Wednesday, July 6, 2005|
Mobile Content Market To Cross $9 Billion in 2006. : A nascent industry, you said? Think again...Mobile content, the whole reason for our sister site Moconews.net's existence, will turn into a $9 billion industry worldwide in the next 12 months.... [PaidContent.org] 5:50:51 PM  comment
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Surviving the Digital TV Shift. Soon, TV stations will give up their old analog licenses and broadcast solely in digital format. This means older TV sets will no longer receive broadcast signals. Here's how you can prepare for the big changeover. By Michael Grebb. [Wired News] 4:28:01 PM comment
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Reliance Has Huge Content Plans. Business Standard: We had carried a post on how Reliance Capital's acquisition of Adlabs will drive the group's convergence strategy. Now the Business Standard article also takes the similar line. It says that the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises group has drawn a blueprint for its entertainment business that stretches from development of content, carriage of the content and, finally, its exhibition. In the process, it will straddle different platforms ranging from film production to broadband Internet TV (also known as IPTV), mobile TV, direct-to-home (DTH), multiplexes and FM radio. âo[ogonek]We want to straddle the entire value chain of the entertainment content and carriage-way business,âo? Amit Khanna, who is coordinating the business for the ADAE group, is being quoted by the paper. The acquisition of a controlling 51 per cent stake in Adlabs will give the group state-of-the-art capabilities in producing films. The content developed by Adlabs can be delivered digitally to theatres. Adlabs already owns five multiplexes across the country. It is expected to add another 13 multiplexes in the near future. Once it has a large network of theatres, experts point out, it is possible for the group to digitally transmit a movie from one centralised location to all the theaters through Reliance Infocommâo[dot accent]s existing fibre optic network. In addition, Reliance Infocomm has a collaboration with Microsoft to look at IPTV. The company is all set to enter consumer homes with broadband Internet through its fibre optic backbone. The same connectivity can be used to deliver entertainment content like channels, video-on-demand, among other things. Trial runs for broadband TV was already on in some countries and the results were being awaited, Khanna said.
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Is Anil Ambani The Next Media Mogul?. The Financial Express: This is another story on Reliance Capital's acquisition of Adlabs. I don't know why this development is analyzed so much. Sample this: "Reliance seems fairly focused on building content assets first, so Adlabs seems a natural target, though I suspect there will be a couple more in the content space," said Vivek Couto, executive director at research firm Media Partners Asia. "How they link these assets to distribution will be key: will they go the cable route and offer broadband phone, Internet and TV services, or will they go through the mobile route and start TV broadcasting via mobile? Or will they do both?" [ContentSutra] 4:27:10 PM comment
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Lenovo joins ranks of top chip buyers. Blog: With the merger of IBM's PC unit, China's Lenovo will become the ninth largest purchaser of semiconductor in the world, according... [CNET News.com] 4:26:55 PM comment
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Use This Phone to Find a Date. Or See Videos. Or Even Talk. The offerings planned by Amp'd Mobile, a new kind of cellular service, at the outset late this year include full-motion video of news, sports, concerts and other live events, as well as movie and TV clips and music videos, reports The New York Times. Added to the mix will be high-speed music downloads, 3-D games, video blogs, a dating service, SMS and ring tones and wallpaper. [Daily 3G News] 4:26:37 PM comment
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Has the Internet growth stalled? [Om Malik's Broadband Blog] 4:23:18 PM comment
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So many words, so little said. [Om Malik's Broadband Blog] 4:21:06 PM comment
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Will Alcatel regret its bet on Microsoft's IPTV? One of the most curious moves made by any networking company was Alcatel’s decision to abandon its IPTV middleware software in favor of Microsoft’s IPTV software, that may or may not work and is till in the distant future. Alcatel had carved up a nice little niche in the business. I have [...] [Om Malik's Broadband Blog] 4:20:47 PM comment
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Will Alcatel regret its bet on Microsoft’s IPTV. window.document.getElementById('post-4549').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';One of the most curious moves made by any networking company was Alcatel’s decision to abandon its IPTV middleware software in favor of Microsoft’s IPTV software, that may or may not work and is till in the distant future. Alcatel had carved up a nice little niche in the business. I have [...] [Om Malik's Broadband Blog] 4:19:57 PM comment
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Growth of a Nation. 10-minute movie of the geographic history on the U.S. [del.icio.us/nivi] 4:18:03 PM comment
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Podcasts Pump New Life into Expat[base ']s Broadcasts. By Bruce Rutledge: Livedoor jumps to the front of the pack of Japanese podcasting, supporting the pioneering Fujio Tamura when no one else would. [Japan Media Review] 4:17:25 PM comment
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The Coming TFT-LCD Glut.
