Gone Are The Days Where You Wait 5 Years For New Tech To Appear In Devices

Freescale answered our power prayers with the introduction of its i.MX 6 processor suite at CES earlier in 2011, but left us longing for a demo. Well, the outfit gave us all, our first glimpse at the healthiest processing muscle in the bunch, the quad-core i.MX 6. Sporting four ARM Cortex A9 cores and a 64-bit memory bus, the reference design board was seen running a 1080p video demo and Quake at the same time and it didn't have any trouble to cater to the specification requirements. Freescale says it's currently working with Google on making the processor Honeycomb compatible, but it is still time for that since i.MX 6 is not expected to make its way into real deal machines until 2012.

Freescale launched the first demo of the quad core application processor, the i.MX 6 at the FTF 2011. The powerful processor is capable of dual streaming of 1080p video and supports 3D encode and 3D decode while playing high end graphics simultaneously. The i.MX 6 quad core processor supports 3D HD video playback, 1080p HD video conferencing and HD multi screen video playback. http://www.todaycomponents.com/omron-h3ca-a-switch.html The integrated IOs include HDMI v1.4, MIPI and LVDS display ports, MIPI CSI-2 camera, Gigabit Ethernet, multiple USB 2.0 and PCI Express.  Freescale assures comprehensive security with their latest quad core processor.

The unique graphics unit has undergone several changes from previous generations and although the device used in the demo was a reference model and despite the device having seven day old silicon it managed to have the video unit running in the first twenty four hours, the graphics unit running in the first 48 hours while a Linux Windows CE Operating System was booted during the same time and the processor managed to respond phenomenally.

It was certainly clear at the demo that Freescale would get the company’s in house software guys to work on the hardware to make it Windows compatible along with Android and several other operating systems to capitalize on the consumer electronics market boom.

Freescale is certainly optimistic about the graphics processing and computing ability of the quad core processor and they are aiming at automotive and industrial verticals apart from consumer products. The objective certainly is to offer a superior and hitherto inexperienced processing power. From the demo, apparently the real intent of the company has been into development of revolutionary bus networks and silicone blocks that have not been exploited till date.

China Business Opportunity Returns

After couple months of leaving this blog idle, I have decided to start blogging again. The reason is because during the course of this period of time, I've experienced quite a lot in terms of doing business in China, the general trend, and some of the recent changes that occured. So I decided to blog again to share these insights with you guys.

Anyhow, let me tell you what I've been up to lately. I've been focusing on growing my company Guillen Global, a startup company that operates multiple ecommerce stores in various niches. Some of those stores include My Popcorn Machine .com, Wholesale College Textbooks .com, and LG Tickets .com. And where do I get my products? Yea you're right - China. You have to be amazed by the price discrepency of Chinese manufacturer and US ones. Not only is the quality of Chinese products became better and better, the price is still remaining low. US manufacturers will have a tough time competing with them for a while.

Besides Guillen Global, I have continued my consulting practise through my company Dominic Lee & Co., mainly focusing on providing consultations in internet marketing and strategies of doing business in China.

Next time, I will tell you more about what I have learned through these experience and how it will benefit you in your China business endeavor.

Here's the deal about China business opportunities blog

Dear Reader,

I have stopped writing on this blog for a while, the reason is because while I recieve a lot of traffic from search engine per day, only minor part of these visitors end up coming back to read this blog. Furthermore, none of my readers had left me a comment or whatsoever. So I wonder, are my contents just not very useful to you?

So here's the deal, if you want me to continue writing on this blog, please leave me a comment as what do you like/dislike about this blog and tell me about what information are you looking for exactly, and I will act (or write) accordingly. If I don't recieve any comments within 2 weeks, I would assume there arent much interest in the topic and I'll just give up writting. Sad.. but I cant waste my time on doing something unproductive, I have my businesses to attend to.

Thanks and look forward to seeing your comment.
Dominic

China Internet Business Opportunities 1 - Domain Real Estate V

China Business Opportunity

So this time, we are going to reveal the million dollar secret, which of the 3 systems should we go for? And how do we find appropriate keywords so we can make a profit?

