“Today, only about 7% of mobile subscribers (cell and data) watch video on their phones,” says Forrester Research’s Charles Golvin. But the industry is poised for major growth: Mobile video revenues at domestic carriers jumped to $308 million in the last three months of 2007 from $112 million in the same period a year earlier, […]
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Starting September, you will have the option to play God with Will Wright’s latest brainchild Spore, where players start as microscopic life forms competing for survival in primordial ooze and work their way onto land, where they evolve into creatures that build civilizations and rocket into space, mimicking pretty much the way our own civilization […]
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Jason Hiner at TechCrunch has an interesting prediction to make - that we can expect a cleaner leaner version of yet another operating system from Microsoft very soon. Given the clunky that Vista is, he might just have a point. I for one hate using Vista, preferring XP, and so it seems do a lot […]
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Japan Communications Inc plans to roll out the world’s first Internet Protocol mobile phones as early as July 2008 according to Reuters. The provider is considering charging a fixed monthly rate for its mobile phone service but not charging extra for users who make calls via Internet networks.
This comes at a time, when the market […]
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India is on the verge of a sustained demand for wireless networking, says a recent Wi-Fi Alliance-Tonse Telecom report predicting that the Indian market will more than treble in size over the next 3-4 years - from around $263 million (Rs 1,050 crore) during 2008-09 to reach $891 million (Rs 3,560 crore) by 2011-12.
The report […]
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When Cemaphore Systems launches its service MailShadowG later this week, it will be the first service that automatically brings together synchronization for mail, calendars and address books between Google’s Gmail (and soon MSN and Yahoo! as well) and Microsoft’s Outlook.
MailShadow for Google Apps, is being pitched as a “email continuity and disaster recovery solution.” In […]
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Restaurants in Europe, the United States and Japan are testing a technology that would allow diners to order their food direct from a screen at their table instead of depending on a fellow human being to note their choice, reports Reuters. The idea may be only the latest gimmick in a trade which is driven […]
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In a voyage that bridges the past and the present, the Virtual Museum of the Ancient Via Flaminia unveiled a virtual reconstruction of one of the bustling arteries that led into ancient Rome, allowing visitors to wander through rebuilt monuments and interact with the city’s political elite.
Using a concept similar to that of online virtual […]
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A Silicon Valley startup is promising to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet service, reviving a crusade that crumbled last year after EarthLink and Google scrapped their plans to build a high-speed network for Web surfing.
Meraki Networks Inc., hopes to use San Francisco as a showcase to prove its communal approach to Wi-Fi can […]
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Internet telephony is gaining ground in India, as prices head southwards and leading internet service providers (ISPs) expand their networks. According to the latest data by telecom regulator TRAI, the internet telephony market grew 15% in the quarter-ended September 2007, clocking up 129.43 million total minutes of usage as compared to 112.26 million minutes in […]
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