Cellular Surround Abounds Around Show From Twice Fraunhofer is also demonstrating the new HD-AAC coding technology, which offers lossless compression of music content stored on cellphones and MP3 players. Dolby Labs demonstrated its Dolby Mobile sound-enhancing technology for cellphones and PMPs. RMI, whose processors already appear in PMPs, will be one of the first silicon companies to offer the technology for PMPs, said senior marketing manager Craig Eggers.

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Network of TVs Talks to Cellphones and Trades Clips for Advertising From backpocket.prophet.com/ Akoo International, is setting up a network of digital screens that can send and receive messages from cellphones. With Akoo's network, named m-Venue, cellphone users can send a text-message request for a music video, sports clip or fashion show to be delivered to their phone or played on a nearby Akoo television screen, which would act much like a high-tech jukebox.

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Cellphones in Japan make wallets obsolete From www.contentagenda.com?nid=3038 Takeo Ogura walks through the crowded railway station in central Tokyo ignoring the people waiting at the ticket machines and heads straight for the ticket barrier, where he whips out his mobile phone and waves it over a card reader, which beeps as he passes through. Mobile Suica, as the system is known, is part of a growing e-money revolution in Japan that is making life easier for consumers by allowing them to conduct an array of transactions using a mobile phone, instead of fumbling for...

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Taliban threaten cellphone firms in Afghanistan From International Herald Tribune KANDAHAR, Afghanistan : The Taliban have demanded that all four cellphone companies in Afghanistan cease operating during night hours or face attacks on their offices and communication towers, according to a statement issued Monday to journalists. The statement, issued by a Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, complained that NATO and American forces in Afghanistan, which it called "occupying forces," were tracking the whereabouts of militants through their mobile phones and also conducting...

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Man robbed of Rs 35 lakh, cellphones From Times of India In a daring incident straight out of a Bollywood film, four unidentified men accosted the car in which Manoj Agarwal and his driver Narendra Chauhan were travelling, kidnapped them and later robbed them of Rs 35 lakh and three mobile phones. A desperate Chauhan tried to reverse the car and escape but one of the robbers managed to snatch the car keys. Agrawal and Chauhan were then forced to sit in the rear seat of their own car with one of the robbers and driven to an agricultural field.

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