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(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 November 2-3 is all about convergence too…

I also read this cool interview with Russell Buckley who co-writes Mobhappy now with Carlo Longino.

Then I actually wandered what happened with The Mobile Technology Weblog that Russell initiated over a year ago - this blog has always been one of my favourites, and is now written by Oliver Starr. What can I say or add more? As he puts it so nicely “… this cat is getting out of the bag and I don’t think it’s going to go back in.”

Just read his three latest posts (1, 2, 3) and you’ll understand that the convergence is definitely being shaped.

tags: mobsharing flashmobsharing peer-to-peer p2p wi-fi fixed mobile internet convergence

German media giant Bertelsmann, a former partner of file-sharing network Napster, is launching a new Internet platform for downloading and sharing movies or games over the Internet.

Bertelsmann’s services and technology arm Arvato said “it would sell the service, dubbed GNAB, to mobile phone operators, Internet providers or TV stations, which could then offer their clients legal downloads of large files under their own brand.

In addition, it could also allow them to share the files they have received over the network, effectively outsourcing the storage of the files and their download to the users of the network.”

Source: Reuters.com