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Some of the finest jazz records ever made have been released on Impulse! - The New Wave Of Jazz Is On Impulse! Remember?
Impulse! released some of the best records from legendary jazz artists such as Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, and many others…

I just previewed a […]

(about the Fixed Mobile Internet Convergence really taken off )
I started reading Linksys just released a - you don’t have to sit in front of your computer to talk to your friends anymore - cordless handset supporting Skype. (thanks to John & Karel)
I noticed that Nokia Mobility Conference 2005 to be held in Barcelona on […]

Openwave today announced its acquisition of Musiwave, our French partner in the MuLiMob project.
“Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Openwave will acquire all outstanding shares of Musiwave for a total purchase price of approximately €99.5 million and a contingent earnout of up to an additional €15 million. This equates to approximately $121 million, and […]

When looking a bit deeper into the ‘reinventing radio’ issue I brought up in my previous post, I popped into this interesting internal BBC project called

“Matt Biddulph, Paul Hammond, Tom Coates, and Matt Webb show us how radio is a reemerging technology experiencing a resurgence in popularity and relevance. They explore how radio can be […]

“Podcasts are radio shows automatically delivered over the Internet to your computer. The UNICEF Podcast is a new global radio service focusing on the health, education, equality and protection of children.”

Nearly live reports on “Frontline Diary” of children facing trauma and families rebuilding their lives after Katrina, Youth Movement against Violence, the global struggle against […]

Reading back some posts on this and last years important strategic moves in mobile land, I have been thinking a bit more on the big moves from the telecom operators to get a share into the mobile music distribution market. Let’s have a closer look at what’s happening…
Some of the most important operator deals:
Vodafone-Musiwave, […]

For its client Ford, Ogilvy Belgium just invented the “talking poster ad”, created specially for the advertising posters at busstops. The man on the poster (controlled on distance) starts making talks with the passengers passing by.

The system is connected to a webcam through a Telenet Wi-Fi hotspot.
You can see live reactions here (website in Dutch […]

I got this through John’s excellent blog.
TAGCloud is a folksonomy project from Yahoo! Developer Network. The tool plays around with your tags in your given rss feeds and it generates the most common keywords.

Here’s my blogs TAGCloud.
Technorati tags: folksonomy folksonomies social bookmarks social bookmarking tag tags tagging rss feeds web 2.0

web 2.0

social bookmarks:
These icons […]

IPdrum yesterday launched its IPdrum Skype Cable globally.

What the industry has been expecting to happen through WiFi, the market simply delivers with a cable - damn smart play from this Swedish-Norwegian company!
How it works:
The IPdrum Mobile Skype Cable connects a user’s old mobile phone (base phone) to the USB and soundports of his or her […]

Musiwave, our partner in the MuLiMob project, will provide both mobile and fixed line downloads to provide a variety of mobile music services to Orange and Wanadoo’s 56 million customers across Europe. This is the first time that France Telecom has selected a single vendor to oversee their music offerings.
Viaccess will provide comprehensive DRM technology […]