WEEKLY REPORT

Li Pin

Feb 14-20,2003

 

Weekly Goals:

1. Translate the method of improve your brainpower.

2. Work on the IQ test when we get it from Sir Chris.

MARKET NEWS

1.      Rethink on Legend-AOL China venture

      Legend CFO sees over 20% growth in China IT spending

BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- AOL Time Warner's much-ballyhooed joint venture with China's top computer maker Legend Holdings is being "reassessed," but this isn't because of the U.S. media conglomerate's financial woes, said a senior Legend executive.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BBA8F87A8%2DBC4B%2D4240%2D8756%2DB71D8240FDE4%7D

2.      SINA and Microsoft Announced Joint Short Messaging Service -- SMS -- Service for MS Office XP in China

SINA SMS services will be built into Office XP and Outlook 2002 as part of Microsoft's Office Suite's integrated mobile communication functionalities in China

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030214/140069_1.html

3.      China Mobile plan to launch their K-JAVA service this April, K-JAVA is a language similar as the computer program language, the GPRS users can down load the JAVA program from China Mobile Website, so they can play JAVA program Game, check the stock market etc.

.     http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2003-02-18/1140166126.shtml Chinese version

4.      AT&T is the first provider of MMS in US now, every MMS sending fee is 40C.

           http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2003-02-17/0919165727.shtml Chinese version

5.      Overture will buy the portal website "altavista", by 80 million US dollars in Stock share and 60 million US dollars in cash.

           http://it.sohu.com/38/69/article206466938.shtml Chinese version

6.      Feb 18, ICQ announced that they will provider ICQ to mobile SMS services. This include German, Canada, and also include Philippines "Smart"

          http://it.sohu.com/67/77/article206477767.shtml Chinese version

7.      Feb 18, Strategy Analytics announced mobile market share of 2002 in the world. NO 1: NOKIA, 36.1%; NO 2: MOTOROLA, 16.8%; NO 3: SAMSUNG, 10.1%; NO 4: SIEMENS, 8.5%; and NO 5 is ERICSSON, 5.5%. And all the top 5 mobile phone companies increased their market share.

http://tech.sina.com.cn//it/t/2003-02-20/0815166640.shtml

8.      China Unicom CDMA User Growth Ebbs;Handset Subsidies Fade

HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- A shift in promotion strategy for its CDMA mobile phone system triggered a decline to 13% in subscriber growth at China Unicom Ltd.'s 12 original provincial networks in January from 21% December, the company said Thursday

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030220/0518000372_2.html

9.      China to spend $84.6 bln on tech R&D over 5 years

      BEIJING, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The Chinese government and private firms plan to spend up to 700 billion yuan ($84.6 billion) to develop key technologies in the next five years, the country's science minister said on Thursday.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/030220/tech_china_spending_1.html

10. China Mobile Adds 2.101 Million Users In January; Gathers Pace

      HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. (NYSE:CHL - News) said Thursday it added 2.101 million mobile service subscribers in January, a slim 1.7% improvement from 2.066 million new users in December.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030219/2314001135_2.html

 

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

1.      This week I finished the method translation of brainpower. Just a little part I still need improve it since it is hard for me to understand. And here are my comments of the method.

 A. I think this is a nice method, even some content I knew before, but still much new information makes me interested. Like the food intake and take care of your brain in the evening. For me, i always don't care my food intake and I often can't sleep well at night, now I know i need take care of that, before sleep, I will stop drinking COKE, but drink milk or honey. So that will make me sleep well. And before I knew the left brain and the right brain, so know it is important for me to develop the right brain, but I did not know how, from this method, i learn some exercises to develop that. So I think I will try following this method, hope i can improve my brainpower.

B. For this method, especially for the exercises, better it can give some picture, so that can make the reader to understand how to do the exercises, because if only descript by the language, that also often make misunderstanding happened. This is a mainly reason, why so far, i still have one exercise can't understand well.

C. Some part I think if more detail better. Like" Finally don’t forget to get enough calcium and magnesium, as these protect you from numerous toxins and helps prevent over fatigue or skull disorders.", but what food full with CA and MA? So better it can give a list of the food, so i will know what food i will intake everyday.

D. Better we can relate this article to our IQ and EQ test. Like at the beginning, we can ask the reader take the IQ test to know their brain power, and at the EQ part, we can suggest them take the EQ test etc.

E. From this article i find just few number data inside, I think most science article, better choose more number data information, so that is easy to make the reader have deep express and easy to believe.

F. About the left-brain and the right brain functions, some world is hard to understand for the normal reader, and that part better give more example or even celebrities to make the reader to understand.

2.      I checked the corrected Chinese version IQ test again, and communicated with Sir Chris, and he changed the errors that I found.

 

LAUNCH IQ TEST

This Wednesday I send the message of TRY our IQ test in my High school and college BBS, and on Thursday, I send this to around 30 Chinese email and their QQ, and since some friends on line, so I got some comments on time.

Now I got 5 reactions.

1.      Yuan, Guan Xin

A.    Before attend this test, she is so exciting, because she can get it free, and she is very interested in this kind of test.

B.    For her the mainly problem is she did not finish all the questions in 35 minutes. She just finished 47 questions. She said it is so slowly to open every question page, even she is using ADSL, so she waste much time on waiting the pages.

2.      Li, Hong Bo

A.    It is slowly to open the page, need always wait.

B.    He thinks our questions are a bit easy than he thought, and he thought our questions type is not nice. He thought we just had compares the different pictures, and choose the different mostly.

C.    And he had a different idea about question 15, and then I checked question, I agree with him, this question’s translation has a little problem, at the last sentence, should add “ he at least need deliver 6 times “ but we forgot the “ at least”.

D.    He got 117, he satisfies with his score. And he told me his office mates also interested in our test; they will try after office time.

E.    He like our personal report since he thought what we write inside is really fit him.

3.      Liu, Jing ying

A.    Since she is my housemate, so no problem in the speed to open the web page. And she knows our English version before, so this time she got 140.

B.    She had a disagree idea about question 9. She told me “ A, Z, H, F, E”, if follow the vowels,  ‘ A, H, F, E’ are pronounced vowel, only Z is not.

C.    And many problems in the personal report.

There are three wrong worlds, I checked, I agree we type wrong.

There are one sentence is in code, I checked, I agree, that sentence is the first sentence of math intelligent. It is code, but not Chinese worlds.

And at the question answer parts, the 50th question, we did not mark which answer is right one. 

4.      There are still another two friend told me they are very interested in Trying our test, they will do it tonight. This a good news that many people interested.

 

So for all, I thought there two mainly problems:

1.           Slowly speed, I thought that since our service system not in China, that is why, so in the future if we partner with SOHU or SINA, so I thought that would not be a problem about the speed.

2.           Problems in personal report. Since before we often check the errors in the questions part. And we can’t often check the personal report, so that is why this time we find the problems in the personal report. I will discuss these with Suzanne.

       

WEEKLY MEETING

For this weekly meeting, we discussed all the market information and sales information, and we also talked about the price  strategy  and affiliation in China.

 

 

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