Thursday, January 31, 2002|
Vivendi buys ring-tone developer for $10MM
Media giant Vivendi Universal has agreed to acquire ring tone developer Premium Wireless Services for $10 million. Premium Wireless operates YourMobile.com, an online service that provides downloadable ring tones, logos, and other mobile content for handsets. The company's clients include Qualcomm and Cingular Wireless. This deal marks Vivendi's entrance into the mobile market. Vivendi is, however, not the only media giant to enter the mobile arena. AOL Time Warner has been targeting mobile users for some time with its AOL Anywhere initiative. Walt Disney last month inked a deal with AT&T Wireless making its content available to AT&T Wireless subscribers. |
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Master Maker of Mockup Macs. Japanese photographer Isamu Sanada fancies himself another Steve Jobs, spending weeks designing Macintosh computers. He's so good at anticipating Apple, he dreams up machines before the company does. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 5:59:02 PM  comment
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Consumers Welcome Mobile Marketing. Most want electronic coupons [allNetDevices Wireless News] 5:56:48 PM comment
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McKinsey Quarterly. A universal primer for understanding Web services. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 5:55:48 PM comment
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Wireless companies seek corporate hot button [IDG InfoWorld] 5:49:32 PM comment
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Sun, Digex, and Divine push outsourced HIPPA solutions [IDG InfoWorld] 5:48:53 PM comment
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Al Zollar (Lotus GM) on peer to peer. "First of all, let me talk about peer-to-peer. Peer-to-peer is a bunch of baloney in terms of it being a collaboration architecture. There's this notion that [in peer-to-peer] there's no server. If you look underneath Groove's architecture, it's a server that just happens to be on Groove's premises, right? So, the connection, and real-time update of the "peer participants" is actually being coordinated by a server. It kind of proves that point that I make when I talk to customers about this stuff. That is, the model of the Internet is a server-centric model. But, it is orchestrated by individuals at the end points." Hmm. That's not how it is going to play out. There will be a server on the desktop with the connection mediated by a centralized server due to security, firewall, and DNS issues. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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Bob Frankston: Connectivity: What it is and why it is so important. The rise of the Internet in the 1990's (though the process actually started decades earlier) has demonstrated that we can now treat both telephony and television as streams of bits over a packet network. In the network itself all packets are treated the same with no special handling for audio or video streams. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:14:38 PM comment
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The History of Video Games. In 1949, a young engineer named Ralph Baer was given an assignment to build a television set... [xBlog: Visual thinking linking | XPLANE] 3:12:33 PM comment
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Palm's market position erodes. The handheld giant lost a big chunk of its market position in the United States last year, according to new figures from market researcher NPD Techworld. [CNET News.com] 3:11:07 PM comment
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Lawrence Livermore bans WLANs, citing security concerns
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory yesterday announced that has banned the use of wireless LANs on its facilities, citing concerns over the technology's security. The laboratory, which researches nuclear weapons and other technology, disabled two WLANs that were in use at its Livermore, California facility. |
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Nextel's 3G strategy
Nextel Communications is cautiously planning its 3G strategy, establishing strategic alliances and trying to formulate its overall 3G needs and expectations. The biggest hurdle the company faces: Direct Connect over 3G. For a more detailed look, check out this article. [from FierceWireless] |
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