Widespread complaints about the iPhone 3G’s reception have spread across the Internet in the month since Apple and AT&T released the successor to the original iPhone. The companies insist that nothing is wrong, but the complaints have been mounting through e-mails, water-cooler discussions, and message boards on Apple’s own Web site: iPhone 3G users are having trouble connecting, and staying connected, to the 3G networks in their areas.
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Apple, AT&T mum on iPhone 3G issues
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Technology, tagged apple, boic, cellphones, iphone, Robert Tillman, Technology on August 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Date Certain M&A of Teleflip, Inc.- its Assets & Intellectual Property
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Technology, Venture Capital, Wireless, tagged acquisition, Friendly Foreclosure of Assets, Gerbsman Partners, hercules technology growth capital, teleflip on August 26, 2008| Leave a Comment »
SALE OF TELEFLIP INC
Gerbsman Partners has been retained by Hercules Technology Growth Capital , the senior secured lender to Teleflip Inc. , to solicit interest for the acquisition of substantially all of Teleflip’ assets, including its Intellectual Property , Patents, processes and other intangibles in whole or in part (collectively, the “Teleflip Assets”).
As of August 11, 2008 Teleflip shut down its operations. Hercules, the senior lender, is presently working with the Teleflip on a “Friendly Foreclosure of Assets”, and Teleflip will selling the Assets of Teleflip.
TeleFlip has two award-winning, nationally recognized mobile messaging services that uniquely bridge the internet & cell phone networks to deliver push emails to mobile phones via the SMS data channel, leveraging the existing text messaging inbox found on every mobile phone throughout the world.
• “FlipMail” enables mobile phone users to receive their current personal and business emails from virtually every POP, webmail, and Microsoft Exchange email accounts, without any new or special software downloads or a mobile internet connections to use the service. Users signup for FlipMail by simply providing their email address, email password, and mobile phone number. Emails are then converted to text messages and parsed, sequenced, and concatenated to be easily displayed and read on the phone.
• “Flipout” allows people to send emails from their existing email accounts, either client-based or webmail-based emails, directly to a mobile phone user with the email converted delivered to the mobile phone as a text message. No software is needed by the PC-sender of an email, nor by mobile phone-receiver. Senders simply send an email to the mobile phone user by addressing the email to “their cell phone number @teleflip.com”, eg, 3105551212@teleflip.com <mailto:3105551212@teleflip.com> , and the email then shows up as text message on mobile phone without having to know the recepient’s mobile phone operator.
• “Mobile Ad Platform” is a proprietary advertising insertion technology that easily allows for any length of advertisement to be placed within a Flipmail or Flipout text message delivered to the cell phone.
FlipMail and Flipout are operated as hosted, ASP-based services. Teleflip’s technology infrastructure consists of a Unique Network Unification™ Process which maps and routes and converts messages from the email messaging network and pushes them to the mobile handset through the SMS data channel.
The company has co-lo facilities and server networks which are carrier grade, redundant, and load balanced on the East and West Coasts, and was designed for easy scalability.
For more information, please contact Steven R. Gerbsman at steve@gerbsmanpartners.com
An iPhone for everyone
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Technology, tagged app store, apple, Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Gerbsman Partners, iphone, itunes, making money on mobile, mobile content, NY times, patric carlsson, steve jobs, Steven Gerbsman, technology trends, Web 2.0, wwdc on June 10, 2008| Leave a Comment »
At WWDC yesterday, Steve Jobs confirmed what have been rumored for a while – iPhone will support 3G, and prices will be cut. Starting at $199 for the smaller, 8GB version and $299 for the 16GB, color option version – iPhone is now destined for the broader audience.
With an open application environment and a clean business model – mobile content will now find its true audience through the unified window of iTunes. Offering a 70/30 split to developers, a open SDK and low entry fees for the firmware unlocking the phone – developers will have a chance at actually making money on mobile content.
Kleiner’s Pick for the Killer iPhone App
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Technology, tagged apple, Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Business week, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, iphone, Kleiner perkins, pelago, Robert Tillman, Strategy, Technology, Worldwide Developers Conference on June 3, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Apple won’t crank up the hype machine about all the new things an iPhone can do until its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, but here’s a small taste of what’s in store: finding things to do in the neighborhood when you’re at a loss.
That’s the idea behind Pelago, the first company funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as part of the $100 million iFund the venture capital firm announced in March at Apple’s last big iPhone event.
Read more here
Making money on online Video
Posted in Gerbsman Partners, Market research, Technology, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, tagged advertising, Adwords, Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Business plans, CPMs, Gerbsman Partners, google, Investments, mashable, Monetizing online video, Strategy, Videorix, vlogging, Web 2.0 on May 12, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Where web 2.0 brought us nice features and video, it have had a hrad time producing business models that enables solid buiness plans. One new company, Videorix emplain themselfs as being a “self-service marketplace connecting advertisers with publishers of online-videos“. Walking the well established path of Goggle AdWords, this may be one way of generating some cash on all those videos that are everywhere on the web.
Here is a good piece Mashable:
“The system is still in very early development, and according to the creator, Nadim Elgarhy, the system is still in development, working out the kinks. As a result, the place isn’t exactly flush with advertisers, yet, but there’s an introductory offer from Nadim to promote the system itself. It’s not a particularly lucrative offer, but it shows what could be possible if the system becomes as well used as the IZEA system as well.
The system seems to pay no regard to CPMs, going with a blanket flat-fee sponsorship model. There doesn’t seem to be any ranking system as of yet, but with a little tweaking (and a lot more advertisers), this particular system could end up being a real decent marketplace for those breaking into the video realm to see a little return on their time investment.
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