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...NetEase, the sector's most striking turnaround, has been especially aggressive in tapping what many consider the Internet's true killer app: massive, real-time, multiplayer online games. In August, NetEase began charging for Westward Journey II and Priston Tale, both of which have huge followings in China. Though he won't provide exact figures, acting NetEase CEO Ted Sun says "a substantial proportion" of the company's $7.3 million in third-quarter nonadvertising revenues came from games. (Just last week Sina followed suit by inking a deal with NCsoft, a major Korean game company...
...that can take, send, and receive color digital photos. Holiday snaps don't sound especially revolutionary, but to hear the networkers talk, multimedia messaging is just about the biggest thing since rechargeable batteries. mmO2 chief executive Peter Erskine even tempts fate by invoking that dreadful New Economy buzzword, killer app. Pure hype? Maybe not. Wireless operators are looking hopefully to Japan, where Vodafone's subsidiary J-Phone already has more than 40% of its subscribers using camera phones. And this wasn't the result of any giveaway subsidies on the handsets. "We made them among the most expensive phones...
...Killer App The Sylvia Miles Ashtray Is Mine! By CHANTAL McLAUGHLIN
...though that was certainly amusing. No, the real reason AIBO became more of a viable mass-market proposition that day was a piece of software that will be released for the mechanical mutt this August. It's called AIBO Messenger, and it has the capacity to be a killer app - that all-important single piece of software that consumers desire so much they have to rush out and get the machine it's written for, much like Pokemon makes kids buy Game Boys or "The Sopranos" makes you want cable. The software in this case is, basically, e-mail...
Several generations ago, even the telephone seemed baffling. In its early days, quick adapters thought they had found the killer app: they used it to call their friends to find out whether their postcards had arrived. ("It has? Great. Bye.") In the first part of the 20th century, the Paris utility pioneered a phone-in opera service. Marcel Proust loved it. He'd dial up from home and someone would hold up a phone next to the stage and, voila, Wagner interactif...