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Friday, August 12, 2005

Qualcomm's Flarion, a WiMAX end game?

Few years from now, we will all agree, on the road to wireless domination, Qualcomm spending $600 million to buy Flarion was money well spent. [Om Malik]
11:48:55 AM

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Mobile Phone Designed for Seniors. Nikkei Electronics, 12 Aug. 2005
DoCoMo will release a new mobile handset able to slow down speakers' voice speed later this month. The key targeted users are the elderly. The speed converter technology used in the handset slows down speakers' voice speed up to 0.7x, so the listener can feel like that the speakers' dialogue goes slowly. By reducing the number of menu items as well as using relatively large icons, screen operation became easier than before. The unit also features an emergency 80 dB alarm system and a built-in pedometer. [Wireless Watch Japan]
11:38:36 AM

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Seven Steps to Better Presentationss. "Don't apologize. Ever. If something is out of order, or if something occurs to you as a mistake during the presentation, keep it to yourself." [del.icio.us/nivi]
11:36:53 AM

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Now, Cellphones For $24. Business Standard: Single-chip solution from Texas Instruments will help sell cellphones for Rs 1000 ($24), and countries like India will benefit from this. Texas Instruments has launched the worldâo[dot accent]s first single chip solution for cellular phones. This cost-effective single chip for a handset is expected to boost the production of ultra-low-cost mobile phones in emerging markets like India, China and Latin America.
"The operations of a mobile phone, which were performed by several chips, have been packed in a single chip, allowing GSM and GPRS phone manufacturers to cut production costs by up to 30 per cent," Chairman of Texas instruments Tom Engibous said on Tuesday after calling the companyâo[dot accent]s facility in France from New Delhi from a mobile phone using the single-chip solution. "Our team in Bangalore has developed this technology, which will help narrow the digital divide. Our customers can use it to make ultra-low-cost handsets affordable in largely untapped consumer markets," he said.
According to Engibous, this solution integrated the bulk of handset electronics onto a single chip to reduce cost, power requirements, board area, and silicon area -- performance factors that are crucial for high-volume entry-level mobile phones. [ContentSutra]
11:36:28 AM

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Global Broadband Mkt To Cross 430 Million By 2010; China And India To Lead. Dow Jones: The global broadband Internet market is forecast to pass 190 milliom subscribers by the end of 2006 and will be approaching 440 million by the end of 2010 according to a report published by Informa Telecoms & Media. It expects digital subscriber line technology to take 77% market share, or 332 million subscriptions, compared to 76 million for cable. Informa expects Sweden and Finland to have penetration rates at over 30%, along with Japan and South Korea. It expects growth in China and India to take off while it slows down in more mature markets like Western Europe and North America. (NPF) [ContentSutra]
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Apparently Asian Newspapers Are Bucking The Digital Trend. The Australian: Newspaper executives spent this week in Cairns trying to solve their industry's greatest challenge: How to make their 400-year old product relevant to the iPod generation. Delegates to the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association conference heard about several success stories amid a 50-year circulation decline.
David Armstrong, editorial director of the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post and former editor-in-chief of The Australian, noted that Asian newspapers were bucking the trend. He said sales of Chinese newspapers had grown by more than 80 per cent since 1990 to a circulation of 40 billion copies. India outstripped that with 45,000 newspaper titles selling about 50 billion copies annually.
"The common thread in much of Asia is that newspapers are completely focused on their readers," he said. "[They] don't seem to be bogged down by preconceptions of what a newspaper should be. So they are prepared to do things differently." [ContentSutra]
11:22:42 AM

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3G Subscribers to Exceed 300 Million by 2010 - report. As 3G begins to take off, what will trigger mass market uptake of data and multimedia services? In a new market report, Next Generation Handsets 2005-2010, Juniper Research, http://www.juniperresearch.com, argues that power has shifted to a more discerning user community that is spoilt for choice and yet appears fazed by the complexity of mobile phones and the plethora of services on offer. [Daily 3G News]
11:20:23 AM

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Asia: 3G outlays put phone firms back on track. Shares of Asian mobile phone operators like NTT DoCoMo and SK Telecom, the worst-performing industry last year, may extend a rebound in the past month as investments in high-speed networks begin paying off. [Daily 3G News]
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Europe's 3G outpaces Japan. Strategy Analytics, released its Wireless Network Strategies updated global cellular market report, "Worldwide Cellular User Forecast 2005-2010," forecasting that the worldwide cellular user base will increase from 1.7bn by the end of 2005 to 2.5bn by the end of 2010, a 38% penetration rate. [Daily 3G News]
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What Business Models are being Adopted by 3G Operators. Looking for a Nordic perspective on the wireless market? This latest strategic report offers detailed analysis of the Nordic region and a wireless market in rapid transition. What impact will new business models, innovative pricing, fixed to mobile substitution and the gradual adoption of 3G have on revenues and profitability? Gain valuable insights about where growth opportunities are to be found in an advanced market with maximum penetration rates and flattening ARPU levels in this comprehensive 250 page strategic report. [Daily 3G News]
9:36:15 AM

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Cable, Telco Execs Argue Against Mandated Open Acess. : The concensus among cable and telecom execs at this week's Reuters Telecommunications, Cable and Satellite Summit, according to Reuters: the federal government should steer clear of mandating the ability for high-speed users to get content and services of their... [PaidContent.org]
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Streaming Movies May Come To Sony PSP. : In an interview with Japanese mag Famitsu, head of SCE software platform development, Izumi Kawanishi, spoke of the company's recent PSP firmware update, which adds web browsing functionality to the handheld, alongside his vision for future online applications of... [PaidContent.org]
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Reuters TCS: XM Eyeing Wireless Satellite Radio Services. : Also at the Reuters TCS summit, XM Satellite Radio is in talks with mobile phone hardware and services companies about how it can enter the wireless industry, CEO Hugh Panero said. Both XM and Sirius are eyeing wireless as... [PaidContent.org]
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Reuters TCS: Ad Models on Cable, Telco TV. : As cable, satellite and phone companies beef up their video services, TV advertising is in for a change, said industry execs at the Reuters TCS summit. Consumer adoption of VOD will be key in convincing advertisers to switch to... [PaidContent.org]
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Broadcast, Cable Programming Being Retransmitted By Free TV Site. : Remember ICraveTV, the site streaming U.S. television out of Canada until it was shut down through legal action? A new contender is trying a variation on the theme: CraftyTV offers free streams of popular shows like "Desperate Housewives," "Sponge... [PaidContent.org]
9:24:13 AM

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O2 - it's going to be a 3G Christmas. Sarin insists it's going to be a 3G Christmas, but his rival at O2, Peter Erskine, still reckons videophone technology won't become mass market until next year. He's right to say that battery life is still too short on many handsets, but then his prediction is hardly surprising, given the fact that O2 decided long ago to delay the roll-out of its 3G network and thus has less in the way of 3G services and handsets to offer than Vodafone. [Daily 3G News]
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