SlideShare di diakuisisi LInkedIn.... ga jauh dari urusan profesional networking

LinkedIn Buys Slideshare for $119m

Author: Adi Gaskell
Published: May 04, 2012

Read more: http://technorati.com/social-media/article/linkedin-buys-slideshare-for-119m/#ixzz1uTuns3JN

LinkedIn are widely regarded as the premier social network for business people, and that reputation has been enhanced this week with the news that they have purchased Slideshare for $119 million.

Slideshare is a site that allows users to upload presentations, documents and videos.  Think of it like a YouTube for PowerPoints.  As with YouTube the site allows users to take content from SlideShare and embed it into sites around the web, so is a hugely popular method for thought leaders to spread their knowledge far and wide.

SlideShare has already got an app on LinkedIn that allows users to embed presentations from their account into their LinkedIn profile, so a more formal tie up with LinkedIn was a natural fit.

In a press release to announce the move, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said:

"Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture and share their experiences and knowledge, which in turn helps shape their professional identity,"

"These presentations also enable professionals to discover new connections and gain the insights they need to become more productive and successful in their careers, aligning perfectly with LinkedIn's mission and helping us deliver even more value for our members. We're very excited to welcome the SlideShare team to LinkedIn."

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Internet advertising hits record $31 billion

April 18, 2012

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/04/internet-advertising-hits-record-31-billion.html

Seperti biasa, saya coba gambarkan data tersebut dalam grafik.

Internet advertising reached a record $31 billion last year -- a gain of 22% over 2010 spending, according to a report released Wednesday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

Advertising tied to Internet searches continues to dominate the category, accounting for 46 cents of every dollar spent online. Revenues for search advertising reached $14.8 billion in 2011, an increase of 27% from a year earlier, according to the IAB.

Mobile advertising showed the fastest growth -- amid the popularity of smartphones -- and the ability of marketers to deliver timely, relevant ads in a way that previously wasn't possible. The IAB reported that revenues rose to $1.6 billion in 2011, up 149% from the prior year.

"Clearly mobile has become a key category," said David Silverman of PricewaterhouseCoopers, in a briefing with the media Wednesday morning.

Another category showing significant growth is advertising associated with digital video. Revenue reached $1.8 billion last year, compared with $1.4 billion in 2010 -- representing a 29% year-over-year gain.

Retail advertisers continue to represent the largest buyers of Internet ads, accounting for about 22% of spending in 2011, according to the IAB.

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2012-05-09 Location-Based Advertising will account for 28.3 percent of mobile ad spend in 2016 www.berginsight.com Saya coba gambarkan komposisi nya seperti grafik diatas. Dengan asumsi bahwa Mobile Advertising adalah bagian dari Digital Advertising. Kalaupun ternyata bukan tinggal menghiraukan saja garis dari 100% Mobile Adv ke 14% di Digital Adv. serta tidak ada blok warna merah di Digital Adv. (red Klasmaya) According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the total value of the global real-time mobile location-based advertising and marketing (LBA) market will grow from € 192 million in 2011 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 91 percent to € 4.9 billion in 2016.  This will then correspond to 28.3 percent of all mobile advertising and marketing. This means that location-based advertising and marketing will represent more than 4 percent of digital advertising, or 1 percent of the total global ad spend for all media. The report predicts a rapid uptake of location-targeting among mobile advertisers after having remained on an experimental stage for several years.  “The growing attach rates of location technologies in handsets and the increasing consumer acceptance of location-based services in general are the main game changers”, said Rickard Andersson, Telecom Analyst, Berg Insight. Targeting by location in combination with other contextual and behavioural segmentation greatly enhances the relevance of mobile advertising.  “Major brands are progressively embracing location-based advertising across the range of mobile formats, and LBA also opens up the mobile channel for new advertisers such as local merchants”, said Mr. Andersson. He adds that SMS, mobile search and coupons have emerged as important high-volume LBA formats. The LBA value chain is still forming and there are a large number of players involved in the ecosystem. Since the value chain is fragmented and the industry has not yet reached maturity, many different roles are involved. Major digital and telecom players such as Google, Apple and Nokia are competing to gain market shares in the space alongside mobile operators, LBS players, location-aware apps and media, mobile coupon providers, mobile search companies and proximity marketing providers. There is further a range of specialised LBA actors, including Placecast, xAd and Xtify. The traditional mobile advertising providers have also intensified their focus on location targeting, in some cases even through acquisitions. Further consolidation is expected as small players with innovative advertising solutions are absorbed by larger players in the industry.

Evolusi menuju Social Business

Sunday, May 06, 2012

Social Business: Where It's Been & Where It's Going

http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2012/05/social_biz.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Logicemotion+%28Logic%2BEmotion%29

"Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future". - T A Sachs

I've always been a firm believer that in order to look to the future, we must look back to and fully grasp the past (and the present). Having had several recent engaging conversations with smart people who I respect, I've picked up a hint of exhaustion around usage of the word "social". Could it be that some who saw the "change" coming years ago are weary of having carried that torch for so many years as we move into the heavy lifting? It's natural to want to move to the next thing—but I'm convinced that today we are largely still talking about the "social media" era. The best of "social business" is yet to come in my opinion and we have a lot of work to do in between. Let's take a look back before we begin to look forward. 

