We want to identify as many as possible software companies that
develop and deploy mobile content solutions.
Example of such companies are:
Elata
http://www.elata.com/
Firsthop
http://www.firsthop.com/about/FH%20Company%20Sheet---10-2003-10.pdf
Mobile Web Surf
http://www.mobilewebsurf.com/
Maia Solutions
http://www.maiasolutions.co
MediaBricks
http://www.mediabricks.com/
The content solution that they have developed and deployed should have
server based component that can:
1: integrate with the mobile operator?s billing, provisioning,
authentication and customer management system.
2: can process content feeds in various formats (RSS, xml,..)
3: can interact with the handset using either wap or a handset based
client software (e.g., java client or ?)
The information that we need about these companies is:
? Country of operation
? Contact information: email, phone, postal address
? Web site
? Company size (number of employees)
? Revenue figures for the last two years
? Examples of mobile operators where they have deployed their
solution. Here we need following info: mobile operator name, country
where the mobile operator is providing services, date of
implementation, what results were achieved with the solution
? Information about who owns the company (main investors)
We want to identify such software companies across the world (Europe -
primarily UK but also in other European countries, US, Canada, China,
Philippines, Japan, Australia, Russia
This is an urgent request and a fast and exhaustive answer will
receive a generous tip.
Thank you in advance. |
Request for Question Clarification by
politicalguru-ga
on
14 Nov 2004 02:40 PST
Dear vlk,
I have noticed your "urgent request". However, it is possible that it
is not answered yet because you haven't mentioned how many companies
would satisfy you, only written "as many as possible".
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Clarification of Question by
vlk-ga
on
14 Nov 2004 10:39 PST
Dear Politicalguru,
I am looking for 25 companies. In the meantime I identified following
companies that fit my request.
Bango.net
ByteMobile
Cognima
Commverge
Elata
End-2-End
Firepad
Firsthop
Flash Networks
Maia Solutions
MediaBricks
Mobile Web Surf
Mobixell Networks
Netsize
Openwave
Opera Software
PocketThis!
SlipStream
Small Planet
Tecnomen
Venturi Wireless
Volantis
Thanks for your help.
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Clarification of Question by
vlk-ga
on
15 Nov 2004 04:57 PST
To clarify further - I am looking for 25 companies in addition to
those that I already identified.
Thank you.
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
15 Nov 2004 06:25 PST
Hi vlk-ga!
I am interested to answering your question but it seems that another
difficulty are the requirements you have for the following
information:
? Company size (number of employees)
? Revenue figures for the last two years
? Information about who owns the company (main investors)
Such info are not always available especially if these are private companies.
Would the absence of such information be still acceptable as answer?
Thanks.
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Clarification of Question by
vlk-ga
on
15 Nov 2004 06:41 PST
Dear Easterangel,
The absence of such information is acceptable, if this data is not
available on the company?s website.
In the case of most private companies you can replace the information
about owners with information about the last financing round (date of
the last financing round and amount of capital invested).
Thank you.
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
15 Nov 2004 07:08 PST
I am still opening this to other researchers since I am still unable
to find some good leads. Maybe another researcher might be able to
find something in a much faster way.
Thanks!
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
15 Nov 2004 07:30 PST
Hmmm... another question will be are you strict about the
requirements of countries you mentioned since most of the companies I
found are from Europe. Would that be ok or you really like a good
representation across continents?
Plus if we can't find both "onwer information" or "last financing
round" will that still be ok?
I hope you be patient with our questions since most of us here want to
be sure that deletions to some of your requirements will still be ok
with you due to the undertaking that will need to be done to finish
this project.
Thanks again!
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Clarification of Question by
vlk-ga
on
15 Nov 2004 07:42 PST
Dear Easterangel,
Regarding geographic representation:
It is OK to have more companies from Europe. However, I need examples
also from other continents. To give a specific guidance: Of the 25
companies 15 can be from Europe, 5 from America (North, South) and 5
from Asia-Pacific. Some fluctuation (plus minus 2 per geographic
region) is OK, as long as the total remains at 25 companies.
