How Femtocell Companies Rank in Web

Femtocell is a hot emerging technology for mobile communications. Curious to see how the Femtocell technology and product companies are doing in the Internet.


I select the equipment and semiconductor companies from Femto Forum and to rank them based on following three aspects:


Web Push - Effort to marketing femtocell solutions on its web site


Media Attention - how much attension does a company get in Femtocell on the Internet


Influence - The structural relationship between a company and other players in the industry.


The result is shown in the following table.

In the "web site push" category, femtocell focused small companies and start-ups are doing much better job. Clearly these companies are betting femtocell market and market themselves as leaders in this market and eventually find exit by partnering or M&A with tier 1 players.

Large tier 1 companies get much more media attention than small companies due to their leading position in wireless market.

In the influence category, some femtocell companies are doing very well.

In summary, Ubiquisys, ip.access, picochip, Airvana, Sonus and CCPU are small and important femtocell players to watch, weather they are providing equipments, chips or software.

Cisco, Motorola, Huawei and Ericsson are tier 1 players that may play important role in femtocell market.

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Web Mining Cell Phone Companies

Today Nokia announced its Q4 result with 44% profit growth. Based on analyst report, Nokia is number one in worldwide cell phone market share, follows by Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson. Yesterday, Moto announced a disappointed result and losing market share. Now Samsung replaced Moto as the 2nd in market share.

How these companies are doing in terms of Internet marketing. I did some web mining using Yahoo Search, the results are quite consistent of their business reality. On English web sites, Nokia ranks number one in cell phone hits with Samsung following at number 2 position. On Chinese websites, Samsung ranks at number one with Nokia follows at number 2.

It would be interesting to watch how these statistics/rank will change over time.

The point I would like to make is that in this Internet age, a company's web status is highly correlated to its market status.

From Justin, http://www.webmining.ca/

Unlock busines value of web mining

I did research on web mining. Most of web mining activities are happening within academics. Lots of papers discussing about algorithms with regard to structural mining, content mining and usage mining. However, I would like to see more discussion on the application of web mining to in real business, especially business intelligence, marketing, competitive analysis.

I would believe that Google, Yahoo or Microsoft will soon leverage their invaluable knowledge and web content in their search engine infrastructure to offer BI services. Yahoo is leading, in my view, in this area with its Site Explore. It allows each company to study how it fits in the web structure, how to compare with its competitors or its business partners in the web eco-system.

In essense, webs are linked to each other like highways link cities together. Highway interconnection topology reflect each city or town's importance in geo-economics. Same will apply to web structure. By revealing this, each company can define an effective marketing strategy to move itself into the center.

I would love to hear from you of successful cases of using web mining in business or useful URLs.

from Justin @ www.webmining.ca