Digital: The Interactive Revolution
When I entered the workplace—the world was already in the process of going digital. E-mail was just being introduced and I had gotten a job immediately largely because I entered the business world with a valuable skill—I was taught desktop publishing (ie computer aided design) in addition to design fundamentals. The digital revolution initially begun by replacing the analogue world. Things like music converted into digital formats and computers offered an interactive medium to produce upon. Digital began seeping into personal and professional lives and organizations, businesses and industries had to evolve along with it. Most did and the ones that didn't were outperformed.

Digital Media: Information Goes Online
The second wave of the digital revolution began to gain steam as the internet became move pervasive. The "Web" became first accessible through browsers and then it became the search engines which organized what we then called "the information highway". A newdigital economy was born as companies rushed to stake their claim online. The "corporate" Website was born—essentially a glorified brochure for your organization however the business world began to wake up to the fact that not being on the Web was perhaps risking being irrelevant. This sentiment is important to take into account as we currently wrestle with the current state of social media. Looking back to the "Digital Media" era provides some insights as we look at how social media has evolved.

Digital Business: The Transactional Era
As the Internet, fueled by digital media and a wealth of information became more pervasive, the Internet evolved yet again creating new ecosystems resulting in new companies (Amazon, *eBay etc.) and creating opportunities for existing companies to extend their business models. Banks introduced online banking. Insurance companies supported online quotes. Cars could be customized and even purchased online. Large organizations grappled with back end integration as infrastructure was re-engineered. Digital had become not only interactive and informational, but it became transactional—offering organizations new ways to connect with customers or even employees (intranets). In short, digital became business and the flurry of activity in the form of mergers, acquisitions and the growth of system integrators reflected this.

Social: The Human WebWith digital now established as transformational business tool—the Internet and the world began to evolve again. Early incarnations of a "social Web" such as message boards and forums gave rise to early social networks and the "blogosphere". Networks such as My Space or Friendster introduced the concept of managing a social profile on the Web while blogs began to disrupt the media landscape by empowering anyone to act like a journalist or publisher. The 'Digital Media" era was largely powered by technological connections—computers being connected to a global network. The Social era was powered by people connecting to each other forming a "human web". The word social becomes key during this era, because we begin to shift behavior during this phase. No longer are we just interfacing with digital systems (human to computer) but we begin to interface directly with each other (human to human).

Social Media: Global, Local, Mobile Connectivity At ScaleToday, we live and interact with a digital world which is not only about finding information but is about being "connected". These connections are no longer limited to the personal computer, the primary vehicle which allowed for the original digital revolution to take hold years before. Mobile technology and an "always on" mindset for many individuals now blurs the line between the real world and digital—we no longer "log in" at our desks from nine to five but we are part of a digital and human "power grid". For many organizations, local Facebook pages show high levels of activity vs. global corporate Websites and organizations find their employees asking why internal tools can't be social and mobile. Networks now drive much of the Web's traffic as billions of people share links and opinions about the world around them. As a result of all of this activity—huge amounts of data or "social data" is currently flooding the current global digital ecosystem. This sets the stage for an era that's already begun, but is still in it's infancy (social business).

Social Business: Connected, Adaptive & IntelligentDespite much of the chatter around "social business", the reality is that most organizations are currently dealing with the realities of social media and only a few truly recognize the potential of social business. Not unlike how digital media evolved into digital business—social business takes the foundation of social media and begins to build new economic models on top of it. Proof points include models such as Kickstarter which disrupts old economic models by empowering any venture to become a funded venture. Existing business models however, are also presented with new opportunities (and threats). Business models where new connections are formed to the benefit of both the business, customer and even employee and shareholders are a core tenet of "social business". One could make the argument that Apple, while infamous for it's secret culture acted as a social business when they chose to connect to would be developers instead of trying (in vain) to design apps themselves. It is this kind of connected ecosystem which is linked to the idea of social business as well as the ability to adapt to conditions based on the intelligence a business can interpret. In the immediate years to come, the amount of data available to the average business will be infinite, however the data will be meaningless without the ability to interpret and act upon it.

Winners & Losers: Navigating Today And Tomorrow's WorldHaving lived and worked during the "Digital Media" and "Digital Business" era, I think we're scratching the surface as we straddle the worlds between social media and social business today. While there are many similarities to the past, there are also several key differences. Today, digital has become embedded into the lives of millions of people and a generation who has never known life before it pours into our workforce and gradually rises in the ranks. Also, it's worth noting that the above chart doesn't suggest that any of the eras replace each other—rather they build upon one another. We are now in a social-digital environment where things increasingly move in real time. Tomorrow's business models must not only be able to adapt to change, they must help drive that change. These are a few thoughts I've had percolating for some time. As a follow up to this post, I'm going to do a review of a very promising book by former colleague Peter Kim and co-author Dion Hinchcliffe (Social Business by Design). From what I've seen of it so far—it shows a lot of promise in terms of how a business should be thinking about these kinds of things. (below graphic pulled from the book). Would love to hear your thoughts as well.  

