Yes….That’s right. I am right now in freaking cold Netherlands. What am I doing here in winter. God knows. I will be resuming posting about a day’s time. Still having jet lag since I am still tuned to Kuala Lumpur time. Netherlands is on GMT +1. And the coldest wind I’ve felt was about -4 celsius… But I love the food here and the tram ride to office is just 45 mins. Excellent. The transportation system in Netherlands is great !
Colbert Low
IPWireless Inc. on Wednesday launched TDtv, a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) mobile television platform that delivers broadcasts on the 3G spectrum.
Telecommunication carriers across Europe and Asia in 2000 spent billions to develop a 3G spectrum and have been searching for the next big application to justify the investment. “The irony is broadcast technologies, such as MediaFlow from Qualcomm, can’t deliver over the 3G spectrum,” said Jon Hambidge, vice president of marketing at IPWireless.
TDtv operates in the universal 3G spectrum bands at 1900MHz and 2010MHz. It allows Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) operators to use existing spectrum and base stations to offer subscribers mobile television and multimedia packages without impacting other voice and data 3G services.
TDtv lets operators deliver up to 50 channels of TV for standard mobile phones, or 15 high-quality Quarter VGA channels over 5-MHz of unpaired 3G spectrum to allow an infinite number of customers to watch the same channel. IPWireless said operators that have 10-MHz spectrums in any supported band can deliver twice the number of channels or increase the quality of their service offerings.
After the whole MillionDollarHomePage fever started by Alex Tew, now we have something called paid cloud tags. Interesting idea indeed. Wonder if I should get in the whole thing and make some dough from it…. Check out 1000tag.com now and get a free tag too.
So that’s the news. 1000tags.com launched on January 9th, 2006, and started to get some traffic about 12 hours later, although it wasn’t until 24 hours after launch that visits started to pour.
And today – 7 days ever since the site started to receive visitors – 1000Tags.com has reached the 100,000 visitors mark. Not 100,000 hits, not 100,000 pages, but 100,000 different IPs (unique visitors +). That excludes people who connect through proxies or people who use a dynamic IP already used by someone else, but since 1000tags.com doesn’t leave a cookie (and we’re ok with that), we’re not tracking real unique visitors. So technically, we’ve got more than that.
Now, we run other web sites that get a lot of visitors, have a lot of registered users, etc. No, they are nothing like 1000tags at all, but I mention it because to talk about 100,000 visitors in a week is not something that makes us go WOOOW.
However, considering the nature of this site, with one very simple mission and nothing else to offer than just booking tags for web sites and redirecting visitors who click on those tags to the corresponding sites, it really is impressive to see than in just one week over 100,000 souls have come by to check our page. Even more interesting is that a bit more than 90% have actually clicked on at least one tag. That’s huge! And here we’re taking into account the fact that some people who first arrived at the site and clicked on one or more tags, have returned perhaps to see how things are going, using a different IP.