Parents Allow Kids Drop Out Of School For Play Games

North Carolina - Parents native North Carolina, United States of America seems to have thought this a bit odd. They allow her son, Blake Peebles, drop out of school to concentrate on playing the game Guitar Hero all the time.

It seems they are willing to sacrifice their children to school successfully meets its goals become a professional Guitar Hero player game. Time will be spent on the child there for practice or tournament game.

"We can not accept complaints anymore. He's always said that the school is just a waste of time," said Hunter Peebles, father of Blake Peebles is currently only 16 years old.

So far, Peebles did not spectacular achievement in the gaming arena. But if successful will forge itself into a professional gamer, he can make a living by winning various tournaments and collected thousands of dollars in prizes.

But it does not mean that education will be abandoned entirely. As we quoted from PCAdvisor, Peebles will be knitting knowledge with private lessons in her home.

Meanwhile, Seeing Business value added services,.

Business value-added services or value added services (VAS) pretty taken seriously by Excelcomindo Pratama (XL). How not, in 2007 alone revenues from business line reached 385 billion.

VAS Service is Made include WAP SMS, Premium SMS, game content, SMS Quiz, ringback Tone Tone (RBT), and other similar services. Apparently, that kind of service, contribution to total revenue XL fairly decent, 5% to 10%.

"This year we hope to grow 38 percent, an increase to 600 billion in revenue from VAS," said I Made Wijaya Treasure, VP VAS and New Services Development XL, at Euphoria Lounge Prima Tower Mega Kuningan.

Not to mention the rampant phenomenon of tariff reduction, it was feared would interfere with VAS revenues. "Why play VAS, better call it, it's cheaper," he mimics stigma customers.

VAS business exactly easy bother. That is, for some customers, service types can be enjoyed, or may not. "For example, sometimes there postpaid customers who do not like RBT, it felt cheap," said Made.

As one of its efforts to boost the growth of VAS current, XL was launched two new VAS portal channels, namely XL and XL Life Smile Portal. Both of these portals as compared Made VAS shop which will accommodate all types of creative content.

But that sort of thing must have been thought through by XL. It can not be set high targets if not accompanied innovations to circumvent such obstacles. "Even later in 2009, we are targeting to penetrate VAS 1 trillion in revenue," Made optimistic.

XL itself previously had claimed WAP portal frequented by 800 thousand unique IP address of each month. With the two new portals are integrated with previous portal, Made said, much more that will be offered to attract users content.

"So not only from the content providers, but also for user generated content. All parties to market their content through this portal," he said. "What is important now we first store," said Made.

"For example it later, if visitors want to see advertising portal that we offer, it could be a 50 percent discount when downloading content, or even be free. Later in the user generated content, if there are other users who download content, the content owners will be paid," Made so.