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...very arrogant young man at that time," he recalls. In Bangkok, he met another upcoming media tycoon. Thaksin and he "were never friends, only acquaintances," Sondhi insists. But soon they were doing business together. In 1992, Thaksin invested in the share offering of IEC, a mobile-phone handset distributor that Sondhi had bought and which sold handsets to Shin subsidiary...
...phone features voice dialing, an MP3 player and FM stereo. Motorola's PEBL sports a smooth oval form with a dual-hinge mechanism to open and close the device with one swift, delicate motion. The VTech i5871 5.8-GHz cordless phone is part of a system expandable to eight handsets using only one phone jack; other highlights include a digital answering device, color handset display and dual caller ID. And the Vertu Special Edition Ascent White has polished leather keys and soft backlighting, and can store up to 1,000 contacts and 150 texts...
...move MP3s to the handset, you need a MiniSD card. A new kind of memory chip for small devices like phones, it's compatible with standard SD. Since it generally ships with an SD adapter, it will fit into any SD card slot you might have on your computer or printer. (If you don't have one, you can get a USB card reader for around $20.) In goes the card, and an icon pops up, under My Computer in Windows or right on the desktop in a Mac. Drag songs you want to hear to the icon, then slip...
...Liberal Democrat party conference, then flipped over to Sky News, all while standing on the Oxford University campus. "This is really impressive," gushed Policelli, 25, who works at the National Library for Health at the university. Welcome to the world of mobile television, where broadcasters, mobile operators and handset makers are trying to bring traditional TV to the planet's mobile-phone users. Policelli was taking part in a trial launched by British mobile operator O2 and broadcaster Arqiva to deliver 16 channels - including bbc One, bbc Two, bbc News 24 and Sky News - to phones supplied by Finnish handset...
...Richard Sharp, vice president of multimedia at Nokia. As with many nascent technologies, though, there are some hurdles to overcome before mobile TV goes mainstream. It's not yet clear, for example, whether consumers are willing to pay the estimated $650 (less if operators subsidize them) for TV-ready handsets. Mobile-TV broadcast companies also face the daunting challenge of gaining airspace in different countries with different regulations; regulators must first decide whether to allocate spectrum space for them and, if so, how to distribute it fairly. Even if some countries grant spectrum as early as next year, others could...