Monthly Archives: January 2008

iPhone and Google will transform Mobile phones

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

According to NYT technology article by Miguel Helf, iPhone accounts for only 2% of the worldwide smartphones. Nokia’s Symbian 63%, Windows Mobile 11% and RIM 10%. Yet, during Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhones surpassed any other smartphone. This data … Continue reading →

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Operators vs. Media companies

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

In GigaOM’s guest column, Mr Chetan Sharma writes an interesting article on the battle between operators and media companies to deliver mobile entertainment to the end-user. Although Media companies are in better position to bring their content over agnostics IP … Continue reading →

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KDDI LISMO: Best Mobile Music Service in the World

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Few people are aware about the huge success that KDDI, #2 mobile operator in Japan, has achieved in selling music to mobile phones. LISMO is the name of the music service available to KDDI au subscribers, that offers song downloads … Continue reading →

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Blue-ray or HD DVD? The Hard Drive

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Blue-ray is winning the battle for the next-gen DVD. Warner has announced that they will release high-definition movies only in Blue-ray format starting July. With Warner announcement, Sony has secured support for Blue-ray from most of the big film studios. … Continue reading →

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Mobile TV: Technology choices

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

DVB-SH might have been the last standard to arrive on Mobile Broadcast TV technology, but it is showing strong advantages compared to DVB-H, the most extended standard in current trials well ahead of proprietary MediaFlo. DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld) is … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates’ Last Day Video

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

This clip recreates the lat day of Bill Gates as a full time employee of Microsoft, which is planned to happen mid this year, when Bill Gates will spend more time running his foundation. Shown at CES 2008, during the last … Continue reading →

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CES 2008: the Robot I dreamed of

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Among the gadgets at CES, this is the robot I would take: WowWee’s Rovio From the creators of Robosapiens, this is a ‘Wi-Fi enabled robotic webcam’. Like Roomba it goes around the house, but instead of cleaning, it sends you … Continue reading →

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Is mobile music service a handset vendor’s business?

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Apple with iTunes is selling music directly to the iPhone. Nokia has their own music portal Ovi for music and games. And we see Motorola acquiring companies to reinforce the music service it was offering in China, Taiwan and Hong … Continue reading →

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Music DRM is dead

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

At last, the Music industry seems to start accepting that Internet and mp3 have changed the way people consume songs. The announcement that Sony BMG will launch a DRM-free music download service, confirms the death of Music DRM. Last month Warner Music announced … Continue reading →

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Kindle is to ebooks what iPod is to mp3

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Amazon, as usual, has got it right and Kindle is a great device. Once you get to know the detailed specs, you realize it is not just  another ebook reader. Kindle is to ebooks what iPod is to mp3. Not … Continue reading →

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