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Foreign broadcasters to be kept off Indian skies. BS: : Things could get tough for foreign news broadcasters that uplink from outside India. The downlinking policy, which is on the anvil, proposes to ban them from airing content as well as advertising meant for India. Only channels owned 74 per cent by Indians can uplink from India. CNN, BBC, Bloomberg TV and Euronews will be at the receiving end of the proposed policy. Besides, channels beaming to India also have to have a minimum net worth of Rs 1.5 crore and another Rs 1 crore net worth for every additional channel. [ContentSutra] 3:36:50 PM  comment
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HP, the GE way Hewlett-Packard's new CEO, Mark Hurd, has been doing what he was hired to do: dismantle the bureaucracy that his ill-fated predecessor, Carly Fiorina, wrapped herself in. The week before last, he announced plans to fire nearly 15,000 employees, saving the company a couple of billion dollars a year. He also said he'd close down the firm's central marketing and sales organization, shifting marketing responsibility back into the three customer-focused business units - one serving big companies, one serving middle-sized businesses, and one serving consumers. With less fanfare, he also shut down some R&D projects. Last week, he pulled the plug on Fiorina's decision to sell rebranded iPods (the strategy behind that much-hyped move never seemed to materialize).
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The definition of insanity.. The Music Industry. There is an old saying that the definition of insanity is "Doing the same thing over and over again expecting the outcome to change" I think of this saying everytime i hear about music industry efforts to impact piracy.
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Content, the risk in war of the wires?. The Economist has a sort of ‘lay-of-the-land’ piece on incumbent phone companies and their IPTV strategy. It is a lot of what we all know, except packaged nicely for those who don’t follow the arcane happenings in the world of telecom. What I find amusing is how phone companies are suddenly saying, they are no [...] [Om Malik's Broadband Blog] 3:30:19 PM comment
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Mobile Phone a Social Computer. David Beisel is quite impressed by Trip Hawkins’ portrayal of the mobile phone as a social computer. Hawkins’ who is the founder of Digital Chocolate, a mobile gaming company is of the Silicon Valley set that came of age in the PC era. He was part of a panel, Smartphone in 2010 at Always On. [...] [Om Malik's Broadband Blog] 3:29:42 PM comment
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ARM claims 3G mobile ownership. The first 65nm ARM core has been embedded in a mobile phone SoC, as the firm moves towards 100 per cent market share for microprocessors in 3G handsets. âo[ogonek]Weâo[dot accent]ve had a 65nm design done by one of our semiconductor company partners and they have working silicon. Itâo[dot accent]s for a mobile, and there are a few others in the works.âo? [Daily 3G News] 3:29:05 PM comment
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Malaysia: DIGI the next 3G licence owner?. DiGi.Com Bhd may be the third mobile telecommunications provider to be awarded the third-generation (3G) licence as the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) reconsiders the release of the remaining blocks of the frequency bands. [Daily 3G News] 3:23:53 PM comment
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China: 3G licenses may not be issued until 2007. A faction within China Telecom, as well as other Chinese telecom operators, believes China should delay the issuing of 3G licenses to 2007, a China Telecom official told Interfax. "Issuing 3G licenses in 2007 would not be too late. In China, a lot of things are hard to pin down," the official, who asked to remain anonymous, told Interfax. [Daily 3G News] 3:23:37 PM comment
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Hong Kong: 3 cry foul - report. Smartone Telecommunications (0315) and CSL will interconnect video calls from today, but Hutchison Telecommunications (2332), Hong Kong's largest third-generation (3G) mobile operator, remains outside the calling loop after rivals baulked at its demand for a $5 to $6 per minute connection fee. [Daily 3G News] 3:22:10 PM comment
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What 3G Must Do To Succeed. Peter Rysavy of Rysavy Research, have written an article about what he believes 3G must do in order to succeed. Just like WiFi, he believes that 3G should be fast, cheap, and reliable. We all know that 3G is quite fast, but also quite expensive. When it comes to reliability, the world is just beginning to learn how reliable it can really be. [Daily 3G News] 3:20:48 PM comment
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Having fun with 3G: a personal experience. Marketing executive Kok York Yin and her co-pilot graphic designer Chong Chee Wah found the most surprising thing about 3G to be video-conferencing. "Our friends and family were astonished that we could see each other," Chong said. His wife Yip Kim Mee agreed, saying she could accept an additional 10 to 20 per cent increase in her mobile phone bill for 3G services. "It's not the price of the phone that matters, it's the price of the service," she said. [Daily 3G News] 3:20:35 PM comment
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Emerging markets: the driver of wireless handset growth. Now the 3G Newsroom reports that according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile phone shipments grew a striking 18 percent year-over-year, to 188 million units during Q2 2005 (April - June). Mega-vendors Nokia and Motorola outperformed in emerging markets, to grab an impressive, combined 50 percent share of total sales. [Daily 3G News] 3:16:01 PM comment
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