TelkomVision, pasar PayTV masih tumbuh

TelkomVision Teken Pinjaman Rp. 225 M Untuk Ekspansi Bisnis

http://www.telkom.co.id/pojok-media/siaran-pers/telkomvision-teken-pinjaman-rp-225-m-untuk-ekspansi-bisnis.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=telkom.co.id

JAKARTA, 24 April 2012 – TelkomVision terus mengalami pertumbuhan yang signifikan dari berbagai aspek sejak tahun 2010 hingga kuartal 1 tahun 2012, di bidang industri TV berbayar. Pertumbuhan tersebut mencakup pertumbuhan jumlah pelanggan, penjualan, laba dan revenue. Pertumbuhan yang cukup signifikan tersebut melatarbelakangi TelkomVision dalam melakukan ekspansi bisnis. Maka dari itu TelkomVision memutuskan bekerjasama dengan Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) dalam hal kredit pengembangan usaha sebesar Rp. 225 miliar dan kerjasama penawaran produk bagi nasabah maupun karyawan Bank BRI. 

Perjanjian kerjasama ditandatangani oleh Direktur Utama TelkomVision Elvizar KH dan Direktur Bisnis Kelembagaan dan BUMN Bank BRI Asmawi Syam. Penandatanganan disaksikan oleh Direktur Utama Telkom Rinaldy Firmansyah, Direktur Keuangan Telkom Sudiro Asno dan jajaran direksi TelkomVision. Hasil pinjaman tersebut akan dimanfaatkan untuk meningkatkan layanan dalam hal pembayaran tagihan maupun pembelian Voucher TelkomVision. 

“Setelah TelkomVision berhasil meraih 1 juta pelanggan, kami kian semangat dan termotivasi untuk lebih mengembangkan kualitas layanan. Karena masyarakat kini sudah mulai teredukasi dengan baik akan pentingnya TV berbayar yang berkualitas oleh karena itu kami terus melakukan sinergi dengan berbagai pihak”, ujar Elvizar KH dalam konferensi pers usai penandatanganan kerjasama tersebut.

Berikut data pertumbuhan TelkomVision dalam empat aspek:

• Pertumbuhan Revenue Tahun 2011 dari tahun 2010 sebesar 78,06%. Sedangkan Untuk Tahun 2012 pada Kuartal I ada pertumbuhan 88% dibandingkan kuartal I Tahun 2011
• Pertumbuhan Laba Tahun 2011 dari tahun 2010 sebesar 245.97%. Sedangkan Untuk Tahun 2012 pada Kuartal I ada pertumbuhan 463.16% dibandingkan kuartal I Tahun 2011
• Pertumbuhan Sales Tahun 2011 dari tahun 2010 sebesar 800.90% Untuk Tahun 2012 pada Kuartal I ada pertumbuhan 222.54% dari Kuartal I Tahun 2011
• Pertumbuhan Jumlah Pelanggan Tahun 2011 dari tahun 2010 sebesar 274.56%. Sedangkan untuk Tahun 2012 pada Kuartal I ada pertumbuhan 280.71% dari Kuartal I Tahun 2011

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The Downside of Digital Life: Disconnection

By Dave Copeland / April 27, 2012 10:03 AM

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the-downside-of-digital-life-disconnection.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29

Team Gantt co-founder Nathan Gilmore takes just one sentence to sum up what Sherry Turkle took 1,800 words to say in a New York Times op-ed piece Sunday.

“While technology can help strengthen relationships with people you barely know, it can damage relationships with the people that are close to you, like family,” Gilmore said.

Turkle, the MIT psychologist and author, is making waves in tech circles. It was Turkle, after all, who told us a decade ago that children should go online to learn communication skills. Now Turkle is publicly rethinking that stance, saying that while we are always communicating, we are rarely connecting. That strains our relationships and, as the title of Turkle’s latest book echoes, we spend a lot of time being alone together. Despite some criticism, however, many people who consider themselves tech-savvy are seeing some sense in her op-ed.

The Good Old Days, Circa 2004

“In the past, I worked in offices where there was a constant hum of conversation. In today's office, there is almost an eerie silence,” said Jon Gelberg, chief content officer of Blue Fountain Media. “Colleagues talk to each other, but most of the conversation is through Skype or email.”

Indeed, here at ReadWriteWeb, where most of us work remotely, we recently abandoned our daily editorial call on Skype because it was more efficient and more productive to discuss stories and plan coverage on Trello. We’re by no means Luddites, and neither is Gelberg, whose company designs and markets websites and mobile applications.

“I left home last week without my iPhone, and I felt as if I had been stranded on a desert island. I am one of those people who reads books, magazines and newspapers almost exclusively on my iPad,” he said. “But I am nostalgic for the days when people actually talked to each other.”

You won’t find those nostalgic days of yesteryear in the office of the future. WinTech recently rolled out ALICE, a virtual secretary. The company promises in its marketing materials that “ALICE is the perfect virtual receptionist for every lobby, office and front business foyer” and promises that she (it?) adds an “efficient and valuable tool to any company while cutting down the cost of another employee.”

Your company can even win its very own ALICE by submitting a photo of your office and a reason as to why you need her.

Tech-Induced Dating Downfalls

Jack D. Serrano of dating advice company DateMasters said his firm’s research teams have spent the past several years going on dates trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t when it comes to building fulfilling relationships.

“What have we learned about texting, Facebook, Twitter, social media and all the other hip, new technologies that seem so popular these days? Nothing destroys everything that makes us attractive to the opposite sex faster than these things,” Serrano said. “People who use these things are just tossing all of the excitement, mystery and intrigue that comes with getting to know a new partner out the window.”