So let's look at which one is the most popular right now. At this moment, most internet users in China are the more educated ones and therefore has at least some knowledge in English. Because .com.cn was introduced so much earlier than the other 2 methods, it is still the most widely used and accepted type of domain.

As for the future potential, it seems like more and more people are leaning towards to Chinese Domain compare with 3721, although 3721 is owned by yahoo and currently has a larger market share; Chinese Domain had only launched for little more than a year and is already gaining some momentum in the country. The other factor why I believe Chinese Domain will surpass 3721 is because its compatability with the current system. They still use a .something, although that something is in Chinese. Therefore, it opens up a window of opportunities that in the future, it can be used interchangeably with the .coms. However, in a forseeable future, .com.cn is still the way to go.

Many of the good keywords .com.cn domain names are already being snatched up; however it is not nearly to the extent of .com. As for Chinese Domain, there are still a lot of major keywords left unregistered.

So how do you find these keywords? (especially for you who do not speak Chinese)

This is how you find keywords. You already know what .com sold for a high value, so what you want to do is to find the chinese translation of it. For .com.cn, you want to look for the word's "pinyin"(the english way of putting Chinese) and for chinese domain, you want to just type in the Chinese Word. If possible, have a Chinese to double check your selection, as the results from the dictionary might be in the form of which very few people speak.

Where do I register for these domain?

Here's where you find it. Search for "domain registration" in www.baidu.com, it is the most widely used search engine in China and the 1st couple results should contain what you are looking for. For 3721's domain, you can go directly to www.3721.com.

This is the last entry regarding Domain Name Real Estate in China, next time, we will talk about other internet opportunities in China, including ecommerce, B-B services, SEO, and internet marketing.

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China Internet Business Opportunities 1 - Domain Real Estate IV

China Business Opportunity

So yesterday we talked about Chinese Internet Domain, let us talk about an alternative to that today, it is called 3721

What is 3721?

3721 officially launched its Chinese domain keyword service in June 1999 and has since then experienced rapid growth. 3721 enables Internet users to navigate the web and search for relevant on-line information using real world names and familiar identities in their native language, rather than having to remember domain names/ URLs. (i.e. type "fish" instead of "http://www.fish.com")

The application was developed on top of the existing DNS infrastructure; it provides a human friendly Internet navigation interface as well as on-line directory search-like services. The service is widely available on client-software enabled browser as well as from most of the leading portal sites, search engines, and ISP portals throughout China.

In the past four years of market and technology development, 3721 has established itself as one of the most popular Internet brand in China. The CKW service is one of the most widely used service on the Internet in China, serving over 30 million keyword resolutions everyday and reaching over 90% of Chinese Internet users. 3721 has formed broad strategic partnerships with leading portals, search engines and close to 300 local ISPs throughout China. As a result, in addition to enjoying direct navigation and keyword search in the browser address line, Internet users in China can access the Chinese Keyword service from China's leading portals and ISPs.

At the international level, 3721 works closely with leading international companies, notably their collaboration with MSN enhances the users' search and navigation experience on the IE browser in China.

3721 is dedicated to the vision of helping millions of Chinese businesses and their prospective customers to interface more easily with each other on the Web. Going forwards, 3721 will continue its focus on keyword and related service development and strive to provide better and more human-friendly Internet navigation and search services for Internet users and businesses in China.

Note: The name of the company "3721" came from a Chinese proverb "as easy as 3x7=21", something similar to "Just do it" in connotation. It was the vision the founder of 3721 had when it was started - they wanted to make going online for the Chinese in their native language as easy as possible, which the company has achieved through their IE plug-in that translates Chinese keyword into domain names or search queries. 3721's service now reaches over 90% of the desktops in China. Also, a numerical domain name would be easier to remember than English or Pinyin (Chinese pronunciation in alphabet) word for ordinary Chinese, thus making the 3721 corporate web site easier to access for the target users, no matter whether they're using Chinese keyword or domain name to navigate to the site.

The Million Dollar Question...

