Vem aí mais uma novidade... será um concorrente do iPhone?????
MARIANA BARROS
da Folha de S.Paulo
A onda de especulações se alastra também para o Google, que estaria planejando o lançamento de um celular.
Na semana passada, o site de notícias Download Squad (www.downloadsquad.com) afirmou que o desenvolvimento do produto tinha sido confirmado por um funcionário da fabricante de portáteis HTC.
Se for mesmo verdade, o Gphone, como vem sendo chamado, deve chegar ao mercado no primeiro trimestre do ano que vem.
Segundo o site, a equipe do Google vem analisando os 20 modelos da HTC para criar o design do seu portátil.
O aparelho vai ter uma versão do Google Maps que oferecerá compatibilidade com GPS, sistema de posicionamento global. O Google Talk, programa de conversa instantânea, poderá ser usado com um sistema de VoIP.
O programa de e-mails Gmail e o organizador Google Calendar também estão entre as funções aguardadas.
Quanto ao sistema operacional, há quem diga que será o Windows Mobile 6 e quem aposte em um sistema baseado em Linux. O preço do Gphone deve ficar em torno de US$ 100 e é bem provável que ele não fique vinculado a uma única operadora, como ocorreu com o iPhone e a AT&T, que monopolizou a venda de planos para o celular da Apple.
Acompanhe as notícias em seu celular: digite wap.folha.com.br
08 setembro, 2007
Mobile phone technology turns 20
Mais um aniversário... agora de um jovem que ainda vai dar muito no que falar... gravar, ouvir, localizar, etc...
The technology behind the mobile phone is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
On 7 September 1987, 15 phone firms signed an agreement to build mobile networks based on the Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications.
According to the GSM Association there are more than 2.5 billion accounts that use this mobile phone technology.
Adoption of the technology shows no signs of slowing down with many developing nations becoming keen users of mobile handsets.
Future phones
Robert Conway, head of the GSM Association, said the memorandum of understanding signed in 1987 is widely seen as the moment when the global mobile industry got under way.
Although work on the GSM technical specifications began earlier, the agreement signed in 1987 committed those operators to building networks based upon it.
GSM FACTS
China has 445 million GSM customers
There are 2.5 billion GSM connections worldwide
64% of mobile users are in emerging markets
About seven billion text messages are sent every day
Source: GSM Association
"There's no doubt that at the time of the agreement in 1987 no one had an idea of the explosive capabilities in terms of growth that would happen after the GSM standard was agreed," he said.
Since then, he said, the numbers of people using GSM mobiles has always outstripped the predictions.
Once the preserve of the well off, mobiles were now "the everyday gadget that's essential to people's lives," he said.
In the UK there are now more mobiles than people according to Ofcom statistics which reveal that, at the end of 2006, for every 100 Britons there are 116.6 mobile connections.
Figures from the GSM Association show it took 12 years for the first billion mobile connections to be made but only 30 months for the figure to reach two billion.
"In the developing world they are becoming absolutely indispensable," said Mr Conway.
This was because handsets were now cheap and mobile networks much less expensive to set up than the fixed alternatives.
But getting mobiles in to the hands of billions of people was just the start, said Mr Conway.
"The technology is a gravitational force that brings in to its orbit a huge amount of innovators," he said.
In the future, he suggested, high-speed networks would be ubiquitous adding the intelligence of mobiles to anything and everything.
"The technology will be in the fabric of your clothing, your shoes, in appliances, in your car," he said.
For instance, he said, the ubiquity of mobile technology could revolutionise healthcare and see people wearing monitors that gather and transmit information about vital signs.
Phones too could change radically in the future.
"You'll pull them out of your pocket and they'll look like a map but unfold like a screen," said Mr Conway. "We're now on the verge of another wave and that's going to be stimulated by mobile broadband."
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/6983869.stm
Published: 2007/09/07 23:55:25 GMT
© BBC MMVII
The technology behind the mobile phone is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
On 7 September 1987, 15 phone firms signed an agreement to build mobile networks based on the Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications.
According to the GSM Association there are more than 2.5 billion accounts that use this mobile phone technology.
Adoption of the technology shows no signs of slowing down with many developing nations becoming keen users of mobile handsets.
Future phones
Robert Conway, head of the GSM Association, said the memorandum of understanding signed in 1987 is widely seen as the moment when the global mobile industry got under way.
Although work on the GSM technical specifications began earlier, the agreement signed in 1987 committed those operators to building networks based upon it.
GSM FACTS
China has 445 million GSM customers
There are 2.5 billion GSM connections worldwide
64% of mobile users are in emerging markets
About seven billion text messages are sent every day
Source: GSM Association
"There's no doubt that at the time of the agreement in 1987 no one had an idea of the explosive capabilities in terms of growth that would happen after the GSM standard was agreed," he said.
