Taking steps toward mobile cash
07/04/2008, 23:04 |European banks and mobile operators have agreed on a standard way of safeguarding and marrying phone and banking data to make wireless payments possible.
The best thing you?ll see today: Portal gun in Half-Life 2
10/18/2007, 11:20 |Filed under: Hacks, PC, First Person Shooters
We’ll be honest. We’ve got it bad. Portal, we’re addicted to it. What started off as a fling with the perceived one-night floozy of the Orange Box lineup has turned into a serious long-term relationship. We find ourselves going through the other Orange Box offerings - and real life, we’ll be honest - thinking, “Gee, I wish I had the Portal gun here.”
Thanks to hard work and years of studying (stay in school, kids) the alchemists at Primotech have transformed blood and sweat into an incredible hack that lets you create portals all over the lovely, quasi-European walls of Half-Life 2’s City 17. Some notes: you’ll obviously need the PC version, you’ll need to follow some dozen steps full of words like “hosing,” and you’ll want to keep a fresh pair of pants nearby. But before you get to all that, peep the video […]
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Keep Your Business Moving with Nokia E61 Tom Tom
10/30/2006, 12:58 |The Nokia E61 Tom Tom is a smart phone meant for optimum business solutions. With an in-built Tom Tom Navigator Six, the Nokia E61 provides you a comprehensive mobile office, enabling you to make swift decisions and increase productivity with more timely responses.
The Nokia E61 Tom Tom enables you to navigate through a range of office applications, choice of email solutions and extensive connectivity options. Its multi-tasking abilities include optimum mobile email with instant email notification, easy access of up-to-date calendar and contact information. Its extensive range of connectivity methods includes WCDMA that provides fast wide-area connectivity, and WLAN that provides fast local-area connectivity. The advanced email features of this Tom Tom handset provide you with the ability to view and edit your attachments, and deliver uncompromised voice functionality. You can also send and receive emails while talking on the phone or work in offline mode which enables you to read and write emails even when network is not available. Tom Tom Plus provides you smart and easy navigation with easy call handling.
The Nokia E61 Tom Tom has a large user memory up to 64 MB with miniSD card. With a large screen of 16 M colours and high resolution 176 x 200 pixels, you can see images sharper and, documents and applications appear with high clarity. The joystick provides easy navigation that reduces scrolling. It also supports the most common features of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel including Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP and 2003. The Nokia E61 is compatible with Zip Manager and Adobe Reader.
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10/03/2007, 21:30 |Contemporary Culture : Our Relationships with Cellular/Mobile phones - Prudent Press Agency (press release)
| Contemporary Culture : Our Relationships with Cellular/Mobile phones Prudent Press Agency (press release), Netherlands - They save us time, they give us the convenience of being more mobile and at times our Cellular/Mobile phones can make us feel safer. … |
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Garmin Mobile XT turns phones into GPS navigators for $99 - infoSync World
 Digitaltrends.com | Garmin Mobile XT turns phones into GPS navigators for $99 infoSync World, Norway - This mobile phone software application seamlessly pairs the phone's built-in GPS with Garmin's software so that customers have the benefits of navigation … Garmin unveils smartphone GPS software Garmin's New Software Turns Smartphones Into GPS Devices Garmin Mobile XT Aims At GPS Phones |
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Samsung Unveils Its iPhone Rival - PC World
 TechGadgets.in | Samsung Unveils Its iPhone Rival PC World - Ltd. and audio product maker Bang & Olufsen on Tuesday unveiled their latest joint music-mobile phone, Serenata, which holds 4G bytes of songs and has a … Bang & Olufsen and Samsung Officially Launch the Serenata Music Phone Serenata by Samsung and Bang & Olufsen Serenata Dialing in on iPhone |
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Vindu's View: It's time to open up mobile phone networks - San Jose Mercury News
| Vindu's View: It's time to open up mobile phone networks San Jose Mercury News, USA - That might have been fine back when cell phones couldn't do much more than make a call. Today, mobile phones are pocket computers and ought to be as open as … 3 working with Skype on new mobile handset - report 3 plus Skype equals free phone calls for all |
