Tuesday, September 27, 2005|
Indians-founded Rave Wireless Gets $5 Million VC Funding. Silicon India: Rave Wireless Inc., a company founded by Indians, has raised $5 million in venture capital funding from Bain Capital Ventures and Sigma Partners. The company, led by serial entrepreneur Rodger Desai, also has others like Raju Rishi and Shikhar Ghosh in the management team. Rave Wireless provides the easiest way to find, create, and share time and location-based information with mobile phones. Rave has partnered with major wireless carriers to ensure its platform is integrated with the carriersâo[dot accent] location-based and presence services. Rave's services are initially targeted at North American youth and their universities. "We couldn't be more thrilled that Bain Capital Ventures and Sigma Partners share our belief that the mobile phone will continue to develop and transform the way people interact with each other and their communities," said Rave CEO Rodger Desai. "Todayâo[dot accent]s youth is leading the way in defining a mobile lifestyle that will become commonplace." [ContentSutra] 3:17:25 PM  comment
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MTV to Use Warner Videos. MTV Networks said that it would license the Warner Music Group's music video catalog to create programming for mobile phones worldwide. By REUTERS. [NYT > Technology] 3:15:54 PM comment
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ESPN to start mobile service with Sanyo phone [IDG InfoWorld] 3:14:43 PM comment
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IDC: Apple making inroads in enterprise market. The company is getting high marks for its efforts in the enterprise storage and server markets, according to a study by research firm IDC. [Computerworld News] 3:11:23 PM comment
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Openwave Buys MusicWave For $121 Million. : The mobile browser company Openwave is buying European distribution for $121 million: It has bought out French-European mobile contentcompany Musiwave...Openwave will acquire all outstanding shares of Musiwave for a total purchase price of approximately euro 99.5 million and a contingent earnout of up to an additional euro 15 million. This equates to approximately $121 million, and an additional $18 million respectively, based on the Euro-US Dollar exchange rate of September 23, 2005. More on our sister site MocoNews.net... [PaidContent.org] 3:04:59 PM comment
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PlaceOpedia - Location Based Information. PlaceOpedia (spotted by Carlo at The Guardian) is a way of linking Location to Wikipedia, the open source encyclopedia. It's interesting as it combines a number of different trends (I nearly used the meme word there). - It's a low-cost... [MobHappy] 2:10:52 PM comment
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RIM picks Intel for new BlackBerrys. update Maker of the handheld device ends months of speculation by committing to the chipmaker's "Hermon" processors. [CNET News.com] 2:09:27 PM comment
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DoCoMo Digital Broadcast Phone - Now With Sears Walkie Talkie Antenna.
DoCoMo Announces Japan's First Digital Broadcast Cellphone [Wireless Watch] 1:37:47 PM comment
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This is where the line begins to blur between televisions and cellphones. This device from DoCoMo is full of features, everything from digital broadcasts to old school analog TV. I mean, look at that antenna, how can you not love it? I know how: battery life. The P901iTV handset, made by Panasonic, can handle only about 2.5 hours of continuous |
How Microsoft and Palm Got Together Over Software. Microsoft's truce with Palm, its longtime rival in palmtop software, was forged with a rare agreement to allow Palm to tinker with the Windows Mobile software. By LAURIE J. FLYNN. [NYT > Business] 1:31:31 PM comment
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MTV to Use Warner Videos. MTV Networks said that it would license the Warner Music Group's music video catalog to create programming for mobile phones worldwide. By REUTERS. [NYT > Business] 1:30:51 PM comment
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His Master’s Voice - October 2005.
Seven Technologies That Change Everything: Ajax, BioGenerics, Deep Web Search, HD Radio, Hybrid Cellphones, Micro Fuel Cells, and WiMAX.
The Broadband Broker: A telecom-bust refugee reversed his fortunes by coming up with a way to trade Internet connectivity just like pork bellies.
More from the October 2005 issue here, subscription required. Subscribe to B2.0 here. Gigaom readers get a special offer of two years for $10. [Om Malik's Broadband Blog]1:29:51 PM comment
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Sprint-Nextel May Use Qualcomm’s MediaFLO. A few months ago, I had written a piece about the coming of mobile television, (which is different from what folks like MobiTV already do) and the competition between Nokia and Qualcomm’s MediaFLO. MediaFLO essentially is a parallel wireless network that uses 700-Megahertz spectrum to broadcast tailor made content to mobile devices that have a special decoder chip. (Qualcomm is showing this MediaFLO thing at its booth at CTIA.) Now there is word from Deutsche Bank analysts that Sprint-Nextel might become the first carrier to sign-up for the MediaFLO. Our channel checks indicate that Qualcomm's MediaFLO is the strongest technology contender on the list, and Sprint/Nextel in conjunction with Qualcomm could layout a FLO demo network as early as mid-January 2006. Our channel checks indicate that MediaFLO could be commercially available in mid- 2006, with volume shipments of FLO handsets as early as August - October of 2006.This move is going to put pressure on rivals carriers like Cingular and Verizon Wireless. Deutsche Bank analysts point out that DVB-H, the Nokia-sponsored rival is behind in terms of “chipset development and availability, revenue sharing plans, network planning etc) and is not as power efficient as FLO… we believe Qualcomm[base ']Äôs MediaFLO could emerge as the de-facto mobile-TV standard in the US.” Deutsche Bank analysts say that Sprint is pretty serious about turning entertainment into a lucrative revenue stream, and that is why they are signing up with folks like Sirrus & Real Networks. [Om Malik's Broadband Blog] 1:27:07 PM comment
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Rise of the Virtual PC. Opinion: Robert L. Mitchell says that with virtualization technologies where desktop applications reside and where they run is becoming irrelevant. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 1:26:13 PM comment
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Decline of the Desktop. As laptop prices fall and performance increases, corporate users are adopting them in increasing numbers. Soon they'll outnumber desktops in the enterprise. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 1:25:47 PM comment
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CTIA: RIM to use Intel's Hermon mobile chip. Research In Motion has agreed to use Intel's upcoming Hermon mobile processor in a future BlackBerry phone, the companies announced today at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment conference. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 1:25:01 PM comment
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@ CTIA -- Open Mobile Alliance Wants To Talk DRM. I had a meeting this morning with some people from the Open Mobile Alliance, who were, um, kind enough to add the chair of their DRM working group to the meeting (without my knowledge, although I didn't really mind), to... [MobHappy] 1:24:20 PM comment
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New Study On Indian Media Out. Televisionpoint.com: There is a new study on the Indian media market by Heernet Ventures which highlights the size of the commercial opportunity and the major areas for foreign investment. According to the report, the Indian media industry is worth $6.5 billion (2004), and will experience double digit growth in adspend (radio: 22% annual growth to 2009) and in subscription revenues (driven by DTH services) over the medium term. It has a chapter on the online media, but heavily skewed towards the traditional broadcast and print media. For contents of the report, click here. [ContentSutra] 11:03:23 AM comment
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O2 Bets Big on i-mode. O2 announced last year that they were launching NTT DoCoMo's highly successful i-mode in the UK (as well as Germany and Ireland) and recently declared this Saturday (October 1st) as launch day. However, it wasn't too clear exactly what... [MobHappy] 11:01:07 AM comment
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