So we have, in front of us, 3 options - .com.cn (or .cn), Chinese Domain (.gongsi), and 3721, which one is the most popular and most likely to dominate the future China Internet Market?


Enough of that; next time in China Business Opportunities, we will talk about the million dollar question, which domains are likely to become profitable and which to register for.

China Internet Business Opportunities 1 - Domain Real Estate III

China Business Opportunity

This time, we are going to elaborate on the cyber real estate business opportuntiy in China, in specifically, show you how you can profit from Chinese Internet Domain and 3721.

Chinese Internet Domain

Chinese Internet Domain was developed and was launched March 2005 by the exclusive partnership of i-DNS.net International Pte. Ltd., the Singapore-based company that pioneered the concept and technology behind multilingual domain names, also known as Internationalised Domain Names (IDN), CNNIC, the Chinese Internet Agency responsible for Domain Names and the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China.

The domain names are available under the top-level Simplified Chinese character extensions. 公司" (i.e. ".gongsi" which means "company" in Chinese) and/or ".网络" (i.e. ".wangluo" which means "networking") where the "dot" character can be typed in either English (ASCII) or Chinese. MII has endorsed these Chinese domain names at the Domain Name Management Policy announcement.

Owing to extensive pre-launch preparations over 2004 for the distribution of the necessary enabling software amongst the more than 100+ Million Internet end-users in China, names registered now can be immediately accessed and used by more than half of these Chinese Internet users. This wide usability has been achieved by a successful program to distribute tens of millions of plug-in software via all major search engines，portal sites and bundling with major Chinese software developers in China (n.b. over 2 million a month via Baidu, Sohu, Sina and others and to require all 4 major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who account for some 95% of all end-users to adopt the necessary software to enable their users.

It is expected that the continuing effort to increase widespread usability, with ongoing progress to enlist ISPs and portals in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, should result in near-100% usability within the coming year in the Greater Chinese end-user community, which accounts for roughly one-quarter of all worldwide Internet users today.

After a soft-launch within China and MII's active public encouragement of such Chinese domain names; within several weeks of its launch, some 30,000 names - including names by the rightful trademarks owners of international brands like Rolex and Tudor as well company names by multi-national corporations like Societe Generale, Dell and Starbucks - have already been registered in these newly-government approved Chinese names of the form 名字.公司 (i.e. 'name.gongsi') and 名字.网络 (i.e 'name.wangluo').

Now i-DNS.net and its authorized Registrars, like LGA Telecom in Singapore, being the sole source of these names outside of China, have begun offering registration to its current and former customers, starting with the Singapore market. The purchase of Simplified Chinese names from the i-DNS.net/CNNIC partnership will automatically allow the corresponding web-site to be accessed by an equivalent, computer-generated domain name in Traditional Chinese characters (i.e. used in Hong Kong and Taiwan) free of charge. Conversely, one can also buy a Traditional Chinese name directly and get an automatically assigned Simplified Chinese version free.

Within China, the launch of Chinese Domain Names has attracted many corporations in registering their own Chinese Domain Names. To handle the growing demand and interest, 15 states, including Beijing, Shanghai etc. have been designated as regional centers in the effort to continue educating the public. Now that China has become one of the world's most dynamic economies, foreign multinational companies hope to expedite their marketing goals in China by registering these Chinese-character domain names since the emerging Chinese Internet consumer is predominantly a non-English speaker and strategically best approached via the Chinese language.

20 years after the Internet Domain name system in English was invented, and 7 years after NUS invented and pioneered the concept, and 6 years after NUS conducted an Asia-Pacific deployment testbed with a dozen nations and languages, and after 5 years of lukewarm commercial deployments in various parts of the world, with the majority being a misguided attempt at trying to get multilingual peoples to accept two-language hybrid domain names, finally it is being done.

It is worth noting that the current Greater Chinese Internet community, with most being in China, accounts for roughly half of the multilingual community from a language/script point of view and for whom the English/ASCII characters are insufficient as labels for Internet domain names since the majority do not speak English and hence had been left out of this phenomenon.

