Category: 3GSM 2007
Interview: Microsoft talks about its new PlayReady DRM technology
At 3GSM this year, Microsoft launched PlayReady, its new ‘content access’ technology for mobile content, including music, video, games, ringtones and wallpapers. In essence, it’s extending Microsoft’s existing Windows Media DRM system to mobile, and expanding it beyond music and…
30 things we learned at 3GSM 2007
Phew. As ever, 3GSM was tiring both physically and mentally, with a barrage of new products and companies, plus an enormous venue to walk around. Honestly, if we believed in wearing pedometers, they'd have exploded by Tuesday. So now the…
MySpace may "die fast" if it doesn't get mobile social networking right
Us Brits will soon be able to access MySpace on our phones – well, we will if we're on Vodafone, anyway, as the two companies have signed an exclusive deal. But is it that important that MySpace launches a mobile…
ShoZu launches automatic Flickr and YouTube geotagging for your mobile photos and videos
There are plenty of people out there geotagging their photos (uploading info on the location they were taking) already, but it takes a bit of knowledge. However, mobile application ShoZu has just added a feature that automatically geotags your photos…
iPhone will raise the bar for "cumbersome" mobile music, says Warner Music chairman
So much for the mobile industry's attempts to persuade everyone to download music to their phones. According to Warner Music Group chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr, it's not working very well. "It's expensive, it's complicated and it's slow," he told a…
Transformers: Robots in a mobile game…
One of the hot stories in mobile games at 3GSM was the public unveiling of Transformers, the official game of the upcoming movie. If you're yet to be convinced by the joys of playing games on your phone, how about…
3GSM 2007: FunkySexyCool is like MySpace meets Am I Hot Or Not… on your phone
Few of the mobile social networking companies at 3GSM are offering users prizes for being attractive. One who is, though, is FunkySexyCool, an Australian mobile community with over 200,000 users posting profiles and voting on one another's purdyness. The company…
3GSM 2007: Motorola wants to get everyone blogging
The big handset manufacturers aren't just focused on music, TV and signing deals with trendy fashion houses to get some free Prada gear, y'know. Really. On its stand at 3GSM, Motorola was showing off its new mobile blogging application. It'll…
3GSM 2007: "The big internet players don't understand mobile"
Can YouTube be a big hit on mobile phones? The company signed a deal with Vodafone last week, but some industry rivals aren't so sure. One is Yospace CTO David Springall. The company runs the See Me TV and Look…
3GSM 2007: NVIDIA's GoForce 5500 demonstration next-gen mobile interface
To see some of the properly futuristic stuff at 3GSM, you have to seek out the technology companies. On its stand, NVIDIA was running a bunch of demos, including one showing a next-generation mobile interface, powered by its GoForce 5500…