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KDDI LISMO: Best Mobile Music Service in the World

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 ...

Mobile TV: Technology choices

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 ...

Kindle is to ebooks what iPod is to mp3

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 ...

Will 2008 be the year of Mobile Advertisement?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Mobile Phones are personal devices we always carry on with us. As their media capabilities increase, mobile handsets become ideal for brands to get across their message to consumers through personalized multimedia campaigns. So far, Operators have used their knowledge about customers mainly for SMS-based marketing, with a high risk of ...

Telecom, Internet and Media in 2008

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Technologies that will transform our lives in 2008 Telecom Wimax. Asia will lead in 2008, where greenfield operators will deploy Wimax networks in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Malaysia. Wimax has strong support for end-devices, with Intel and Taiwanese vendors among others, and the spectrum efficiency is superior to 3G. Incumbent wireless operators ...

Will it be Google the one bringing Linux to the desktop?

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

 Let's think about it... Google enters the Mobile Phones market by building an open Operating System (OS) for mobiles, built around Linux (Kernel 2.6). Android main competitors, apart from Nokia, are iPhone and Windows Mobile. Both Apple and Microsoft come from computer OS to smartphones OS. What is a smartphone but a down-scale computer? Following Convergence trend ...

Entrepreneurship 2.0

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Thanks to Internet, entrepreneurship is getting much easier and less risky than ever. In the past, to create a start-up, the first steps were to put the team together, gather an initial investment, work on a prototype, test the market, and sell your vision to seed or venture capital, to fund your growth. Now, more entrepreneurs ...

Linux MCE Video Demo: Impressive!

Friday, December 14th, 2007

You can download this video in high-def with the text sharp and readable: http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Video Running on Kubuntu, Linux MCE is probably the most advance Media center in the market, and probably the best option for your digital home... if you are a Linux savvy. I must admit that installation for the ...