New Non-Executive Director at Intohand Ltd.
Intohand Ltd today (7 December 2007) announced the appointment of Dr Keith Monserrat as a Non-executive director to the Board.
Keith Monserrat spent the early part of his career in optoelectronics research. He went onto manage the technical development and network operations in three UK listed Communications Companies during a period of significant technical change. He was responsible for leading major initiatives that delivered business transformation and integration. Latterly, he was involved in implementing converged services over the UK cable networks. Prior to this role, Keith held a series of senior corporate and operational roles over 14 years at Kingston Communications, Thus plc, and Sigma Technology. For two years, Keith served as Group Managing Director - Strategy, Communications and Policy for Virgin Media.
His appointment to the Intohand Board takes effect from 5 December 2007.
Stuart Scott, Intohand CEO, said: "I am delighted that we have attracted Keith to our Board. He brings with him a wealth of business capability and industry experience."
Commenting on the appointment, Keith Monserrat said: "I am delighted to be joining the Intohand Board, and very much look forward to working with the growing executive team to deliver content and information to small screens."
Successful mobile community site arrives in UK from Japan
London, 13th July 2007 - Global Network Solutions Europe Ltd (GNS Europe), the European business base for Japanese Sogo Shosha ITOCHU Corporation, in conjunction with Excite Japan Co Ltd., one of the largest portals in Japan, today announced the UK release of "mobikade" - a highly successful ad-funded mobile social networking service from Japan.
mobikade provides personal mobile space to keep track of what's new in your life, by posting updates on "What's up now?". By typing in a few words you and your friends can keep track of where you are and what you are doing.
Users can also download a wide variety of cool games, mainly puzzle games such as Sudoku and enjoy them - all for free (except data charges to the mobile carrier). Currently, mobikade provides 20 games and plans to add 3 to 5 games monthly.
In addition to the above mentioned features, for every action on mobikade, users are rewarded with points. These points can be used to send FREE SMS messages to friends, or redeemed for a chance to win fantastic prizes every month. mobikade aims at acquiring around 200,000 users by March 2008.
The Japanese Mobile ad funded market in FY2006 amounted to £156 million - a 35% increase compared to FY2005. In this market, ad-funded mobile social networking services have been hugely successful. One of the sites has achieved, in 12 months: over 5million users, 10billion monthly page views and £12 million revenue, mainly by advertisements. mobikade is consistent with this service model, deployed with a UK flavour.
To deliver the mobikade services, GNS co-operated closely with Intohand Ltd, a provider of mobile services consultancy as well as Java game creation and deployment tools. Intohand successfully adapted their porting system "ICAPS" in order to allow rapid Java game builds, including porting, facilitating the re-coding of games to suit the handsets in the UK.
Atul Sasane, Head of new business at GNS Europe, says "My aim is to successfully introduce Japanese mobile strategies to the UK and Europe. mobikade is so cool it will change the lives of mobile users in the UK. GNS Europe pleased to have been associated with sourcing the technology and capability to deliver the mobikade launch as a successful project - on time and within budget. We will use this experience to bring in more innovative businesses from Japan to Europe."
Yuki Wada, VP, international business at Excite Japan says "mobikade has changed my life to the point where I'm actually going to live in London. This project is important for Excite Japan to build inroads into the European mobile market. We are also planning to release this service in Italy and Germany".
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