Turkle discusses why this may be in her op-ed piece. Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media are about connecting. It’s hard, she says, to confide in someone when 3,000 Facebook friends are watching.

But that hasn’t stopped people from dreaming of the next version of ALICE: If a computer can be trained to be a receptionist, why can’t it be trained to be a therapist? Or, in a world where people find it hard to form close friendships, why can't a computer fill that role?

“A high school sophomore confides to me that he wishes he could talk to an artificial intelligence program instead of his dad about dating; he says the A.I. would have so much more in its database,” Turkle wrote. “Indeed, many people tell me they hope that as Siri, the digital assistant on Apple’s iPhone, becomes more advanced, “she” will be more and more like a best friend — one who will listen when others won’t.”

Ultimately, it’s up to the end user to figure out how much, or how little, they’re going to let technology build or tear down connections.

“I have a wife, a 1-year-old daughter, and a baby on the way. After 5:00, I try hard to disconnect and not look at my phone so that I can spend quality, uninterrupted time with them,” said Gilmore, of Team Gantt. “It's about quantity vs quality. Now it's easy to keep in touch with a lot of people. However, that can come at the expense of those close to you.”

Ada Apa di balik Partnership MSFT dan B&N

Microsoft, Barnes & Noble Partnership Is A Bad Deal For The Mobile Industry

Julie Bort | Apr. 30, 2012, 2:11 PM

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-barnes-and-noble-partnership-is-a-crummy-deal-for-the-mobile-industry-2012-4?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29

Microsoft's $300 million partnership with Barnes & Noble wasn't about e-books. It was about Android and Linux and preserving Microsoft's ability to be a patent bully.

In 2011, Microsoft strong-armed more than a half dozen Android/Linux device makers into paying it royalties on every device they made. Microsoft claimed Linux and Android violated its patents and threatened to sue.

It had won a big license deal with HTC in 2010 which gave Microsoft about $5 for each HTC Android smartphone sold, one analyst says.

In 2011, Microsoft reportedly earned more from Android than it did from Windows Phone 7.

All of that was threatened by Barnes & Noble.

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble were duking it out in court because the bookseller refused to pay Microsoft. Barnes & Noble was exposing the undisclosed details about Microsoft's Android shake-down including: the amount of money Microsoft was demanding for each device ($5 - $15), which patents Microsoft claimed were infringed, how its plans with Nokia were involved and other stuff.

With Microsoft's $300 million investment in a new subsidiary, the two companies have ended their patent litigation. Barnes & Noble has also agreed to pay Microsoft royalties for Android devices.

We can't blame Barnes & Noble for making a smart business decision. It's got bigger business issues what with Amazon eating its lunch and e-readers killing the printed book business. Ending expensive litigation and gaining a powerful partner like Microsoft was a good move.

Still this is disheartening because it leaves Microsoft with its power to keep bulling device makers. Had Microsoft lost the court battle, those days would have ended.

It would be far better if Microsoft could compete by making Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 so fantastic and affordable that every device maker wanted it.

While Barnes & Noble investors are celebrating, in the long run this isn't good for innovation in the mobile market. If you've got a great idea for a mobile device and want to tap into what was supposed to be a free open source operating system, you've got to watch your back for a knife from Redmond.

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IN DEPTH REVIEW OF INDONESIAN ICT

30% Perusahaan di Asia Pasifik Terapkan Cloud

http://www.indotelko.com/2011/12/30-perusahaan-di-asia-pasifik-terapkan-cloud/



JAKARTA—Lembaga riset  Frost & Sullivan memperkirakan pada tahun depan Cloud Computing akan menjadi   fitur mainstream di  industri Teknologi Informasi, dan Komunikasi (TIK) di Asia Pasifik seiring kesiapan  30% dari perusahan-perusahaan di kawasan tersebut   akan menerapkan inovasi tersebut.

Vice President, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Andrew Milroy mengatakan, pemicu dari makin maraknya cloud tak bisa dilepaskan dari manfaat-manfaat yang ditawarkannya seperti  kehandalan bisnis yang lebih besar, menghemat biaya dan mengalihkan pengeluaran Teknologi Informasi (TI) dari CAPEX ke OPEX.

“Dengan latar belakang ini, pasar komputasi awan untuk kalangan publik ditargetkan mencapai US$5.8 milyar pada 2015, tumbuh 39% CAGR antara tahun 2010 hingga 2015,” katanya.

Pasar Perusahaan Komunikasi Asia Pasifik diperkirakan bernilai US$4.95 miliar, dengan peningkatan 10.8% pada 2012.

Secara umum, industri ini tumbuh cukup positif sebesar 10% yoy. Pasar untuk seluruh Asia Pasifik bernilai US$4.32 miliar pada 2010.

Menurutnya, Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) ditargetkan untuk menjadi persaingan pasar baru dalam industri komputasi awan seiring dengan adanya vendor-vendor PaaS yang mulai menarik para pengembang untuk menggunakan platform mereka.

Saat ini, Force.com telah meraih keuntungan besar dari platform-platform lain sebagai hasil dari langkah awal yang mereka ambil untuk memasuki pasar. Namun  demikian, selama lebih dari 18 bulan atau lebih, platform-platform baru telah tersedia secara online, dimana kemunculannya didukung oleh vendor-vendor besar seperti Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Google dan VMWare. Dua atau tiga platform di antaranya diperkirakan akan mendominasi pasar dimana masing-masing perusahaan telah mempunyai pangsa pasar yang besar. Area lain yang memiliki potensi pertumbuhan tinggi antara lain Perusahaan Komunikasi dan sektor Telekomunikasi.

