LG Target a Flat Panel Display Grows 50%

JAKARTA – PT. LG Electronics Indonesia has set a growth of 50 percent for the sales division of Flat Panel Display (flat-panel screen.)

To secure the step in achieving this target, in addition to stabilizing sales in the LCD TV product line will also encourage the growth of TV LED LG product line. At least three products of LED TVs has been determined to be the focus of this year’s sales of TVs with the adoption of LED display technology In-Plane Switching (IPS) Hard Panel, 3D CINEMA TV and SMART TV.

“LED TV became a trend that will dominate the market in 2011. greet, LG has set up a TV LED product line with innovative technology options,” said Eko Adhi Suyitno, Flat Panel Display Manager. LG Electronics Indonesia.

In addition to targeting annual sales, Motorola also issued a statement saying the company’s seriousness for compete and become market leader in the Smart TV. Is a new category in this type of Flat Panel Display, SMART TV represents the ability of a TV for interact with users through a variety of content and the ability to surf in cyberspace (the internet). The presence of the first TV LG Smart in Indonesia has been established will happen in the first half of this year.

“The presence of Smart TV category that promises a new way of getting the whole spectacle either from films, online content and connectivity to the Internet brought the global TV market in a big change. LG as a global electronics vendors with innovative technology will be ready to become a leader in this great wave of change, “Said Eko.

Furthermore, LG Smart TV will also carry a variety of local content in it. Currently, according to Eko, LG is a partnership with the parties in Indonesia to complement the Motorola Smart TV with local content selection. “The existence of local content will provide more benefits for consumers in getting access to information about things around them for support their needs,” said Eko.

In addition to Smart TV, PT. LG Electronics Indonesia is also eager for have a large portion of the sale of 3D TV in Indonesia. This is done by introducing technology readiness in patterned Retarder Film (FPR) on the new 3D TV later. The use of this technology is believed to be a breakthrough that could eliminate the existence of various weaknesses in previous TV 3D technology that uses Shutter Glasses (SG).

Mentioned that this new 3D TV has the ability to optimize the brightness of images and simultaneously provide a level of comfort in watching it.

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Cellular Data Bandwidth Needs Increased 73%

SAN FRANCISCO – The need for increased data bandwidth. Even in the second half of 2010 and then cellular data bandwidth needs increase 73 percent.

Launched by Cellular News, on Wednesday (09/02/2011), this data is obtained through a survey of Allot Communications Allot MobileTrends through reports collected from July to December 2010 from a few mobile operators in the world compared to approximately 210 million data subscribers.

According to data from Allot Communications, a streaming video service continue to spur this growth and become a widely used application. Video streaming bandwidth requirements contribute as much as 37 percent.

The report also said that YouTube is responsible for the increased need for large bandwidth with the use of approximately 17 percent. Even YouTube became popular sites for video streaming to contribute approximately 45 percent of the total traffic streaming video on mobile phones.

Allot also revealed that the exponential growth experienced by social networking applications like Twitter and Facebook, which each grew approximately 378 percent and 267 percent. This proves the existence of a natural synergy between social media and mobile internet.

Needs the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and application Instanr Messenger (IM) also continues to grow rapidly with increased approximately 87 percent.

Still according to Allot MobileTrends, Google Android Market is still far behind the App Store with only 9 percent of traffic to download the application store as a whole. But as soon as Android mencapai 177 percent growth and the potential to affect growth in the future.

“From our reports can be suggested that mobile operators should not only focus on the amount of bandwidth consumption but also must understand the value and usefulness of the applications provided to customers. Moreover, the future will start to have convergence of technology that is supported by 4G/LTE technology,” said President and CEO of Allot Communications, Rami Hadar.

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Chocolate More Healthy Than Fruit Juice

LONDON – Who says chocolate is dangerous food? The researchers even found that chocolate contains more components than most of the plants fruit juice.

The study was conducted by scientists at the Hershey Centre for Health & Nutrition. They even mention chocolate as a super food because it has high levels of antioxidants that can prevent and stop the oxidation process damage the body’s cells healthy.

Researchers noted that dark chocolate containing cocoa with high levels have more antioxidants and polyphenols, which can protect the body from diseases like cancer and heart abnormalities.

They also compared the presentation of dark chocolate, cocoa, hot chocolate drinks and fruit juices such as acai berry, cranberry and pomegranate. Noted, dark chocolate and cocoa have more antioxidant activity than fruits such.

“Cocoa beans should be referred to as ‘super fruit’. In addition, the resulting products such as cocoa beans cocoa powder and dark chocolate should be referred to as ‘super foods’,” said Dr. Debra Millar, who led the research.

“This is good news for chocolate lovers,” added Millar as reported by the Telegraph, Tuesday (02/08/2011).

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Google Will Transform How Employees Work

CALIFORNIA – One of the niche Google’s greatest advantage is through advertising, with revenue from Adsense. Revealed that so far there is something wrong in the way its employees work in these Adsense division.

The secret is leaked by employees of Google itself named Moultano, where he mentions that during this time at the management level, the company has misapplied policy. Did not want it too go on, Google plans for make reforms.

“There will be major changes in Google’s headquarters. During this time employees in the division Adsense too much given the freedom to experiment, this is too disturbing,”said Moultana, as reported by Techeye, Tuesday (01/08/2011).

This freedom has seized 20 percent of the total effective working time for personal projects that could have provided a problem for Google. So at the end of many employees who do not focus on their primary task.

Moultano said major changes in the Adsense will be visible in the near future. It is expected that this change will make Adsense a lot better and innovative.

Unfortunately Moulano offer no explanation explicitly referred to the changes that will occur at the Google Headquarters. Unless indeed the users will patiently wait for him in the near future.

