Building a Joint Ventured ecosystem with Amazon,Samsung and HP webOS. Intel in talks and Qualcomm is back for webOS.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Building a Joint Ventured ecosystem with Amazon,Samsung and HP webOS. Intel in talks and Qualcomm is back for webOS.

1.-Building a Joint Ventured ecosystem with Amazon,Samsung and HP webOS.

We are going straight to the point as we recommend a final solution  to keep webOS on devices.

Amazon for the digital media ecosystem. 

The extraordinary digital media content ecosystem of Amazon is to envy, all in one product with:

·         a) Amazon’s e-book platform

·       b)  The potential of Amazon’s Silk browser: it blends the experience between the cloud and the device.

Per Amazon, Silk should bring a faster browsing experience:

“Instead of a device-siloed software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-architecture. All of the browser subsystems are present on your Kindle Fire as well as on the AWS cloud computing platform. Each time you load a Web page, Silk makes a dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which will execute remotely. In short, Amazon Silk extends the boundaries of the browser, coupling the capabilities and interactivity of your local device with the massive computing power, memory, and network connectivity of our cloud.”

·         c)The extra value of an Amazon Prime membership, which gets you streaming videos and the ability to borrow books on the Kindle Fire.

·         d)And the unlimited cloud storage for Amazon content: all Amazon-purchased content can be stored on Amazon’s servers, including books, movies, music, and apps.

Samsung for the marvelous hardware, smartphones and tablets. 

However in this point maybe Amazon will like to discuss the option to build the hardware with Foxconn, who will make the next  gen 7 inch Kindle Fire.

HP for the mobile OS software, webOS, with stunning features like multitasking and synergy.

Three companies together in a Joint Venture company, willing to share each other, their expertise.

2.-Intel in talks and Qualcomm is back for webOS.  

A VentureBeat source says that Intel has just begun discussions with HP and that Qualcomm is still in the running for Palm.

3.-Final webOS decision in December.

A final decision by HP Ceo MegWhitman might come in December as we reported before: 

Bloomberg: Meg Whitman: WebOS decision for early December

We expect not to see webOS  licensed back by HP just for printers. What is the point in that case?


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Bloomberg: Meg Whitman: WebOS decision for early December

Joint Venture: Telefónica/MasterCard to offer mobile financial solutions in Latin America

WorldWideTech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Press Release:

Telefónica and MasterCard create a joint venture to offer mobile financial solutions in Latin America

The new company will offer mobile financial solutions to Movistar’s 87 million customers in 12 countries in the region • As part of this agreement, Movistar® mobile subscribers in Latin America will be able to use their mobile phones for person to person money transfers, bill payment, mobile airtime reload and retail purchases, among other services. 

• This initiative is a step toward achieving financial inclusion for the underserved in Latin America - positively impacting its economic development. • New company will provide a better alternative to paying with cash for both consumers and merchants, combined with the convenience of mobility.

Telefónica (NYSE:TEF) and MasterCard (NYSE:MA) announced today a joint venture to lead the development of mobile financial solutions in 12 countries in Latin America where Telefónica is present with the Movistar® brand.   This is a first-of-a-kind initiative where a payments and telecommunications company partner to create a new company focused on integrating the convenience and accessibility provided by mobile phones with a set of financial solutions that will work with existing electronic payment systems.

The new company, managed independently, will have a 50/50 ownership participation and will leverage banking relationships of both companies, Telefonica’s telecommunications assets and MasterCard’s payment’s expertise.

 The joint venture will have an open model to ensure interoperability among the banked and unbanked segments, and serve as a bridge between the financial and telecommunications sectors.

It will seek to provide 87 million current and potential Movistar customers with mobile payment services that will be linked to a mobile wallet or prepaid account including money transfers, mobile airtime reload, bill payment and retail purchases, among others.  In addition, some of these services such as receiving remittances may also benefit 200 million Movistar and non-Movistar mobile subscribers in the 12 Latin America markets included in the joint venture.

This initiative is a step toward achieving financial inclusion for the underserved in Latin America - positively impacting its economic development.

Aside from offering convenience and security, the range of mobile financial solutions to be offered will be the most complete to date and widely accessible to all, regardless of their access to banking services.

Through this initiative, it is expected that acceptance of electronic payments will be expanded to enable what are today predominantly cash-based merchant locations and micro-businesses such as taxis, street vendors, among others, to accept mobile payments.

Financial inclusion and the development of society

As part of its objectives, the joint venture will seek to promote the financial inclusion of a high percentage of the Latin American population with difficult or no access to traditional banking systems for reasons such as low income or living in remote areas – to potentially have a positive impact to the economic development of the region.

Market research and customer surveys in Latin America both confirm that mobile phones are perceived to be convenient and safe, and therefore, an appropriate tool for financial transactions.  It is also estimated that by 2014 mobile financial transactions will reach approximately US $63 billion in Latin America.

'MasterCard’s commitment to foster financial inclusion across the globe makes the joint venture an exciting opportunity to provide accessible and affordable financial solutions to the millions of consumers in the Latin America region who have never been able to enjoy the benefits of electronic payments,' said Richard Hartzell, President, MasterCard Latin America and Caribbean region. 'This initiative puts us at the forefront of mobile payments in the region and arms us with the right artillery to strengthen our war on cash.'

'By offering mobile financial solutions, we are fully responding to the demands of the population in Latin America that trusts in their mobile phone to conduct financial operations,' said Joaquin Mata, Global Head of Financial Services for Telefónica. 'This joint venture places Telefónica in a solid position to lead the development of mobile financial solutions in Latin America'.

HP is thinking big and beyond . Joining Taiwan notebooks manufacturers in a world´s first large production station base. Acer, Asustek and Toshiba likely to follow.

WorldWideTech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

 HP is thinking big and beyond joining Taiwan notebooks manufacturers in a BIG production operation base.

We think it is already granted the webos notebooks massive production is included in the project, BEYOND our expectations.

"The government of Chongqing City, western China, has successfully created a large notebook production in the city with Hewlett-Packard (HP), Foxconn, Quanta Computer and Inventec stationing there. The base is expected to become the largest around the world, with shipments to increase from 35-40 million units in 2011 to 60-70 million units in 2012 and further to 100 million units in 2013, according to mayor Huang Qi-fan at a signing ceremony in Taipei on January 18."

"The ceremony marked Chicony Electronics' signing with the government to set up a factory at the production base."

"Acer has decided to set up a base at the production base, and Asustek Computer and Toshiba are very likely to follow suit, Huang indicated. In addition to vendors, notebook ODMs Compal Electronics, Wistron and Pegatron Technology have decided to do so, Huang added. 120 component makers have stationed at the production base to form a supply chain and 80 more will join in 2011, Huang pointed out."

"Chicony will produce keyboards, lens modules, power supplies and wireless communication modules for notebooks, with the factory to be completed in May and production to kick off in July-August 2011, said company vice chairman Lin Mao-kuei at the ceremony."

Chicony has been a supplier of power supplies for a US-based vendor of games consoles based on sensing body movement, and has landed additional orders for another key component from the client, Lin pointed out. According to industry sources in Taiwan, the key component is camera modules."

Source: Digitimes