371 research outputs found

    Market bundling strategies in the horizontal portal industry

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    The arrival of the Internet offers opportunities for both incremental efficiency gains and complete industry redefinition, presenting new value propositions and hence leading to the emergence of new businesses and industries. One particular case is that of the horizontal portal industry, such portals being consistently the most visited sites on the Web. Nevertheless, despite ongoing market concentration, overall profitability remains low. In this paper we contend that, although the industry has great potential for value creation, value appropriation in such information-based businesses remains problematic. The only way to achieve it is through cross-market bundling; that is, portals selling their products packaged with Internet access and proprietary content through system competition. We support our claims with theoretical argument and empirical evidence, analyzing the information distribution value chain in its entirety.Portals; information goods; Internet advertising; Internet service providers; content provider;

    Enabling pervasive computing with smart phones

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    The authors discuss their experience with a number of mobile telephony projects carried out in the context of the European Union Information Society Technologies research program, which aims to develop mobile information services. They identify areas where use of smart phones can enable pervasive computing and offer practical advice in terms of lessons learned. To this end, they first look at the mobile telephone as * the end point of a mobile information service,* the control device for ubiquitous systems management and configuration,* the networking hub for personal and body area networks, and* identification tokens.They conclude with a discussion of business and practical issues that play a significant role in deploying research systems in realistic situations

    CHORUS Deliverable 2.1: State of the Art on Multimedia Search Engines

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    Based on the information provided by European projects and national initiatives related to multimedia search as well as domains experts that participated in the CHORUS Think-thanks and workshops, this document reports on the state of the art related to multimedia content search from, a technical, and socio-economic perspective. The technical perspective includes an up to date view on content based indexing and retrieval technologies, multimedia search in the context of mobile devices and peer-to-peer networks, and an overview of current evaluation and benchmark inititiatives to measure the performance of multimedia search engines. From a socio-economic perspective we inventorize the impact and legal consequences of these technical advances and point out future directions of research

    The Growth of m-Learning and the Growth of Mobile Computing: Parallel developments

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    m-Learning is made possible by the existence and application of mobile hardware and networking technology. By exploring the capabilities of these technologies, it is possible to construct a picture of how different components of m-Learning can be implemented. This paper will explore the major technologies currently in use: portable digital assistants (PDAs), Short Message Service (SMS) messaging via mobile phone, and podcasts via MP3 players

    Broadband Innovation and the Customer Experience Imperative

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    Social Technologies That Support Consumer Control in Internet Banking

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    This paper was completed as part of the final research component in the University of Oregon Applied Information Management Master's Degree Program [see htpp://aim.uoregon.edu].Internet banking is one of the fastest growing online activities (Fox, 2005). Internet social technologies provide users with increased control of the online experience (Charron, Favier, & Li, 2006). Based on analysis of literature published between 2000 - 2006, social technologies designed to increase consumer control are selected from non-bank retail websites and presented to bank channel managers for potential use within retail Internet banking websites. Types include blogs, chat, forums, personalization, podcasts and wikis

    Navigating the media divide: Innovating and enabling new business models

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    The worlds of traditional and new media are already clashing, and it\u27s a conflict that continues to expand. However, a second type of conflict is brewing - one that could cause major rifts among traditional partners. For media companies, it\u27s time to pursue different and somewhat opposing business models - and navigate the media divide
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