Saturday, July 16, 2005|
Qualcomm Slingshot Concept Multimedia Phone.
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Qualcomm, of 1990s cell phone fame is back with a vengeance with their new concept phone developed by PDT, the Slingshot. The Slingshot excels in all areas media related. 2MP cameras, QVGA display,|
Skipping TV ads illegal in Japan?. Blog: Ok, everyone's joked at one time or another that the TV commercials during some show or other (probably the Super Bowl) were... [CNET News.com] 2:43:02 PM comment
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iTunes Japan preps August launch. Macworld, 15 July 2005 Apple will launch its iTunes Music Store in Japan this August, according to AFX News. A brief report states that major Japanese label Avex has agreed to license songs to Apple's soon-to-launch iTunes Japan Music Store. Avex is the first major Japanese label to agree terms with Apple for servicing songs through the service, the report observes. [Wireless Watch Japan] 2:42:47 PM comment
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Taiwan: The battle for 3G supremacy begins. With the top two mobile service providers aiming to launch their long-anticipated third-generation service this month and another one by the year-end, the upcoming four-day telecommunications exposition starting this Friday in Taipei is poised to become a hard-fought battle to secure subscribers. [Daily 3G News] 2:20:33 PM comment
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China: 3G licensing delay seen stifling TD-SCDMA. ABN AMRO said any further delay in issuing third generation (3G) mobile technology licenses in China will stifle the development of TD-SCDMA, the country's homegrown 3G standard. But the standard must be taken out of the lab in order to enter the next stage of development, ABN AMRO said. [Daily 3G News] 9:19:45 AM comment
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MVNO's: Having It Both Ways On 3G. That's certainly possible and, if true, the carriers are making a huge mistake. I understand that MVNOs represent a low-cost, high-return option for 3G network operators. Given the huge sums of money they've spent on upgrading to 3G, MVNOs represent a safe way to get some return on that investment. [Daily 3G News] 9:19:12 AM comment
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3G network pricing: welcome to 1993!. Here's one final comparison: our web hosting package costs about 10 pounds a month, and with that we get 20GB of bandwidth. That's about 0.05p per megabyte. The cost of downloading data over the 3G network is thus almost 5000 times as expensive as serving it up. [Daily 3G News] 9:18:40 AM comment
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Gizmo Project hit with Mac Users. Some reasons we think: we dev first on Mac so it is further along in features and stability. Mac users are early adopters in general, mac users blogging actively from day 1. [Om Malik's Broadband Blog] 9:18:22 AM comment
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Fujitsu Creates Electronic Paper++.
Browse pics and text messages wirelessly on e-paper [T3] 9:17:59 AM comment
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Here we go. Real electronic paper that's coming out next year. Very nice. Fujitsu has created a form of epaper that can hold images even when unpowered and can gather information wirelessly, leading to some interesting potential uses. The first, and most obvious, thing would be digital newspapers and magazines. You walk up to the kiosk, pay your money, and get a copy of Oui sent down to your epaper for later consumption. Will it happen? Probably not. But we can dream.|
MobiTV Starts Broadcasting.
Mobitv Get Kickin' With Mobile Television [PhoneMag] 9:17:14 AM comment
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My dreams have come true! Now I will never miss an episode of the smash hit home décor show, Trading Spaces, thanks to MobiTV and their new mobile television service. TLC along with many of the NBC stations are offering their broadcasts for mobile television via cell phones. Right now this service is only available for Sprint and Cingular in the United States, but expect more carriers to pick this up in the future.|
XM Buys More Spectrum. XM purchased WCS Wireless, a small wireless company that owns licenses to frequency bands close to XMs own satellite radio band. This partnership, writes DesignTechnica, is seen as a way " to expand into 'a variety of multimedia subscription services,' including video and data offerings, which would be transmitted over the WCS frequencies. Quite clearly XM is working on something more than just audio at this point and an always on Satellite connection to a live video feed will make cellphone video and Video-on-Demand quite a bit more feasible.
