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Monthly Archives: January 2006

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Skype released a new Skype version for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs and updated from “Pocket PC 1.2 beta” to “Pocket PC 2.0 beta” on 26 Jan 2006. However, if you expect the PC v2 video calling functionality for Pocket PCs now, you will be disappointed because v2 only adds a graphics update (2.0 style) as well as an improved contact list sorting. That’s the only changes. All the rest are buxfixes (some of them important, others aren’t). As introduced with v1.2 the first time, also 2.0 comes in two different versions, the standard version and the “low CPU” version which Skypes recommends if your Pocket PC has a CPU of 312 MHz “only”. However, there is still no TI OMAP 850 version available which means virtually none of the new HTC Pocket PCs can be used for Skype.

George Parker is on NBC TV

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We start the week with some awesome news. Our own George Parker at AdHurl.com is scheduled to appear on NBC’s “Today” show tomorrow–Tues Jan 31. They wanted an advertising expert to comment on how online advertising is affecting newspaper advertising, so they searched around online, found AdHurl.com and George’s Adscam, and decided he was their man (as if there should ever have been any doubt)!

We sent out a press release about it today through www.PRWeb.com (# 3 on the overall rankings). Its direct link is www.prweb.com/releases/2006/1/prweb339169.htm. Also, I blogged about it on www.knowmoremedia.com.

This is great exposure for George and for Know More Media and AdHurl. Congratulations to George, and we wish him luck on the show! Tune in if you can.

50 Cents Free Concert Passes

50 Cents, The Rapper is having some concerts over in Sydney, Australia around Feb 2006 and we have 25 passes for the 50 cent Concerts up for grabs to any customer that downloads a 50 cent product in the next two weeks. CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION

1. Promotion commences at 9am AEST on 12 January 2006 and entries close at Midnight AEST on 10 February 2006 (Promotional Period).

2. Entry is only open to Australian residents (excluding residents of Tasmania or the Northern Territory) who are aged 16 years or over. Employees (and their immediate families) of the Promoter, or agencies, suppliers or companies associated with conduct of this Promotion, are ineligible to enter.

3. To enter, participants must:

(a) purchase any music product with a tune or with an image of the artist “50 Cent??? through Jamster. Participants will then

be informed via Short Message Service of the question to be answered to enter the Promotion (Promotion Question);

(b) send a message to 194000 during the Promotional Period, from a mobile telephone via Short Message Service (“SMS???)

containing the following information:

(i) their State’s capital city (for ACT residents, this must be named as “Sydney???); and
(ii) their response in 10 words or less to the Promotion Question.

Hello from Netherlands

Yes….That’s right. I am right now in freaking cold Netherlands. What am I doing here in winter. God knows. I will be resuming posting about a day’s time. Still having jet lag since I am still tuned to Kuala Lumpur time. Netherlands is on GMT +1. And the coldest wind I’ve felt was about -4 celsius… But I love the food here and the tram ride to office is just 45 mins. Excellent. The transportation system in Netherlands is great !

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IPWireless Inc launches TDtv that delivers broadcasts on 3G

IPWireless Inc. on Wednesday launched TDtv, a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) mobile television platform that delivers broadcasts on the 3G spectrum.

Telecommunication carriers across Europe and Asia in 2000 spent billions to develop a 3G spectrum and have been searching for the next big application to justify the investment. “The irony is broadcast technologies, such as MediaFlow from Qualcomm, can’t deliver over the 3G spectrum,” said Jon Hambidge, vice president of marketing at IPWireless.

TDtv operates in the universal 3G spectrum bands at 1900MHz and 2010MHz. It allows Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) operators to use existing spectrum and base stations to offer subscribers mobile television and multimedia packages without impacting other voice and data 3G services.

TDtv lets operators deliver up to 50 channels of TV for standard mobile phones, or 15 high-quality Quarter VGA channels over 5-MHz of unpaired 3G spectrum to allow an infinite number of customers to watch the same channel. IPWireless said operators that have 10-MHz spectrums in any supported band can deliver twice the number of channels or increase the quality of their service offerings.

IPWireless Inc launches TDtv that delivers broadcasts on 3G

Paid Cloud Tags at 1000tags

After the whole MillionDollarHomePage fever started by Alex Tew, now we have something called paid cloud tags. Interesting idea indeed. Wonder if I should get in the whole thing and make some dough from it…. Check out 1000tag.com now and get a free tag too.

So that’s the news. 1000tags.com launched on January 9th, 2006, and started to get some traffic about 12 hours later, although it wasn’t until 24 hours after launch that visits started to pour.

And today – 7 days ever since the site started to receive visitors – 1000Tags.com has reached the 100,000 visitors mark. Not 100,000 hits, not 100,000 pages, but 100,000 different IPs (unique visitors +). That excludes people who connect through proxies or people who use a dynamic IP already used by someone else, but since 1000tags.com doesn’t leave a cookie (and we’re ok with that), we’re not tracking real unique visitors. So technically, we’ve got more than that.

Now, we run other web sites that get a lot of visitors, have a lot of registered users, etc. No, they are nothing like 1000tags at all, but I mention it because to talk about 100,000 visitors in a week is not something that makes us go WOOOW.

However, considering the nature of this site, with one very simple mission and nothing else to offer than just booking tags for web sites and redirecting visitors who click on those tags to the corresponding sites, it really is impressive to see than in just one week over 100,000 souls have come by to check our page. Even more interesting is that a bit more than 90% have actually clicked on at least one tag. That’s huge! And here we’re taking into account the fact that some people who first arrived at the site and clicked on one or more tags, have returned perhaps to see how things are going, using a different IP.