Thursday, May 29, 2003
Posted by Roberto
3:38 PM
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THE NUMBER OF EUROPEAN SURFERS ON BROADBAND HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED IN THE LAST YEAR
High-speed Internet access in Europe continues to grow at a healthy rate, boosted by consumer demand for file-sharing, pornography, film sites and music.
Quick fact sheet on broadband penetration:
:: USA, 35%, 38 million users
:: Britain, 21.6%, 3.7 million users
:: Italy, 16.4%, 1.8 million users
:: France, 39%
:: Spain, 37.2%
:: Netherlands, 36.5%
Nielesen/Netratings Press-Release, 29th May 2003
Worldwide Internet Population 2002:
:: 580 million (Nielsen//NetRatings)
:: 655 million (ITU)
Projection for 2004:
:: 709.1 million (eMarketer)
:: 945 million (Computer Industry Almanac)
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Posted by Roberto
3:23 PM
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XELIBRI: A SIEMENS MOBILE ADVENTURE INTO FASHION MOBILE PHONES
Xelibri is a brand fully dedicated to fashion mobile phones.
Check it out: Xelibri
Posted by Roberto
2:23 PM
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SONY UNVEILS THE PSX: TV TUNER, DVD RECORDER AND GAME PLAYER IN A SINGLE BOX!
The PSX, a game machine, a hard-disk drive and broadcast satellite tuner, is due for launch in Japan this year and in Europe and the United States early next year as an all-in-one entertainment device for games, music and moving pictures.
Earlier this month Sony unveiled the "PSP" hand-held game machine (handheld playstation), to be launched by the end of 2004. This device will compete with Nintendo's Gameboy and Nokia's N-Gage.
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Posted by Roberto
8:34 PM
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THE MUSIC INDUSTRY SAGA CONTINUES... WITH PURETUNES!
Today, a new music download service was launched in Madrid, and it is called PureTunes.
Unlike other download services such as Kazaa, PureTunes manages a music library and says it will pay royalties to performers. If you signup with PureTunes you get 25 downloads for free... eight hours of downloads cost $3.99 while unlimited downloads for a month cost $24.99. The Puretunes software is very easy to use and intuitive, but the choice of available music is somewhat limited.
PureTunes follows Weblisten.com (launched in 1999), selling music downloads without the labels' approval by taking advantage of Spain's copyright regime.
The funny thing is that PureTunes has just signed Grokster, the free file-swapping network that won a recent U.S. legal decision against the music labels, as a marketing partner. Grokster will get a cut of sales leads it brings to PureTunes.
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Thursday, May 15, 2003
Posted by Roberto
10:26 PM
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CHECK THIS OUT:
"www.VCDQuality.com will be back shortly.. We're currently experiancing a massive DDoS attack. theres 2 versions of the matrix reloaded out.. The.Matrix.Reloaded.Internal.TS-FTF and Matrix.Reloaded.TS-ESOTERiC.. the FTF one has a brighter picture and a little better sound.. you shouldnt download it tho.. go see this at the movies.. anyway back to tryiung to get this attack filtered.. -X69"
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels and other forums dedicated to movie swapping described a two-CD release of the Warner Bros. film "The Matrix Reloaded" a day before its theatrical opening date.
EXTRACT FROM THE ARTICLE BY JOHN BORLAND (CNET News.com):
Tom Temple, director of worldwide Internet enforcement for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), said he had no information indicating that the movie had been released early online.
"We have seen a lot of files named 'Matrix,'" Temple said. He articulated that the MPAA has not yet seen a file on the Internet that actually is the sequel.
The prerelease online of big-budget movies has become a growing concern for Hollywood studios, even if to date the trend has shown little indication that it's undermining box office revenue. The MPAA, in tandem with the Recording Industry Association of America, has sued file-swapping companies whose software provides potential access to pirated films to millions of people at a time.
In their very early stages of online release, movies are rarely available to the everyday Net dweller as a file on Kazaa or Morpheus, however. Shadowy groups with names such as Esoteric and Centropy have networks of people, often spread across the globe, that participate in gaining access to an early screening of the movie, copying it directly or with a video recorder, processing it, and putting it on private sites.
Over the course of hours or days, these files typically find their way into more public file-swapping networks such as Kazaa.
Most big movies do find their way onto the Net before their theatrical release, or within hours of it. The last "Star Wars" movie trickled into file-swapping circles more than a week before it was scheduled to open in theaters last summer.
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Posted by Roberto
9:05 PM
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NINTENDO IS NOT ALONE ANYMORE... FIRST NOKIA WITH THE N-GAGE AND NOW SONY WITH THE HANDHELD ENTERTAINMENT PLATFORM
Sony's upcoming PSP device (Handheld Playstation) will feature a color screen, computing power equal to the original best-selling PlayStation and a new high-capacity optical disc created especially for it.
At E3, Illka Raiskinen (SVP Entertainment and Media, Nokia Mobile Phones) announced the N-Gage release date and pricing:
:: On October 7th 2003 Nokia plans to have the N-Gage in stores worldwide (except Korea and Japan).
:: Expected retail price is $299, with a similar price (in euros) for the EU.
:: Game Cards will cost between $30 and $40. There will be ten titles at launch.
Nokia hopes to have 10 million units sold in 24 months.
Monday, May 12, 2003
Posted by Roberto
9:36 PM
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"When in doubt, imitate Apple.
It worked for Microsoft in the '80s.
It can work for the music industry today."
Extracted from an article by James Maguire published on osOpinion
Thursday, May 08, 2003
Posted by Roberto
5:17 PM
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APPLE HOLISTIC PRODUCT LINE
"Hardware-Software-Peripherals-Services" that take full advantage of digital music distribution (iTunes Music Store + iTunes + iPod). According to the Apple press release, there have been 1 million music downloads in the first week @.99/each. Once the service will be available to everyone (wintel world), we could be seeing 5 million downloads/week. This means Apple could be adding approximately 260 million in immediate revenue of which they will see 35%. We're talking about $91 million/year.
I would say that Steve Jobs has made a very bright move, and by year end we will have Apple's software on our windows machines.
In light of the above facts, we could forecast Apple selling the successful music business in a couple of years.
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