Archive for January, 2008
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
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 clearly points out that iPhone is making mobile web access a ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
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 networks - like the ones of mobile operators are becoming-, ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
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 over the air.
In a press release back in February ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 5 Comments »
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
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.
This is a big win for Sony, specially for the push ...
Posted in Digital Home | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
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 an evolution of the exisiting DVB-T (Terrestrial), the current standard for ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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 keynote of Bill Gates at CES, it is a funny ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
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 video and audio from its webcam. Can be controlled remotely from ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
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 Kong.
Interestingly mobile operators are not taking an active role to own the ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, Digital Lifestyle | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 7th, 2008
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 that they would sell DRM-free music through Amazon. Some months earlier, ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Media & New Economy | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 4th, 2008
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 only the official features are impressive. CNET blog Underexposed by Stephen Shankland ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, TOP Popular Posts | 5 Comments »
