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Mobile multimedia revenues tipped to dethrone text

10.03.10

SINGAPORE — Multimedia services will surpass text messaging this year as the main source of mobile operators' non-voice revenue in the Asia-Pacific region, industry analyst IDC said Monday.

Driven by the rise of more technologically advanced handsets, multimedia services should reach 16.34 billion dollars, or 11 percent of total mobile revenues in the region outside of Japan, by the end of this year, it said.

Text messaging, or Short Messaging System (SMS), which has been a major earner for years because of its simplicity, is likely to contribute around 10 percent, or 14.65 billion dollars, IDC said.

Ringtones and wallpaper downloads were the early drivers of multimedia mobile services, which now include games, videos, pictures, music clips and other applications.

IDC said text messaging last year accounted for 10.3 percent of total mobile services revenues, with multimedia services contributing 10.1 percent.

"IDC predicts that SMS contribution will plateau at 10 percent for the next few years, while mobile multimedia services will continue to ride on growth trajectory," the market researcher said.

Source: AFP

Harman Kardon 2.1 Multimedia Computer Speaker System

Harman Kardon is one of the biggest audio designers in the world, and it produces audio equipments for the public and for the automotive industry. The company is trying its best to bring its clients the best audio quality, nice design, and it has a wide range of products such as: sound systems, speakers, A/V receivers and others. It was founded long time ago, back in the 1950’s, by Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon. Each one of them came with 5000 dollars to build a new company that was specialized in the manufacturing of high fidelity machines for playing music at home. In time the company brought to the public many cool innovations, for example in 2000 Harman Kardon was the first to introduce the fully color coding of and audio /video receiver panel’s connections. And this kind of setup really simplified the audio / video setup. The company was expanded all over the world and has a good reputation along the home users. Its plans for the future are to bring more innovations to the audio market, and to satisfy the needs of the most pretentious customers. You will find many products in the company stores or website, such as stereo and home cinema sound systems, audio components, iPod speakers, headphones and also cat speakers.
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There are many kinds of computer speaker systems, depending on the number of their components. You can find stereo (or 2.1) sound systems, which are made out of 2 speakers and a subwoofer, 5.1 systems (5 speakers and a subwoofer) and also 7.1 systems (7 speakers and a subwoofer). But there are also the home cinema systems which are combining one of the systems above, with a CD/DVD player. Harman Kardon is also producing 2.1 multimedia computer speaker systems, and a good example is the “HS 250 Home Cinema System”.

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