Mobilog

Monday, July 17, 2006

Press Release: Nokia trials mobile TV in Sweden using DVB-H technology with Teracom and partners. Today Nokia announced a new commercial DVB-H pilot in Stockholm with Teracom in Sweden [Mobile TV Forum updates]
2:59:35 PM

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Press Release: Nokia and TeliaSonera Sweden trial broadcast mobile TV using DVB-H technology and Nokia N92 devices. TeliaSonera marks a new customer for Nokia Mobility Hosting [Mobile TV Forum updates]
2:59:21 PM

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Event: IBC2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands. IBC2006 will open at the RAI in Amsterdam on Friday 8 September and close on Tuesday 12 September 2006. The Conference will run from 7 until 11 September. Mobile TV was a major focus of IBC2005. With numerous trials underway around the world, the Mobile TV story will continue to unfold over the next year. Building on the success of this year's events, IBC2006 will provide the perfect forum for broadcast and mobile professionals to understand the latest developments. [Mobile TV Forum updates]
2:57:08 PM

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iPod Watch Concept: Please Go Into Production.

This iPod watch concept, given the name iWatch by its designer, Peter Burns, combines—you guessed it!—an iPod and a wristwatch in one saucy little package. The iWatch has (well, is envisioned as having) 10GB of storage and users would then listen to the music with a pair of Bespoke Bluetooth headphones. Not much else is known about the iWatch other than the fact that it looks amazing. Hopefully someone with deep pockets will give its designer some support. – Nicholas Deleon

iWatch [Peter Burns' Portfolio via TechEBlog]

[Gizmodo]
2:50:53 PM

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Mobile Internet Dead - and why Wibro will fail commercially. My article "The Mobile Internet should be pronounced dead" drew the full gamut of responses, including raddedas of TECHYPE who said that he "thought it one of the best pieces I've read in a long time - so good I didn't blog about it because I couldn't think of much useful to add". There was a lot of interest in Mike Gauba's comments. Gauba has an even more radical and alarming prognosis for WiBro in Korea because of his view that the Internet and Mobile Commerce are in fact reverse paradigms - he predicts it will fail. [i-mode Business Strategy]
2:48:45 PM

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Software kills hardware - nick (nick@roughtype.com) [Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog]
2:47:33 PM

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UK Media's Top 100 Movers and Shakers.

Go drown yourself in it silly…Guardian’s annual list of top 100 most powerful UK media executives in the industry is out today. The top 4 are familiar faces to worldwide:
1. Mark Thompson, director general BBC
2. Steve Jobs
3. Rupert Murdoch
4. Sergey Brin and Larry Page
Comedian Ricky Gervais, whose podcast become at most download online, is at # 33.
Here’s the 1-100 list. The new media list includes Chris DeWolfe of MySpace, Michael Birch, founder of social networking site Bebo, and Arianna Huffington of HuffPo.

[paidContent.org]
2:45:43 PM

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Broadband In India. Express Computer has a nice round up on the broadband situation in India. It currently stays at 1.5 million and the idea is to reach at least half of the current cable penetration of 35 million households over the next few years. The good thing there is a change in situation now since consumers are [...] [ContentSutra]
2:27:05 PM

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Indian e-Commerce Market Close To $1 Billion. eStatsIndia.com, an internet research agency, has released some numbers on Indian e-commerce scene - both b2c as well as b2b. According to this study, Indian e-commerce market - b2c and b2b combined - is about Rs 4,100 crore. B2C E-commerce Industry Snapshot: Size (India) in Rs crore: (for the year 2005-06): Retail: 150 (billing figures) Jobs: 135 E-greetings: 12 ISPâo[dot accent]s (domain [...] [ContentSutra]
2:10:22 PM

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CDMA exodus.

After Reliance Communications, the smaller CDMA-based telecom operators also want to migrate from CDMA to GSM and have started applying for GSM spectrum.

Punjab-based HFCL Infotel Ltd has sent an application to the department of telecommunications (DoT), while Rajasthan-based Shyam Telelink Ltd is planning to do so shortly.

Both the companies have a unified access service licence (UASL) and are eligible for providing services of technology of their choice.

According to an HFCL official, the company plans to offer its fixed wireless services (FWP) on the CDMA technology but for mobile services it intends to migrate from CDMA to GSM. The company said that in mobile the infrastructure cost in GSM-based technology was lower than CDMA.

Since there is no national roaming pact among CDMA mobile operators, single circle operators, like HFCL, are not able to provide roaming to their subscribers, which is a big handicap. Shifting to GSM would solve the problem.

HFCL’s total subscriber base at the end of May stood at 327,371, with mobile contributing 62,361. Similarly, Shyam’s total base is at 204,699, with mobile contributing 27,627.

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd also offer CDMA-based mobile and FWP services but only to a limited extent.

Source: Financial Express

[Mobile Pundit]
2:03:04 PM

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