With a small advertising banner attached at the end of every text message, EVERY8D Co (互動資通) is providing local mobile phone users a free short message service (SMS) and multimedia messaging service (MMS) platform via its Web site.
“Cellphone users can text anyone in the world for free using our services. Meanwhile, our partnerships with companies such as Rakuten Taiwan Inc (台灣樂天), Yahoo-Kimo Inc (雅虎奇摩), FunTown (台灣戲谷) and Samsung Electronics Co, allow them to advertise their products and services and reach a wider audience,” EVERY8D founder and general manager Alex Kuo (郭承翔) told the Taipei Times by telephone yesterday.
EVERY8D is enhancing voice communication rather than replacing it, and you can think of us as a text-based Skype, Kuo said.
EVERY8D’s Web site is in Mandarin Chinese, but this does not prevent global Internet users from using it for texting, Kuo said.
DEFIES LOGIC
At first sight, EVERY8D’s business model defies logic, Kuo said. However, its main revenue driver is the company’s corporate clients, who communicate with their customers and manage relationships through EVERY8D’s joint venture with Microsoft Corp, Kuo said.
Since 2003, EVERY8D has worked with engineers at Microsoft Taiwan to develop drivers embedded in Excel and Outlook for companies to send up to 600,000 texts per hour to communicate with their customers.
The three main advantages for corporations are instantaneous and pre-scheduled communications, the ability to reach a wide audience and value-added services that only detailed texts can provide, such as addresses, telephone numbers, or Web site addresses, Kuo said.
To date, the Sindian-based information communication company owns more than 10 related patents and is working on developing relationships with local as well as global telecommunication operators.
PROTECTION: The investigation, which takes aim at exporters such as Canada, Germany and Brazil, came days after Trump unveiled tariff hikes on steel and aluminum products US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered a probe into potential tariffs on lumber imports — a move threatening to stoke trade tensions — while also pushing for a domestic supply boost. Trump signed an executive order instructing US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to begin an investigation “to determine the effects on the national security of imports of timber, lumber and their derivative products.” The study might result in new tariffs being imposed, which would pile on top of existing levies. The investigation takes aim at exporters like Canada, Germany and Brazil, with White House officials earlier accusing these economies of
EARLY TALKS: Measures under consideration include convincing allies to match US curbs, further restricting exports of AI chips or GPUs, and blocking Chinese investments US President Donald Trump’s administration is sketching out tougher versions of US semiconductor curbs and pressuring key allies to escalate their restrictions on China’s chip industry, an early indication the new US president plans to expand efforts that began under former US president Joe Biden to limit Beijing’s technological prowess. Trump officials recently met with their Japanese and Dutch counterparts about restricting Tokyo Electron Ltd and ASML Holding NV engineers from maintaining semiconductor gear in China, people familiar with the matter said. The aim, which was also a priority for Biden, is to see key allies match China curbs the US
Teleperformance SE, the largest call-center operator in the world, is rolling out an artificial intelligence (AI) system that softens English-speaking Indian workers’ accents in real time in a move the company claims would make them more understandable. The technology, called accent translation, coupled with background noise cancelation, is being deployed in call centers in India, where workers provide customer support to some of Teleperformance’s international clients. The company provides outsourced customer support and content moderation to global companies including Apple Inc, ByteDance Ltd’s (字節跳動) TikTok and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. “When you have an Indian agent on the line, sometimes it’s hard
‘SACRED MOUNTAIN’: The chipmaker can form joint ventures abroad, except in China, but like other firms, it needs government approval for large investments Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) needs government permission for any overseas joint ventures (JVs), but there are no restrictions on making the most advanced chips overseas other than for China, Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo (郭智輝) said yesterday. US media have said that TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker and a major supplier to companies such as Apple Inc and Nvidia Corp, has been in talks for a stake in Intel Corp. Neither company has confirmed the talks, but US President Donald Trump has accused Taiwan of taking away the US’ semiconductor business and said he wants the industry back
RSS