Since then, he said, the numbers of people using GSM mobiles has always outstripped the predictions.
Once the preserve of the well off, mobiles were now "the everyday gadget that's essential to people's lives," he said.
In the UK there are now more mobiles than people according to Ofcom statistics which reveal that, at the end of 2006, for every 100 Britons there are 116.6 mobile connections.
Figures from the GSM Association show it took 12 years for the first billion mobile connections to be made but only 30 months for the figure to reach two billion.
"In the developing world they are becoming absolutely indispensable," said Mr Conway.
This was because handsets were now cheap and mobile networks much less expensive to set up than the fixed alternatives.
But getting mobiles in to the hands of billions of people was just the start, said Mr Conway.
"The technology is a gravitational force that brings in to its orbit a huge amount of innovators," he said.
In the future, he suggested, high-speed networks would be ubiquitous adding the intelligence of mobiles to anything and everything.
"The technology will be in the fabric of your clothing, your shoes, in appliances, in your car," he said.
For instance, he said, the ubiquity of mobile technology could revolutionise healthcare and see people wearing monitors that gather and transmit information about vital signs.
Phones too could change radically in the future.
"You'll pull them out of your pocket and they'll look like a map but unfold like a screen," said Mr Conway. "We're now on the verge of another wave and that's going to be stimulated by mobile broadband."
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/6983869.stm
Published: 2007/09/07 23:55:25 GMT
© BBC MMVII
07 setembro, 2007
INTERCOM 2007
Bom, estive na Intercom 2007 e apresentei um trabalho no NP de Rádio e Mídia Sonora. O conteúdo do trabalho foi um resumo da minha dissertação de mestrado defendida no início do ano. Agradeço a todos os presentes no dia (a sala estava cheia !!!) e em especial ao Prof. Luiz Arthur Ferrareto, uma referência pra mim e atual coordenador do Núcleo de Mídia Sonora, que conduziu brilhantemente o debate que se deu no dia. Em breve, o texto estará disponível para download no site da intercom.
iTune Tagging Unveiled
Uma etiqueta de compra digital....
September 7, 2007
By Reuters
LOS ANGELES—Apple, iBiquity Digital, a developer of high-definition radio technology, and major radio companies said on Sept. 9 they are offering a new, free service called "iTunes Tagging."
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The service lets listeners with HD Radio receivers containing a special tag button, to "tag" songs they hear on the FM dial for subsequent purchase via Apple's iTunes.
"iTunes tagging takes music discovery on the radio to the next level," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of iPod Product Marketing, in a statement.
iBiquity said various broadcasters, including radio market leader Clear Channel Communications, came together quickly for the initial launch across hundreds of stations.
The tagging button will be available on HD radios made by Harman International Industries' JBL unit and Polk Audio, recently purchased by Directed Electronics.
A spokeswoman for iBiquity said "several hundred thousand" HD radio receivers have been sold since their launch in 2004.
U.S. radio operators are working to promote HD Radio, which receives over-the-air terrestrial stations with CD-quality sound and multiple new-program formats, in an effort to better compete with ever increasing digital music options. The industry has pledged to spend $250 million on marketing through the HD Digital Radio Alliance.
September 7, 2007
By Reuters
LOS ANGELES—Apple, iBiquity Digital, a developer of high-definition radio technology, and major radio companies said on Sept. 9 they are offering a new, free service called "iTunes Tagging."
ADVERTISEMENT
The service lets listeners with HD Radio receivers containing a special tag button, to "tag" songs they hear on the FM dial for subsequent purchase via Apple's iTunes.
"iTunes tagging takes music discovery on the radio to the next level," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of iPod Product Marketing, in a statement.
iBiquity said various broadcasters, including radio market leader Clear Channel Communications, came together quickly for the initial launch across hundreds of stations.
The tagging button will be available on HD radios made by Harman International Industries' JBL unit and Polk Audio, recently purchased by Directed Electronics.
A spokeswoman for iBiquity said "several hundred thousand" HD radio receivers have been sold since their launch in 2004.
U.S. radio operators are working to promote HD Radio, which receives over-the-air terrestrial stations with CD-quality sound and multiple new-program formats, in an effort to better compete with ever increasing digital music options. The industry has pledged to spend $250 million on marketing through the HD Digital Radio Alliance.
Um Velhinho Antenado
Parabéns, ao rádio brasileiro que hoje completa 85 anos. Após sua primeira transmissão oficial naquele sete de setembro de 1922, o rádio brasileiro vem passando por grandes transformações. Hoje, pode ser considerado um velhinho antenado com os dias atuais ao flertar com a internet e os artefatos móveis, como os celulares. Esse é o rádio, apesar de tudo continuará sendo nosso veículo veículo de comunicação sonora massiva. (Ouvem-se aplausos !!!)
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