Archive for the ‘Digital Lifestyle’ Category
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Apple with iTunes is selling music directly to the iPhone.
Nokia has their own music portal Ovi for music and games.
And we see Motorola acquiring companies to reinforce the music service it was offering in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Interestingly mobile operators are not taking an active role to own the ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
At last, the Music industry seems to start accepting that Internet and mp3 have changed the way people consume songs.
The announcement that Sony BMG will launch a DRM-free music download service, confirms the death of Music DRM. Last month Warner Music announced that they would sell DRM-free music through Amazon. Some months earlier, ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Amazon, as usual, has got it right and Kindle is a great device. Once you get to know the detailed specs, you realize it is not just another ebook reader. Kindle is to ebooks what iPod is to mp3.
Not only the official features are impressive. CNET blog Underexposed by Stephen Shankland ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Mobile Phones are personal devices we always carry on with us. As their media capabilities increase, mobile handsets become ideal for brands to get across their message to consumers through personalized multimedia campaigns.
So far, Operators have used their knowledge about customers mainly for SMS-based marketing, with a high risk of ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Forbes report that Apple is filing some patents that will enable innovative applications, such as ordering a Starbucks coffee from a mobile phone to bypass the customer line. Some months ago, Apple and Starbucks launched a Wifi Music Store, so that iPhone users could press a button when at Starbucks and download a song ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Let's think about it...
Google enters the Mobile Phones market by building an open Operating System (OS) for mobiles, built around Linux (Kernel 2.6).
Android main competitors, apart from Nokia, are iPhone and Windows Mobile. Both Apple and Microsoft come from computer OS to smartphones OS. What is a smartphone but a down-scale computer? Following Convergence trend ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
One month ago, the much expected G-Phone was presented as Android, a SW platform for mobile phones, backed by the Open Handset Alliance. The Alliance includes vendors as Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC, as well as Operators and software partners.
Although the first commercial handsets will only be available by end 2008, and ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
2007 has been the year for Internet TV. And YouTube / Google have played the main part in bringing it into the mainstream. But they are not alone: Joost, Apple TV, Amazon Unbox and many others, including Microsoft, fight for a piece of a market in constant evolution.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
No doubt, iPod is extremely successful in Japan, being one of the top selling iTunes stores. When iTunes Japan opened in August 2005, it sold one million songs in four days!! No wonder why the price of iPod in Japan is lower than in many other markets. The Japanese do ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
TechCrunch reported a few days ago the success of "mobile phone ebooks" in Japan. See article
I often fly to Tokyo for work. People there commute mainly on train. Japan has the best railway system in the world. Trains are so punctual you can actually use them to set your watch ...
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