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The Telecom and Internet industries are squaring up for a right old fist fight over who rules the consumer mobile search business.
According to market research firm eMarketer, the battle looks set to resemble a full on pub brawl, with telecom carriers, handset makers, publishers, directory and yellow pages outfits, Silicon Valley big boys and a load of start-ups all looking to grab a piece of the mobile search action.
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It looks like there’s finally some sense coming to the world of User Generated Video Content.
Online video site Grouper, that Sony bought last year for $65m, has bid farewell to trying to compete with the YouTube’s of this world.
Grouper has changed its name to Crackle and also change the type of content it will be making available to punters.
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Finally the BBC Trust appears to be open to talking about the iPlayer going Open Source.
Good to see that the BBC Trust is to take representation from the Open Source Consortium (OSC) regarding their concerns about the fact that the BBC iPlayer is currently dependent on Microsoft’s Windows DRM.
The OSC made an official complaint to the BBC Trust in January this year but did not hear back from them until now. Quite unlike Ofcom and the old DTI, who they did get replies from.
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Barclaycard has released details of its new multi-purpose credit card that combines Oyster smartcard, credit and contactless functionalities.
Expected to be launched across London this September, the three-in-one “OnePulse” card will be the first UK credit card to pack Transport for London (TfL) Oyster contactless travel pass technology, giving the capital’s commuters one less card to lug about.
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Listen to the Interview – [audio:https://digital-lifestyles.info/media/audio/eleanor-davies-the-object-of-my-affection-RCA-2007.mp3]
There’s a dilemma in an age of cremations. What is the item of focus for a loss of a loved one? There isn’t an grave to attend and in the time of so much migration for work, even if there is a grave.
Enter The Object Of My Affection.
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Listen to the Interview – [audio:https://digital-lifestyles.info/media/audio/baran-tigrel-pro-self-RCA-2007.mp3]
A headphone-style set that allows you to compare your sporting progress with a virtual competitor.
Many sports are possible, but let’s use running as an example. You and a friend decide on a running route, each time you run it, the relative position of your friends previous time is relayed into your ears, “He’s way ahead of you,” or “You’re neck and neck,” etc.
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Everyone’s favourite games console manufacturer (except Sony, perhaps), is opening up another channel of content for its Wii.
Nintendo have announced WiiWare, letting people purchase and download original games software.
Nintendo have offered a service to download reworked classic games – Super Mario Bros, etc – to the Wii since last November. Indeed, earlier this month they announced that 4.7m of these classic games had been downloaded already.
WiiWare will attempt to get legions of small software developers to create compelling, less-expansive games, without them having to be concerned with the hassle and cost of creating games on disk.
Nintendo expect the first WiiWare content to arrive early 2008 – so coders, get coding!
Virgin Media tell us that they “will be the first” TV service to offer the BBC iPlayer service through their STB and remote control – rather than through a computer.
Following yesterday’s Official launch of the BBC iPlayer, we thought this would of interest to follow up.
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This morning, BBC boss Mark Thompson announced that the corporation’s long-awaited iPlayer on-demand TV service would launch, as an open public beta, on 27 July this year.
Unveiling details of the peer-to-peer download service, Thompson predicted that the iPlayer (nee iMP) would be “at least as big a redefinition of broadcast TV as colour TV was 40 years ago.”
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Nokia has officially announced that they have made Skype available to run on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.