Archive for 'Enabling Technology' Category
FixMyMovie.com Enhances Crappy Cell Phone Videos
29 February 2008Digital video software developer MotionDSP this week unveiled a series of major enhancements to its free consumer service www.fixmymovie.com.
Users can now share videos from mobile phones via MMS of e-mail, making it a one-step process. The service also offers free iPhone conversion.
Videos sent to FixMyMovie are automatically enhanced up to four times their resolution, with […]
iTunes Moves Up the Charts to Number Two
29 February 2008ITunes in 2007 was the US’ second largest seller of music - including sales of CDs and digital tracks, trailing only retail giant Wal-Mart, according to a report from the market research firm NPD Group.
BestBuy has fallen to third place.
In June 2007, iTunes passed Amazon.com to take the third place. NPD did not say whether […]
O2 Gets Irish iPhone Deal
29 February 2008St Patrick’s Day arrives in a few weeks and O2 is already passing out shamrocks and quaffing Guinness after signing on to sell the iPhone in Ireland. The 8GB iPhone will go for €399 and the 16GB for €499 in the land with 40 shades of green. Rates seem a bit steep and range from […]
It’s MoCA, Not WiMAX for Verizon
29 February 2008Sometimes the brain goes faster than the fingers as it did with us last week. Verizon selected MoCA-based set-top boxes operating over coax wiring from Motorola for its FiOS deployment. It, of course, did not and likely will never select anything associated with WiMAX, the wireless Internet access technology.
A 3G iPhone and a Growing 3G Network for AT&T
22 February 2008The single biggest complaint about Apple’s iPhone seems to be the slow speed and uncertainty of the AT&T network that it uses.
AT&T and Apple have some sort of long term deal (exact terms were never announced) but they are pretty much married except for Wi-Fi and perhaps WiMAX. That made AT&T’s announcement last week that […]
Mobile Operating System Rivals Line Up at Mobile World Congress
22 February 2008• Linux Takes Helm of Mobile Web But Too Immature to Bear the Burden
• Stylish Internet Devices Trump Android Promises
• Mobile Linux Rivals Face Off
• Microsoft Signs Sony Ericsson, Buys Danger But Mobile Web Role Still Uncertain
• Nokia and Google Team Up Too
The battle for supremacy in operating systems for mobile devices - from handsets […]
Vivendi Moves into Mobile Platform Again
22 February 2008French conglomerate Vivendi plans to launch a multimedia service called Zaoza, which will work on mobile phones and PCs and later perhaps on TV set-top boxes.
Zaoza is Chinese for “word of mouth” or “buzz” and will offer consumers unlimited downloads of exclusive content - like music, ringtones, video clips and games - from a variety […]
JoikuSpot To Turn Symbian S60 Smartphones Into Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspots
8 February 2008Joikusoft Oy has launched a free mobile application that turns Symbian S60 smartphones into Wi-Fi hotspots.
The application, called JoikuSpot lets a smartphone share its 3G connection wirelessly over WLAN with any WLAN capable device - like laptops, smartphones and the Apple iPod touch. The limited beta version for the Symbian OS just released is […]
Wi-Fi When You Fly
29 January 2008- In-flight Internet Access - Take 2
Three major airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Virgin America plan to roll out in-flight broadband Internet access in the US suggesting that the failure of Connexion by Boeing hasn’t dampened the Web-thusiasm of some airlines.
American Airlines plans to roll out the in-flight broadband service commercially before the end […]
Standard Coming for In-car Connector for Portable Media Devices
29 January 2008The Mobile Electronics Committee is studying the possibility of sending high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) signals over the connectors that meet the standard for the new portable digital media interface (PDMI), according to the Consumer Electronics Association’s standards body. The hope is that PDMI will become the standard for connecting portable media players to other devices […]