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...users can watch live TV broadcasts over their handsets. The signal - a news broadcast from TV 3, a public station in Bratislava, Slovakia - was picked up by a server in Prague and compressed for viewing on a mobile phone. From there the signal was bounced to the subscribers' global packet radio switched (GPRS) network account in Warsaw, then transferred via automatic roaming to the Orange GPRS network in Cannes, and then on to the subscribers' Nokia 3650 phones on the Sunny Dream. The demo was part of this year's big story at the 3GSM World Congress mobile technology trade...
...faster, easy-to-use phones. In South Korea the latest models, which cost around $300, use a technology called EV-DO and can access the Internet at a rate of up to 2.4 megabits per second. That is about four times as fast as the general packet radio service (GPRS) phones, the most sophisticated models currently sold in Europe, and 250 times speedier than Japan's i-mode service. Verizon is rolling out a service that is only about 2% as fast as EV-DO but is piloting technology already used in South Korea and hopes to match those speeds...
South Korean operators have also chosen to differentiate download prices, charging one rate for text and another for multimedia content. On 2.5G networks, all the mobile operators take half a cent per packet (which represents 512 bytes) for text but only about one-quarter of a cent per packet for multimedia content. The reason? To make it more attractive for consumers to use the new traffic-intensive multimedia services such as video on demand. Otherwise, they might stick to less traffic-intensive text-based services like e-mail...
...sports complexes and football pitches. These places seemed to have a different dynamic at night. The last thing it seemed like was a place of recreation." He photographs the locations in daylight, then returns at night. "I jot down things, make a sketch on the back of a cigarette packet, then go back to the studio and paint them in the way I remember them - or should like them to be." His painting of a pavilion, with light streaming out past an empty bench, has conscious echoes of mid-20th century American artist Edward Hopper, whose most iconic canvas...
...will continue to e-mail groups individually,” she said. “But we also will use other avenues of communication, such as table tents, possibly an ad in The Crimson and an informational flier that we can put in the pre-registration packet that goes to every student organization in the fall...