A 150 years old bank innovates with Online Storage!
March 21, 2008
Wells Fargo Bank has announced an online storage service called vSafe that lets users store digital files and documents reports InternetNews.
This news is interesting at 3 levels:
- Online storage is not a “2.0″ high tech concern targeting only geeks and provided by high tech startups. Wells Fargo is a long time established bank and this is another sign that confirms online storage as a mass market standard need.
- Wells Fargo also understands that people have a lot of digital contents that needs to be stored online. Wells Fargo indicates their offer is made to store ” from bank statements and tax information to your favorite digital photos“.
- Digital content are in danger! As indicated by Wells Fargo, the purpose is to ensure “Your files remain protected from damage and theft”.
Digital Content Observatory by Steek
March 19, 2008
Steek online storage specialist manages data of more than 1 Million users.
These data are stored anonymously but also in an intelligent way allowing Steek to store also additionnal informations (”tag”) about these files.
Useful informations can be extracted from this and thus Steek has decided to publish regularly an observatory of digital content.
The first edition of this observatory is dedicated to digital picture.
On more than 2 millions photos:
- 2% are without date stamp;
- 0,5% are shooted in the futur (up to 2756!);
- 97,5% of the photos seems to have a reasonnable date stamp.
Concerning the camera provider, here are our ranking:
- Canon 23%
- Sony 14%
- Nikon 9%
- Olymus 8%
- Fujifilm 7,5%
- Panasonic 6,5%
First gsm-photo camera provider: Sony Ericsson
Concerning the camera ranking:
- Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
- Olympus E-500
- Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
- FinePix A205S
- FinePix4700 ZOOM
- Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T9
- Nikon Coolpix E5700
- Panasonic DMC-FX10
- Canon PowerShot A80
- Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P92
that only count for 15% of the total used cameras.
It just shows that there are a lot of models in the market and maybe the TOP10 models are not the best sellers but rather the more used (as they rather target experienced users).
Concerning the pictures definition:
- 36% of the photos have a definition lower than 2 millions pixels;
- 17% of the photos have a definition between 2 and 5 millions pixels;
- 47% of the photos have a definition bigger than 5 millions pixels.
Conclusion: today we use mostly recent cameras with the largest defintion available…
“in the EU27 in 2007, more than 40% of households have broadband”
March 19, 2008
This Eurostat new release (PDF format here) points out that broadband access is now widely used with more than 80% in the Northen countries.
Internet usages are also changing. User Generated Content sharing is from the Steek point of view a deep trend because we have all a massive amount of digital data and we have all now a fast and reliable broadband connection.
Sharing is the future of Internet.
Steek Communication Release
March 10, 2008
Agematis announces that all communication will be delivered under the “Steek” brand in order to support its development strategy in
Steek intends to reinforce its market leadership position by offering an online back-up solution and content sharing based on its unique technology.
Steek solutions are used by ISPs, portals and OEM partners to increase website traffic, improve customer loyalty and retention and enhance average revenue per user.
Steek services are also directly available on the net, at: http://www.steekr.com and http://www.steekup.com
“Steek” will be the name used for the product lines as well to refer to the company.