Archive for February, 2007

Towards a DRM-free music distribution?

In a recent publication Steve Jobs, the big boss at Apple, has given arguments to stop DRM (‘Digital Rights Management’) for the download of music. He is convinced this will lead to a significant rise of the online sale of music. The music industry badly needs the additional revenue from music downloads to compensate the [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft introduces new mobile operating system

Among the new product presentations at 3GSM on monday, was also Microsoft, introducing Windows Mobile 6, their new operating system for mobile phones. This OS promises an improved search function for mail contacts or music. Windows Live Messenger is now also integrated. Microsoft aims for a full compatability, to ease to transition from version 5 [ READ MORE ]

Warner sees challenge for mobile internet

Talking at the 3GSM congress in Barcelona, Edgar Bronfman, CEO of Warner Music, sees many challenges for the <a href=”http://www.mobileweb.be/en/mobile-internet/mobile-internet.asp”Mobile Internet as a music distributor. He pointed out that, while most mobile phones are now capable of playing and storing music, only 8,5% of the end-users are actually using these phones to buy music. “Why [ READ MORE ]

3 billion mobile users in 2008

By 2008 no less than 3 billion people in the world will have a mobile phone. At least that’s what Thomas Ganswindt, CEO of Siemens Communications, announced at the 3GSM congress, the largest telecom event which took place last tuesday in Barcelona. This would mean that the number of mobile phone users will be the [ READ MORE ]

Record sales for mobile phones

In 2006 Belgium saw a record sale of 4,36 million mobile phones, worth almost 600 million euros. That’s 15% more than 2005, which held the previous record of 3,8 million phones. This was announced in De Tijd, based on statistics of market researcher GfK. Since there are about 9,5 million mobile phone numbers in Belgium, [ READ MORE ]

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