Senior Consultant ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan Indonesia Iwan Rachmat mengatakan,  pasar Cloud Indonesia tengah berada dalam kurva pertumbuhan pesat dan semakin banyak perusahaan yang akan menjadikan Cloud sebagai prioritas mereka dalam tahun-tahun mendatang seiring dengan adanya kesempatan bagi perusahaan-perusahaan lokal untuk memperoleh pemahaman lebih baik mengenai Cloud Computing melalui strategi marketing pemain-pemain global yang mencoba memasuki pasar Indonesia. Hal ini diharapkan akan meningkatkan level kesadaran dan penerapan sistem Cloud dalam jangka panjang.

Direktur Utama Indonesian Cloud Teguh Prasetya mengatakan, untuk kondisi Indonesia jasa Cloud yang masih akan dominan adalah Infrastructure As Services terutama bisnis Data Center. “Indonesia memiliki potensi yang besar untuk Cloud khususnya di Usaha Kecil dan menengah (UKM). Inilah yang membuat Google mau berinvestasi di negeri ini,” katanya.(id)

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Broadband merubah cara kita menonton TV, selanjutnya apakah akses menggunakan cable atau satelit

Satellite TV Industry Revolutionizing the Way We Watch TV

http://www.satellitemarkets.com/news-analysis/satellite-tv-industry-revolutionizing-way-we-watch-tv

Los Angeles, Calif. , April 5, 2012- The Satellite TV  industry is in the midst of a revolution according to a report by IBISWorld. Satellite TV providers  supply popular family shows, news, movies, sports, documentaries and other products to a growing swarm of eager subscribers willing to pay for in-home entertainment. For example, the introduction of high-definition (HD) TV vastly improved the quality of shows and attracted subscribers even as disposable income dropped during the Great Recession.

“In addition to a dramatically improved reputation for quality, new networks, channel offerings and bonus features are strengthening the industry's appeal to consumers,” says IBISWorld industry analyst Doug Kelly. Higher spending on industry services is anticipated to result in 5.6% annualized revenue growth to $41.4 billion in the five years to 2012. This climb includes an expected 3.8% increase in 2012 as more consumers continue subscribing to satellite TV, especially after external competitor Netflix abruptly announced price increases for its streaming service in July 2011.

High initial fixed costs, which major players have already paid off, are a defining aspect of the Satellite TV Providers industry. Not only are they prohibitive to industry start-ups, but they also indicate the industry backers' confidence in the success of this distribution model. Satellite TV is attractive because of its ability to reach almost any place on the planet. Advancing technologies, like new data compression formats, have advanced the quality and speed of direct broadcast satellite (DBS) transmissions, making this medium more attractive to consumers, says Kelly. Likewise, with satellites already in orbit, existing companies like DirecTV and Dish Network have low costs per additional subscriber. Because these two companies dominate the industry, it has a high market share concentration. These companies have successfully expanded along with the industry by offering an increasing array of services and continually improving their quality. Major company Home2Us Communications Inc. comes in a distant third.

Over the next five years, the industry will face escalating competition from other media. The ability of major players to continue developing ways to retain and attract subscribers will determine the extent of revenue growth over this time. More aggressive marketing tactics are anticipated to cut slightly into industry profit. As a result, IBISWorld forecasts slower 3.1% annualized revenue growth over the next five years to $48.3 billion in 2017, driven largely by new subscribers. 

Household creation is projected to flourish toward the end of the period, growing an estimated 1.2% annually on average through 2017. This growth will partially drive new subscriptions.

Pasar Satelit Indonesia menggiurkan kah ?

Indonesia: A Market to Watch

http://www.satellitemarkets.com/events/indonesia-market-watch

Hong Kong,  March 2, 2012 – Indonesia’s pay-TV market is taking off, speakers told a capacity crowd of delegates at CASBAA’s Indonesia in View: Growing Pay TV forum, held in Jakarta on February 29th. With more than 2 million paying subscribers at the beginning of 2012, a host of new distribution platforms coming online, and strong economic fundamentals, Indonesia is looking to become one of Asia’s fast-growth TV success stories.

Executives from Indonesian players as well as international content and service suppliers underlined the country’s potential but cautioned that there were still hurdles to overcome in order to ensure continued expansion. The Forum attracted over 250 speakers, delegates and media to discuss the future of the market and prospects for further growth.

“The global pay-TV community realizes the importance and potential of this key market in the Asia-Pacific,” said Simon Twiston Davies, CEO, CASBAA. “The Forum enabled business leaders, both local and international, to truly understand the dynamics of pay TV in Indonesia.”

In closing the seminar, Twiston Davies noted that industry players both old and new are developing commercial offerings that appeal to a host of new consumers. But, he said, important issues still need to be resolved in order for the pay-TV landscape to continue to thrive.

• Churn and collection issues are significant, and the success or failure of operators will rest on the ongoing acquisition and subsequent retention of customers and the ability to effectively collect revenues from subscribers. 