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uclick Launches Michael Jantze's 'The Norm' on Mobile Phones - PR Web (press release)
| uclick Launches Michael Jantze's 'The Norm' on Mobile Phones PR Web (press release), WA - uclick and cartoonist Michael Jantze have announced the launch of the hit comic "The Norm" on mobile phones through uclick's GoComics Mobile Comic Book … |
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Samsung D900i Mobile Phone Review - Hot Or Not - PR-GB.com (press release)
| Samsung D900i Mobile Phone Review - Hot Or Not PR-GB.com (press release), Bulgaria - Samsung makes great mobile phones, and the Samsung D900i is no exception. Overall, this quad band GPRS/EDGE phone has a great appearance and some very nice … |
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Broadcom planning 12 megapixel, 720p playback - for mobile phones - Mobile Digest
 TMC Net | Broadcom planning 12 megapixel, 720p playback - for mobile phones Mobile Digest, UK - Broadcom is already supplying test quantities of this amazing new 'super chip' to mobile makers, so expect pioneering phone innovators like LG or Samsung to … Broadcom Cell Chip Goes HD Broadcom Develops 12MP, 720p, HDMI Phone Chip New chip puts HD in mobile phones 1:39PM, Tuesday 2nd October 2007 |
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Cell phones find yet another role: Map - Chicago Tribune
 Scientific American | Cell phones find yet another role: Map Chicago Tribune, United States - On Monday, Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, made a huge play for this emerging technology by agreeing to buy Chicago-based digital … Nokia to buy GPS map company Navteq for $8.1 billion Nokia's software solution Nokia to make largest-ever corporate deal |
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Television on your mobile phones - The Statesman
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Verizon Adds iPhone Lookalike In Challenge To Apple - InformationWeek
 Scientific American | Verizon Adds iPhone Lookalike In Challenge To Apple InformationWeek, NY - By Elena Malykhina Verizon Wireless on Wednesday unveiled four new mobile phones for the 2007 holiday season, and it hopes that one of them is cool enough … Verizon Wireless prepare to take on Apple iPhone with LG Voyager … Verizon Wireless Enlists LG, Samsung to Battle IPhone (Update1) Hands-on with the LG Voyager touch screen TV phone |
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Wii Web Server alpha v0.73 - security patch, enhanced filename support
01/01/1970, 01:00 |
Though mostly bugfixes dot the changes for Wii Web Server alpha version 0.73, homebrew developers Cboomf and Felix 123 attempted to make the server software less vulnerable to exploits. And you'll need it, for with alpha v0.73 you'll also get added file support for binary files.
Unless you're running the Nintendo Wii as a full-on, public Web server, this may be one little concern to you. But some malware programs running on your LAN could cause the software to crash, and therefore, stall the Wii. Sometimes, you'd be lucky if the bug only stalled the machine.
Just to be safe, update to the latest build and gain some new support for the HEAD method for HTTP, plus the ability to load HTML pages with spaces in their filenames. Other changes include:
- Security bugfixes
- Fixed disallowance of ../ or ./ for security
- Server sends server version in header
Download: Wii Web Server alpha v0.73
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Launch of Apple iPhone 3G Sets Consumer Electronics World Abuzz
01/01/1970, 01:00 |The Apple iPhone 3GImage © Apple, Inc.With the consumer electronics world abuzz on Monday following the official launch of the Apple iPhone 3G – Apple’s 2.0 reinvention of the monolithic...
1.5 Billion Mobile Internet Users
06/25/2008, 22:20 |Market Intelligence and research firm IDC released some data from their Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast which should put a smile on everyone's face who is in the mobile content space.
From the release:
Nearly a quarter of the world's population - roughly 1.4 billion people - will use the Internet on a regular basis in 2008. This number is expected to surpass 1.9 billion unique users, or 30% of the world's population, in 2012, according to IDC's Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast.
"The Internet will have added its second billion users over a span of about eight years, a testament to both its universal appeal and its availability," said John Gantz, chief research officer at IDC. "In this time, the Internet has also become more deeply integrated into the fabric of many users' personal and professional lives, enabling them to work, play, and socialize anytime from anywhere. These trends will accelerate as the number of mobile users continues to soar and the Internet becomes truly ubiquitous."
