In order to compete with Nokia’s “Comes With Music” music service, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABhas declared to start its own song download service. The music service named “PlayNow plus,” will be launched in Sweden on the networks of Swedish mobile phone operator, Telenor ASA (OSL:TEL), in 2008. Next year, the service will be launched around the world. The “PlayNow plus” service will be available with the special edition of its new W902 Walkman phone. Nokia is going to launch its “Comes With Music” on October 2, 2008 in the U.K.Information Week reports:
The service, PlayNow Pus, will be powered by Omnifone and will offer all-you-can-eat music from the four largest recording labels and independent labels for a monthly fee. The music will come with digital rights management, but executives said users will be able to keep 100 DRM-free songs for each six months of their contract.
For allowing the music service to operate on the network, the operator will get a share of the monthly revenue. This puts Sony Ericsson’s music service in a serious competition with that of Nokia because Nokia offers music phones through subscription. It does not sell tracks and albums. Under “PlayNowplus” system, mobile phone users will not have to worry about paying high data charges for downloading music.
“PlayNow plus” will offer customers to choose from a collection of five million DRM music tracks from four major international music companies: EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music. In addition, there will be thousands of independent local music labels.
As part of Bollywood’s expansion policy in the unearthed markets, a ‘Festival of Bollywood Film’ will take place at Prague, the capital of Czech Republic. With the theme of ‘India Reality…?’, film festival is set to showcase the life in real India. Some of the super hit Bollywood movies of recent time including Shah Rukh Khan starrer, last year’s flick OM Shanti Om, Aamir Khan’s Rang de Basanti will be shown in the festival.
There will be other events on the occasion of the Bollywood film festival in CzechRepublic. Actor Kabir Bedi, who is a popular face in CzechRepublic thanks to his Italian television series Sandokan, will be chief guest in the festival. There will be Indian food, Bollywood music and many other things to give the Czechs an overall idea about Bollywood and its culture. The film festival will kick off on October 6 and will continue till October 12. Now, let us see if Bollywood organizers can successfully explore the CzechRepublic market for Bollywood.
How many times it happened that you left your car key on the office desk and you have go up all the way to your office to get them. Carrying a car key is quite a problem. Well, now you will not forget your car keys. Japan’s Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (TYO: 7201), Sharp Corporation (TYO: 6753) and NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (TYO: 9437) have developed a mobile phone that will automatically open up car doors. The system will even allow the users to start their car engines without inserting the key.
Japan’s Sharp Corporation built this phone which uses the technology previously developed by Nissan Motor. Referred as “Intelligent Key” it allows the drivers to open the door and start the car without removing keys from their pockets. Cars equipped with the system automatically sense the presence of the key once it is brought inside the car. Since 2002, Nissan has produced around one million car supporting this new technology. The new mobile phone supporting this system will work on the mobile network of NTTDoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile phone operating company.
In a press release published on September 24, 2008, the three companies announced to display the technology in the upcoming CEATEC technology conference in Tokyo. The companies will launch the mobile phone in the market in March 2009.
T-Mobile G1. Google founders- Larry Page, and Sergey Brin, appeared on rollerblades on the stage and unveiled the T-Mobile G1 at a press conference jointly organized by Google and T-Mobile in New York on September 23, 2008.
The T-Mobile G1, also known as ‘Dream’ by HTC, is the first phone to use Google’s Android operating system. Through this mobile phone, Google starts its foray into “PC-based Internet mobile phones.” Produced by Taiwanese company, Hight Tech Computer Corporation (HTC) (TPE: 2498), the T-Mobile G1 is not a ‘trend-setter’ but a ‘catalyst’ in the growing trend of using Internet while traveling.
The T-Mobile G1 will compete with high-end smart phones like the Apple iPhone, RIM’s Blackberry. Google has a different plan with T-Mobile G1. Since Google Android is free, the company is expecting that many mobile users and mobile phone makers are going to use it making it possible to access Google’s services. In the process, the company will earn money from advertising. New York Times reports:
“For Google, Android is a cash drain,” said James Faucette, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities. “They are going to lose money on Android as an operating system. They hope to make it up from the services that they are delivering through their infrastructure and servers.”
On the other hand, T-Mobile is looking forward to increase the sales of its data plans though the T-Mobile G1. The company believes that the mobile phone will attract business people and consumers.
T-Mobile G1 features:
The T-Mobile G1 comes with a large color touch screen. Sliding out the screen reveals a QWETRY key board. bits.blogs.nytimes.com says:
The G1, which is initially being offered exclusively through T-Mobile in the United States and Europe, has many more buttons on the front and many more options on the screens inside. That means that it takes longer to do the things you want to do most frequently, but you also have many more options at hand. For example, when you take a photo, the software asks you whether you want to keep it or delete it. The iPhone just saves all your pictures and you have to go back and delete the ones you don’t want later.
The T-Mobile G1 has a 3-megapixel camera.
The T-Mobile G1 comes with G.P.S. navigation.
The T-Mobile G1 offers Wi-Fi access and an Internet browser.
Google executives predict the company will eventually make more money on the mobile Web than on the traditional Web. Investment bank Collins Stewart says it expects the search giant to add $5 billion in revenue from cellphone ads by 2011.
The G1 connects to Wi-Fi hot spots, features a keyboard and trackball and even has a compass, so when a user looking at Google Maps turns, the image does too.
