales (in thousands) |
Market share | Difference |
| Nokia |
51,694.9
|
30.9%
|
-3.3%
|
| Samsung |
22,981.2
|
13.8%
|
2.6%
|
| Motorola |
22,393.0
|
13.4%
|
-1.3%
|
| Siemens |
12,758.2
|
7.6%
|
-1.5%
|
|
11,141.8
|
6.7%
|
1.4%
|
|
| Sony Ericsson |
10,683.2
|
6.4%
|
1.1%
|
| Others |
35,417.4
|
21.2%
|
1.0%
|
Interesting, got this blog live just yesterday and today more than 30 comments left on my first posts! More fanmail than I expected on such short notice, but of course, it was just spam about some great casino offerings. Installed plugin SpamWordBlock that should stop this unwanted fanmail. To watch the next few days…
And here we are, first post at www.deelman.com. I have had this Internet domain as "early" as 1999 but up to now not used the webspace coming with it. I realised in 1999 that having your lastname as an Internet domain represents some value: each family member a truly personal email address for life. Fortunately, the name Deelman is not very common in the Netherlands or elsewhere, so it was not that tough to hunt it. Today, Google generates some 20,300 hits for "deelman". There is a remote Deelman family member who put up a well functioning website at www.deelman.info where you can find the digital pedigree of the Deelman family in the Netherlands - in case you would want to know all about the Deelman heritage (?). Getting deelman.com in 1999 with Euronet Internet costed me NLG 450 per year, over 200 Euros. Now in 2004 with ISP 123XS, I pay about half that amount for a far better service. Technology has brought us many benefits, hopefully the spam filters and security shields will keep up with that pace…
