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Last week, Sprint launched its over-the-air music store, the first of its kind operating in the U.S. Using one of Sprint's new Power Vision phones, you type in the name of a song you want, then tap a button to download it to the phone's internal memory. The actual download is fast, generally 20 to 30 seconds (though it could take a few minutes in spotty coverage). Once the song is in your phone, you can play it whenever you like, through the phone's speaker or earbuds that come with the phone...
TECHNOLOGY BRIEFS Sprint's new music service lets users download songs to their mobile phones for $2.50 each. See Time.com for a review Microsoft's Windows Live will offer online business services starting in 2006 A new, free version of Google Local provides mapping for mobile phones Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos announced a new way to buy individual pages of books; see his interview at Time.com
...people around the world. But maybe we haven't done a good enough job of communicating about what our products can do now. [Colligan picks up a Treo 650.] I have a 2-GB expansion card here. I can store approximately 10 movies on this. I can also download an application called MobiTV and view television on this. So it's not as Star Treky as it sounds. It's possible today...
...browser and other connected applications also run smoothly thanks to access to Cingular?s EDGE network. Stepping up from the older GPRS data networks, this BlackBerry?s data line sees download speeds of up to about 120 Kbps. It?s not as fast as Wi-Fi or the soon-to-be announced UMTS HSDPA network from Cingular, nor is it as speedy as the new networks from Sprint and Verizon Wireless. However, RIM?s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis pointed out to me that EDGE is plenty good for general BlackBerry activities, and I have been unable to prove him wrong...
...recently released BlackBerry Messenger, available for download here, was loaded on my review unit. It can?t talk to desktop IM programs like AIM, MSN or Yahoo! Messenger, but it?s good for linking up with other BlackBerry users. My review unit also had a few cute games like Bass Assassin, but the gadget freak in me still misses entertainment features like MP3 players or even cameras. Lazaridis made the case that the absence of a camera is a good thing, making the BlackBerry permissible in places where camera phones would be blocked, such as a research...