• The regulatory environment – relatively positive and market-friendly to date – has some risks, as political forces undertake revisions of key broadcasting legislation. Dadang Hidayat, member and former chair of the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI), told one panel that regulation of pay-TV programming had been more lenient than free-TV content, but there was increased scrutiny likely in the future.

• Piracy also remains a problem, with weak and inconsistent protection for legitimate players. The conference heard from Budi Setiyanto, operator of Sumatran cable system Smart Media, that he had built a business based on licensed content, only to find a competing network hijacking his customers by offering dirt-cheap prices based on distribution of pirated content. Arya Sinulingga, Secretary-General of Indonesian media association APMI, called for stronger enforcement against piracy – now!

Other speakers commented on the difficult competition pay-TV faces from Indonesia’s strong free-to-air TV industry. “Local content is king,” said John Riady, a Director of longtime Jakarta cable operator Lippo Group. His panel discussed indigenous content options, and agreed pay-TV has to develop differentiated content of its own that can attract viewers. Meanwhile, representatives of international networks spoke of plans already underway to ramp up production of localized content.

With increased competition regarded generally as a constructive development, several speakers underlined that the Indonesian market is big enough to support all the multiple players.

Speakers who participated in the Indonesia in View: Growing Pay TV forum included Ezki Tri Rezeki Widianti (Vice Chair, Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI)), Dr. Ir. Titon Dutono M. Eng (Director of Resource Planning, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology), Syamsul Lussa (Director of Film, Ministry of Culture & Tourism), Suzy Sayers (CEO of content producer, PT Tiga Citra Sinema), Arya Mahendra Sinulingga (Secretary General, APMI), Campbell Walker (Territory Head, Indonesia, Fox International Channels) and senior execs from Indonesian pay-TV operators Aora-TV, First Media, Okevision and Telkomvision).

“We are delighted with the quality of the meeting and CASBAA will continue to promote ongoing dialogue between government, industry and the public to promote pay TV in the country,” added Twiston Davies.

CASBAA Indonesia in View: Growing Pay TV was presented in association with Kominfo and KPI.

Laporan Industri Satelit Global

State of the Satellite Industry Report
June 2011
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State of the Satellite Industry Report
August 2011
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IPTV Global 2011-2015

IPTV Global Forecast – 2011 to 2015 Semiannaual IPTV Global Forecast — February 2012 http://www.mrgco.com/iptv/gf0212.html Executive Summary The February 2012 IPTV Global Forecast – 2011 to 2015 is the latest revision of the earlier edition published by MRG, Inc. in August 2011. It incorporates the most recent information on current IPTV deployments around the world, as well a forecast for IPTV subscribers, service revenue, and system revenue from 2011 to 2015. In total, this report breaks down the IPTV ecosystem into nine industry segments: DSL Subscribers, IPTV Subscribers, Access Systems, Video Headend Encoder Systems, Video-on-Demand Server Software Licenses, Set-top Boxes, Middleware Software Licenses, Content Protection/Digital Rights Management (CP/DRM) Software Licenses, and System Integration and Professional Services. In addition, this report splits the market into four regions around the world: Europe, Asia, North America and Rest of World, and also provides a global market summary. To do this, the report identifies over 930 Service Providers (Operators) worldwide offering IPTV services. The number of Operators has increased since the last report, since more of them have launched services in the last 12 months or announced new trials. This data is frequently refreshed to ensure that duplicate Operators are removed and that the most up-to-date numbers are used. The new forecast indicates that the number of global IPTV subscribers will grow from 53 million at the end of 2011 to 105.1 million in 2015, a compound annual growth rate of 18.7%. (See Figure 1-1.) Figure 1-1: Global IPTV Subscriber Forecast Source: Copyright © 2012 MRG, Inc.  As shown in Figure 1-2, the service revenue for the global IPTV market is US$21.8 billion in 2011 and is forecasted to grow to US$45.3 billion in 2015, a compound annual growth rate of 20%. By 2015, Europe and North America will generate a larger share of the global revenue, due to very low ARPUs in Asia. New and innovative services of key Operators are also described here, as a means to show how Operators are competing with other local Pay-TV Providers.  Figure 1-2: Global IPTV Service Revenue Forecast Source: Copyright © 2012 MRG, Inc.

Benarkah Pertumbuhan IPTV akan berdampak pada bisnis Satelit Broadcast ? Atau malah peluang ?

IPTV Growth Outpacing Cable and Satellite TV

http://www.satellitemarkets.com/news-analysis/iptv-growth-outpacing-cable-and-satellite-tv

San Jose, Calif., February 27, 2012 — The new IPTV forecast from MRG, Inc. indicates that the number of global IPTV subscribers will grow from 53 million in 2011 to 105.1 million in 2015, a CAGR of 18.7%.The service revenue for the global IPTV market was US$21.8 billion in 2011 and is projected to grow to US$45.3 billion in 2015, a CAGR of 20%. By 2015, Europe and North America will continue to generate a larger share of the global revenue.

New and innovative services of key Operators described in the report reveal that IPTV Operators are aggressively developing these new services to compete with other local Pay-TV Operators.

"In recent quarters, IPTV Operators have seen their subscriber growth outpace that of their Cable and Satellite TV rivals,” says Jose Alvear, IPTV Analyst for MRG, Inc. “IPTV Operators are expanding their TV offerings by aggressively adding HD, multiscreen and multiview services, and hybrid services like OTT video linked with Digital Terrestrial or Satellite video services.”

