Microsoft said on Saturday that it will close the MSN TV service at the end of September. The company has issued a notice on the official website and emailed users to inform the matter.
MSN TV, formerly known as WebTV, is similar to Google TV. It is a set of devices that includes a streamlined client connected to a TV or monitor, provides Internet access, and online services. WebTV is made by Steve, a famous Silicon Valley entrepreneur. It was created by Steve Perlman and sold to Microsoft for $ 503 million in mid-1997 when it boomed in the Web 1.0 era.
Editor's interpretation:
This is not the first time Microsoft has restructured its TV business this year. In April this year, Microsoft announced the sale of its IPTV business platform Mediaroom to Ericsson. The platform provides Internet TV technology for telecommunications companies such as AT & T, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica and Telus. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the second half of this year.
However, there are still many technology companies interested in developing TV and its content release, including Roku and Apple. Apple CEO Tim. In a recent D: All Things Digital conference, TIm Cook said that Apple is still very interested in the interactive TV field.
OEM giant battle repeats: BYD once again challenges Foxconn
At the end of the last century, BYD entered the field of IT foundry. In 2003, it began to dig up employees from Foxconn and compete for customers. Several scandals broke out between the two companies to illegally obtain the business secrets of the other company, and a long-term commercial and litigation war began.
From the newly unveiled Intel fourth-generation Core tablet prototype, to the already listed Huawei P6, to the Android tablet Slate 7 just launched by HP, and even the upcoming Nokia EOS and China Mobile's own brand mobile phones, these seemingly unrelated topic products Behind there is a connection that the outside world cannot see-their foundry is not the most familiar foundry giant Foxconn, but BYD who has challenged the former.
Although this former battery foundry has long been seen as a transition to the automotive and solar industries, more and more evidence shows that BYD is still interested in the smart terminal foundry business. Wang Chuanfu, Chairman and President of BYD ’s board of directors, publicly disclosed at the general meeting of shareholders in the first quarter of this year that the company has “opened up new smartphone projects for leading global mobile phone manufacturers, and successfully expanded new products and businesses such as tablet PCs, promoting the Group ’s mobile phones. The substantial increase in the revenue and profits of the parts and assembly business ", which is one of the reasons for the increase in the profit of the BYD Group.
Editor's interpretation:
In the past few years, BYD has been hard-pressed in the field of IT OEM. It has been relying on the story of electric vehicles to impress the capital market, but until today, BYD's auto business is still in a stage of growth and loss. Among many of BYD ’s core businesses, the solar business is rapidly shrinking due to huge losses and unknown prospects; the automotive business has developed rapidly but does not make money. The battery business has developed steadily for many years but will not experience explosive growth. Industrial business is gradually re-focusing on BYD's business
For Foxconn, it is now the most difficult period. Subject to several mass incidents and rising labor costs, Foxconn has faced the dilemma of not being able to hire workers in China. Unstable cooperation with Apple is a bigger crisis. In the first quarter of this year, Foxconn parent company Hon Hai Precision released a first quarter report for fiscal year 2013, which showed that its revenue suffered a sharp decline in the quarter.
The two companies will have a hard battle between the OEM business in the future, which means that the OEM will be able to provide products for brand manufacturers at a lower price, which is good news for the domestic mobile terminal market.
Fortune releases top 500 on July 8
The 2013 Fortune Global 500 ranking will be released on the evening of July 8, 2013, Beijing time. Can the vigorous development of smartphones be reflected in the list? Can Apple and Samsung maintain the lead among all industry giants?
Editor's interpretation:
Last year, China surpassed Japan in the number of the world's top 500 companies and followed the United States. This year, in addition to the old faces of Huawei and Lenovo, what other Chinese technology companies will make the list?
Nokia will release "Lumia 909" on July 11th
Although Motorola took the lead one day to insert a stick, but Nokia will still hold a new product launch conference in New York this Thursday. This new product is likely to be the legendary camera artifact, WP flagship mobile phone EOS equipped with a 41 million pixel camera.
Moreover, there have been rumors that EOS was renamed to Lumia909, as the latest flagship mobile phone that combines the design features of 920 and PureView 808 camera technology, Nokia clearly has high hopes for it.
Editor's interpretation:
As some netizens have said, the reason why Lumia does not have great popularity is that Nokia is not Microsoft. Nokia's camera technology and hardware quality are still worthy of trust, but the WP system has seriously dragged down the popularity of the platform and cannot give Nokia hardware points.
The birth of revolutionary ultra-strong nanomaterials
According to foreign media reports, scientists have created a revolutionary super-strong nanomaterial that can be used in everything from dental braces and medical implants to cables, solar panels and mobile phones. "Science" magazine published their research results. The researchers developed a composite material using niobium nanowires embedded in a nickel-titanium shape memory alloy matrix to solve this problem.
Editor's interpretation:
Revolutionary ultra-strong nanomaterials may promote related electronics industry innovation.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pushes the standardization of six new materials fields
A few days ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Three-year Action Plan for New Material Industry Standardization". It is proposed that by 2015, 200 key standards shall be prepared and revised, and 300 new material standards shall be established and initiated, and 50 key standard pre-researches shall be carried out to strive to cover the 400 key new material products proposed in the 12th Five-Year Plan Basically, an important technical standard system with innovation achievements and international level urgently needed in the development of key areas was basically formed. Strive to establish a forward-looking new material industry standard system that is compatible with the development of the new material industry through three years of efforts.
Editor's interpretation:
Some securities analysts pointed out that electronic information materials (such as Yongtai Technology, Chengzhi shares, etc.), new energy materials (Sinoma Technology, TBEA, Jiabao Group, etc.), new energy vehicle battery materials (such as Dangsheng Technology, Concept stocks such as Xinzhoubang, Shanshan, etc.), rare earth materials (such as Baosteel Rare Earth, Xiamen Tungsten, Hengdian East Magnetic, etc.), non-ferrous metal alloy materials (such as Tibet Mining, Yunhai Metal, etc.) benefited.
We believe that many new technologies must rely on new materials and new processes, and the establishment of new standards will help strengthen the standardized development of the new material industry.
Xinhua News Agency Enters Mobile Payment Market
Xinhuatong Software Development Co., Ltd. and Ping An Pension Insurance Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement on the 7th, and the two parties will jointly enter the mobile payment market of the insurance industry. According to Xinhuanet report, according to the strategic cooperation agreement, the two parties will start preliminary cooperation from simple insurance products, and gradually explore to expand the scope of cooperation, using their respective mobile payment advantages and financial service advantages, in terms of fund collection, online payment, fast payment, etc. Start full cooperation.
Editor's interpretation:
The development of NFC technology and the popularization of NFC mobile phones will greatly promote the popularization of mobile payments. The companies that can benefit in the future are, on the one hand, those that can provide core technology, and on the other, companies that can participate in operations. Including related chip manufacturing and packaging industries, RF-SIM cards, POS terminals, payment platforms, etc.
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