Motorola To Acquire Asian Digital Music Service Soundbuzz [Paidcontent.org]
Motorola has acquired mobile music distributor Soundbuzz to expand its Motomusic brand presence in India, Southeast Asia, New Zealand, and Australia.
My Personal Multiplex [Mobile Insider Blog]
Steve Smith anticipates the release of the latest edition of Deloitte’s “The State of Media Democracy Report” which will shed light on America’s media consumption habits. With the “convergence of handset upgrades, lowered and unlimited data plans, and a higher profile for the mobile Web,” Smith expects a significant increase in mobile content consumption.
From CES…
Yahoo Joins Mobile Wars [Globe and Mail]
CEO Jerry Yang announced Yahoo’s newly upgraded mobile webpage and mobile partnerships with Ebay, MTV, and MySpace.
Related: Yahoo Opens Up Go App To Third-Party Widgets; Single Widget Runs In App And On Mobile Web [mocoNews]
Intel Predicts the Personal Net [BBC News]
Intel CEO Paul Otellini believes that within the next 5 years, mobile devices will be using chips as powerful as the ones in personal computers today. Mobile internet will be able to “augment reality” by delivering Web capabilities in real time.
The Best Gadgets of CES 2008 [BBC News]
The BBC’s top picks include Eye-fi, a memory card that converts your digital camera into a wireless device, and TN Games’ gaming vests, which recreates the wearer’s actual movements on screen.
Best of CES [New York Times Video]
In a painfully awkward exchange on CNBC, Times tech guru David Pogue recommends a wirelessly upload-able digital picture frame with SIM card, a Panasonic portable DVD player with 13 hours of battery life, GPS-enabled watch, and a wireless entertainment hardware device.
Gates Hails Age of Digital Senses [BBC News]
Bill Gates predicts that personal electronic devices will move towards “natural user interface” which responds to touch and speech and “sees” what a user is doing. Gates cites the successes of iPhone and the Wii as evidence of the growing popularity of natural interfaces. Microsoft’s on-going projects include catching up to Google in the search arena and a touch-sensitive computer called Surface.
Related: Microsoft Makes Bid to Buy Norwegian Data-Search Firm [Wall Street Journal]
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