Microsoft + Yahoo = ? Tuesday, Feb 5 2008 

English and Technology jimlife 11:53 am

Microsoft planning to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Until now Yahoo hasn’t give final answer it.
I’m wondering why do Microsoft want to buy Yahoo, is it for fighting Google?
Or Microsoft just want to kill one of his  rival.

Let’s see
IM : Microsoft has Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo has Yahoo Messenger.
Search Engine : Microsoft has Live Search, Yahoo has it’s own search engine.
Email : Microsoft has Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo has Yahoo Mail.

Let’s wait for Yahoo’s final answer.
And how will Google respond about this :)

 

VAS (Value-Added Service) introduction Wednesday, May 30 2007 

Technology jimlife 4:59 pm

Untuk yang bergelut di dunia Content Provider mungkin istilah VAS / VASP mungkin tidak asing lagi.
Buat yang ngerti tentang VAS ini maka mengutip dari Wikipedia.org :

A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls. On a conceptual level, value-added services add value to the standard service offering, spurring the subscriber to use their phone more and allowing the operator to drive up their ARPU. For mobile phones, while technologies like SMS, MMS and GPRS are usually considered value-added services, a distinction may also be made between standard (peer-to-peer) content and premium-charged content.

Value-added services are supplied either in-house by the mobile network operator value-added service provider (VASP). VASPs typically connect to the operator using protocols like Short message peer-to-peer protocolshort message service centre (SMSC) or, increasingly, to a messaging gateway that allows the operator to control and charge of the content better. themselves or by a third-party (SMPP), connecting either directly to the short message service centre (SMSC) or, increasingly, to a messaging gateway that allows the operator to control and charge of the content better.

Singkatnya para Content Provider (CP) membuat layanan dengan bekerja sama dengan operator dan berkomunikasi dengan protocol tertentu yang disepakati.
Dengan demikian maka CP dapat memberikan layanan kepada pengguna ponsel dan melakukan charging sesuai layanan tersebut.

Layanan-layanan yang populer saat ini:

  • Download wallpaper/image
  • Download ringtone/music
  • Quiz berhadiah
  •  Ringbacktone (VAS yang palink populer/menguntungkan didunia?)
  • Download aplikasi/game mobile
  • Dll -> Layanan-layanan unik lainnya

Demikian pengenalan mengenai VAS untuk hari ini ^^