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Who are they kidding. I half laughed this morning when reading the referenced article in BusinessWeek. Seems the chair of Universal Music is enlisting the help of other music companies to roll their own music service.
As all of you that have been reading for a while remember the past two years I have traversed the halls of CES looking for the coolest gadgets. Andy McCaskey from Slashdot Review and yours truly are once again on the hunt for a sponsor to the show.
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Earlier this year while I was at the Consumer Electronics Show I had the chance to see the DocuPen Portable Scanner demonstrated, and had hoped to be able to try it out myself at some point.
I was reading in NY Times about companies that are selling ad supported mobile phones. My first reaction was scorn, this could only be a way to dupe uninformed marketing managers out of their cash. For the sake of fairness though, I thought I should have a look before snapping to judgment. There is a lot of buzz out in the market about the possibilities of mobile advertising, if only because of Google recently announcing a mobile version of adwords, but what would this tell about the possibilities of ad supported mobile phones?
I have posted on BusinessGeek about SCO’s latest fun and games in declaring bankruptcy. I don’t believe they are ignorant of the fact that doing so won’t protect them from paying Novell, you cannot protect money that doesn’t rightfully belong to you. It is also unlikely to be a tactic to turn the tide in their ongoing law suits.
Google is likely to dip into its war chest of cash and bid on the 700mhz Spectrum and while this may not be surprising, some recent comments by Google CEO Eric Schmidt seem to confirm it. He said in part: