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Reuters.com says sourcing are telling them that Motorola and Apple are working with Cingular and plan to rollout iTunes phone. I wrote about this a couple of days ago. via

Former offices of IBM Corp. offices have been rewired for broadband and are at the epicenter of a “Digital Dutchess” initiative, which hopes to turn Dutchess County in Hundson Valley, NY into a tech hub. I often wonder, how many of these tech-hubs can we have around the country?

I will be conducting a panel on search for blogs at the SDForum Vertical Search conference, to be held June 28th at Santa Clara’s (CA), Networking Center. The keynote speaker will be David Hills, the CEO of LookSmart. More details here.

June 28, 4:00-4:45pm News / Blog Search

• Moderator: Om Malik, Business 2.0
• Tantek Celik, Technorati
• Jim Pitkow, Moreover Technologies
• Scott Rafer, Feedster
• Chris Tolles, Topix.net

South East Asia region is the current leader in IPTV adoption, with seven out of 13 countries already having rolled out some sort of service including PCCW’s NOW, which is the largest IPTV deployment in the world, and accounts for one third of the total global IPTV subscribers. According to Gartner, the number of IPTV subscribers in these countries will double by end of 2005. One of the reasons why IPTV has been quick to take-off in Asia is because of the availablity of new broadband networks that can support higher speed flavors of DSL. The population densities in most Asian cities, and the short distance to central offices is the main reason why you have seen higher deployment of DSL/Broadband in that part of the world. Second reason - there are no legacy cable networks, and people want to see TV. It does make me wonder - just like cellular and broadband networks, the massive scale adoption in Asia could give the a region a leg-up in defining the future direction of IPTV as well. Any thoughts?
Further details at Converge Network Digest.

Unstrung says NTTDoCoMo has conducted a successful trial of a 4G wireless technology that at present can do 1Gbps real-time packet transmission in the downlink at the moving speed of about 20km per hour. Of course in real life the speeds are going to be much lower.

Some media outlets have been receiving invitations from Apple for a July 7th event, which could features launch of iTunes 4.9 with podcasting support. New iPods? Perhaps? The details are sketchy. However, there are some who are arguing that we could see the launch of the Motorola iTunes phone alongside the new software. Argument: Apple launched iPod Photo at an event last year in San Jose, and this could be a repeat of that.

Attensa launches at Gnomedex, joining the ranks of many already forgotten names. Given that Newsgator does precisely the same thing, I am not even thinking about being impressed!

Desperately seeking growth, german incumbent Deutsche Telekom’s T-Online will cut prices on its DSL services by upto 63% in order to win back market share. Arcor, HanseNet, United Internet and Freenet.de are stealing customers by thousands from the German incumbent. “It’s time to show our competitors what we can do,” Chief Executive Rainer Beaujean of T-Online tells Bloomberg. Freenet is boosting speeds to 6 megabits per second on July 1st. Beaujean says he did not start the price war, his rivals did. If they stop, so will we. “”If we notice that our competitors would like to end the price war they’ve started themselves, that’s the right moment for us to say, ‘Here we are.”‘