V Cast Christianity: Faith For Profit
Verizon announced that it is partnering with Unity in Values to launch another V Cast channel. This is one is youth oriented, featuring music and extreme sports. Sounds like every other channel out there. Oh, right. This is “The Mobile Word.” The Christian V Cast channel.
Now I don’t have a [...]
EMI Makes the Baby Metallica Cry
EMI apparently has dementia. After years of the record industry putting out zillions of lawsuits against hapless grandmothers and teenage kids with the end result requiring DRM wrapping on everything, EMI has decided to buck the trend. They’re in talks to release normal, unprotected MP3s so that consumers can purchase them anywhere and [...]
(Knock Knock) Who’s There? Porn!
The pornography industry has always been on the cutting edge: over the past two centuries we have gone from waiting months for a naked picture to be painted to minutes for a poorly lit home video of celebrity sex to make it around the world and across headlines everywhere. Porn made home broadband access [...]
WoW! 8 Million Players!
World of Warcraft has hit eight million players: congratulations to those of you who have the free time to spend so much effort on reality avoidance.
Seriously though, this is interesting, especially because of the apparent “stickiness” of WoW. The people that I know who play are die-hard– and there are a lot of them. [...]
The One: The iPhone
Neo, you’ve been replaced. Even worse, your replacement is not human. It’s far better.
As I had previously griped about in my post on convergence, or rather, Intel’s decision not to expand beyond UMPCs, I want an all in one, completely converged device. Today Steve Jobs delivered on that and went above and [...]
CES Preview: Cingular To Launch Video Sharing
Cingular’s video sharing service won’t launch until later this year, but they will be demo-ing it at CES. I know that this has value to some people– the press release example of distant relatives seeing their new grandchild is certainly moving– but then there are the rest of us whose parents don’t much care [...]
Ringtones Charts: Nerds Download Ringtones Too
Nielsen SoundScan released data today on the past years music purchase information. Not surprising: rap and hip hop ringtones held seven of the top ten spots on the realtones chart and six out of ten spots on the polyphonic chart. Surprising? The Super Mario Bros. theme was number one on the polyphonic [...]
Captain Duh Says: Consumers Not Cool With Mobile Ads
Um, yeah. I really don’t know why Forrester Research had to study this, but apparently, they did. I probably wouldn’t have spent the money and instead just hollered across the house at various family members.
Seriously though: 79% of consumers find the idea of ads on their mobile annoying and 97% percent don’t trust [...]
AT&T (Not Cingular)
So take me back to Cingular
No, you can’t go back to Cingular
Been a long time gone, Cingular
Why did Cingular get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Feds
(Apologies to They Might Be Giants)
AT&T sent out a press release last week stating that its acquisition of BellSouth has been completed. The deal will also consolidate ownership [...]
Old People Buy Ringtones Too
Perry Como is on top of the Billboard ringtones chart this week with two Christmas Classics: “Jingle Bells” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” For those of you who have no idea who I’m talking about: don’t worry about it. “Jingle Bells” came out in 1946 and there won’t be a test.
Boris Karloff’s [...]