Regarding owner information, last financing round:
It is OK if such information is not listed on the company website.
Thank you for taking the time to clarify the requirements.
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
15 Nov 2004 17:59 PST
Hi again vlk-ga!
It seems that even customer lists are not that consistent among these
types of companies. Some lists them (customers) while others don't
maybe because they are still new. Would companies without customer
lists still be ok for inclusion in my answer?
I am starting to collect the info for the companies and currently have
5 European and 5 US based companies. I will try to find some more.
Thanks!
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
15 Nov 2004 18:05 PST
Another thing is that some companies operate in different countries.
Would such companies be used as a supplement to regions wherein there
will be limited representation like for example Asia?
Thanks!
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
16 Nov 2004 01:14 PST
In the requirement:
"Examples of mobile operators where they have deployed their
solution. Here we need following info: mobile operator name, country
where the mobile operator is providing services, date of
implementation, what results were achieved with the solution"
Would a simple link to the list of clients be ok?
Update: I now have collected the number of companies per region.
Europe: 9
North America: 7
Asia: 1
I will still be on the hunt for more after you've given your reply to
my new set of clarifications.
Thank you for your patience.
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Clarification of Question by
vlk-ga
on
16 Nov 2004 02:02 PST
Dear Easterangel,
Thank you for doing this work. Here is clarification to the points you
raised above:
Regarding companies without customer lists:
No, please do not include these companies in the final list. I need
to see examples of their work.
Regarding companies operating in different regions:
Please find examples of companies that are based and operate in the
individual regions.
Regarding link to the list of clients:
Yes, a link to the list of clients is sufficient. Ideally it should
be a link to the page on a software company?s web site where they talk
about the customer credentials.
Note: I see that you have only one company in Asia. Please try
searching countries with highly developed mobile phone markets such as
Japan, South Korea or countries with highly developed outsourcing
industries such as India, China, Philippines.
Thank you for your work.
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
16 Nov 2004 05:42 PST
Hi again! Thanks for coming back and for being so patient. This is a
really tough project.
In your response: "Regarding companies operating in different regions:
Please find examples of companies that are based and operate in the
individual regions."
This is a big question for me since most if not all of the companies
mentioned here have branches in different countries. For example a
company you mentioned above like Elata. Elata has has an office in the
UK and in Singapore.
Elata Offices
http://www.elata.com/about_contact_us.asp
Will this be ok?
Thanks
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
16 Nov 2004 06:29 PST
After reviewing what I have and the ones that are out there it seems
that it is very hard to find companies that have the qualities you
need even if we have already stripped them down to the minimum
requirements. The frustrating findings are:
a. A great number of companies do not have lists of customers on their websites.
b. Very few companies in Asia are spot on your requirements and
ususally they don't list their customers and they don't have some of
the necessary details.
c. The European firms are mostly in London or in Ireland. While there
are other firms in Europe again their websites do not show the needed
detail you require.
I think I will have to give other researchers the chance to take a
crack at this. I hope they do a better job in finding your
requirements.
Thanks!
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Clarification of Question by
vlk-ga
on
16 Nov 2004 06:50 PST
Dear Easterangel,
Thank you very much for trying to answer the question.
Please summarize for me your results so far:
1: How many companies you identified by geographic area (geography is
identified by the company?s main office)?
2: How many companies have client examples/credentials?
3: How many companies have revenue figures or funding information?
4: How many companies have ownership information?
Depending on how far you got we can decide on one of the following option:
a: I keep the question open for other researchers to answer.
b: If no other researcher tries to answer in lets say 24 to 48 hours I
close this question and open up a new one with a lower price (that
would correspond to the amount of info that you collected so far) and
you post your answer against that question.
c: Some other option that you can suggest.
I am new at using google answers so I will welcome any suggestions on
how to get to the answer to my query.
Thanks again.
