Daily News 2004/02/17

IDG invests a huge sum of money to instant message industry China IM market recurs competition

　　On IT market, never lack of capital investor, with the becoming much more popular day by day of IM (the instant message software), we have seen the figure of operation of capital too: QQ has already planned to be listed through the relatively steady achievement, the purchase rumor of UC, several of portal web sites in Nasdaq act one after another too.

　　Spreading extensively on the net recently, IMU, the second generation of instant message software, has owned cooperatives web site and registered users with considerable figure, although it is not issued formally yet and its unique open technology is under in common stage of examining. Because IMU can provide the free backstage support for Web site, it is good news to the Web sites that wish eagerly to own independent brand IM software undoubtedly. According to the reliable news, this IM has also brought the a huge sum of money input from U.S.A.'s international data group (IDG) while entering the market.

　　As the pioneer that enters China market of the famous venture capital company in U.S.A., IDG began to do risk investment in China in 1995. From 1998 to 2000, it has invested to 53 enterprises altogether, are all involved in Internet basically, it makes money too from SOHU even from 2001 to 2002 when Internet is in low tide. By 2003, with the return of spring of Internet, eachnet is purchased by eBay, 3721 is purchased by Yahoo, IDG's investment from China Internet begins to obtain the rich repayment again. QQ, the first generation China instant message software that is invested by IDG, its annual income has already reached 500 million RMB.

　　"Unlimited communication" is the ideal of mankind, is a direction of development of communication service future too. No matter from the investment action of IDG or the union mode of IMU, we all can predict, IM market that the undercurrent springs up is pregnant with the new storm.

Broadcom introduces the new style IP telephone chip and faces to the family market

　　February 10, U.S.A. Broadcom company (Nasdaq: BRCM) put out two style new-type IP telephone engine chips. This can make that manufacturer produces function complete IP telephone for family, SOHO and small-medium enterprise user more effectively and economically.

　　Through adopting the IP telephone that used newest style BCM1113R and BCM1115R chips of Broadcom, VoIP broadband service will help family and small-scale official business market to reduce their cost notably and offer higher voice quality more than the traditional public switch telephone network. These services include: the voice quality of high-fidelity; the integration of the voice, instant message, E-mail and video; wired communication, integration of WAN and wireless network; the sound interactive game on net; and more application.