While the PC is currently the dominant means of gaining access to the Internet, IDC expects the number of mobile devices accessing the Internet will surpass the number of online PCs by 2012.
Additional highlights from IDC's Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast include the following:
* Users will access the Internet through more than 1.5 billion devices worldwide in 2008, including PCs, mobile phones, and online videogame consoles. By 2012, the number of devices accessing the Internet will double to more than 3 billion, half of which will be mobile devices.
* Roughly 40% of all Internet users worldwide currently have mobile Internet access. The number of mobile Internet users will reach 546 million in 2008, nearly twice as many as in 2006, and is forecast to surpass 1.5 billion worldwide in 2012.
* The most popular online activities today are searching the Web, finding information for personal use, using Internet email, accessing news and sports information, and accessing financial or credit information. In addition to these activities, more than 50% of online users worldwide are using instant messaging and playing online games.
In case you need any help with the math,
1.5B people connecting to the Internet from their mobile phones.
50% play games online.
That sounds like at least 750M mobile gamers worldwide. My research shows the current number of mobile gamers worldwide at 165M.
From the release:
Nearly a quarter of the world's population - roughly 1.4 billion people - will use the Internet on a regular basis in 2008. This number is expected to surpass 1.9 billion unique users, or 30% of the world's population, in 2012, according to IDC's Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast.
"The Internet will have added its second billion users over a span of about eight years, a testament to both its universal appeal and its availability," said John Gantz, chief research officer at IDC. "In this time, the Internet has also become more deeply integrated into the fabric of many users' personal and professional lives, enabling them to work, play, and socialize anytime from anywhere. These trends will accelerate as the number of mobile users continues to soar and the Internet becomes truly ubiquitous."
While the PC is currently the dominant means of gaining access to the Internet, IDC expects the number of mobile devices accessing the Internet will surpass the number of online PCs by 2012.
Additional highlights from IDC's Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast include the following:
* Users will access the Internet through more than 1.5 billion devices worldwide in 2008, including PCs, mobile phones, and online videogame consoles. By 2012, the number of devices accessing the Internet will double to more than 3 billion, half of which will be mobile devices.
* Roughly 40% of all Internet users worldwide currently have mobile Internet access. The number of mobile Internet users will reach 546 million in 2008, nearly twice as many as in 2006, and is forecast to surpass 1.5 billion worldwide in 2012.
* The most popular online activities today are searching the Web, finding information for personal use, using Internet email, accessing news and sports information, and accessing financial or credit information. In addition to these activities, more than 50% of online users worldwide are using instant messaging and playing online games.
In case you need any help with the math,
1.5B people connecting to the Internet from their mobile phones.
50% play games online.
That sounds like at least 750M mobile gamers worldwide. My research shows the current number of mobile gamers worldwide at 165M.
Christopher Hitchens writes about getting waterboarded for the July issue...
07/02/2008, 21:53 |Christopher Hitchens writes about getting waterboarded for the July issue of Vanity Fair.
You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it "simulates" the feeling of drowning. This is not the case. You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning-or, rather, being drowned, albeit slowly and under controlled conditions and at the mercy (or otherwise) of those who are applying the pressure. The "board" is the instrument, not the method. You are not being boarded. You are being watered.
As you can see in the video, Hitchens maybe lasted 15 seconds or so.
(link)IBM Back On Top Of Server Market
07/03/2008, 21:19 |Gartner revised figures for the first quarter, lowering server revenue growth from 4.3% to 2.5% and putting IBM back in first place ahead of HP.
AT&T Announces Apple iPhone 3G Pricing
07/01/2008, 21:30 |
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AT&T today announced the iPhone 3G pricing and voice and data plans, on sale at retail stores at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, July 11.