XM Acquires Wireless Firm [DesignTechnica] [Gizmodo]9:16:50 AM comment
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KDDI Announces EZ-Felica Wallet Cell Phone Service.  WWJ Editors, 11 July 2005Fresh off the news wire [in Japanese], KDDI have just announced they are ready to roll out wallet-enabled handsets for their new "EZ-Felica" campaign scheduled to hit the Ginza sometime this September. According to the company, they are street-testing the new BREW-based application program which will offer digital cash together with a range of membership services including loyalty points for registered users. But wait... that's not all! KDDI also announced today that from January 2006, the company will enable customers to use "Mobility Suica" in partnership with East Japan Railway Company (JR) as well (WWJ thinks Big K's PR folks must have missed this weekend's big Tanabata Festival). It seems like only yesterday (actually, December 2003) that we reported "KDDI Joins FeliCa Bandwagon". [Wireless Watch Japan] 9:15:55 AM comment
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DoCoMo's Experience with Flash Lite. WWJ Editors, 11 July 2005 The recently released Yankee Group report, "Under the Yankee Group Microscope: NTT DoCoMo's Experience with Flash Lite," emphasizes how Flash has become a de facto standard in Japan. According to the report, "Sophisticated information services using Flash Lite have characterized the first wave of innovation. More than 60% of the 4,400 official i-mode sites are based on Flash Lite." WWJ subscribers log in for access to the full report in PDF. [Wireless Watch Japan] 9:15:29 AM comment
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NEC to Enter Russian 3G Market. AFX, 12 July 2005 NEC Corp plans to enter the 3G mobile phone infrastructure market in Russia, which will begin commercialization of 3G mobile phone service in 2006, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, citing NEC chairman Hajime Sasaki. NEC will compete for their orders against Nokia Corp, Telefon AB LM Ericsson and other European companies to supply base stations and base station controllers, the Nikkei said. [Wireless Watch Japan] 9:09:57 AM comment
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Vodafone Japan to Open Network. FT.com, 13 July 2005 Vodafone will consider hosting so-called virtual network operators as part of a move to target specific market segments. The world's largest mobile phone operator has so far been very selective in letting potential rivals on to its networks around the world, although it recently signed a deal with Extreme Sports in the UK. The change of direction was revealed on Tuesday by Bill Morrow, the former head of the UK business, who was parachuted into the troubled subsidiary three months ago as part of a management shake-up. [Wireless Watch Japan] 9:04:19 AM comment
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i-mode Slow Down Under. HeraldSun, 13 July 2005 According to a Telstra insider, the take-up of iMode, which allows customers to surf the internet on a customised handset, has been far from overwhelming. Telstra has signed up less than 50,000 customers to date, with one insider putting subscriber numbers at closer to 30,000. Meanwhile, Vodafone Live, has gathered more than 400,000 Australian customers since April 2003. A Telstra spokesman said it was important to remember that while iMode had had a "soft" launch in November, it was yet to be offered by Telstra's entire dealer network. [Wireless Watch Japan] 9:03:55 AM comment
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Apple To Become Wireless Carrier?. Apple and Motorola are already developing a hybrid iPod/cell phone, say insiders. But major carriers are expected to reject it -- paving the way for Apple to follow Disneyâo[dot accent]s lead. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 9:03:29 AM comment
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FCC Report: Wireless Subscribers Surpass Traditional Wired Connections. Nationally, the market is split 50-50 between wireless subscriptions and wireline connections. But in North Carolina, wireless has a 52-48 percent advantage. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 9:03:06 AM comment
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UMTS Enhancements To Launch This Year. Cingular expects to cover most major U.S. markets with UMTS/HSDPA by the end of 2006. To date, at least 19 operators have made public announcements regarding their UMTS/HSDPA commitments. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 9:02:32 AM comment
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