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Monthly Archives: January 2008
iPhone and Google will transform Mobile phones
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
Operators vs. Media companies
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
Posted in Telecom
Tagged billing, bundling, conversational services, dumb pipes, ims, KDDI, media companies, mobile entertainment, mobile operators, mobile TV, qos
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KDDI LISMO: Best Mobile Music Service in the World
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
Posted in Asia Pacific, Most-read, Telecom
Tagged 3G iPhone, Apple, Japan, KDDI, kddi au, lismo, mobile entertainment, music download, sony
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Blue-ray or HD DVD? The Hard Drive
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
Posted in Digital Home
Tagged blue-ray, hd dvd, high definition, IPTV, microsoft, ps3, seagate, sony, warner, xbox 360
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Mobile TV: Technology choices
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
Posted in Asia Pacific, Most-read, Telecom
Tagged broadcast, dvb, dvb-sh, hybrid, mediaflo, mobile broadcast TV, mobile TV, satellite
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Bill Gates’ Last Day Video
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
CES 2008: the Robot I dreamed of
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
Is mobile music service a handset vendor’s business?
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
Posted in Asia Pacific, Digital Lifestyle
Tagged Apple, mobile music, motorola, music downloads, Nokia, ovi
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Music DRM is dead
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
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Media
Tagged , Apple, DRM, itunes, music download, music drm, recording labels, Sony BMG, Steve Jobs, Vivendi Universal
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Kindle is to ebooks what iPod is to mp3
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
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Most-read
Tagged Amazon, e-book, ebook, evdo, jeff bezos, Kindle, location technology, wireless
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