31/1 89% of all handsets will come with a camera in 2009InfoTrends: 860 million camera phones in 2009; 89% of handset market
Technology research company InfoTrends says more than 860 million camera phones will be sold in 2009, comprising 89 percent of all handsets shipped. This compares to 178 million camera phone shipments in 2004. InfoTrends predicts camera phones will account for 227 billion photos captured in 2009, more than the combined photos from digital and film cameras.
A quote from the original source: Mobile Imaging: Technology Trends, Consumer Behavior, and Business Strategies:
Society is moving into an era of ubiquitous imaging that offers the ability to capture, store, send, print, and view an image anywhere," commented Jeff Hayes, a Director at InfoTrends/CAP Ventures. "We believe mobile imaging will have the kind of impact that e-mail had on document communications in the 1990s. We project that the total number of images captured on camera phones will reach 227 billion by 2009, exceeding the number of photos taken on digital still cameras and film cameras combined!" 29/1 Ringtone Charts and Vodafone MastertonesRingtones are a big business. Compare the revenue of 330 million dollars from the worldwide online music business with the 239.8 million dollars of the german ringtone market alone (source: NZZ*). Therefore these two news bites:
MEF Announces Launch of Official German Ringtone Chart
Following the overwhelming success of the first official ringtone chart (launched in the UK in June 2004), MEF is now planning to roll out the chart in Germany, with other European territories to follow. The first German ringtone chart, reflecting all ringtone formats, is expected to be published by Musikwoche, the German music industry's weekly trade magazine, in April 2005.
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Vodafone offers it's "mastertones" for € 1.99 in the AAC-Plus Format. Right now 3000 Songs are available, till summer 2005 Vodafone wants to offer 10'000 songs. An AAC-Plus encoded song is three times smaller than a comparable MP3 Song.
* Zauberwort «Superdistribution» von Nikola Wohllaib
NZZ, Medien und Informatik, 28.1.2004 26/1 MLEARN Presentations16/1 YADT - Yet another disruptive technology (Radio Feedback)|
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Instant Radio Feedback From Your Cell Phone
Nokia is set to introduce mobile phone technology that allows listeners to send instant feedback on songs to radio stations, as well as compete in contests. The new phones will have what is called "visual radio" capabilities, according to a Financial Times report. The new technology lets stations send information directly to listeners' mobile phone screens during a song, ranging from a picture of the artist to polls asking the listener to rate the song. Replies are instantaneously sent back to the station.
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Nokia's Reidar Wasenius told Financial Times: "This is a potential disrupter to the music industry business model. Rather than radio stations being paid rates based on the estimated number of listeners, they could pay stations based on how many copies of a song they sold. Radio stations could become more like retailers."
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Original Financial Times article: Radio stations dial into instant feedback
Via Adverblog: Nokia introduces the "visual radio" 13/1 Grainy, Candid Shots of Demi, Ashton, Nicole and Paris|
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Humour
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Gizmodo humour
But worst of all—what takes this from an understandable mistake on the part of a benevolent multi-national corporation to a matter of national concern—are reports that the hacker was able to get "grainy, candid shots" of Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Nicole Richie, and Paris Hilton, presumably stolen from the servers that host the Sidekick data. America, what is it going to take to get those pictures? If we are not united in a desire to share crappy cameraphone shots of Demi Moore's implant scar puppet shows, we've forgotten what makes this country great.
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Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems 04/1 New Mobile Services: Wikipedia and Weblogs | |