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Nokia N6, Mobile Symbian 3 Qwerty Candy Bar

Espoo – Nokia rumored to be presenting the next series of phones based on Symbian 3, namely E6. The photos are circulating reveal little about the specs of this E6 series.

In the photo is revealed through XML site known, the E6 will be a Symbian phone 3 with a physical QWERTY candy bar, at first glance similar menginggatkan Nokia mobile phone E71 or E72. Unfortunately, it is unknown whether this will be fixed to the phone screen touch screen technology.

Quoted by GSM Arena, Tuesday (02/08/2011), in his statement mentioned that the E6 this XML will use the VGA resolution screen, this is quite surprising because the previous 3 series Symbian nHD using screen resolution.

Nevertheless, the resolution cameras embedded in smart handheld devices is already quite high, with 8 megapixels, including features autofocus and dual flash. This phone also has video call camera, 3G connectivity and, most likely, wifi.

To date not yet known when Nokia will release this phone, because the company is based in Finland did not comment on the outbreak of the photos of their products. Previously, Nokia has issued a series of N8, C7, and C6 for their 3rd Symbian phones.

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Middle-Low So Potential Targets for Mobile Users

JAKARTA – The Nielsen data shows that the lower middle class is driving the current increase in mobile phone and in the future.

“Figures for the growth of mobile phone use in the future will be born from the user’s middle and lower social class, along with the saturated use of mobile phones from the top,” said Viraj Juthani, Director, Telecom Group from Nielsen, in Jakarta (02/08/2011).

Viraj explained that the blue-collar workers (blue collar), students, and housewives are the segment that has driven increasing mobile phone penetration in this market.

“This explains the growth of CDMA which reached 420 percent in the year 2010 because this segment is the primary user of CDMA phones,”said Viraj.

He further by Nielsen, if the development of home phone never actually increase because people directly using the phone as their communication tool, especially with the increasing number of mobile phone users from the middle to lower.

Along with that, Nielsen also found a decline in telecom spending per month by mobile users. It is said Nielsen, approximately 58 percent of mobile telecommunications consumers spend less than 50 thousand per month. This figure shows a decrease of 18 percent over the last five years.

However, according to Nielsen data, although the low rates become the biggest factor when choosing a telecommunications service, Indonesiais still the the market is concerned with network security . This is because the reputation of the network and the recommendation is the most important factor for them.

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Top 20 Games on the Xbox Throughout 2010

CALIFORNIA – Major Nelson, Programming Director of Xbox Live, has announced a list of 20 games for the Xbox.

Game Call of Duty: Black Ops is the top game on Xbox Live games list for 2010, although the game he was only two months old. Similarly, as quoted by USA Today, Monday (02/07/2011).

While the game Halo: Reach was second, and Red Dead Redemption game from Rockstar Games is third in line.

The unexpected, ranks fourth is the game Fable III. Game beat games like Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Madden NFL 11.

Here is a list of 20 top Xbox games for 2010:

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops
2. Halo: Reach
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. Fable III
5. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
6. Medal of Honor
7. Mass Effect 2
8. FIFA Soccer 11
9. Fallout: New Vegas
10. BioShock 2
11. Madden NFL 11
12. Splinter Cell: Conviction
13. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
14. Dead Rising 2
15. Kinect Adventures!
16. NBA 2K11
17. Crackdown 2
18. Aliens vs Predator
19. Mafia II
20. Army of Two: The 40th Day

According to Major Nelson, the list is based on the first seven days of sales activity a game on Xbox Live, also just for those games that was launched in 2010 alone. This explains why the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Halo 3, and other old games are still sold pretty good, not on the list.

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News Corp. Selling Cheap MySpace?

CALIFORNIA – Commitment News Corp. for sell MySpace can not be contested. They are even ready to sell the social networking site with a much lower price than when bought in 2005.

World’s third largest media conglomerate (after Walt Disney and Time-Warner) was poured no less than USD580 million for buy MySpace. But News Corp. could be going off with the official USD50 million to USD200 million.

MySpace is one of the enthusiasts MocoSpace, a social networking for mobile devices from Boston. MocoSpace reportedly have contacted News Corp. for discuss the purchase option.

“They are open for discussions with us. This may be an opportunity for us for reach an asset, where we have unique skills for solve it,”said MocoSpace CEO Justin Siegel, as quoted in Business Day on Monday (02/07/2011).

A few days ago, News Corp. COO Chase Carey told investors that his company was considering a new owner for social networking which was formed in 2003.

MySpace has announced plans to layoff approximately 500 employees worldwide, or 47 percent of its work force. This is the continuation of massive layoffs in June 2009, when MySpace reduce 30 percent of staff following a decline in advertising sales and popularity up a shot.

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Acer 3D TV Market Share Now 40%

TAIPEI CITY – Acer claims to have recorded the record in the global market share for category of full HD 3D TV reaches 40 percent.

Figures of 40 per cent market share is equivalent to a growth of 4393 ​​percent for category of 3D TVs from Acer. Similarly, as quoted by ITP.net, Monday (07/02/2011).

“We can achieve this result thanks to the use of latest technology today,” said Lutz Schoppe, Director for Display Products of the EMEA.

“This achievement is also motivated us for reach targets more than this,”said Schoppe.

Analyst firm DisplaySearch data show the development of 3D HD TV sales worldwide, with annual growth rate is 264 percent.

For 3D HD TV market, Acer offers a wide range of 3D display with a different size.

Acer is a multinational computer technology company based in Taiwan that makes laptops, desktop PCs, PDAs, servers, storage, smart phones, and others. The company provides its services for businesses, government, education and home use.

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