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Can Google’s Android Phone Stop iPhone Juggernaut?

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Sep 232008
 
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With T-Mobile launching G1 – the first cell phone powered by Google’s Android operating system – today in New York City, the big question is whether the Linux-based Android phones can slow down the momentum of Apple’s iPhone.

Manufactured by Taiwanese firm HTC, the T-Mobile G1 phone will start selling on October 22 in the U.S. for $179 with a two-year voice and data agreement. Unlimited Internet access+400 messages is $25 per month. Add $10 for unlimited messages. Voice charges are additional. They will be available in the U.K. in November and elsewhere in Europe in 2009.

While the T-Mobile G1 is $20 cheaper than the entry-level 8GB iPhone 3G, it comes with only 1GB memory on a memory card (maximum of 8GB).


T-Mobile G1

The touch screen-based T-Mobile G1 includes a pull-out QWERTY keyboard, a trackball and the usual Google services like Google Maps with StreetView, Gmail and YouTube. It supports 3G, Wi-Fi and the slower Edge network.

The phone features a 3-megapixel camera, an HTML e-mail client and support for AOL, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and Google Talk instant messaging services.

G1 comes pre-loaded with the Amazon MP3 application to let users buy Continue reading »

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Desperate Music Labels Try New Tactic – slotMusic

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Sep 222008
 
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An alliance of music labels, retailers and a flash card vendor plans to offer pre-loaded, high quality, DRM-free MP3 music of top artists to consumers on microSD cards – called slotMusic cards – this holiday season.

The partnership includes the struggling music labels EMI, Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music, retailers like Best Buy and Wal-Mart and flash card vendor SanDisk.

slotMusic cards will initially be sold at brick-and-mortar and online stores in Continue reading »

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1.48 Lakh Indian Villages to get Broadband Internet

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Sep 152008
 
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Indian telecom operator BSNL is promising to provide broadband Internet access in 1.48 lakh villages in the next six months.

Currently, broadband coverage is said to exist in 30,000 villages (we doubt that given the poor broadband quality even in big cities).

BSNL also plans to expand its broadband coverage to more cities – from 3,261 cities to 5,000 cities by March.

Wireless Connectivity
The government plans to initially connect 5,000 Blocks (a geographical Continue reading »

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Thin is Not In If You are Steve Jobs

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Sep 102008
 
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At first glance, this seems straight out of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not book.

Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a piece on Apple in which a Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster attributed the 4% drop in Apple stock price Tuesday in part to concerns that Mr.Jobs appeared thin.

But if you think about Apple a bit, you realize that investor concerns are not unfounded.

After all, Steve Jobs, the man credited with turning around Apple and identified closely with the company’s success in the entertainment arena, is a survivor of pancreatic cancer. So Jobs’ health is rightly a matter of investor concern.

Interestingly, at the launch of the new iPods on Tuesday Steve Jobs started off his presentation with a slide quoting Mark Twain: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Meanwhile, Jobs claimed in a CNBC interview that he was healthy but could stand to gain 10 or 15 pounds (Source: WSJ P. B1  9/10/2008).

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Apple Lost the PC Battle but Won the Entertainment War

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Sep 102008
 
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Lost amid the hype of the successful iPod and the iPhone is Apple’s steady emergence as a giant in the entertainment arena.

So what if Apple lost the PC battle of the 20th century to Microsoft.

You see, Apple has already ground Microsoft, RealNetworks, Napster and other sundry players into the dust in the bigger entertainment war of the 21st century.

No longer just the computer company that makes Macs for the rest of us, Apple is Continue reading »

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Mamma Mia! 100 Million Downloads from Apple Store

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Sep 092008
 
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In the evening of our lives, few things strike us as revolutionary.

But if anything deserves the characterization of revolutionary, it’s Apple’s App Store.

Launched just three months back, Apple’s App Store has become wildly popular.

So popular, according to Apple that users have downloaded over 100 million applications in three months.

Yes, folks that’s 100 million.

And your truly has contributed in a tiny way to that 100 million count. Continue reading »

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Tata, Reliance ADAG CDN Clash Coming

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Sep 082008
 
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Indian conglomerate Tata has launched a content delivery network (CDN) less than two months after Anil Ambani’s Reliance ADAG announced its CDN plans.

Tata Communications has debuted a global content delivery network service powered by U.S. company BitGravity.

A content delivery network enables businesses to offer end users on the Continue reading »

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Will Broadband Kill the DVD & Video Stores?

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Sep 032008
 
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Yes, we think broadband will kill the DVD and video stores.

Starting today, viewers should be able to rent or purchase movies online from Amazon.com and watch them on some models of the Sony Bravia TV sets through the Bravia Internet Video Link device.

Earlier today, LG launched the BD300 Blu-ray player ($400) that also comes with the capability to stream movies and TV shows to Netflix subscribers for viewing on a TV set.

The $99 Roku box, which lets users connect to Netflix and stream movies Continue reading »

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 Posted by at 11:59 pm

Games Continue to Dominate iPhone 3G Apps

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Sep 032008
 
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Nearly two months after Apple launched the App Store for the new iPhone 3G mobile phone and the older iPod touch, games continue to dominate the store.

The App Store, which has been a mega hit with over 60 million downloads (as of August 11), lets iPhone 3G and iPod touch users download applications Continue reading »

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Harman, Wipro set up Infotainment Engineering Center

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Sep 022008
 
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Infotainment products vendor Harman International and Indian IT major Wipro are setting up an embedded engineering center in Chennai and Bangalore that will work on audio and infotainment products across automotive, consumer and professional markets.

Services to be delivered from the center include software development and related hardware engineering.

The center is to start with 250 employees.

Wipro said Harman would own all intellectual property developed in the center.

The joint embedded engineering center complements an earlier agreement that outsourced Harman’s global IT infrastructure services to Wipro.

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