Motorola Completes Acquisition of AirDefense
Motorola Completes Acquisition of AirDefense
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UK mobile music could reach 2.1 billion downloads
How to fight against illegal music downloads? Just offer the unlimited mobile downloads and it would be big business for mobile operators and also could shift consumers’ music habits away from older CD and PC-based technologies.
A report by TNS has found that within the UK alone, mobile phone owners could download 2.1 billion music tracks from the Sony Ericsson and Nokia music portals.
Last week’s statement by Sony Ericsson that it will partner with Omnifone to offer its PlayNow plus service is the latest in the race to bring unlimited music downloads bundles to market - kicked off by Nokia’s recent announcement that its ‘Comes With Music’ package will be available from next month.
The study also indicates that the new bundled music download services could shift consumers’ music habits away from older CD and PC-based technologies. 45% of CD buyers in Britain claim that they would buy fewer CDs if they adopted Nokia ‘Comes With Music’, while 47% of PC music down-loaders would expect to reduce their PC downloading.
[via Cellular-News]
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Rogers offers the Motorola VA76r rugged handset at $199.99
The first ruggedised NSPA mobile phone including Mil Spec is the Motorola VA76r; a mobile handset that is shock proof, built to endure less than optimal treatment and water resistant.
The Motorola VA76r features, Quad-Band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and Tri-Band HSDPA (850/1900/2100 MHz) 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, Full HTML Web browsing, GPS, Mil Spec Attributes (Water resistance, humidity, drop, vibration and dust), and up to 4GB microSD.
Rogers Wireless has the Motorola VA76r for sale at $299.99 on a 1 year contract, $249.99 on a 2 year, and $199.99 on a 1 year, or if purchased without contract $359.00.
Source – Rogers
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SpaceX: In Orbit
“This is one of the greatest days of my life,” said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. SpaceX’s Falcon 1 became the first privately built liquid rocket to orbit the Earth tonight, following in the footsteps of SpaceShipOne which became the first privately built crewed spaceship to fly suborbitally in October 2004. …
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Motorola’s Good™ Mobile Messaging Receives ATO…
Santa Clara, CA – September 29, 2008 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that its Good™ Mobile Messaging Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (Good S/MIME) has passed the rigors of the Army’s Authority to Operate (ATO…
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Motorola will jump into Android bandwagon, Nokia might follow
Not only Sony Ericsson indicated their interested in using Google’s Android platform, but also Motorola. The American company has even confirmed to assemble a 350 team of Android developers, while Nokia might follow.
Motorola is one of the original members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), the main backers of Android. Other significant OHA members are HTC, LG and Samsung. The OHA was established on 5 November 2007, with 34 members including mobile handset makers, application developers, some mobile carriers, chip makers, and led by Google.
The Android news sounds interesting if we talk about Motorola. Can the Android recipe save Motorola?
Eric Zeman of Information Week described:
Motorola’s troubles the past 18 months have been well publicized. Sales have bottomed out, many of the company’s senior managers have left or been replaced, and the company hasn’t had a bona fide hit in what feels like forever. If there’s any company that needs to a shot in the arm, it is Motorola.
Enter Android. Since Android is — for the most part — free for handset manufacturers to adopt, it can keep development costs to a minimum. That’s important for Motorola. Motorola also happens to be a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, so we know it has more than a passing interest in the new mobile operating system from Google.
Electronista wrote:
Motorola currently uses the Linux-based MOTOMAGX and Symbian-based UIQ operating systems on some phones but has so far had little success in using these to spur new sales and avoid losing market share. The company’s smartphones have so far been limited to the more business-oriented Windows Mobile and have suffered versus the iPhone, Nokia’s Nseries hardware, and other offerings with friendlier interfaces.
Beyond the camp, Nokia, who is not an OHA member, is said to already have an Android team mingling around. If the Android really takes off, it’s make sense Nokia won’t only keep Symbian as their single handset platform.
[Source: PCWorld, Information Week]
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Sony Ericsson Green Heart Phone battling mobile phone recycling
The 24th of September brought the mobile world the Green Heart phone from Sony Ericsson; mobile phones are not biodegradable and include tiny amounts of potentially harmful substances in their batteries which, if not disposed of properly, could damage the environment.
Sony Ericsson’s Green Heart Phone helps redress the balance with the environmental mobile phone, and will research green technologies with bio-plastic housings, recycled plastic keypads, zero charger with 3.5mW power, HTML-based user manuals, educational application “Ecomate” and environmentally conscious packaging.
Furthermore, to help with the recycling of mobile phones Sony Ericsson has set up mobile phone recycling collection points is the fight to recycle the mobile phone in an environmentally way.
Source – semcblog
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Google’s Open Roaming Patent
Google describes their vision for an open wireless world, in a recently published patent (U.S. Patent Office), explains TechCrunch.
Google’s “Flexible Communication Systems and Methods” patent would allow cellphone users to connect through various networks, automatically. Users can either manually accept the bid that looks best to them, or have the …
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Motorola Makes Media Mobility A Reality With Launch Of…
Motorola, Inc. announced today that it is accelerating the delivery of personalized media experiences with the introduction of a flexible multimedia set top platform. Set tops based on the new platform allow users to transfer content to…
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Motorola Announces Proof of Concept Trial for X24-WiMAX…
Motorola Announces Proof of Concept Trial for X24-WiMAX…
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