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Category Archives: Analysis
E-money users grew 18%, e-commerce players are still not happy
TweetDigital cash money is still considered new in Indonesia, however the user’s amount may not be as insignificant. Detikinet reveals that in 2012, the number of e-money users in Indonesia will reach 12 million, in assumption of 30% -40% active users. In Indonesia, e-money usage is driven by the bank and only 10% contributed by [...]
The Launch of the Nokia Asha 300 and the Importance of Applications for Mobile Platforms
TweetSeveral days ago, Nokia launched the Asha 300 in Indonesia aimed at the middle to lower market segment in Indonesia, the Asha 300. With decent technical specifications, Asha 300 has a fairly affordable price range for IDR 1 million. 300 Asha is a S40-based Nokia mobile phone which had sold more than 1.5 billion units [...]
Could Samsung Pose a Threat to Google?
TweetThis week’s Monday Note by Jean Louis Gassée sparked an interesting thought and possibility that Samsung is gaining a serious upper hand in the Android world and could use it as leverage against Google. Now why would Samsung do that? At this point, Samsung probably wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize the relationship with Google, after [...]
Indonesia Will Lose The Title as “Second Largest Population in Facebook” This Year
TweetSo far, we are always proud of the fact that Indonesia is a “social media country” — so active in Facebook pages and Twitter. There are many countless times that Twitter users from Indonesia “lift” the topics to be trending globally for days. Indonesia is the county with second most populous Facebook users in the [...]
RIM Expects BlackBerry users in Indonesia to Reach 9.7 Million in 2015
TweetResearch in Motion (RIM) has achieved success with the BlackBerry marketing in Indonesia until now. As quoted by AFP (published by The Australians), there are about 5 million subscribers of BlackBerry service (BIS and BES) in Indonesia until 2011. They predict the number will be nearly doubled in 2015, to 9.7 million subscribers. Roughly speaking, [...]
Why Are Indonesian Developers Still Interested in the PlayBook?
TweetResearch In Motion finally launched the 7-inch PlayBook tablet back in April last year after much delay since 2010. Though the tablet was aimed at the enterprise market, it shipped with none of the tools used in the field. It had no email support, no calendar, and no BlackBerry Messenger, unless tethered to a BlackBerry [...]
Goodbye 2011, Welcome 2012
Tweet2011 will be over in just a few hours, last year was an exciting year for digital, internet, web, mobile and startup scene in Indonesia. In addition to appearing new startup, the year 2011 also marked with several falls of startup and slowly-moving startup. In this article I want to give a brief overview of [...]
The 3 Myths of Cloud Computing
TweetIn a cloud computing seminar, Mr Francis Lee from Joyent said there are a number of myths about cloud computing. The myths that made people and companies are still reluctant to switch the old model to data centre cloud computing services. Education about cloud computing is absolutely necessary to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of cloud [...]
How Would You Bring Digital Music Sales to Indonesia?
TweetIndonesia’s music industry at the moment is beholden to ringback tones, the audio replacements that you hear when you make a phone call to a mobile number. While sales of physical albums have deteriorated over the last decade, ringback tones have become highly popular since its introduction in the mid 2000s. These can come in [...]
RIM Continues to Embrace Developers to Boost PlayBook App Numbers