The iPhone 3G will be available for $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model. These prices require two-year contracts and are available to the following customers:
- iPhone customers who purchased before July 11
- Customers activating a new line with AT&T
- Current AT&T customers who are eligible, at the time of purchase, for an upgrade discount
Existing AT&T customers who are not currently eligible for an upgrade discount can purchase iPhone 3G for $399 for the 8GB model or $499 for the 16GB model. Both options require a new two-year service agreement. In the future, AT&T will offer a no-contract-required option for $599 (8GB) or $699 (16GB).
Current customers may also choose to wait until they become eligible for an upgrade discount. Eligibility is generally determined by amount of time remaining on a current contract and payment history.
Current AT&T customers who are upgrading to iPhone 3G will pay an $18 upgrade fee and new AT&T customers will pay the standard $36 activation fee.
iPhone 3G customers can choose from four individual AT&T Nation plans, which bundle voice and unlimited data (email and Web browsing).
- AT&T Nation Unlimited: Includes unlimited Anytime Minutes for $129.99 a month
- AT&T Nation 1350: Includes 1350 Anytime Minutes and unlimited Night & Weekend Minutes for $109.99 a month
-AT&T Nation 900: Includes 900 Anytime Minutes and unlimited Night & Weekend Minutes for $89.99 a month
-AT&T Nation 450: Includes 450 Anytime Minutes and 5,000 Night & Weekend Minutes for $69.99 a month
AT&T will offer FamilyTalk plans, with bundled voice and unlimited data, starting at $129.99 a month for two iPhone 3G lines. Up to three additional iPhone lines can be added for $39.99 each.
Unlimited text messaging can be added for an additional $20 ($30 for FamilyTalk plans of up to five lines); $15 (1,500 messages), or $5 (200 messages).
Corporate email and other business applications require the Enterprise Data Plan for the iPhone, which is $45 a month and bundled with an eligible voice plan. Small business users may qualify for AT&T BusinessTalk, a shared plan specifically for small businesses.
Customers can prepare for their iPhone 3G purchase by posting "Get iReady" tips and frequently asked questions at www.att.com/iphone . The site also will include a link for customers to check their upgrade eligibility and other wireless account information.
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LG Dare VX9700
01/01/1970, 01:00 |The LG Dare is the best multimedia phone that Verizon Wireless has ever released, and it's certainly the most fun to use. 
Today?s sequelier video: Master Chief Sucks At Halo 3
10/18/2007, 04:29 |Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Video
Well, you thought maybe he was down for the count with the release of Halo 3, right? Master Chief would be far too busy to make a sequel. Perhaps even too busy to utter a single lolololololol. Well, you were wrong. Here’s the proof. He’s been drinking Halo 3 Mountain Dew, reading Halo novels, and wearing the Halo 3 helmet.
You get to see how Master Chief puts his little videos together, how he types, and how l33t he is. Just check out the headshot he manages to get. We can hardly wait for Master Chief Sucks At Halo 4. There’s gonna be one, right? RIGHT?! We’ll be here, waiting.
If you haven’t seen the original Master Chief Sucks At Halo, or the sequel, then you’ve been missing out. Check ‘em out, and then take a gander at […]
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Openmoko Selling Neo Freerunner Linux-Based Cell Phone
07/05/2008, 12:05 |Note: Sponsored advertising links, if any, are in green. Openmoko has announced that its Neo FreeRunner open mobile device will be available for purchase on July 4th.
No to disclosures
04/25/2008, 05:17 |Actually, this is a thing that has been bugging me very much lately since blogsvertise itself have advocated themselves to be ANTI DISCLOSURE POLICY all because of Ted Murphy’s own ideals and now look at the blogging community, all famished because of his ideas.
Well, basically, it means you CANNOT put disclosure badges, saying you get paid by so and so etc.
Plus many other things.
I don’t go into detail, but you get the drift.
Industry Moves: Verisign CEO Roper Resigns; Bidzos Is Interim Head
07/04/2008, 02:25 |Verisign, which has pared down the company over the last year, has seen another CEO change: William Roper, who had been president and CEO for a bit more than a year, has resigned and the company board has named Jim Bidzos as interim CEO, president and executive chairman. Bidzos was the company's founder and first CEO in 1995, and he tried to reassure analysts Thursday that he had the background to step into the role and quickly move forward, WSJ reports.