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
16 Nov 2004 07:24 PST
1. Total of 14 companies
Singapore = 1
Ireland = 2
England = 3
Sweden = 1
Canada = 1
USA = 8
2. The number of companies I found that shows as having customers
(sometimes they call them as partners) = 13
3. 8 (I thought that once I had the owner information, I do not need
the investor data. This is the reason why I included some that does
not have investor information.)
4. All 14 of them.
Actually I had more companies earlier but I deleted some of them when
you say you want only those that show customer lists.
Note: The geographical and customer requirements are really tough. I
know you have greatly relaxed a lot of the parameters of this research
so I did not ask anymore for the deletion on geographical and customer
lists.
I hope this would be of help.
Thanks once more.
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Clarification of Question by
vlk-ga
on
16 Nov 2004 08:54 PST
Dear Easterangel,
Thank you for the info. I will leave the question open for 24 hours
to see whether other researchers will take a crack at it. If nobody
does, then I will get back to you for the info that you have collected
so far ? option b.
Thank you very much for your help.
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Request for Question Clarification by
easterangel-ga
on
18 Nov 2004 17:10 PST
Hi again!
I was wondering that since it has already been more than 24 hours
since you have given the deadline, would you still be interested in
OPTION B. In case you are still interested, you can just change the
price in this question to reflect the amount you want to pay.
Thanks.
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Clarification of Question by
vlk-ga
on
19 Nov 2004 00:37 PST
Dear Easterangel,
Ok, we are now in option b. I changed the price to $100. Please post
the findings. Thank you for your work.
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Hi! Thanks for letting me answer your question.
Before providing a rating, please ask for clarification if you will
need further assistance in the answers I have provided below.
Here are the mobile content management companies I was able to find. I
now included those companies even without customer information since
you might have some use for them in the future.
Europe:
XIAM
Block S
East Point Business Park
Dublin 3
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 483 2000
Fax: +353 1 483 2001
E-mail: info@xiam.com
Website: www.xiam.com
Customers: http://www.xiam.com/customers/
Management: http://www.xiam.com/aboutus/management.shtml
Carbon Partners
25 Beak Street
London
W1F 9RT
Telephone : +44 (0)20 7734 6848
Email: info@carbonpartners.co.uk
Website: http://www.carbonpartners.co.uk/index.html
Customers: http://www.carbonpartners.co.uk/clients.html
Management: http://www.carbonpartners.co.uk/people.html
Macalla Software
19 Raglan Rd
Dublin 4
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 6642200
Fax: +353 1 6642213
Email: info@macalla.com
Website: http://www.macalla.com
Customers: http://www.macalla.com/customers/customers_home.html
Management: http://www.macalla.com/about/about_team.html
Investors: http://www.macalla.com/investors/investors.html
Tactel
Norra Vallgatan 64
SE-211 22 Malmö Sweden
Phone: +46 40 250 600
Fax: +46 40 250 601
Email: info@tactel.se
Website: http://www.tactel.se
Partners: http://www.tactel.se/partners.php
Mobile Streams Ltd
9 The Broadway
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 1AS
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 7000 366366 or +44 1635 230224
Fax: +44 7000 366367 or +44 1635 552863
Email: team@mobilestreams.com
Website: http://www.mobilestreams.com
Management: http://www.mobilestreams.com/management.asp
Customers & Partners: http://www.mobilestreams.com/default.asp
FlyTxt
Gretton House
28-30 Kirby Street
London
EC1N 8TE
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7675 8201
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7404 0269
Email: info@flytxt.com
Website: http://www.flytxt.com
Customers: http://www.flytxt.com/clients_clientlist.htm
Management: http://www.flytxt.com/about_management.htm
