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The new Netsize Guide 2005 is available for download at www.netsize.com; it is a very good overview to get an in-depth view of the current global mobile phone market.

“The report gives an comprehensive and up to date snapshot of the state of the Global mobile phone market covering 29 countries and 103 mobile operators […]

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Specialized podcasting clients have quickly entered the ranks of the top RSS clients in the FeedBurner statistics. iPodder, iPodderX, Doppler and Nimiq have ensconced themselves in the top 50 RSS clients as measured by total daily FeedBurner circulation.
“There’s a very interesting statistic that highlights how different the RSS world will be from the web 1.0 […]

About 480,000 passengers pass through La Defense station every day on the subway, taxis, buses, trams, and the suburban commuter train, making it one of the 10 largest hubs in Europe. Now the Paris transportation authority has deployed a context-aware Wi-Fi network for their employees and travellers.
“As workers move about the station, the system recognizes […]

Read John Lettice’s article on The Register on the latest “Music Phone” trend at 3GSM: “So when do mobile phones really kill iPods? (…) Not until handset manufacturers figure out pricing, functionality, the target market and its habits. Which is easier said than done, but grasping that just saying ‘and it plays music’ isn’t good […]

Maria Schneider’s album “Concert in the Garden”, won a Grammy award for the best large jazz ensemble album of the year without selling a single copy in a record store.
Schneider financed her Grammy-winning album through an Internet-based music delivery service called ArtistShare that opens the financing of production to dedicated fans. The production cost of […]

Read Stephen Waddington’s opinion on “managing press relations at 3GSM Cannes on the Mobile Technology Weblog
“If you want to drive press coverage don’t issue news announcements around a show - unless you’re a big brand. Instead use exhibitions to network informally with the press and save your news stories for when there is less […]

Read this Wired News article on how MotorFM is determined to transform radio in Germany; it thinks it has the tools to do it: MP3 downloads and songs streamed directly to mobile phones.
“The first step has seen MotorFM, launched Feb. 1, abandon on-air commercials in favor of generating revenue from MP3 downloads and targeted sponsoring […]

Viviane Reding is our new European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, a very important task if you think about the enormous technological and market changes we will face the next years. Read her speech at 3GSM World Congress 2005 at Cannes yesterday.

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Mobile Music is definately the hot issue this year at 3GSM in Cannes; Motorola just anounced their iRadio and their iTunes-compatible cell phone launch and now Sony Ericsson seems to counter Motorola with the anouncement of the Walkman phone
“Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB will counter Motorola’s introduction yesterday of its first iTunes-compatible cell phone when […]