More Alan Cane, the question of cheap labour, education and the 1970s.
globalarchive.ft.com
and not knowing anything about MPEG, realvideo,etc,etc, but
seem to specialize in advertising companies by name in
most of his work, maybe that is his department??
SURVEY - CREATIVE BUSINESS: Answering mobile operators prayers
Financial Times; Jun 19, 2001
By ALAN CANE
To Europe's cash-strapped mobile phone operators, eVector must seem like the US
cavalry, arriving in the nick of time to save their bacon.
With headquarters in the UK, but its research base in Bangalore, India, the
company is within weeks of launching software which, it claims, will allow mobile
operators to transmit third-generation content - full-motion video, internet
information and the like - over 2G networks, like the much-touted General Packet
Radio Service (GPRS).
The savings on infrastructure would be considerable, which is why the
technology, called eVector Utopia, is generating a lot of interest. The company's
backers include Intel, the world's largest chip manufacturer, and Reuters.
The product, an advanced form of data compression, is a combination of
technology from eVector and Bullant, an Australian group. It is similar to the way
video can be compressed for transmission, in that only changes to the screen
image, rather than an entire screenful of picture elements, are transmitted.
www.evectormobile.com
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