No specific reasons were given for Roper's departure. He was appointed CEO in May 2007 after previous CEO Stratton Sclavos stepped down for undisclosed reasons. Bidzos said the company expects to have sold most of its non-core businesses on schedule by the end this year. Among the biggest unit yet to be sold include its communications division, which focuses on telecoms routing technologies, and a unit that processes billing transactions for wireless providers. It sold off its CDN Kontki to MK Capital in April for a paltry $1 million plus stake in the new business. Wonder what will happen to its mobile content business Jamba, in which it owns 49 percent, with the rest being owned by News Corp?
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HDTV gas worse than carbon dioxide
07/04/2008, 00:25 |
Wha happen?!
Bloops! It seems the gas inside flat-panel displays, Nitrogen Trifluoride (NF3), is 17,000 times better than CO2 when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere. The gas isn’t very prevalent yet but just wait until we start throwing away our old HDTVs to get OLEDs. Best of all, “has a characteristic mouldy smell and is thought to be highly harmful to the liver and kidneys.” Tasty!
While flat-screen manufacturers are talking up their greenness, what we really need to know is their NF3 use and energy efficiency. It will be interesting to see how long this issue lasts until someone does something about it.
Camera phones - Samsung Wireless Phones ? Phones & Fax Machines
07/05/2007, 18:31 | Samsung Wireless Phones
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Phones - Buy.com
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Compare AT&T’s current line-up of phones to be sure your next phone is compatible with the services and features you want in your wireless life.
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Video Gaming Widows
01/01/1970, 01:00 |Have you ever been thrown over on a Saturday night by The Horde?
The New York Times had an amusing...but true-to-life...piece recently about how video gaming, particularly online role playing gaming, affects romantic relationships.
Did you know they make children's clothing...even baby clothes... with World Of Warcraft themes?
Do I sound like I speak from experience?
TES
The New York Times had an amusing...but true-to-life...piece recently about how video gaming, particularly online role playing gaming, affects romantic relationships.
Did you know they make children's clothing...even baby clothes... with World Of Warcraft themes?
Do I sound like I speak from experience?
TES
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Opera Mobile 9.5 for July 15
07/01/2008, 08:26 |
A lot of people might think Safari on the iPhone is the best mobile browser in the world. Opera though will not take that lying down. The latest version the mobile version of the opera browser will be available to Windows Mobile phones, like the Samsung Omnia, on July 15. Opera 95 is like having your PC Opera browser in your hand and navigated by your finger tips.
For those interested in the HTC Touch Diamond, Opera is preloading 9.5 in the phone. There are more to say about Opera Mobile 9.5 but much are still under wraps.
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Online Shopping
10/11/2006, 12:43 |Today is the world of INTERNET means every user on net is connected to each other.There is no need to go to market to buy different commodities.Just sit at home and order what you want.
From a Tiny Steel Pin to A BIG SHIP you can buy everything online.
Today the Market is turned into e-market and buyers become e-buyers.
So,if you want to buy a MOBILE PHONE there is no need to check out the outlets.
Just a click on net and here you are with a number of retailers right in front of you with a numerous attractive deals that it become difficult to resist yourself from buying the gizmo's.Go for online Mobile Phone Shop ping.
Nail Salon Brisbane ping.
From a Tiny Steel Pin to A BIG SHIP you can buy everything online.
Today the Market is turned into e-market and buyers become e-buyers.
So,if you want to buy a MOBILE PHONE there is no need to check out the outlets.
Just a click on net and here you are with a number of retailers right in front of you with a numerous attractive deals that it become difficult to resist yourself from buying the gizmo's.Go for online Mobile Phone Shop ping.
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Do J.R.R. Tolkien's Kids Deserve Money For The Lord Of The Rings Movies?
