Tom Online provides wireless data services such as short messaging systems, multimedia messaging systems and content based on wireless application protocol.
Besides being a Web portal for millions of Chinese speakers, this Beijing-based company has built a thriving business providing wireless data services, such as short messaging systems, multimedia messaging systems and content based on wireless application protocol (WAP).
Selected key applications described in the book include multimedia news services, multimedia courseware and training, interactive television systems, digital video libraries, multimedia messaging systems, and interactive multimedia publishing systems.
Because applications such as multimedia messaging systems are so important to the carriers to help generate revenue, I also added to the FWSW portfolio shares of Tom Online in March of this year.
Multimedia messaging systems could be even bigger than text messaging, which is expected to generate $10 billion in sales by 2006 and about $44 billion in annual service revenues.
A messaging system enables carpool coordination.
The planned summer update to the iPhone's operating system, which will include features like the ability to make payments within applications and multimedia messaging, "unleashes a whole new level of innovation that keeps Apple years ahead of everyone else," he said.
The company has also delayed bandwidth-heavy features like multimedia messaging, or text messages containing pictures, audio or video.
But it adds integration with iMessage, Apple's worldwide text and multimedia messaging service that bypasses mobile carriers' text fees.