The T-Mobile G1 comes with pre-installed applications including: Google search, YouTube, Gmail, GoogleMaps. Washington Post says:
With its move into the smartphone market, Google is taking a slightly different approach from Apple. While Apple keeps control over the applications that can be sold or given away at its online store, any programmer can create and distribute software products designed to run on Google's new operating system.
Executives from the three companies underscored that difference as a selling point yesterday. "We think Android is future-proof because it has openness built in," said Google's vice president of mobile products, Andy Rubin.
The T-Mobile G1 has an applications store. Known as “the Android Marketplace,” the store allows the G1 owners to download various programs in their mobile phones.
The T-Mobile G1 has a software that allows the user to buy and download music from Amazon.com’s music store. pogue.blogs.nytimes
But here’s the thing: Android, and the G1, are open. Open, open, open, in ways that would make Steve Jobs cringe. You can unlock this phone after 90 days—that is, use any SIM card from any carrier in it. The operating system is free and open-source, meaning that any company can make changes without consulting or paying Google. The App store is completely open, too; T-Mobile and Google say they won’t censor programs that they don’t approve of, as Apple does with the iPhone store. Yes, even if someone writes a Skype-like program that lets people avoid using up T-Mobile cellular voice minutes.
The T-Mobile G1 is currently available in English but it will be available in other languages.
The T-Mobile G1 enables the user to customize its phone functions.
Price:
The T-Mobile G1 will be available in USA from October 22, 2008. It will cost $179 ($20 less than iPhone). The phone comes with a two-year contract. Users will be able to subscribe to a limited data plan for $25 per month. For unlimited data access they would have to pay $35 per month. The mobile will be launched in the U.K in early November. In the first quarter of 2009, the phone will be launched in other European markets. Analysts are expecting that the sales of the T-Mobile G1 will range from 200,000 units to 400,000 units in 2008. Business Week says:
Still, the original iPhone sold 1 million units in its first 1½ months on the market—and that was during what is usually a slow sales season, compared with end-of-year holidays. Apple expects to sell 10 million units of the next-generation device, the iPhone 3G, this year.
Sales expectations are lower for Android partly because G1 will be carried by T-Mobile USA, which has 30 million subscribers, compared with Apple's iPhone partner, AT&T (T), which has more than 70 million.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has recently revealed that his daughter, Trishala, who is currently studying forensic science in abroad, wants to join FBI. Dutt added that Trishala revealed her wish to join FBI in future. Father Sanjay Dutt is also happy with what her daughter doing now.
Being a celebrity of Bollywood, he is often asked if he feels bad for her daughter not joining Bollywood. However, the actor confirms that he is not unhappy only because Trishala is not around Bollywood. Rather, he is happy to think that his daughter is doing what she wants to do. Asked if his relationship with his daughter remains same after his second marriage to Manyata, the star said that their relationship has not been affected by his marriage.
"We talk on the phone everyday like we always did. In fact my relationship with Trishala helped me enact my role in Kidnap . In the film my daughter gets kidnapped, and I emoted keeping the question 'What if Trishala was kidnapped' at the back of my mind. It's a scary thought, scary enough to give me goose flesh. I play a billionaire in the film, but when your daughter is kidnapped, no matter how rich you are, you feel poor and helpless, hoping that your best will be enough to get her back home!"
Well, Sanjay Dutt is one of the popular actors of Bollywood and has presented many hit films over the years. However, the actor was also involved in some controversial issue including an infamous bomb blasts take took away many lives in early 90’s and he had to go to jail for a number of times.
SanDisk is a common name is memory storage for Digital Cameras and other areas of removable disk. Recently, SanDisk as announced a huge storage memory disk for digital camera users. The storage is about 16GB and 32GB. It has not only huge space to store more images and videos but also has a very good data transfer rate to. It is called CFcards.
SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash 45MB/s (300X) memory cards offer advanced technologies that are fully compatible with all CompactFlash cameras including the latest UDMA-enabled cameras. SanDisk Extreme IV CF cards have undergone internal testing with many leading manufacturers’ cameras and DSLRs, such as Canon’s EOS series, Nikon’s D300 and D3 cameras, the Sony Alpha A700, and the Olympus E500 and E3 cameras
CFcards has brought good opportunities for the professional digital camera users and also for them who use High Definition digital cameras for capturing Videos.
Shahid Kapoor has recently appeared in a popular television talkshow Sajid Superstar on COLORS. Popular actor Shahid Kapoor talks about his professional as well as personal life in the show, while replying to different questions of host Sajid Khan. Going back to his memory, Shahid Kapoor shared a number of incidents from his early life. Shahid Kapoor revealed that his over-slimmed physique caused lack of confidence in his early life. One day Shah Rukh Khan appeared in a show of Shiamak Davar and upon seeing Shahid in the dance trope, he asked Shiamak Davar if he did not provide enough food to his group members. Here, it is noteworthy that Shahid Kapoor once worked with Shiamak Davar's dance troupe.
The actor will also be seen answering some tricky questions of Sajid Khan regarding his personal as well as professional life. Shahid Kapoor revealed that Roger Federer and Martina Navratilova are his favorites in tennis, besides terming tennis as his favorite sports. The actor said that a line needed to be drawn between one’s professional and personal life, besides maintaining a balance to keep the things moving. You can watch the show at 8:00 pm on Saturday.
