Monday, March 31, 2003
Posted by Roberto
1:37 PM
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MICROSOFT MOBILE STRATEGY IN 2003 SEEMS ALL WORK AND NO PLAY!
Bill Gates gave the keynote at Microsoft's Mobility Developer's Conference last week, and showed off a couple of games in between copious demos of enterprise application development. In all, less than 5% of the time was spent on entertainment applications, and this ratio held through to the rest of the Dev Con's contents. The message was clear: For now, entertainment is an afterthought in Microsoft's mobile strategy.
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Posted by Roberto
2:22 PM
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BIO-BATTERY RUNS ON SHOTS OF VODKA
Extract from the New Scientist article:
"An enzyme-catalysed battery has been created that could one day run cell phones and laptop computers on shots of vodka"
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Monday, March 17, 2003
Posted by Roberto
9:34 PM
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YAHOO PLATINUM: SUBSCRIPTION VIDEO SERVICE FROM YAHOO
Internet media company Yahoo Inc. launched a long-expected subscription video service that features news, sports and entertainment. This service, called Yahoo Platinum, is expected to be the main competitor to RealNetworks Inc.'s SuperPass service, which has garnered nearly 1 million subscribers to its mix of news, entertainment and sports.
"We'll have exclusive video that's not available on television," David Mandelbrot, vice president for media and entertainment at Yahoo, told Reuters last week. The price for this premium service will be of $9.95 per month and the list of partners include networks like ABC, CBS and Fox.
This strategic change towards premium services began in May 2001, when former Hollywood studio executive Terry Semel became Yahoo's chief executive.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Posted by Roberto
6:47 PM
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GLOBAL VIDEO GAME SALES ARE PROJECTED TO GROW NEARLY 10% IN 2003
The sale of video game and so-called "edutainment/reference" software would grow 9.5 percent in 2003 for a total revenue of $18.5 billion (from $16.9 billion). In Europe, sales of video games and entertainment software are expected to top $6.3 billion this year, exceeding the $2.7 billion video game and DVD rental market, according to ScreenDigest.
Despite the global economic malaise, the popularity of video games continues to soar, a stark contrast to the music industry, which is having increasing difficulties selling compact discs. Major music labels are expected to suffer through a fourth straight year of declining CD sales, blamed in part on rampant piracy.
Sales of new video game consoles:
2003: 32 million (estimate)
2002: 30 million
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Friday, March 07, 2003
Posted by Roberto
9:14 PM
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SONY ERICSSON T610
Sony Ericsson has unveiled the T610 ? a 65K colour screen mobile phone with inbuilt digital camera. The T610 has standby time up to 13 days (315 hours) and talk time up to 14 hours. It measures 102 x 44 x 19 mm and weighs 95 g. For the Chinese market, the T618 will be launched in Q2 and for North America the T616 will feature GSM 850/1800/1900 frequencies.
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