07/04/2008, 03:04 |There are some competing opinion pieces in the LA Times, starting off with one siding with J.R.R. Tolkien's kids in their legal fight for royalties from the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies:
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Tolkien obviously isn't Peter Jackson, who directed the franchise, or Liv Tyler or Viggo Mortensen, who starred in it, or New Line Cinema, the studio that financed it, or Miramax, which owned the film rights for a second but couldn't get the movie made, or producer Saul Zaentz, who bought the rights in 1976. He's just the guy who dreamed up the cosmology, the whole shebang of hobbits and dwarfs, orcs, ents, wargs, trolls, whatnot.Then, there's the other side, pointing out that while it might be true that they legally deserve the money, it doesn't make any common sense:
I find it offensive to common sense to argue that the heirs of J.R.R. Tolkien (who are as dismayingly numerous as Kennedys in the court filing) are entitled to a shilling for work in which they had no hand and which was completed in 1949.Most of the essay focuses on the question of the length of copyright, which we all know has been expanded to ridiculous lengths. However, it does seem like a reasonable question to ask why the kids of Tolkien deserve money for a movie they had nothing to do with based on an idea they had nothing to do with.
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T-Mobile Hikes Text Price To 20 Cents Each
07/03/2008, 12:21 |T-Mobile USA has raised the price of sending text messages from $0.15 to $0.20, the last of the country's four big carriers to do so. The 33 percent price hike will go into effect on August 29 for those customers without a text bundle, or for those who exceed their bundle limit.
Just three years ago, sending a text via the four major carriers cost $0.10 each. In 2006, they upped it to $0.15. In October last year, Sprint (NYSE: S) began charging $0.20, with Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) quickly following.
CrunchGear did a bit of math and worked out that at $0.20 each, a text message with its 160 bytes of data max is the equivalent of paying $1310.72 for 1 MB of data, if the carriers charged for data downloads at the same rate they charged for text messaging.
So, will the price increase?a change in the terms and service agreement--mean that disgruntled customers will be able to get out of paying an early termination fee if they choose to walk away from T-Mobile? Not exactly. "Depends on the customer's usage and terms of the customer's agreement with us," a T-Mob representative said to RCR.
Microsoft, Yahoo mull media partner options: sources
07/03/2008, 07:13 |SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have been holding separate talks with other potential media partners after their negotiations with each other broke down, sources familiar with the companies' thinking said on Wednesday. 
Home is with the Zune
11/03/2007, 05:13 |
After a few months off from my gig with Melodeo Mobilcast, I am now with the Microsoft Zune team. We are about to launch podcasts on the new Zune 2 devices and I am managing that process as Podcast Programming and Marketing Lead. This position is very much like the Melodeo Mobilcast position that I recently left.
If you want to keep up with what I am doing with the Zune then click on over to my new blog called Zune Insider, which is an official Zune blog.
Here are a few recent blog posts from the blog:
Zune Podcast Submissions and Directory - 11/2/07
Zune 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions - 10/25/07
We also just launched our national advertising campaign and here you can watch one of the spots. I will still post here now and then.
LG Display Q2 seen surging but LCD outlook dimmer
07/04/2008, 21:00 |SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean flat screen maker LG Display Co and two smaller Taiwanese rivals are set to post profits for the second quarter that more than trebled thanks to strong demand for TVs and tight supplies of PC panels. 
Mobile music reaches tipping point
07/01/2008, 23:43 |Days before Apple?s iPhone gains 3G capabilities courtesy of AT&T -- seemingly enhancing its ability to access over-the-air music downloads -- Verizon Wireless this week took a big step away from OTA music to link its mobile music ambitions closer to the PC
Merchants angry over getting yanked by Yelp (San Francisco Chronicle)
07/04/2008, 23:05 |
San Francisco Chronicle:
Merchants angry over getting yanked by Yelp — Four years ago, Geri Rebstock started using Yelp, a popular site for consumers to review local businesses and services. She critiqued her favorite veterinarian, a neighborhood print shop and an acupuncturist who took care of her bad wrist.
OpenMoko says "screw it," starts taking FreeRunner orders a day early
07/03/2008, 20:52 |Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
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LG VX9400 TV phone launches on Verizon Wireless
03/28/2007, 19:24 |CTIA 2007 -- Verizon Wireless has launched its second MediaFLO mobile TV handset, the LG VX9400. Mobile TV has been a major talking point at the CTIA conference and LG has been showing off the VX9400...
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