Word: multimedia
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...want badly to change this, 3G or no. Gearing up for Christmas, the wireless industry has begun a big push on a new range of whizzy phones that can take, send, and receive color digital photos. Holiday snaps don't sound especially revolutionary, but to hear the networkers talk, multimedia messaging is just about the biggest thing since rechargeable batteries. mmO2 chief executive Peter Erskine even tempts fate by invoking that dreadful New Economy buzzword, killer app. Pure hype? Maybe not. Wireless operators are looking hopefully to Japan, where Vodafone's subsidiary J-Phone already has more than...
...content side, I think [sex] will be a big, big driver," says Orange executive vice president Richard Brennan. Operators are quick to insist that parents can block kids' access to this stuff, but as with the Internet, there's a lot the networks can't control. Of course, multimedia GPRS isn't just about porn; it's games and gambling and news and, yes, even business applications. But even if the next wave of phones does live up to these flashy promises, will it be enough to revive the wireless sector's business performance? On the hardware side, Nokia...
Dotcoms offering film and music on personal computers - so-called streaming media - have gone bust, and TV broadcasters pushing video-on-demand (VOD) won't recoup returns on their investments any time soon. But a multimedia service launched in Europe last month is hoping to show that the convergence of TV and the Web can counter this unhappy trend. Lots of different media players - software summoned by conventional Web browsers - enable you to play sound or video clips embedded in Web pages on the PC. But RealNetworks' RealOne SuperPass for Europe goes beyond other services. It is a one-stop...
...Mahathir-initiated venture that aims to manufacture electrical goods such as air conditioners and stereos in Malaysia for sale domestically and overseas. It has struggled since its inception four years ago. Mokhtar may also be taking over another pair of gasping Mahathir favorites: the Entertainment-Village, through which local multimedia and film industries would "leapfrog into the digital age"; and Bio-valley, a still vague attempt to spark off a Malaysian biotechnology industry. Both E-village and Bio-valley are part of the Prime Minister's Multimedia Super Corridor, a hugely ambitious?and expensive?attempt to create an Asian Silicon...
...comic strip in Japan (over $2 billion in Yu-Gi-Oh!-related products have sold there). In the U.S., it rolled out last fall as a Saturday-morning 'toon on Kids' WB!, where it soon ranked No. 1 in its time slot. In March the multimedia merchandising was launched: out came video games for Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Game Boy and action figures from Mattel. Also, beginning in that same month, came the trading cards--dribbled out just slowly enough to create scarcity. Interest, however, is anything but scarce: the Yu-Gi-Oh! website logs 1.2 million hits...