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Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 27 Jan 2006 02:01 PM PST
Gamasutra has an article highlighting the key points of a mobile gaming panel at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show...speakers were Jamdat Mobile’s Minard Hamilton, IDG Entertainment CEO and president Dan…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 15 Jan 2006 10:01 PM PST
A trip to CES has convinced this writer that mobile TV is trundling down the runway with plans to take off. The whole category has gotten a push from the…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 12 Jan 2006 09:01 PM PST
Comparing today’s iPods to home answering machines, Sun CEO ScotT McNealy predicts, “It’s going to be hard to sell a lot of iPods five years from now when every cell…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 09 Jan 2006 06:02 AM PST
Maybe Google’s better off when new services just seep through as betas without much in the way of official announcements. First, Larry Page suggested the wonder of the Google Video…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 09 Jan 2006 05:02 AM PST
First, abject apologies to anyone who tried to meet up with sub-optimal results. It started out crazy and I never caught up. On the plus side, our readers were everywhere…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 08 Jan 2006 09:03 PM PST
[Staci D. Kramer] My interview with Yahoo’s Marco Boerries, SVP-Connected Life, (in the tan jacket) had to be rescheduled from Friday after his cameo appearance in CEO Terry Semel’s keynote…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 08 Jan 2006 09:01 PM PST
My interview with Yahoo’s Marco Boerries, SVP-Connected Life, (in the tan jacket) had to be rescheduled from Friday after his cameo appearance in CEO Terry Semel’s keynote but his excuse—showing…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 08 Jan 2006 08:03 PM PST
You’re reading it here first ... ABC News Digital Group has signed an exclusive deal with BBC Worldwide to distribute BBC News broadband and wireless in North America. The official…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 08 Jan 2006 03:02 PM PST
Well, for one, Yahoo’s podcast directory has a decent repository of audio and video from the panels and keynotes at CES. Audio here and video here. Also note this: Yahoo…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 08 Jan 2006 02:02 PM PST
John Markoff and his editor make a dumb mistake in this story: confusing IPTV with online video. The only thing commong between them at this point is delivery over IP..other…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 08 Jan 2006 09:02 AM PST
Once I understood the limitations of my Panasonic Lumix FX7, especially the poor battery life, I managed it a little better. (The Panasonic people assure me the battery life of…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 03:02 PM PST
So this partly explains the rumor I was hearing over the last two months about Google interested in acquiring DivX: it is merely an agreement between the two. The still-vaporware…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 03:02 PM PST
So as expected, Google has launched its premium video service called, rather imaginatively, Google Video Store. (Big thumbs down: does not work on Macs yet) Technically, it hasn’t launched yet…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 06 Jan 2006 03:02 PM PST
Work in progress: Got to a spot on the floor in the intel Concierge booth just in time after a mad dash from the utterly impossible lines for Larry Page’s…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 02:02 PM PST
The Google keynote is in 15 minutes, but the Google software package bundle called Google Pack is live now, for dowloading here. More info on Google Pack here on About…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 02:02 PM PST
Radio giant Clear Channel will launch a test of a free, ad-supported music VOD service next Tuesday...about 2,000 to 3,000 music videos from top artists at Warner Music Group and…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 02:02 PM PST
Along with Google Pack below is the software is the Google Video Player. I can’t find any video online or on my computer that it would play, so the black…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 06 Jan 2006 01:02 PM PST
Mid-afternoon on Friday and two dozen people, maybe more, are at the “Wall Street Report” session on Pay TV. Jimmy Schaeffler, Panelists Vijay Jayant, Lehman Brothers; Steve Mather, Sanders Morris…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 12:01 PM PST
Amp’d Mobile, the edgy MVNO, has launched naitonwide, the company says, after a soft-launch last month. The service launches nationwide with Jet and Angel by Kyocera Wireless, two high-speed EV-DO…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 11:02 AM PST
So you read about Yahoo Go Mobile in a few posts below...now there’s Yahoo Ready, which is the Motorola-ready version of mobile apps from Yahoo. Pre-installed Yahoo Ready applications on…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 10:02 AM PST
The new Yahoo Go Mobile suite launched last night, and I’m testing it now on the new Nokia N90 (sent to me by the folks at Nokia for testing). Even…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 10:01 AM PST
The company has released official details in this release (as you can see below, I’m testing out the app on my N90)… -- It has launched in AT&T and Cingular…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 06 Jan 2006 08:02 AM PST
Updated with video: : Made it into the Hilton auditorium just in time for Terry Semel’s keynote; no problem getting a seat but it’s a good crowd for 9 a.m.…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 05 Jan 2006 10:02 PM PST
I wasn’t sure what to make of the announcement earlier this week that Jeremy Philips had been appointed EVP , office of the chairman, to “focus on acquisitions and strategy…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 05 Jan 2006 09:01 PM PST
Expect more such deals with other players to happen this year: Motorola plans to launch mobile phones with a Google search icon on handsets...this is a three-year deal. This is…
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