Furthermore, it is projected that by 2007/8 this Greater Chinese community will account for more than half of all Internet users, surpassing English as the main language of the Internet. So, the fact that China has championed this and most importantly already enabled both widespread usability and given its legal backing and authority over domain name disputes etc., signals that from a numbers point of view half the multilingual Internet peoples today are already enabled

With the enabling of China’s masses, MINC is well on its way to achieving its global mission of making it possible for any citizen to access the Internet in their own native language and help guide the remaining 4+ billion peoples or so who do not speak English and who are not yet on the Internet to have one less bridge to cross the Digital Divide.

It is important to note that, for the sake of clarity, that these Chinese domain names, completely in Chinese characters, are not to be confused with and are not in anyway connected with the Chinese/English hybrid domain names like 我的名字.com and 我的名字.net that have been marketed with mixed success since 2000 by Verisign. These are neither China-government approved nor widely usable in China.

All purchased names is protected for trademark and other rights by the dispute policy and regulations set by the Chinese government under the agreement that every domain name registrant will enter into with the mainland government authorities at the time of purchase.

These names can be purchased immediately from LGA Telecom Ltd. by visiting http://lga.i-dns.biz/. Potential registrants who cannot speak or type Chinese can also register names via an on-line transliteration service provided at a modest fee. With a one stop-purchase one can protect one's business and trademark interests in the Chinese marketplace which is expected to grow from the current 100+ Million eyeballs to more than half of all worldwide Internet users by 2007/8.

Ok, this is running a little bit long, so I am going to stop here and leave 3721 to talk about next time on China Business Opportunities.

China Internet Business Opportunities 1 - Domain Real Estate II

China Business Opportunity

So last time we talked about how all the good .com domains are snatched up by internet pioneers who are making big bucks reselling them. This time we will focus on how we can apply the same principal to the Chinese internet.

But here's the deal, there are actually 3 different families of domain in China now, they are the regional extension of the western .com domain - ending with .com.cn (or .net.cn whatsoever); Chinese internet domain (which ends with a Simplified Chinese character extensions ".公司" (i.e. ".gongsi" which means "company" in Chinese) and/or ".网络" (i.e. ".wangluo" which means "network") where the "dot" character can be typed in either English (ASCII) or Chinese; and the third type is called 3721, which uses Chinese words or phrases as the address of the websites without any extensions.

So most of us already know about the .com.cn, so I am not going to talk about it. In the next entry I will explain further about the Chinese Internet Domain as well as 3721.

So stay tuned in China business opportunities for more info on cyber real estate in China.

China Internet Business Opportunities 1 - Domain Real Estate I

China Business Opportunity

Ok, back from vacation; this time we are going to talk about some Internet Business Opportunities in China. In this entry, in specific, domain name (cyber) real estate in the Chinese internet business world.

What is Domain Name Real Estate?

"Domain Name Real Estate" is a term coined by the internet investment community relating to the parallel that exists between high quality internet domain names and real-world, prime real estate. Where entreprenuers snatch up the quality domain names (usually short real words) and resell those domains for many times their original value.

For example, the domain name Business.com was sold for a staggering $8 million and Wine.com was sold for $7 million dollars. That makes them the most expensive domain names in the world.

It's the .com addresses that are pulling in the big money. Out of the 32 million or so domain names registered worldwide over 22 million of them are .coms. The second most popular is .net, with a paltry 5 million domains registered.

But isn't it a bit late to grab those really great domain names and to turn yourself into an overnight millionaire by auctioning them off? Yes, the truth is, all the good .com domains were long gone, snatched up by Internet pioneers who realized their potential value. In fact over 98 percent of the words in Webster's dictionary have already been registered. So why are we still talking about this? You may wonder.

So here's the deal, while most valuable .com domains are being occupied, many valuable Chinese domain names are not. As a smart entrepreneur, you can exploit this opportunity very easily.

So now we have explained what domain name real estate is, next time in China Business Opportunities, we will talk about how you can take advantage of the cyber real estate opportunities in China.