Friday, February 28, 2003
Posted by Roberto
9:42 PM
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WILL MICROSOFT AND EA BUY SEGA?
After SEGA announced a massive drop in profits and an upcoming merger with pachinko powerhouse Sammy Corp, the Asian Wall Street Journal wrote that Microsoft and EA are considering buying them instead. Market consolidation or wishful thinking?
Full Article
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Posted by Roberto
9:04 PM
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NOKIA 3650 SHIPPING GLOBALLY
Nokia, the global leader in mobility, announced today that it has begun shipments of the award-winning Nokia 3650 in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. The Chinese version of the Nokia 3650 has been available in China and Hong Kong since January 2003. Launched at the Nokia Totally Board event in September 2002 in France, the tri-band (GSM 900/1800/1900) Nokia 3650 is optimized for an easy and enjoyable imaging experience. The device was recently selected as an Innovations 2003 winner at the 2003 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Full Press Release
Posted by Roberto
12:06 AM
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WIRELESS DATA PHONES WEAKNESS: BROWSING THE WEB!
Excerpt from Business Week article "Web Phones Take Wings":
"Punching in a Web address on a tiny phone is no cinch. To help, operators are preloading phones with an assortment of popular sites: News from CNN, sports from ESPN, weather, horoscopes, and more."
A more sophisticated solution comes from a French company named SPeeQ who has developed a keyword navigation solution called MotionBridge.
Friday, February 21, 2003
Posted by Roberto
7:02 PM
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CODETOYS: 150'000 PAID TRANSACTIONS
Codetoys announced a mobile entertainment industry milestone, as they became the first company to reach 150 million individual paid transactions for their mobile games. Codetoys offers titles based on hit brands like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Trivial Pursuit and E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial.
Codetoys
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Posted by Roberto
8:25 PM
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SONY ERICSSON UNVEILS THE Z1010
At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, Sony Ericsson unveiled the Z1010 dual mode UMTS/GSM-GPRS phone. The clamshell Z1010 is designed to give consumers the best possible experience of imaging, messaging and connectivity applications using 3G. Optimised for video conferencing and video applications, it features two inbuilt cameras, two displays, video support and a host of other features.
Z1010 product features:
Imaging
:: Video Call, TwinCam, VGA for still, QCIF for video
:: UMTS 64kbits uplink
:: GPRS 4+2
:: Dual displays: 176x220 pixels / 65 536 colors and 101x80 pixels /
:: 4-level grey scale
Entertainment
:: Audio and video: MPEG 4, H.263, MP3, ACC, AMR
:: UMTS 384kbit downlink
:: Polyphonic Sound 24 voices
:: WAP2.0
:: Java MIDP 1.0
Messaging
:: SMS/EMS/MMS/MMS video
:: Wireless village
Connectivity
:: Bluetooth long range
:: Sony Memory stick Duo(TM), 16MB included
:: USB true connector - 12Mbit
:: IrDA
Monday, February 17, 2003
Posted by Roberto
12:04 AM
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LINUX ENTERS A THREE-WAY RACE WITH SYMBIAN AND MICROSOFT
MOTOROLA TRIES LINUX+JAVA
Motorola announced a new phone model, the A760, that uses Linux as its base operating system, and runs downloadable Java apps.
Mobile Entertainment Analyst article
Posted by Roberto
12:00 AM
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INTEL MOVES INTO SMARTPHONES CHIPS
Leading chipmaker Intel announced availability of new chips, codenamed 'Manitoba', for smartphones and other wireless devices. The chips combine a StrongARM core (at up to 312 MHz), 4 MB of flash memory, a GSM/GPRS baseband processor, and various other goodies into a single package for easy construction of powerful handsets.
Full article
Friday, February 14, 2003
Posted by Roberto
6:58 PM
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WHERE IS THE BUSINESS CASE FOR WIRELESS HIGH BANDWIDTH SOLUTIONS?
In the most advanced wireless communications countries Japan and South Korea, which launched fast mobile data services last year, data traffic makes up less than 25 percent of total revenues, and average revenue per user is flat.
In Europe, most operators still focus on simple data services, such as picture messaging and e-mail, which work well on current second generation networks. The scary thing, considering that European operators have spent in total 100 billion Euros for third generation (3G), is that consumers are currently using the heavily subsidized picture phones as portable photo albums instead of devices for sending photos.
It will be interesting to see how Hutchison 3G, the upstart high-speed wireless operator that is expected to start commercial operations of Europe's first third generation mobile network next month, will perform.
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Posted by Roberto
6:13 PM
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GOOGLE VOTED "BRAND OF THE YEAR" ACCORDING TO 1315 PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS FROM OVER 72 COUNTRIES
Brand that made the most impact on respondents lives in 2002, either positively or negatively:
1) Google
2) Apple
3) Coca-Cola
4) Starbucks
5) Ikea
Google, Tops Apple and Coke...
The survey has been managed by Interbrand, the leading British branding agency.
Wednesday, February 05, 2003
Posted by Roberto
6:30 PM
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SONY CLIE PDAs WITH ON-THE-GO USB
Sony is intending to upgrade its Palm PDAs from the Clie product line with the new On-the-Go USB interface technology. The technology allows a direct connection from peripheral devices without having to use a computer as a go-between. A PocketPC could therefore synchronise its address data with the mobile handset or a digital camera could save pictures to an external hard drive.
More information about USB On-The-Go are available at: USB.org
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