Protos

Sony’s got it! They are aiming at making mobile specific video content! Not just porting TV.

hollywoodreporter.comWrites that:

“Sony content goes wireless

Sony Pictures Television is starting to develop short-form content for wireless delivery, the studio said Monday. Sony’s TV unit is looking to develop original content for wireless platforms, as well as material derived from existing shows in Sony’s vast TV archive and companion promotional pieces for current Sony productions. The initiative, announced by Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, Sony Pictures TV’s co-presidents of programming and production, is being spearheaded by SPT executive Michael Ross. “As an independent studio with our considerable resources in both existing content and development, it’s a natural extension for us to pursue this emerging programming marketplace,” Van Amburg said. (Staff report)”

I am sure this is the right approach rather than trying to migrate e.g. TV content directly to the mobile.

The key is to make device specific content; since the usage of mobile video is not the same as watching TV.

I think we will see that this approach pays off. I for one am craving for 4-6 minute videoclips to get me though my bus ride.

Wesh.com reports that:

“4 Middle School Boys Arrested For Behavior On School Bus

TAVARES, Fla. — Four students at Tavares Middle School were arrested Friday for inappropriate behavior on a school bus.

Police said the kids, ages 12 to 14, asked girls to reveal their breasts on a Lake County school bus.
When the females refused, police said the boys ripped off their clothes and used camera phones to snap pictures of their breasts.

Then the boys showed off the pictures at school, police said. All four boys were charged with felonies, police said.”

I wonder if kids were always that harsh towards each other and it is just the mobile cameras that are different?

I guess they are all ready sending them by MMS to their friends – next natural step is posting the pictures in moblogs…

NTT DoCoMo has launched Raiden a handset that features: AM/FM and TV tuner! (if you read Japanese that is (but there is a picture)).

I-Mode business strategy has this to say:

“NTT DoCoMo and Sony Ericsson have introduced a new concept model called the RADIDEN, claiming the world’s first cell phone that has been equipped with a three-band AM/FM/TV tuner. The handset incorporates a dual-front design: one side can be used as a cell phone, and on the other side is a radio designed for the 2G MOVA network. The radio features easy-to-select channels, a dedicated single-color sub-display (16.7×23.1mm), as well as visible buttons allowing the user to use i-mode while listening to the radio.”

I wonder what that mean? Why would you not distribute the signals required by ordinary IP networks? Don’t they have flat rate IP-Traffic? Don’t they have IP streaming in Japan? Is it more cheap to just catch the “old” signals?

I wish I could read Japanese… but hey that’s life…

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Can you really turn a First Person Shooter into a RPG for mobile???!

Here we go use your mobile as a OCR scanner:

The software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by sweeping the phone across the page.

and

Using the new software with a 1-megapixel camera held at least 20centimetres away, an A4 sized page takes about 3 to 5 seconds to scan. This produces between 21 and 35 images which the software merges together to extract the text and record any images

Yet another clever way to enhance the phones capability – whole story @ newscientist