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Motorola E725 Music Phone.
If this is how Motorola makes a vanilla music phone, how are they going to impress with an iTunes model?
Motorola E725 announced, music phone [MobileTracker] [Gizmodo]10:21:28 AM  comment
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Free Video Content for Your Sony PSP. You've got your shiny black beast home and charged and you've already watched Spider-Man 2 twice[~]what video is next for your PSP? You can convert some of your own content using the software tools we listed in our PSP Omegapost (yes, I regret that name now, too), but if you just want some short free clips, we're starting a list of places to get free content that's already formated for your baby. As always, if you have a suggestion, send it in and we'll be happy to add it.
[apple] 29 Guide's Daily PSP Downloads [29HDNetwork] 10:20:47 AM comment
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Some of Japan's Cool New Apps. By Daniel Scuka, 23 March 2005 In a telephone interview with a research company in Toronto last night, I was asked for examples of the coolest news applications or services in Japan. Without a doubt, I answered, mobile music and the Chaku Uta Full song download services are really eating up packet bandwidth. The week before last, KDDI announced that the cumulative downloads for EZ Chaku Uta Full (provided via the CDMA 1X EV-DO WIN network) had surpassed 3 million as of 1 March 2005, less than four months after the 19 November 2004 launch. The company added that the 1 million and 2 million milestones were achieved on 5 January and 5 February, respectively. From the WWJ Newsletter. Log in to read full article. To receive WWJ's free email newsletter, subscribe here. [Wireless Watch Japan] 10:18:59 AM comment
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China's Exclusive Mobile TV Drama. People's Daily, 24 March 2005 China's first TV drama to be shown exclusively on mobile phones will begin shooting on 27 March. Entitled "Appointment," it will have five parts, with each only lasting five minutes. Catering to the interests of young people, who are more likely to watch TV plays on mobile phones, the drama is a romantic love story between a beautiful girl and two motorcycle riders, revealed Liu Hong, an official with the Beijing-based Leshi Media Group. [Wireless Watch Japan] 10:18:31 AM comment
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KDDI Designing Studio: Video Tour. 
WWJ Editors, 25 March 2005Japan's wireless industry provides some of the coolest mobile experiences on planet Earth. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that mobile players here are also masters at the street-level marketing of cell phones and wireless services -- and KDDI's Designing Studio is not only the latest over-the-top effort at creating a consumer-targeted mobile funland, it's also the best. In today's program, WWJ's Gail Nakada speaks with the Studio's general manager, tours five floors' worth or interactive games, live handsets and mobile demos, and plugs into Harajuku's ultimate mobile zeitgeist. Program Run-time 8:50 -- Coded for broadband connections only [Wireless Watch Japan] 10:18:05 AM comment
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Unicom to Sell Both Networks?. TheStandard, 26 March 2005 China Unicom, the smaller of the mainland's two mobile operators, will not receive one of three 3G mobile licenses from the government and its parent will be forced to sell both its networks to China Telecom and China Netcom, the National Business Daily reported Friday. Citing industry sources, the Shanghai government-affiliated newspaper said China Unicom's parent, China United Communications, will sell its GSM network to China Telecom, and its CDMA network to China Netcom. [Wireless Watch Japan] 10:17:46 AM comment
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Plot Thickens in Japan's Hostile Takeover Battle. A Softbank affiliate emerged as the biggest shareholder in the Fuji Television Network in a move apparently intended to fend off a possible takeover by the Internet start-up Livedoor. By By TODD ZAUN. [NYT > Technology] 10:17:16 AM comment
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Trading Places: Real Estate Instead of Dot-Coms. Real estate-crazed Americans have started behaving in ways that eerily recall the stock market obsession of the late 1990's. By By MOTOKO RICH and DAVID LEONHARDT. [NYT > Technology] 10:16:51 AM comment
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A mile a minute. It[base ']s lousy running a network business. The capital expenses are horrendous. The customers complain all the time. There are endless congestion and delays. And you don[base ']t make any money at the end of the day either. It[base ']s awful running an... [Telepocalypse] 10:16:25 AM comment
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Riding the Satellite TV Wave on Mobile Devices. By Hideki Furukawa: MOBAHO allows users to catch an MTV music video or a stock market update any time, any place in Japan. But will the upcoming (and earthbound) digital TV broadcasts for cell phones steal its thunder? [Japan Media Review] 10:14:36 AM comment
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Closed Architectures for Content Distribution. By Andreas Bovens: The strict built-in controls meant to enforce copyright in Japanese mobile devices could stifle the creative ways people enjoy, use and reuse digital content. [Japan Media Review] 10:14:05 AM comment
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Motorola Unveils New Mobile Music Products. New Products, Music-Centric Relationships and Seamless Mobile Music... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 10:11:09 AM comment
