Monday, August 15, 2005



Greed, Stupidity and Drugs - An Everyday Story of Record Execs. OK - I have no evidence for the drugs part in the title of this post, but the greed and stupidity of record execs constantly amazes me. Often you can see the logic behind business decisions, even though you... [MobHappy]
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Chinese eye $100 wireless laptop. Crucial for rural broadband deployment [The Register]
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Get Ready for GoogleNet. : A story joining some dots in some recents moves by Google, and comes to this conclusion: The gatekeeper of the world's information could become one of the globe's biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers,... [PaidContent.org]
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Apple Not Keen On Subscription Market. : And may not ever enter it, according to this story, unless one of its rivals comes up with a way to make subscriptions mainstream. According to the story, earlier this summer, soon after Yahoo's announcement of its Music Unlimited... [PaidContent.org]
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Japan: Mobile Phone Designed for Seniors. 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. [Daily 3G News]
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Mobile Communications in Japan. This paper briefly surveys the historical developments in the Japanese mobile communications market. It highlights two facts: the mobile phone subscribers surpassed the fixed line users in number in 2000 and the dominant mode of access to the Internet is provided by the mobile phone. On the basis of reflection on the causes of phenomenal growth in mobile communications in Japan, this paper predicts that a similar expansion of the third generation (3G) mobile communications will take place in China as well. The key factors for such an expansion are: 1) long cultural tradition of visual communications and 2) the emergence of the middle class in Chinese big cities. Download here [Daily 3G News]
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USA set to leapfrog Europe in the deployment of 3G services. Having traditionally lagged behind their European and Asian counterparts, the Americas region is experiencing a period of strong growth. More importantly, having avoided the 3G spectrum debacle, some North American operators are set to leapfrog Europe in the deployment of next generation services. [Daily 3G News]
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GSM to continue to dominate wireless through to 2010. Phil Kendall, report author and director of wireless operator research at Strategy Analytics, commented, "Voice usage will increase from 5.6 trillion minutes in 2005 to 12.6 trillion in 2010. GSM-based systems will continue to dominate the cellular landscape, accounting for 81 percent of subscribers and 76 percent of service revenues in 2010, [Daily 3G News]
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O2 to go German?. Once again UK mobile operator mmO2 has been the subject of intense bid speculation. This time the predator is said to be Deutsche Telekom's mobile unit T-Mobile. However, the former wireless wing of BT reacted quickly this morning to try to quash rumours that it is involved in takeover talks. [Daily 3G News]
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