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...stay put. If the stand-alones are to challenge the giants, Kirk says, "they need to constantly expand the category." Ultimately, that could mean opening real branches. "They will need some sort of face-to-face offering," says Alex Boorman, a financial-services analyst at the research firm Datamonitor. "Not everyone wants to bank online." Although the four British banks are called pure plays, they have good family connections. Three of them were created by brand-name institutions, though they maintain entirely separate operations: Smile is owned by Co-operative Bank, Intelligent Finance is part of HBOS and Cahoot...
...start streaming their content and archived material in return for revenues, he says. Broadcasters like the BBC have entered revenue-sharing arrangements with RealNetworks. But given the European experience with on-demand TV programming, the profit outlook isn't promising. In a June 20 report, independent market analyst Datamonitor predicted that providers of video-on-demand over TV in Europe will not break even before 2006; in fact, costs will outpace revenues over that period by ?2.5 billion. Clearly RealNetworks is hoping that providing streaming audio and video to the PC will be a much better business...
Moreover, because broadcasters and advertisers hate how PVRs can fast-forward and rewind programs still being broadcast (thereby letting viewers skip the ads), they are trying to rein us in. According to London tech consultancy Datamonitor, the next-generation boxes will permit viewing to be monitored and allow broadcasters to either prevent viewers from fast forwarding ads or offer us rewards for agreeing to watch them...
...platform for games played over mobile devices Why it is hot: Wanova's platform enables games publishers and developers to transfer existing, graphic-rich titles onto mobile phones with minimum investment. The mobile games market is estimated to be worth $6 billion by 20005, according to tech consultancy Datamonitor. www.wanova.com
...companies on the list from the smart-card sector are Gemplus and a smaller German firm, ASG. They are both well positioned to cash in on the mobile-commerce craze, says Caroline Martin, an e-commerce analyst in the London office of Datamonitor. So-called SIM cards are already present in all European mobile phones to identify users for billing purposes. Once new phones with wireless Internet access come on the market, these smart cards will be used to encrypt a consumer's credit details and send them securely to merchants over the Internet...