Gates sees mobile phones overtaking iPods - paper
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates sees mobile phones
overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views
the raging popularity of Apple's iPod player as unsustainable, he told
a German newspaper.
"As good as Apple may be, I don't believe the success of the iPod
is sustainable in the long run," he said in an interview published in
Thursday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Google Buys Into Ad-Supported Mobile Networking
By Pamela Parker
Google has
acquired mobile social networking firm dodgeball.com in a move that
could help the search player deliver location-based advertising on cell
phones. Terms of the transaction weren't disclosed.
New York City-based dodgeball.com uses SMS (define) and MMS (define)
technology to allow consumers to connect with friends and
friends-of-friends at nightspots in 22 U.S. cities. Because users text
dodgeball to indicate their locations, the company can use that
information to target ad messages to users within a specific geographic
area who have opted-in. The company says it can also target by date and
time, weather conditions, or by city.
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