Increasingly, IPTV Providers are moving away from pure-play IPTV services and are adding new ways to deliver content to their customers.

“Although certain regions and countries have seen very good IPTV subscriber growth, areas like Latin America, and Southeast Asia still have not gotten off the ground with IPTV,” says Alvear. “As such, IPTV growth will likely be quick once government and regulatory issues have been dealt with.”

The IPTV ecosystem breaks into nine industry segments: DSL Subscribers, IPTV Subscribers, Access Systems, Video Headend Encoder Systems, Video-on-Demand Server Software Licenses, Set-top Boxes, Middleware Licenses, Content Protection/Digital Rights Management (CP/DRM) Licenses and System Integration and Professional Services.

Each market segment is split into four regions around the world: Europe, Asia, North America and Rest of World, based on over 930 Service Providers (Operators) worldwide offering IPTV services. The number of Operators has increased since the last report, since more of them have launched services in the last 12 months or announced new trials. This data is refreshed continuously to ensure maximum currency.

Direct Broadcast TV di Indonesia jadi pasar terbuka ?

Fri, 23 March, 2012

Asian Satellite Fleet Operators Draw a Bead on Indonesia

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By Peter B. de Selding

http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/120323-asian-sat-operators-bead-indonesia.html

WASHINGTON — Asian satellite fleet operators said Indonesia is likely to be the next big battlefield for market share as that nation’s largely untapped direct-broadcast television market opens up.

Measat, AsiaSat, SES, APT Satellite Holdings and Sky Perfect JSat appear to be tripping over themselves to establish positions in Indonesia now that the government has licensed several direct-to-home (DTH) television broadcasters.

But these operators said the growth depends in part on the regulatory regime put into place by Indonesian authorities. If it follows the model of India, they suggested, the market might be slower to develop.

India recently surpassed the United States as the nation with the most satellite television customers, but non-Indian satellite operators are obliged to access the market through the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which is both a competitor — ISRO has its own fleet of telecommunications satellites — and regulator.

Tokyo-based Sky Perfect JSat is counting on its JCSat 13 all-Ku-band satellite, set for launch in May, to provide revenue growth to the company through its Southeast Asia beam, for which Indonesia is a central focus, according to Yutaka Nagai, senior executive vice president at Sky Perfect JSat.

Yau Chyong Lim, vice present for business development strategic planning at Malaysian operator Measat, said his company, which has been expanding its reach despite the fact that its owner has indicated he wants to sell it, also has eyes on Indonesia.

“This is a country with 40 million households and a pay-TV penetration of only 2 million, so it has great potential,” Yau said. “There are 10 licensed DTH operators, but only six are active. Not everyone is making money.”

Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Holdings already does a thriving business in Indonesia, mainly to provide satellite backhaul services for terrestrial cellular operators. APT Vice President Huang Baozhong said Indonesia is APT’s single largest market.

Deepak Mathur, senior vice president for Asia-Pacific and Middle East at Luxembourg-based SES, agreed that cellular backhaul remained an opportunity in Indonesia and that television distribution has “tremendous potential” there given the current low market penetration of pay television.

Asian satellite operators mostly agree that from a strictly business point of view, there are too many satellite owners in Asia, especially East Asia.

“Put just about any two operators in Asia together in a merger and the result will be a better business case,” said Willy Chow, chief financial officer of Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) of Hong Kong. “But I don’t see it happening in the near term.”

What ABS and other Asian fleet operators have been able to do is join forces without merging. ABS recently joined with Satmex of Mexico to purchase a combined four satellites from Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems at a price that would not have been available to them if the order had been for fewer satellites.

AsiaSat of Hong Kong and Thailand’s Thaicom agreed to divide the cost of a satellite to preserve a Thai orbital position. Measat and NewSat of Australia agreed to purchase capacity on each other’s satellites.

“M&A deals are notoriously difficult in Asia,” said Philip Balaam, vice president for business development at AsiaSat. “The way we did it [with Thaicom] was probably the only solution available to us.” Balaam said that in the past 12 months alone, Asian operators have ordered 12 spacecraft.

Nongluck Phinainitisart, chief commercial officer of Thaicom, agreed, pointing to the joint investment with AsiaSat and a partnership with Measat to allow Thaicom’s IPStar broadband satellite service to better access the Malaysian market.

Thaicom has also struck a deal with NBN Co. of Australia, a government agency that just ordered two Ka-band broadband satellites, to use IPStar for five years while waiting for the Australian-owned spacecraft to arrive.

“The geostationary arc over Asia is getting very crowded,” Mathur said. “Cooperation will be encouraged by virtue of physics. The Asian [satellite] market is not super-healthy. Yes there is growth, but the economics are not very favorable.”

Indosat Q1/2012 Net Profit anjlok 12%

Setali tiga uang dengan XL, Net Profit Indosat di kuartal pertama tahun ini pun melorot 12% meski Revenue naik 2.1% didorong dari pertumbuhan pelanggan sebesar 14%. Indosat Q1 net profit slumps

By Andreas Ismar, Dow Jones Newswires Monday 30 April 2012 http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=473133&mail=756&C=5

Indonesian operator posts net profit of US$1.8 million.

