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Entries from January 2008

NGT NEWS: Mobile Content To Rise, Google Hits Japanese Mobiles, YouTube2Go

by NGT

Mobile Content To Grow To $64 Billion By 2012 [mocoNews]
The global mobile content market will grow from $20 billion in 2007 to $64 billion by 2012, according to a report by Juniper Research. Mobile music, the largest sector, will account for $17.5 billion of 2012 revenue, bolstered by the increasing availability of downloads and streamed […]

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Tags: The Week in Mobile

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NGT NEWS: BBerry Upgrades, AT&T + NYT, Softbank, & Mobile Gamers

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Users Want E-mail and Social Networking on Basic Phones [ComputerWeekly]
One-third of basic mobile device users rate e-mail as the most important feature on their mobile phones, followed by 25% who favor social networking and 20% who prefer location-based services, according to a survey by Webcredible.
RIM Upgrades Email For BlackBerry Users [WSJ]
BlackBerry announces a set of […]

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NGT NEWS: 200 Mil Chinese Online, Cheap Nokias, & Twittering ‘08 Style

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China Internet Population Tops 200 Million [PCWorld]
China is on target to become the world’s largest wired nation (to the US) in a matter of months: its online population grew 53% last year, from 137 million in 2006 to 210 million in 2007. The majority of new users were aged 18 to 30 and about 40% […]

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Mobile Content: What the Networks Are Doing

by David

Last week, we talked about how mobile carriers and handset makers are looking to get in on the “content” game–essentially acting out the traditional role of TV networks and studios. This led us to wonder: What are the actual networks doing? Turns out: a lot. Perhaps in response to their devastating late-entry into online video, […]

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Tags: Culture & Entertainment · Gaming · Mobile · TV & Video

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Wireless, WiMax and Mobile: 2008 and Beyond

by Jeremy

This past Thursday, we attended the monthly speaker series sponsored by Bill Sobel’s “New York Media Information Exchange Group” (NYMIEG for short). This month’s event featured a discussion on the future of high speed wireless networks, namely WiFi and its likely successor, WiMax. Moderated by NBC tech reporter Sree Sreenivasan, the event featured a panel […]

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Tags: Youth Trends

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