News Roundup
2007/12/20 01:39Donga looks at the latest 3G subscriber numbers which reached 5 million users in December and the impact of using video calling to market these new 3G phones. SK Telecom and KTF have an estimated 1.5 million subscribers with video phone capable phones but an interesting footnote is the actual video phone calling stats from SK Telecom:
In fact, among the nine billion total calls of SK telecom users in a month, video phone calls account for only about 40,000 to 50,000 calls.
The Korea Times reports that LG Electronics is working with Ericsson on their mobile TV technology Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) using WCDMA networks to broadcast shows. Pantech, Samsung and LG have are spreading their bets with previous support of MediaFLO, DVB-H and DMB in their handsets. Ericsson has a press release on the interoperability tests with LG and other vendors.
Another Korean Times article covers an experiment from Daum for the Korean presidential election. Along with providing the most popular articles for each region they also provided the most popular article by different age groups:
Daum, the second largest portal site of Korea, is the first in the world to come up with the Web metric system, which gauges the popularity of politicians by region. By carefully measuring the number of news pages viewed by each user and by tracking their location, the site can publish the real-time rankings on political news items by province and major cities.
Finally, OhMyNews has opened a new user created content and citizen journalism school in Seoul at the end of November:
The education program will include journalism 101 classes for citizen reporters, writing workshops for new citizen reporters, and digital camera class customized for photo journalism and video news gathering.
The faculty will be composed of professional journalists from print, radio and television news and senior OhmyNews citizen reporters, with additional teaching staff with a variety of expertise and colorful professional backgrounds.
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