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Tail wagging the dog. I'm seeing a lot of write-ups about The Long Tail these days. Has anyone else noticed that this is just a refinement and extension of Content is Not King? [Telepocalypse]3:38:26 PM  comment
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MCI Investors: We want the same deal as Slim. MCI investors, are hoping to get the same deal as Carlos Slim, and have told MCI board that if they try to do something shady, well then they might have to call in Tony Soprano. Bill Miller CEO of Legg Mason Capital Management fired off a note to Michael Capellas, "...at a minimum, any agreement [...] [Om Malik on Broadband] 3:37:49 PM comment
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Avvenue, Beta Service Coming Soon. Kinetic Tide, now called Avvenue is one of the handful of place-shifting companies that is trying hard to unwire the desktop, making it easier for us to share and access our digital content anywhere, anytime. (Sling Media and Orb Networks are others, and I am sure there are many more in stealth mode out there!) [...] [Om Malik on Broadband] 3:37:10 PM comment
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NEC Develops Compact Millimeter-Wave Transceiver. JCN Newswire, Japan, Apr 1, 2005 -- NEC Corporation today announced the successful development of a highly compact 60-GHz-band(1) wireless transceiver that transmits uncompressed high-definition television ("HDTV") signals(2) realizing HDTV sets and displays without cable connections. The newly developed transceivers offer increased opportunities for broadband wireless video transmission throughout the home, office, and in commercial venues etc. Furthermore, this technology does not simply allow discrete wireless equipment, but can also be extended to various high-data-rate wireless applications involved in wireless personal area networks. [Wireless Watch Japan] 1:31:14 AM comment
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Hitachi Claims Leap in HDD Density. News.com, 4 April 2005 Hitachi Global Storage will come out with hard drives containing 230 gigabits of data per square inch. "We're redesigning the head and disc quite significantly," said Bill Healy, senior vice president of product strategy and marketing at Hitachi. The technology will allow Hitachi to come out with a 20GB microdrive, which has a diameter of 1 inch (currently microdrives top out at 6GB). [Wireless Watch Japan] 1:30:46 AM comment
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Toshiba Exits China Cellphone Market. Reuters, 5 April 2005 Japan's Toshiba Corp. said on Monday it had sold its 33 percent stake in a mobile phone joint venture in China to a local partner, withdrawing from a highly competitive market with hefty growth potential. Toshiba, Japan's second-largest electronics conglomerate, set up the venture with Nanjing Putian and another company based in Hong Kong in 2000 to make and sell Toshiba handsets in China. [Wireless Watch Japan] 1:30:11 AM comment
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BREW Developers Japan Seminar. WWJ Editors, 6 April 2005 Qualcomm has announced that Digital Hollywood will host the upcoming BREW developers' seminar event to be held in Tokyo on 26 April. KDDI is also on board as co-sponsor offering workshops at their Harajuku Designing Studio for two days in June. Full details [in Japanese] from their Press Release; access the BrewJapan.com site, which has a limited English section available. [Wireless Watch Japan] 1:29:11 AM comment
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Sports Geek Heaven -- Live Baseball for the Mobile Screen. 
By Gail Nakada, 8 April 2005The weather is warming up and that means a lot more than Cherry Blossoms in this country -- bring out the beer and bentos! Baseball season is back! The new season also brings some cool new technology that will knock pro baseball off the TV screen, out of the ballpark, through the sports bar doors' and right onto your keitai screen. Like many traditional staples of entertainment here, pro baseball is going mobile -- but with a decidedly animated twist. Tokyo-based Craftmax's Digital Stadium broadcasts select American and Japanese pro-ball games over DoCoMo 3G cell phones transforming live action into an animated play-by-play, pitch-by-pitch rendition of the game right down to ball speed and trajectory, complete with an electronic scoreboard, the roar of the crowd and sound effects for hits, runs and score changes. This is not fantasy baseball, and not an online game, but rather The Real Thing -- rendered into animated avatars standing in for flesh-and-blood players. Check-out this quick video preview below of our upcoming program including a product demo and chat (which was for the most part in Japanese) with the company founder Mitsumasa Etoh. [Wireless Watch Japan] 1:28:38 AM comment
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KDDI Announces EZ 'Chaku Uta Full' Downloads Exceed 5 Million. JCN Newswire, Apr 7, 2005 -- KDDI and Okinawa Cellular are pleased to announce that cumulative downloads EZ "Chaku Uta Full*", part of the au mobile phone service provided by KDDI and Okinawa Cellular, surpassed 5 million on April 3, 2005. The EZ "Chaku Uta Full" service, launched on November 19, 2004, its millionth download in January, 2005, 2 millionth download in February, and 3rd and 4th millionth downloads in March. EZ "Chaku Uta Full" is a music download service through which an entire song can be downloaded directly onto a mobile handset. With a maximum download speed of 2.4 Mbps via CDMA 1X WIN technology and the Double Fixed** packet data fixed fee service, users can easily download music anywhere and anytime without worrying about packet data fees. [Wireless Watch Japan] 1:28:14 AM comment
