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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Mobile TV continue to expand in Asia, Europe and US. AT&T just launched a broadcast Mobile TV service, offering 10 channels for $15 a month. Verizon launched their service one year ago. In Italy UMTS mobile operator 3 (Hutch group) is the most successful commercial launch in Europe for Broadcast ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Advertisement can be an important source of revenue to Mobile telcos. And 2008 can be the year where it takes off at last. Still some of the mobile ads practices risk to be perceived as spam, specially SMS ads, where the telco should protect users with spamming filters.
While Mobile TV ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
While Internet TV enjoys the hype, the reality is that Telco's IPTV is growing steady, while Apple and Amazon keep mum on their movie download service numbers.
Every week we have news of players entering Internet TV or existing players reinforcing their offers. This week ReadWriteWeb reports news fron Netflix with ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Nokia keeps its race with Apple to reach agreements with the record labels, in order to bundle content with the sale of devices.
NY Times, Nokia signs Sony BMG for Free Music Offering, reports that Nokia will offer 12-month access to music downloads from SonyBMG catalog, to buyers of Nokia music ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The videos of BarelyPolitical.com are becoming more and more funny, and more and more seen.
One dutch TV channel interviewed these guys
As Ben Relles describes, this would not have been possible in 2004, even if Internet was already extremely popular by then. This phenomenon today is empowered by Web 2.0, and ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Thanks to KDDI Lismo music service, 90% of the digital music sales in Japan comes from mobile, according to Wireless Watch Japan. The Record Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has reported 2007 figures, with total sales increasing for third year in a row, and with an spectacular 91% increase in ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Last week we commented on the move of Adobe into Internet TV - beyond the pure technology role they already play in YouTube. After testing Adobe Media Player, I like it specially for the control it gives you to decide what to watch every night, compared to regular TV. Technically, in slow broadband ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
"Más dura será la caída" is a Spanish saying that could translate "the higher the rise, the harder the fall".
Economic cycles are a fact acknowledged by economists, that have written a lot about them. Simply google the term and e.g. see the definition from Wikinvest:
"Theoretically, any deviation from average growth ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Last weekend while walking in a mall, I saw a record shop that was playing in their big plasma screens a live concert from Celine Dion. When I saw it I wondered who can be interested in having this DVD? I am not specially keen on Dion, so you can ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
MySpace has struck a deal with Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music to create a joint venture for a Music Site. EMI is reported to be still in negotiations. The labels would take a minority stake at the spin-off of MySpace Music service.
TechCrunch was the first ...
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