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Paid Music Downloads up 150%

An increasingly crowded online music marketplace isn’t stopping users from using paid-for online digital music services in record numbers.

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VoIP Threatens Traditional Telcos Revenue

Private Voice over Internet Protocol Applications (PVAs) pose a serious threat to Telcos. Act now or lose up to €6.4Bn, say Analysys

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Europeans don’t Get Portable Video Players Yet

A recent Jupiter survey finds that Europeans don’t think they’re ready for portable video players yet.

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Content becomes More Popular than Communications

Previously Internet users have spent their online time communicating with others (emailing, IMing). September 2004 was the first time they have spent the majority of their time viewing content. An important shift.

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Report: Euro Music Download Market $5.7 Billion by 2009

Generator report predicts that European Song Download Market will Reach $5.7 Billion by 2009

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Micropayments to be $60Bn by 2015 in Says Gartner

Acceleration of electronic purchases below $5 will drive micro commerce market to $60 billion by 2015 says Gartner, whose findings were presented recently at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004.

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Clothing Mounted Computer Sensors Discussed by MIT

MIT Media Lab have come up with mobile sensors that you can reporgramme by moving them to different places on your clothes using Velcro patches.

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Tony Greenberg, Ramp^Rate - The IBC Digital Lifestyles Interview

This is the fourth in a series of eight articles with some of the people involved with the Digital Lifestyles conference day at IBC2004. We interviewed Tony Greenberg, CEO of Ramp^Rate, an IT sourcing advisor designed to help companies select the most appropriate vendors for services such as email, hosting and security.

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The IBC Digital Lifestyles Interviews - Simon Perry - Part I

The first in a series of eight articles with some of the people involved with the Digital Lifestyles conference day at IBC2004.

We interview Simon Perry, the executive producer of the Digital Lifestyles theme day, in a two-part feature that covers on the makeup of the day and question him on convergence and other aspects of the media. He publishes Digital Lifestyles magazine.

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PocketPC Virus Found

Another “Proof of Concept” virus with a potentially huge disruptive power has been discovered – the first one for the PocketPC platform.

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