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...could enjoy a spike in viewers and advertising revenue; and mobile operators, at least initially, could boost their turnovers, too. London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media estimates that by 2010 the market for mobile entertainment - which includes TV as well as games and music - will reach $42 billion. Dermot Nolan, an analyst who has written a report on mobile TV for London consultancy Screen Digest, notes that in Britain alone there are 55 million mobile users. "Even if you get 10-15% penetration, that's big bucks," he says. And he predicts that by 2012 some 256 million mobile...
...mobile operators started spending hundreds of billions of euros licensing and building 3G networks to deliver, among other things, video images. But it's turning out that heavy video usage can bog down a 3G network. "Broadcast is far more effective at mass mobile," says Screen Digest's Nolan. Users, of course, don't really care how the images are transmitted, but media and mobile companies do. Every bit of programming that travels over a broadcast network rather than a mobile network is lost revenue for the operators. In December, six of Korea's biggest networks will start broadcasting free...
Starting with their bearlike countenances and their fascination with toys and children, Nolan Bushnell and Stephen Wozniak have much in common. Each is an idea man who once came up with a billion-dollar blockbuster. Bushnell, 43, started Atari in 1972 and developed Pong, the first successful video game. Wozniak, 35, designed and helped build the first Apple computer in a garage in 1975. Both are engineering wizards at heart who have proved far more adept at creating companies than managing them over the long haul. And each is restlessly angling for an encore...
...fairness, it must be said that the script (by director Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer) breaks with sobriety to give someone, usually Michael Caine as Alfred, Bruce's faithful, fussy butler, something smart to say. Eventually, however, Nolan, who directed the tricky, widely admired Memento, must oblige the conventions of the big-budget action movie: darkly improbable weaponry, pyrotechnics, car chases (the Batmobile is admittedly pretty novel), editing that edges toward incomprehensibility...
Basically, Nolan's job is to revive a troubled studio franchise, and you can feel him struggling to reanimate the neurotic dislocations of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman. His effort is not dishonorable, but what it needs, and doesn't have, is a Joker in the deck-some antic human antimatter to give it the giddy lift of perversity that a bunch of impersonal explosions, no matter how well managed, can't supply. -By Richard Schickel