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Apple To Google to ROK enterprises involved in the television market Samsung Electronics, LG and other challenge

According to the “Korean Daily” reported that dominate the global TV SONY VGP-BPS9 Battery, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics from Apple and Google face challenges.

In recent years, with Japan’s Sony and Sharp in the fierce competition, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics in the global TV market share had been out the first two. In the meantime, experts say South Korea’s TV industry will be a period of time ahead of Japan. But Apple and Google join the fray, which has become the new market structure will change the variables. Apple CEO Steve – Steve Jobs said recently: “will be launched in the year the extraordinary (extraordinary) of new products. ” Foreign to this passage interpreted as the company may be involved in the television market. In addition, Google has also stepped up launch of built-in operating system developed by Google – Android television.

Apple and Google plans to introduce television to the Internet to download all kinds of video and software, with some computer functions. For example, “Google TV” (Google TV) can watch TV, switch to Twitter (Tweet), or Facebook and other social networking services website, engage in dialogue with a friend, or access to YouTube and other video sites video search requirements.

Eugene Investment Securities analyst Jeon Seong-hun, said: “Apple may be the earliest in the fourth quarter, Google is the fastest around November this year launched a new TV. South Korean TV manufacturers, if not correctly deal with Apple and Google set off TV new trend is likely to be squeezed out of the mainstream market. ”

“Japan and Taiwan” will threaten the “Made in Korea”

Late last year, Taiwan’s electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Group bought Sony LCD TV plant in Mexico. Both swap and large LCD panel makers in Taiwan Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) for the merger. CMO has been receiving orders from Apple for its production of “iPod” and “iPhone”. It is reported that Hon Hai Group is to pick one of Apple’s upcoming television.

Google in the middle of this month acquired a company called “Agnilux” chip design company. Agnilux is A4 processor (Apple’s main product used by central processing unit) development companies were founded. Google’s strategy is to acquire the company, will enhance the hardware technology, including television, including force.

Google co-operation with Sony plans to address the manufacture of TV issues. “New York Times” reported: “Back in a few months ago, Google and Sony and Intel to jointly develop new concept of Google TV. ” Sony has the world’s top television manufacturing technology. If the Sony camp to join Google, Google’s TV manufacturing technology will not be more than Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics difference.

In addition, Apple and Google has a Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics do not have the “software advantage. ” Apple TV can be installed on 180,000 applications. Google can search the internet and related technology to the TV.

“Smart phone TV market will not repeat mistakes”

Last month on the 9th, Seoul headquarters of Samsung Electronics 5th SONY VGP-BPS8 battery Conference Room, 450 South Korean games and software developers gather together. Samsung Electronics said that day, as long as it was developed more than a certain level of television software, you can operate in the demonstration of “Samsung TV App store” on sale. This is the apple of the “mobile software store” strategy applied to the television market.

Samsung Kim Hyun-seok, tertiary services, said: “If Apple and Google to change television industry ‘rules of the game’, that would indeed pose a threat. But no matter how good Apple’s applications, competition key to success still lies in the number of consumers have TV can use these procedures. “Samsung Electronics last year sold in the TV, 11% have Internet access. This year, Samsung plans to extend its proportion of 30-40% in order to ensure that the basis of the world’s largest internet TV.

LG Electronics earlier this year to hire community of experts, set up by the 200 smart television task force set up for Apple and Google’s TV Internet platform (platform), development of independent Internet platform. LG Electronics stakeholders said: “There are increasing investment in this area. In the development of autonomous platforms same time, if Google put forward cooperation, will also consider joining the Google program. ”

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29 morning news today, according to foreign media reports, Yahoo CEO Carol @ Bartz (Carol Bartz) that within the next year the company acquired a small start-ups are very interested, but she refused the specific acquisition budget, and whether it intends to acquire social networking site Foursquare comment orientation.

Bartz is a visit to Britain, made the comments during the period. She said that Yahoo’s goal is to further personalize the site home page. This action has already received some advertising revenue, this is because more and more people click on the localization of advertising and news.

Bartz said: “I will not comment directly on the Foursquare, but I want to say is, localization information, the place where a person and what happens around you, will be very interesting. ” In her view, the localization service become a tremendous engine of growth.

Earlier there were reports that Yahoo is negotiating with the Foursquare acquisition agreement, valued at approximately 80 million U. S. dollars. Foursquare current users have Apple A1185 Battery than one million, the company said earlier this week, is considering financing or be acquired.

When asked about Yahoo’s acquisition budget, Bartz said: “It depends on how much they want. ”

Over the past year, Bartz has been working to achieve its mission of: “Your world, as well as other parts of the world into the Internet. ” To compete with Google and Microsoft. Bartz believes that the individual sites and services will bring enormous benefits, so that the user location can provide a unique advice and services, and advertisers can open the mobile market.

Bartz said the total amount from the perspective of potential mobile users, Yahoo and Google to produce a draw, with both sides with operators and handset manufacturers to get the mobile user agreement. Last week, Yahoo just with the world’s second largest mobile phone maker Samsung has signed cooperation agreements.

My Yahoo allows users according to their need to customize the Yahoo home page, although the service has been launched for some time, but Bartz said that at present only 15% of users spend time on your own customized home page.

For Yahoo’s shortcomings, Bartz also forthrightly. She said: “Last week I flew to England on the home page to find the flight situation, but found a 17 hours before the Associated Press. This is not good, so I looked again, this time one from the CNN reports that 38 minutes earlier. This is a bit better. Nothing should be possible to achieve real-time. ”

Butts insisted that Yahoo would regain some of the search market share. After several quarters of decline, the Yahoo search last quarter market share began to stabilize. Bartz said last week that the company’s share has bottomed.

Internet traffic, according to comScore data monitoring bodies, in March this year, Yahoo in U. S. search market share was 17%, Google 65%, Microsoft will be 12%.

Yahoo has also won the next three seasons of Premiership football league in the United Kingdom’s exclusive network broadcast rights.

When asked whether the fear that many developers will leave her term of office, HP pavilion dv6000 Battery well as Yahoo is losing its innovation, the Bartz said they were not worried, she said: “You will see that we rely on the social map to create more products . I disagree with it very annoying to those that Yahoo no longer have the innovative point of view.