Funding Information: http://www.flytxt.com/cgi-bin/template.pl?t=nrpd&ID=49
NETSIZE CORPORATE
75, rue d?Anjou
75008 PARIS
Ph: + 33 1 53 05 58 00
Fax: +33 1 53 05 59 00
Contact email: info@netsize.com
Website: http://www.netsize.com/html/ie/
Trust 5
Unit 3
Bracken Business Park,
Bracken Road,
Sandyford Industrial Estate,
Dublin 18,
Ireland
Phone: +353 1 488 5700
Fax +353 1 294 1277
Email: info@trust5.com
Website: http://www.trust5.com
Nokia Preminet Solution
Keilalahdentie 2-4
P.O. Box 226
FIN-00045 Nokia Group
Finland
Tel. +358 (0) 7180 08000
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/preminet
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North America
Leapstone Systems - Corporate Headquarters
220 Davidson Avenue
Somerset, New Jersey 08873
Tel: +732.537.6800
Fax: +732.537.6900
Website: www.leapstone.com
Customers:
- IP Unity: http://www.ip-unity.com/
- Verizon Wireless: http://www.verizonwireless.com/
- Tekvision: http://www.tekvizion.com/
- Dinnovan: http://www.dinnovan.co.kr/
- Datatronics: http://www.datatronics.es/
Management: http://www.leapstone.com/leapstone/leadership.asp
Investors: http://www.leapstone.com/leapstone/investors.asp
Quios
665 Third Street, Suite 250
San Francisco, California 94107
United States
Tel: +1 415 778 6190
Email: sales@quios.net
Website: http://www.quios.com
Customers:
- Saraxa Media: http://www.saraxa.com/
- Vodafone: http://www.vodafone.com/
- MMO2: http://www.mmo2.com/
- Orange: http://www.orange.co.uk/
Management: http://www.quios.com/management.html
Investors: http://www.quios.com/investor.html
Pinpoint Networks
2800 Meridian Parkway
Suite 150
Durham, NC 27713
Tel: 919.287.7400
Fax: 919.287.7401
Toll-free: 1.800.PINPOINT
(1.800.746.7646)
Email: bizdev@pinpoint.com
Website: http://www.pinpoint.com
Customers: http://www.pinpoint.com/customers/index.html
Management: http://www.pinpoint.com/aboutUs/management.html
Investors: http://www.pinpoint.com/aboutUs/investors.html
Qpass Corporate Headquarters
2211 Elliott Avenue
Suite 400
Seattle, Washington 98121
USA
Phone: +1.206.447.6000
Fax: +1.206.447.0669
Email: info@qpass.com
Website: http://www.qpass.com
Customers: http://www.qpass.com/us/customers.html
Management: http://www.qpass.com/us/company_executive.html
Investors: http://www.qpass.com/us/company_investors.html
Crisp Wireless, Inc.
Corporate Headquarters:
420 Lexington Ave.
Suite 2735
New York, NY 10170
Phone: (212) 557-1850
Fax: (212) 202-7602
Email: info@crispwireless.com
Website: http://www.crispwireless.com
Customers: http://www.crispwireless.com/company/clients
Management: http://www.crispwireless.com/company/management
Wmode Inc.
Calgary, AB Office
3553 ? 31 Street N.W.
Calgary, AB, CANADA
T2L 2K7
Telephone: +1 403-260-8690
Fax: +1 403-210-3663
Toll Free: +1 866-366-0663
Customers & Partners:
- Mobile Operators: http://www.wmode.com/v2/customers_partners/wireless_operators.htm
- Content Providers:
http://www.wmode.com/v2/customers_partners/content_developers.htm
Management: http://www.wmode.com/v2/about_us/management.htm
InphoMatch, Inc.
4511 Singer Court, Suite 300
Chantilly, VA 20152
U.S.A.
Tel: +1.703.961.8300
Fax: +1.703.961.8308
Email: greg.matranga@inphomatch.com
Website: http://www.inphomatch.com
Management: http://www.inphomatch.com/executives.html
Investors: http://www.inphomatch.com/investors.html
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Asia
Orange Gum Pte Ltd
Unit #07-02 Suites 18 & 20,
Block 750A Chai Chee Road
Technopark @ Chai Chee, Singapore 469001
Main: +65-6442 8640
Fax: +65-6442 8643
Email: enquiry@orangegum.com
Website: www.orangegum.com
Customers:
- Disney Mobile: http://disney.go.com/disneymobile/
- Samsung Fan Club: http://mobile.samsungusa.com/
- Kakure: http://kakure.relaxz.com/kakure/loginpage/faq11.jsp?invokeurl=index.jsp
- DBTEL Club: http://dbtelclub.dbtel.com.tw/
- Relaxz Park: http://cna.relaxz.com/sg_relaxzpark/jsp/java_games/java_games.jsp
Investors and Management: http://www.orangegum.com/og/invest/investor.html
Search terms used:
?mobile content? management delivery platform
I hope these links would help you in your research. Before rating this
answer, please ask for a clarification if you have a question or if
you would need further information.