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From time-shifting to media-shifting. It's great to be able to time-shift media, but more and more lately I wish I could media-shift as well. Consider this fifty-minute interview1 with Jim Gray, on MSDN's Channel 9. Why haven't I watched it yet? Not because I lack interest, or time, but because the content isn't available in a format that suits the kind of time I have. In this case, the format would be audio, and the kind of time would be walking-, jogging-, or driving-time. ... [Jon's Radio] 1:27:32 AM comment
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More media-shifting. In response to yesterday's item about media-shifting, Jason Burton reports that he uses a free tool called Sermonex, written by Chris Lundie, to extract audio tracks from Channel 9 videos. ... [Jon's Radio] 1:26:38 AM comment
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Fourth Trojan Aimed at Smartphones. A Trojan virus has been discovered that crashes usersâo[dot accent] smartphones and causes loss of personal data. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 1:26:09 AM comment
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Bluetooth: Hot in Europe, Cold in States. Europe is ahead of America in technology adoption overall, including Bluetooth, and the question is- will Americans catch up when Bluetooth catches on [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 1:25:41 AM comment
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The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin. So I[base ']m on the Mavs latest roadtrip. I[base ']m walking through a mall with my Ipod cranking away. I had already decided that I wanted to pick up the soundtrack to KillBill to get the Woohoo song from the 5678s. Then I realized, I didnt have a way to deal with a CD... [Blog Maverick]1:11:41 AM comment
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Report: Comcast, Time-Warner to buy Adelphia. Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. have agreed to acquire bankrupt cable operator Adelphia Communications Corp. for US$17.6 billion through a deal with Adelphia's creditors, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. [InfoWorld: Top News] 1:10:12 AM comment
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Apple Chipset Bombshell: Super Multimedia Chip Licensed for Unknown Device.
Now as much fun as it is to wonder if Apple is making a video/gaming/cellphone/camera/music device, you also have to realize that Apple often doesn't exploit the full power of the chipsets it licenses (the chipset that powers modern iPods is capable of video, for instance). So while Apple could be designing the ultimate convergence device (or Newton II), they could also just be adding video or 3D menus to the new generation of iPod. What we do know is we won't see a product using this hardware until at least next year, so we've got lots of time to wonder.
Who knew that the April Fool's gPod hoax [pictured] would be so quickly probable?
Scoop! Brit chip designers score coup as Apple picks chips for next gen mobile multimedia device...the m-Pod? [SiliconValleyWatcher] [Gizmodo]1:09:28 AM comment
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Prepare
for speculation a-go-go: Apple just licensed a chipset that is capable
of not only music and video, but 3D graphics and image capturing with
resolutions up to 8-megapixel. Silicon Valley Watcher is reporting that
Apple has contracted to use a chipset from UK company Alphamosaic. And
not only is the chipset powerful, it can be integrated with chips from
Alphamosaic's parent company Broadcom to provide wireless
communication, from cell phones to Bluetooth to Wi-Fi.|
Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Gadget Bag.
Mizuguchi Thoughts #1 [1Up] [Gizmodo]1:08:59 AM comment
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Tetsuya Mizuguchi (aka 'Miz') is the creator of Rez and Lumines,
arguably the first hit game for the Sony PSP. He's started up a new
blog on 1UP and it just so happens that his first post is very 'What's
in My Gadget Bag'-like. None of the gear is too mind-boggling, but it's
still fun to read reflections on the social impact of gadgetry from one
of videogaming's most innovative designers. (Thanks, Ami B!)|
News.Com: MIT, Quanta cook up devices of tomorrow. Specifically, TParty will try to merge existing hardware designs with new concepts on how to better manage information transfers, device configurations, security and more. Brooks said that the research, which will consist of 30 different projects at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory... [Tomalak's Realm] 1:08:35 AM comment
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Verizon to Buy 13.7 Percent Stake in MCI. Verizon says it has agreed to buy the 13.7 percent stake in MCI held by its largest shareholder, Mexican telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim Helu. [eWEEK Technology News] 1:06:23 AM comment
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