WEEKLY REPORT

Li Pin

11.8-11.14.02

For this week, I mainly did three parts things.

One is work on the IQ test.

One is a studying about the Dating service.

One is Daily market news searching and have more meeting this week.

DATING SERVICE STUDYING

SINA.

In SINA, they have a dating service named SINA LOVE FAST EXPRESS.

their service only for China mobile users, because their dating service belong to their SMS service.
first you should register by your China mobile #, then you can use their service.
because now it is a new service and in promotion period, so the message service fee only 4 yuan/ per month. That means you just pay 4 yuan every month, then you can txt message to any register users, and you just pay any message 0.1 yuan to China mobile.
Voice chat. You also can call the girl or guy you want to chat, but because you did not know her or his mobile #, so you need send “ CA ID” to 888811, this ID is the ID # of the one you want to call. Then you can call her or him. And you need pay the service fee 2 yuan/ per call.

http://love.sina.com.cn/

SOHU

In SOHU, they have a dating service named DATING STRANGER.

You also need register first by your mobile #. Then you can choose a nickname.
About the payment.

Basic fee: 5-yuan/ month.

Star. 2-yuan/ star. And 1 yuan/ star for girl

SMS. By SOHU website. 2 yuan/ message.

By mobile, 0.2 yuan/ message.

Check how to contact your date partner. 2 yuan/ per time.

Leave words. 1 yuan/ message. And free for girl.

XIN qing yuan. 2 yuan/ per time.

XIN qing yuan is a service like: when you play in SOHU website, they will give you 4 questions, and then you choose the answer, after you give the answer, they will tell you which girl also give similar answer for these questions. So that means you and that girl have something close.
Star is when you buy a star; SOHU will make a star mark on your name in the users list. And at most you can buy 99 stars, if you buy 99 stars, your name will at the top of the users list. . that will make easy that other users find your name.
You also can send your date girl a gift, for sure that gift is not a truth product, just the product picture. And different product with different price.

http://yuehui.sohu.com/

Because these two website need your mobile # to register, so I can’t register.

NETEASE

In NETEASE, there is a dating service named SAME CITY DATING.

For this website, you needn’t have to register by your mobile #, so I try to register already.
But for use every service you need purchase by your NETEASE credit.
Like before I had study about NETEASE credit. It is mainly for NETEASE online game, and also a payment way for their Email box, and also for dating service.
You can choose be a common member and star member. If be a star member, you can have better service, like your name at the top of all name lists, you can have lower price to use the service.
How to become a star member? You need buy the star member point. You can choose buy 95 points, 145 points, 301 points and 670 points. And 10 point almost = 1 yuan.
You can pay the point by NETEASE credit card. And also you can buy by your mobile.
For their service price, make a date, for star member you need pay 37 points, and for common member, you need pay 60 points.

Check other’s picture, if you are star member, one picture you need pay 15 points, and if you are common member, you pay 20 points for one picture checking.

http://dating.163.com/

NEWS STUDYING.

1. Asia IPO Focus: China Telecom Survives Resuscitated IPO

HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- It may have looked on the verge of defeat just weeks ago, but China Telecom Corp. has managed to pull off its initial public offering after cutting it down by half and setting the price as low as it possibly can.

Analysts say that while the stock may be hurt in the short term by poor sentiment - after the offer was delayed and relaunced earlier this month - its smaller size and the chance to buy into China's monopoly fixed line operator may offer support.

The stock debuts in the U.S. on Thursday and in Hong Kong on Friday.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/021113/0101000070_1.html

2. AOL Testing Internet Site in China

HONG KONG (Reuters) - More than a year after announcing its plans to enter China, Internet giant AOL has quietly begun testing a pay Internet service in the world's most populous nation, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

Trials of the service, a joint venture with China's biggest PC maker Legend Group Ltd. (HKSE:0992.HK - News), began in August and are now taking place in about three dozen Chinese cities, said Rich D'Amato, a spokesman for AOL, a unit of AOL Time Warner (NYSE:AOL - News).

The new service, whose name in Chinese translates as "Flying Dragon," now has several hundred so-called "beta," or test users, most of whom were recruited over the Internet, he said.

He declined to give a timetable for the service's official launch.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/021112/tech_china_aol_2.html

3. The third quarter mobile market in China.

In the third quarter, it total sold 17.485 million mobile phone in China. And # 1 is MOTO, 5.053 million. Market share is 28.9%, # 2 is Nokia, 4.494million, market share is 25.7%, # 3 is Samsung, 1.294million, 7.4%, # 4 is TCL, 1.189million, market share is 6.8%, and # 5 is Siemens.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2002-11-12/0854149369.shtml

4. China Unicom will make their CDMA 1X available at the end of this year. First they will open it in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou etc.. Super big cities, and at the first quarter of next year, they will open the service in all big cities. So then most the CDMA users also can use MMS and camera mobiles.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2002-11-12/1200149455.shtml

IQ TEST STUDYING.

For today Thursday, Suzanne sent me the result pages translation for check, but she forgot save the files in HTML, but word DOC. So I can’t see any words of her translation. Because my system is Chinese vision Win98, so in my system can’t show the Chinese word not from a formal Chinese system. So for this case, and for she can see my comments fast, so I just translate them by myself.

And plus Monday and Tuesday translation: 20 pages questions, tech support pages, ticket pages, validated pages, analysis pages, we almost finished the translation of the IQ test.

And also on Wednesday, Suzanne and me spend much time on checking the IQ questions one by one, and at last, we decide to change 3 questions that not fit Chinese users, and we really thought hard to find the similar questions in Chinese style, and we gave 5 questions already.

WEDNESDAY MEETINGS

For this Wednesday, I had busy meeting days, we have a 2 hour and a half weekly meetings, and I had a long time meeting with Suzanne to discuss the IQ test, and then I also had a meeting with Rose to discuss something about how to try the SOHU AVS. And also had a short time meeting with you and FX to discuss next step about the Korea and Japan market.

OTHER

A SEARCH OF THE TOP THREE WEBSITE CAPITALIZATION.

SOHU; $ 146.3 million.

SINA: $ 144.7 million.

NETS: $ 184.4 million.

Search from yahoo.

ABOUT SOHU IF HAVE STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT.

I did a search on SOHU and other website about SOHU to know if they have an account like zingy, but they haven’t.

Customers pay for messaging service through their mobile phone bills. SOHU has revenue-sharing agreements with cellular firms China Mobile Communications Crop and China Unicom Ltd.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/021022/tech_china_sohu_2.html

A LITTLE STUDY OF KOREA MARKET

The population: 47,751,026. Until October 2002.

The top three ISP: KT, Hanaro, Thrunet.

By March 2002, there are 30 million CDMA users in Korea, it means 62.3 Korean have CDMA mobile phones, and include 6 million high-speed CDMA 1x users. And by the end of this year, there will be 70% users use 3G mobile.

The mobile operator: the first one is SKT, and then it is KTF.

By October 2002, there are 10 million DHL line in Korea, it is 21% of the total population, Korea with the highest rating with DHL in the world. And 60% of the population are internet users.

And among the DHL, KT has 4.6 subscribers, it is 45.8%, Hanaro has 2.86 million, it is 28.6%, and Thrunet has 1.3 million, it is 13.1%.

This just I did a searching in a short time, so I will mainly do something on it next Monday and Tuesday and with reference. And also will update Korea information to my training site.