Thanks for visiting us.
Regards,
Easterangel-ga
Google Answers Researcher |
Request for Answer Clarification by
vlk-ga
on
19 Nov 2004 03:43 PST
Dear Easterangel,
Thank you for answering the question. I find the answer very good.
Before I rate the answer, could you please add links to the product
descriptions on the companies' web sites? By that I mean the part of
their web site where they describe the server based component that
can:
1: integrate with the mobile operator?s billing, provisioning,
authentication and customer management system.
2: can process content feeds in various formats (RSS, xml,..)
3: can interact with the handset using either wap or a handset based
client software (e.g., java client or ?)
Thank you very much.
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Clarification of Answer by
easterangel-ga
on
19 Nov 2004 06:40 PST
Hi again.
I made a few simple references to the type of product features you want.
Management Process - integrate with the mobile operator?s billing,
provisioning, authentication and customer management system.
Content Delivery - process content feeds in various formats (RSS, xml,..)
Handset Interaction - interact with the handset using either wap or a
handset based client software (e.g., java client or ?)
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Here are the product features:
Xiam
Management Process: http://www.xiam.com/products/contentplatform/platform-mgt.shtml
Content Delivery: http://www.xiam.com/products/XIAM%20Infrastructure/index.shtml
Handset Interaction: http://www.xiam.com/products/contentplatform/management.shtml
Macalla
Management Process: http://www.macalla.com/products/mobile_content_deliv.html
Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.macalla.com/downloads/dl_file.php?id=2648&file=files/Macalla_Multi-Device.pdf
Tactel
Management Process, Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.tactel.se/pdf/mms/prodblad_ambient.pdf
MobileStreams
Management Process, Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.mobilestreams.com/products.asp
FlyTXT
Management Process, Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.flytxt.com/technology_content_platforms.htm
Netsize
Management Process, Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.netsize.com/asp/getpage.asp?page=SO000&lang=ie
Trust5
Management Process, Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.trust5.com/products/entertainment/mcontent/
Nokia Preminet Solution
Management Process, Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.nokia.com/BaseProject/Sites/NOKIA_MAIN_18022/CDA/Categories/Developers/preminet_pdf/_Content/_Static_Files/preminetarchoverview_revised.pdf
Leapstone
Management Process, Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.leapstone.com/solutions/wireless.asp
Quios
Management Process: http://www.quios.com/features.html
Content Delivery & Handset Interaction: http://www.quios.com/press_07_01_2004.html
Pinpoint (Now Metrocity)
Management Process & Handset Interaction:
http://www.pinpoint.com/press_kit/fuelOverview.pdf
Content Delivery: http://www.pinpoint.com/productsServices/fuelShop.html
QPass
Management Process, Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.qpass.com/us/download/files/qpass_prosperity_series_041014.pdf
Crisp Wireless
Management Process: http://www.crispwireless.com/products/commerce
Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.crispwireless.com/products/technology
Wmode
Management Process: http://www.wmode.com/v2/services/wireless_operators.htm
Handset Interaction: http://www.wmode.com/v2/services/media_developers.htm
Content Delivery: http://www.wmode.com/v2/services/content_developers.htm
InphoMatch
Management Process, Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.inphomatch.com/products/inphoxchangesms.html
Orange Gum
Management Process: http://www.orangegum.com/og/bizoutline/bizoutlinesolb_pay.html
Content Delivery & Handset Interaction:
http://www.orangegum.com/og/bizoutline/bizoutlinecontentb.html
I hope this would be of help.
Easterangel
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