Archive for November, 2005
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
For $6/mo some CingularAT&T customers can call unlimited to land lines.
Cingular, is testing a program where some of its users can make unlimited calls to AT&T landlines for $6 a month. Cingular subscribers in Connecticut that use AT&T for local service and combine their local and wireless bills can sign ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
Perhaps coming to an "adult" cell phone near you.
Nowadays you can't walk down the street without hearing a custom ringtone. Teens especially; and they have the ringtones which are most annoying. A post at BoingBoing. A UK inventor developed a device which can emit an annoying sound which apparently only ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
A settlement between BlackBerry creator RIM and supposed patent-owner (of RIMs email push technology), NTP has been declared invalid by a Federal judge. What was a $450m settlement may now result in a $1b payout. If not, we may soon be going through CrackBerry withdrawal.
Spencer could next consider reissuing an ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
Reuters has more info on the Coldplay ringtone product placement in the CSI:NY show.
Series star Carmine Giovinazzo's phone will sound to the tune of Coldplay's next single. It's part of a cross-promotional agreement between CBS and Capitol Records.
Cross-promotional. I wonder how the deal is set up.
The Colplay single, "Talk" will ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Don't know if this is a "break-even" proposition, but it is certainly a great way to increase ringtone sales and music awareness. MocoNews has a write up on the interesting collabro between the band Coldplay and tv show CSI.
In this instance TV show CSI: NY — an off-shoot of the ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
We've heard of DVB-H and DMB, now we have FLO (Forward Link-Only). Recently ratified by Qualcomm, the technology should enable the delivery of multiple, multimedia streams over the standard TV channel allocation bandwidths.
Qualcomm Inc. is pushing the FLO technology as an alternative way to deliver content to mobile devices from ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Carlo at Mobhappy has a great post describing the differences between mobile music and ringtones. Although they are both musical, ringtones and mobile music serve completely different purposes.
Part of the reason that mobile music has failed to take off quickly has been that people with vested interests blur the definition ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
T-Mobile CEO, Rene Obermann, compared "mobile internet haters" to the analysts who predicted that mobiles would only be adopted by a quarter of consumers.
The T-Mobile boss, however, announced some pretty bold predictions himself. "To date, Internet traffic has been fixed line," he said. "Mobile will be the centre of ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
Verizon is going up to bat for its customers...again. Once more, an SMS spam company has been sued by Verizon for unsolicited text messages which prompt the user to call a 1-800 number.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, Verizon alleges that nearly 100,000 copies of ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
Nokia announce that they will not build any new versions of the N-Gage in the near future. The company cited disappointing sales and that gaming was not to be a focus until 2007. (But it was back in 2003 when they released the N-Gage, right?)
Nokia is concentrating on mobile music ...
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