Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Forbe: The Only Exciting Thing In Tech?
NEW YORK - Still using your cell phone just to make phone calls? How passé.
If the seers are correct, within a year your cell phone will be capable of live television, music downloads and playback, videogames, storing movie clips and viewing everything from photo albums to digital home movies. In short, more than you may have ever thought possible.
Of course, there are high hurdles to clear before all this great stuff happens--complex rights agreements, conflicting technology standards and the sometimes fractious relationship between carriers and content providers--but everyone involved has a stake in making it work. How big a stake? It's almost too big to put a number on. ...
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The article seems to make the point that content providers will make more off the cell phone than the providers.
If the seers are correct, within a year your cell phone will be capable of live television, music downloads and playback, videogames, storing movie clips and viewing everything from photo albums to digital home movies. In short, more than you may have ever thought possible.
Of course, there are high hurdles to clear before all this great stuff happens--complex rights agreements, conflicting technology standards and the sometimes fractious relationship between carriers and content providers--but everyone involved has a stake in making it work. How big a stake? It's almost too big to put a number on. ...
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The article seems to make the point that content providers will make more off the cell phone than the providers.
# posted by Lynn Wegley @ 9:13 AM 