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SK Telecom and EarthLink Start Joint Venture. EarthLink, Inc., the nation's next generation Internet service provider,... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 10:10:45 AM comment
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Who's Your Mobile Music Daddy?. Business 2.0 wireless writer Matt Maier writes, that "While music labels, handset vendors, and wireless carriers are experimenting in their quest to figure out if and how consumers will use their phones as music devices, they've left the door open for aggregators like Melodeo and Musiwave to develop services that make it more enjoyable to [...] [Om Malik on Broadband] 10:10:21 AM comment
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NTL streams HDTV over ADSL2+. Many thought it was not possible, but looks like HDTV over plain vanilla copper, and not fiber is finally beginning to happen. British broadband provider, NTL says it is experimenting with HDTV services over copper lines using the ADSL2+ technologies. The trials of ADSL2+ started in February in hope to provide 18 Mbps downstream [...] [Om Malik on Broadband] 10:10:04 AM comment
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Bells saved by DSL, Wireless. We all know that they really did not want to sell DSL to the consumers, hoping somehow to protect their ISDN and T-1 Businesses, but looks like DSL and Wireless are two technologies that are keeping the profit-engine chugging for the Baby Bells. According to Fitch, a Chicago-based bond research and ratings company, if you [...] [Om Malik on Broadband] 10:09:37 AM comment
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While most of the world's media companies have yet to figure out a way to coax readers to pay for online news, Japan's No. 2 newspaper is making $200,000 a year selling wireless news to more than 1 million subscribers. How do they do it? They're giving people what they want -- a news feed heavy on sports and entertainment news. By Jane Ellen Stevens. 10:04:48 AM comment
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Phones with full-color motion screens are a hit with business travelers. Cell phone giant NTT DoCoMo thought people would use the phones to share pictures of the world around them, but families focus on each other. By Tim Clark 10:04:04 AM comment
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Ten years ago, the cell phone was a luxury item used only by businessmen. Now just about everybody in Japan has at least one 'keitai, and the ubiquitous little devices have transformed interpersonal communications. This essay by the inventor of the Personal Handyphone offers a look back over the brief history of the cell phone. By Kenji Kohiyama. 10:03:06 AM comment
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Launches of the Japanese mobile media platform stalled elsewhere in Europe. But France's Bouygues Telecom successfully duplicated the Japanese wireless carrier's development and marketing strategies -- right down to the last pixel. [Japan Media Review] 10:02:02 AM comment
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Analog TV handsets led the way in Japan last year. Now cell phones with sophisticated digital services pursue parallel paths into the future. These complex systems may migrate out of the country, but audience usage preferences are still an unknown. [Japan Media Review] 10:00:08 AM comment
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Bill tells you why VCs never say no. Bill Burnham, a good pal and a fellow blogger has finalized his future plans - he is starting Celsius Capital with Carlos Bhola, who by the way is a cofounder of Vonage. The new fund will raise $150 million, and invest in IT/Software in US and China. Bill who made his bones at CSFB and [...] [Om Malik on Broadband] 9:54:45 AM comment
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DOCSIS 2.0 - Don't Count Cable Guys Out. Its fairly fashionable to dismiss cable service providers and their coax networks, especially when compared to the new fangled fiber and copper-fiber hybrid network being planned by phone companies. In the near term cable guys are better equipped to handle the triple play offerings. (Though their lack of wireless offering is likely to become a [...] [Om Malik on Broadband] 9:53:27 AM comment
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My story on Qualcomm, The Next Monopoly, has only just hit the stands and already I need to update the information. According to reports coming from 3GSM, Qualcomm's MediaFLO mobile TV technology is all set to take on the European DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld) and T-DMB (Terrestrial-Digital Mobile Broadcast) specs. One of the key points I make about Qualcomm in the feature is how they abide to the mantra: love thy carrier, and how that's helped them become a gigantic force in wireless world. Jeffery Lorbeck, vice president and
general manager for MediaFLO at Qualcomm, told EE Times that MediaFLO
is getting interest from European carriers, and the company is now
working on ways to submit its technology to standards organizations and
hopefully get it approved as an international spec. Omar Javaid, senior
director of international business for MediaFLO, said, "We have global
ambitions." Javaid called competing DVB-H and T-DMB technologies "not
bad" for bringing TV to mobiles, but added, "Those other technologies
are mobile extensions of existing terrestrial standards. They carry
legacies. They have issues with power, mobility and air interfaces."
Just as an aside, these were the same arguments they made when making a case for CDMA over GSM. Look what happened! [From Om Malik] 9:38:11 AM comment
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