Sunday, August 28, 2005



MySpace To Start A Record Label. : MySpace, the online community site, will be starting its own record label in partnership with a major label shortly, according to the founders, interviewed in this long story on the mind-boggling power of the site. The overwhelmign sentiment: as... [PaidContent.org]
12:20:08 PM    comment   



Content-Related Patents Granted Over Last Week. : Some interesting digital content related patents granted over last week, by the USPTO: -- # 6,934,552 Method to select and send text messages with a mobile: Assigned to Philips -- # 6,934,743: Method and apparatus for displaying intermediate content... [PaidContent.org]
12:19:33 PM    comment   



BT to Bid For Premier League, For IPTV. : UK's telecom giant BT is to challenge BSkyB by bidding for the rights to televise Premier League football when the current contract expires in 2007. BT's newly established entertainment division, headed by Andrew Burke, aims to offer VOD and... [PaidContent.org]
12:03:15 PM    comment   



The Future Challenges For BBC and Public Service Broadcasting. : The former BBC director general Lord Birt (and now Tony Blair's strategy advisor) gave a keynote speech at the biggest TV festival in UK, the Edinburgh International Television Festival, and among other things, talked about the challenges a public... [PaidContent.org]
12:02:10 PM    comment   



Yahoo's Recent Acquisitions: Some Numbers. : Going through Yahoo's 10-Q for the first two quarters of this year, some interesting figures emerge: -- Yahoo closed one acquisition in Q1 of this year: a software development company was bought for approximately $58 million and consisted of... [PaidContent.org]
11:43:08 AM    comment   



Google and A Superhighway of One’s Own. NPR’s On The Media has a piece on my “GoogleNet” story in Business 2.0 latest issue. Bob Garfield asks the questions, I answer them. Interested in that podcast? Download it here. [Om Malik's Broadband Blog]
11:39:58 AM    comment   



Nokia's Hindi-Text-Input-in-Mobiles Patent. Patent Filing: This is half-interesting: Nokia has been granted a patent on Hindi input into a portable (read mobile) device, using some intelligent text input. Plod through the patent filing if you need to find out more... [ContentSutra]
11:25:26 AM    comment   



Intel's Otellini Shows Off An Energy-Efficient Computer From India Via Video Feed.


Manorama Online: As Paul Otellini, the CEO of Intel, opened a three-day Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, he showed off, via video feed from India, an Intel "community computer" that can operate for hours powered by a car battery and withstand temperatures of more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). He predicted that the power-miser processors will breed "ultra energy-efficient" handheld devices that use less than a watt of processing power and weigh less than 0.45 kilogramme.
Slashing computer power consumption could save billions of dollars in electricity costs in coming years, according to Otellini, who estimated that 200 million computers would be sold worldwide this year.
These energy efficient processors will be available from 2006. [ContentSutra]
11:25:04 AM    comment   




Nokia to host investor event in India. Nokia's first ever global investor meet in India will be held in New Delhi on August 25, to coincide with the 10th anniversary of mobile telephony in India. The event is aimed at global investors, financial and industry analysts from a number of global investment banks, financial institutions and research ... [Mobile Pundit]
11:24:45 AM    comment   



IIM students gaze into India’s mobile future. Few ideas from students participating in 'Vertical Limits', a day-long discussion on the future of telecom industry in the country. The students also pointed out that the penetration of telephones in the urban sector was 15 times higher than rural and urged companies to turn their attention to this 'vast ... [Mobile Pundit]
11:24:31 AM    comment   



Edward Zander of Motorola in India. Motorola Chief Executive Edward Zander is visiting India. He said on Tuesday that Motorola may manufacture mobile phone handsets in India. Zander said Motorola is planning to launch a new range of mobile phones this fall, including models priced below 2,000 rupees to expand its customer base.

'We are going to be ... [Mobile Pundit]
11:22:06 AM    comment   




Telecom Growth. Good analytical article in Business Standard talking about future telecom growth in the country. Given per-capita, India will hit the affordability barrier earlier âo[per thou] around the 150-200 million mark if one goes by the rule of thumb of TV-ownership. This is based on the logic that TV-owners can afford telephony services ... [Mobile Pundit]
11:19:19 AM    comment   

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