Indonesian telecommunications company PT Indosat said Monday its first-quarter net profit slumped to IDR16.7 billion ($1.8 million) from IDR483.7 billion a year earlier. Indosat, controlled by Qatar Telecom, or QTel, booked a revenue of IDR4.98 trillion in the quarter ended March 31, up 2.1% from IDR4.87 trillion in the previous year. The company didn't provide a reason for the fall in profit, but will publish detailed earnings on May 8. Its parent QTel, however, attributed its 12% decline in net profit on foreign exchange losses from Indosat. Indonesia's second biggest telecommunications firm by subscribers said its cellular subscribers rose 14% to 52.1 million in the first three months of the year.

Gara-gara OPEX meningkat Net Profit Q1-2012 turun 12% meski Revenue naik 9.3%

XL Axiata Q1 net profit down

By Edhi Pranasidhi, Dow Jones Newswires Monday 30 April 2012

Indonesian operator's increased revenue offset by rising opex.

Cellular operator PT XL Axiata said Monday its first quarter net profit fell 12% to IDR667 billion from IDR756 billion a year earlier as higher revenue was offset by an increase in operating expenses. Revenue for the January to March period rose 9.3% to IDR4.95 trillion from IDR4.53 trillion in the same period a year earlier. Operating expenses, which include salaries and employee benefits, sales commissions, advertising and promotion and infrastructure expenses, rose 18% to IDR2.50 trillion from IDR2.12 trillion. Assets as of March 31 totaled IDR33.82 trillion, compared with IDR27.92 trillion previously.

Investasi Microsoft di eBook

Microsoft invests $300m in Barnes & Noble e-book venture

From Dow Jones Newswires Monday 30 April 2012 http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=473134&mail=756&C=2

Software giant will hold 17.6% stake in Newco unit.

Barnes & Noble Inc. Chief Executive William Lynch Monday said the company's deal with Microsoft Inc. to form a new subsidiary formed out of the retailer's digital-book business and college texts business will be "well capitalized" to pursue the digital book business. Lynch made the comment in an interview with CNBC shortly after the two companies announced plans for the tie up. Under terms of the deal, Microsoft is making a $300 million investment in the new unit, dubbed Newco, and will hold a 17.6% stake in the business, the companies said.

Balapan Android dan iOS

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natural stuff for innovation

'Lizard tail' keeps toy car stable - Holy Kaw!

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Digital Wallet & Mobile Payment

Perkembangan industri telematika dengan didorong oleh beragam layanan pita lebar dan mobilitas dari operator, serta penyediaan beragam perangkat (gadget) khususnya smartphone dari manufaktur memberi peluang merubah cara bayar dari sebelumnya melalui uang dan kartu kredit ke cara dan metode baru dari gadget melalui dompet digital.

via: The Digital Wallet and the Future of Payments [INFOGRAPHIC]

nextTV

Persaingan media TV masa depan semakin seru. Rebutan pasar TV konvensional mulai diramaikan dengan produk integrated semacam AppleTV atau GoogleTV.

Siapa yg akan jadi pemenang tergantung seberapa tinggi value yg dpt diterima consumer. Bisnis model produk tambahan TV biasa mulai dialihkan ke TV baru yg terpadu antara produk TV plus decoder dan aplikasi nya.

Apple kembali akan merebut pasar Sony setelah produk walkman beralih ke iPod, berikutnya flat LxD ke AppleTV. Google pun tak kalah diem lewat inisiatif yg diawali GoogleTV berbasis aplikasi ke gadget setelah mengakuisisi pabrikan slingbox like atau set top box.

Lagi2 siapa yg akan diuntungkan paling besar, manufaktur atau service provider atau content provider ataukah perusahaan yg punya ketiganya, seperti niatan Google.

You Bet Apple TV Is Coming, Says Apple Guru Gene Munster -- Here Are The Details

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Seluler msh bisa tumbuh 4,8%

TEMPO Interaktif : Indosat Berencana Menjual 4.000 Menara  

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Seluler msh bisa tumbuh 4,8%

TEMPO Interaktif : Indosat Berencana Menjual 4.000 Menara  

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ingenious

NYT: Steve Jobs's Genius

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media war

Tweet forwarded by @DQXm

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Samsung and Delilah

TEMPO Interaktif : Jualan Smartphone, Samsung Untung US$ 2,2 Miliar  

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XLalu?

XL cetak laba Rp2,2 triliun - ANTARA News

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Data focus

MetroTV Mobile - Telkom Raih Pendapatan Rp53,05 Triliun

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Prospek bisnis penyedia infrastruktur, masihkah bisa bertahan panjang?

Kompas.com

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Beasiswa S1 ke US, perluas wawasan.

Berita dibawah ini mungkin bisa menginspirasi buat jalan2 setahun di negri paman sam Kompas.com

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patent war

Perang hak cipta di industry elektronik semakin seru. Setelah beberapa kali Apple menuntut pelanggaran hak cipta ke beberapa perusahaan seperti Samsung untuk kasus Galaxy Tab misalnya, kali ini HTC dengan berbekal hak patent dari Google menuntut Apple.
Saya kurang paham bagaimana mekanisme hak patent yang dimiliki Google dapat dimanfaatkan oleh mitra kerja nya untuk menuntut pesaing seoerti Google. Anyway cerita ini cukup menarik untuk wacana industry.

TEMPO Interaktif : HTC Tuntut Apple Atas Pelanggaran Hak Cipta

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