The title in English is “The potential of user generated content in mobil networks by the example of a concept of a mobile Blogging portal in Austria”. The research aims to find out critical success factors of moblog communities and gives solutions and hints for solving them.
Questionnaire by Eric Holzbauer


Company: Kaywa AG
Interview partner: Roger Fischer
Position: CEO
Date: May 4 Start: 22:56 End: 23:51

Well Tomi, it's going pretty fast. That means that the mobile internet will be on all phones in 2008. Thanks for the tip.

Jorma Ollila already told us that we should watch the emerging markets. On tuesday I was at a Gartner presentation by Reto Schmid* and the non-availabilty of a good IT-infrastructure was considered as dangerous for emerging markets. My thinking now is, maybe they just skip the PC world and start doing things via mobile.

Qualcomm forecast shows strength of mobile market

About 60 per cent of handset sales growth comes from emerging markets, accounting for the strong sales of low-priced chips.

On Monday, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported sales of all types of chips rose 7.3 per cent in the first quarter to $59.1bn. But it said the growth was driven by very strong sales of mobile phones, with unit sales up 31 per cent from the first quarter of 2005 and expected to reach 1bn this year.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said that replacement cycles for phones declining from an average of 26 months to 18 months along with robust demand in China were two factors behind the growth.

“China now has approximately 410m cell phone subscribers,” said George Scalise, SIA president. “It is adding new subscribers at the rate of 5m a month, and Chinese consumers appear to be choosing high-end phones with increased functionality.”

PS:
a) The presentation by Reto Schmid* was not technical, and that was good and people seemed to like it. But the few slides which were, were all about SOA, CRM etc.

b) When someone said, that the future looks bright again for IT Managers, I had to react. "Guys, it's not about technology, and the IT managers will have a hard time to follow the global innovations which will emerge quicker and quicker. So I see the future rather as a traditional IT manager's hell."

I am pleased then to read on Gartners own blogs a post which is very much in line with my own thinking.