The Taipei Times is running a piece on over-building of TFT-LCD plants in China. "It is worrying to see that this unlimited expansion of the TFT-LCD industry may leave photoelectric plants without any profits and cause the overuse of land, capital, electricity and talent," said Director-General of the Hsinchu Science Park, James Lee. TFTs are a big, good thing, but everybody and their dog is rolling out a new plant somewhere, leading to massive environmental impact. Then, as surplus panels stack up in warehouses, we're going to be paying about $5 wholesale for a 12-inch. Not bad for us, the consumer, but very bad for LG/Toshiba/Every-other-massive-fabricator.
Official warns on coming glut in TFT-LCD factories [Taipei Times] [Gizmodo]4:14:18 PM comment
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We've been talking about the future of displays for a bit now, and it seems our fears—or dreams—are coming to pass. |
LG Electronics Signs Agreement with PalmSource. LG Electronics, Inc. and PalmSource Inc., provider of Palm OS, today... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 4:08:36 PM comment
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Comcast Acquires Audio-Video Search Firm StreamSage. : Comcast, the cable giant looking to enhance its online and TV search capabilities, has quietly bought out a small audio-video search firm StreamSage, paidContent.org has learned. The Washington, DC-based startup, founded in 2000, came into prominence last year with... [PaidContent.org] 4:06:08 PM comment
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Place-shifting TV Could Raise New Copyright Concerns. : Now that SlingBox has hit retail, let the copyright/DRM questions begin. Sling Media's first-to-market hardware solution is getting most of the attention but it's only one of the efforts underway to provide ways to view home-centric video from any... [PaidContent.org] 2:06:29 PM comment
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Europe seeks harmonized music royalties. Public consultation imminent, reports claim [The Register] 2:06:09 PM comment
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Hurrah for Ofcom's spectrum plans. Spectrum Framework Review gets gold star [The Register] 2:05:28 PM comment
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Hotels the driver of smartphone sales. Blog: What is driving the growth of devices like the Blackberry and the Treo 650? Lousy hotel ISP service, says chip industry analyst... [CNET News.com] 2:05:14 PM comment
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Disney's New Mobile Service: Details. : As we reported earlier, Disney has announced its MVNO...some more details whihc we'll update throughout the day: -- Disney MVNO Launch: New Executive Appts: George Grobar, a 10-year Disney veteran, will lead the venture as senior VP and GM... [PaidContent.org] 1:56:09 PM comment
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The Online Movies Redux: The iTunes Comparison. : Everyone conceptually understands that we need an iTunes for the movie industry...but everyone also knows it is more complicated to keep things that simple. Some small, independent sites like Greencine (which is an online DVD rental company which also... [PaidContent.org] 1:54:45 PM comment
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The blade bloodbath The time it takes for a new, premium IT product to turn into a cheap commodity grows ever briefer. Latest exhibit: blade servers. The early movers, like IBM and HP, were able to charge a premium price for their blades, telling customers they'd eventually recoup the costs through space, energy and management savings. Then, last November, Dell belatedly brought the full force of its familiar, low-cost strategy to the market. Already, as David Berlind reports, the price premiums are evaporating as IBM and HP struggle to defend their market shares against the Dell onslaught. Berlind says he hears that "it's a marketshare bloodbath behind closed doors and that IBM and HP are offering steep discounts off their street prices."
"In the long run," Michael Dell once said, "all technology tends toward low-cost standards." And that's a good thing. - nick (nick@roughtype.com) [Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog]1:45:23 PM comment
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