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Monday, June 21, 2004
Posted by Roberto
9:01 PM 0 comments

SPACESHIPONE MAKES HISTORY

MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA: The first non-governmental rocket ship flew to the edge of space today and was piloted to a safe landing on a desert airport runway here.

"The flight was spectacular," Melvill said. "Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground."

Posted by Roberto
11:04 AM 0 comments

SPACESHIPONE:
WORLD'S FIRST COMMERCIAL MANNED SPACE VEHICLE

A rocket plane called SpaceShipOne, developed by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and financed by investor Paul G. Allen, will make today an historic attempt to blast beyond the uppers of earth's atmosphere. From the airport-turned-spaceport in California's Mojave Desert, the flight is scheduled to begin at 6:30 local time. If SpaceShipOne reaches 100 kilometers in altitude, pilot Mike Melvill could become the first private-sector pilot to reach outer space.

Burt Rutan, founder and president and CEO of Scaled Composites, L.L.C. (the aerospace and specialty composites development company behind this project) hopes that today's flight will open up a new industry. Rutan's visions for the future include an individual small aircraft transportation system, space travel for "the rest of us" and a technology-enabled super society.

MSNBC.com live webcast

Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Posted by Roberto
2:40 PM 0 comments

CABIR:
WORLD'S FIRST VIRUS FOR MOBILE PHONES

Cabir is the first worm which propagates via Bluetooth across smartphones running on Symbian OS Series 60 platform. The virus, scans the environment for other Bluetooth-enabled devices, once it has found one, it sends itself masked as a security file. If the owner of the target device accepts the file, the worm has propagated successfully!

This mobile virus is not dangerous, but it shortens the battery life of the infected mobile phones because it keeps scanning for Bluetooth-enabled devices.

EPOC.cabir removal instructions by Symantec Security Response.

Friday, June 11, 2004
Posted by tom
10:03 AM 0 comments

OPERATOR, CONNECT ME TO 25 MAIN STREET

My sixteen year old excused himself from the lunch table early yesterday explaining that he had to go turn on his PC to tell his girlfriend what time to meet him. "Why your PC?" his mother asked. "I told you I left my mobile at school" he answered with an "I-can't-believe-you-are-asking-me-these-stupid-questions" tone. "And what about using the fixed line phone?" continued his mother, only slightly increasing the tension. "I don't know her phone number" as though such knowledge was totally useless.

Personal Computers are personal. Mobile phones are personal. They connect people. The fixed-line phone connects buildings.

Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Posted by Roberto
10:59 PM 0 comments

STEREOPHONIC RINGTONES:
THE MUSIC LABELS ARE BACK!

Ringtone sales are a strong side business for the music industry.
According to T&F Informa this market is expected to grow from $3.0 billion in 2003 to over $5.0 billion in 2007.

Monophonic | Polyphonic
Monophonic and polyphonic tones are basic renditions of a sound recording. Royalty payments are generally collected by artists and music publishers (at a rate of roughly 10 percent).

Stereophonic
The latest stereophonic ringtones (sample ringtones) are pulled from actual studio recordings, allowing record labels to demand mobile operators or other ringtone resellers to pay them a "fat" royalty rate (between 25 percent and 55 percent of the total retail price for the sample ringtone). This is a pretty lucrative business given the fact that sample ringtones carry a price tag four times higher than the typical Internet download price of 0.99 euros per song.

Price
I believe sample ringtones prices will start moving from 4 euros to 1 euro when most people will own phones like the Samsung Anycall SPH-V4300 (introduced in the Korean market February of this year): a clamshell phone that comes with the MP3 playback function, a 1.3-million-pixel digital camera, 96 MB internal memory and an external memory slot.