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A few weeks ago I decided to test out the new Automatic Home Sync feature of the Nokia N78, after all one of the businesses I’m responsible for at Nokia is “Connected Home”. So I setup the N78 home media to work with the connected home demo system we have in the San Francisco office, clicked on Home Sync on my mobile and left the N78 at my desk for about 10 mins. When I picked it up I had over 200 songs and fifty photos — all synced wirelessly.

When I left the office later that day, I used the N78 to take a few photos. Next day, as I walked into the office, the photos were automatically synced wirelessly to the PC used in our demo. Within 30 minutes one of my colleagues was looking at them on the DLNA enabled TV. This UPnP/DLNA stuff really works.

If you would like to see the two and a half minute tutorial video about Nokia’s home sync - click below.

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I really like taking the express train from Helsinki to Tampare, where one of the teams I work with is situated. The train is quiet and gives me time to catch up on email, using my Nokia N95 8GB to connect my MacBook Air to the Internet. Normally, the trip takes 94 minutes. The scenery is even better now that the snow has gone.

One evening, earlier this month, the return journey took nearly 3 hours. There was a fire at one of the stations, right next to the tracks, and trains were stopped. Luckily the train I was on was one of the first to get through.

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Written by: Richard on March 24th, 2008

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03192008002 - Share on Ovi Last week, the 2008 Mobile Rules dinner celebrating the finalists in 6 different categories, was held at the San Jose City Hall. The event was sponsored by Nokia, Finnode, several VC firms and other well known mobile companies. There were some great companies and new ideas among the 50+ finalists. Categories included Multiplayer & connected games mobile applications, Multimedia mobile applications, Enterprise mobile applications, Infotainment mobile applications, technology innovation and mobile business plans. Definitely worth networking with some of the most brightest, developers and entrepreneurs who are creating new value for the mobile lifestyle.

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Perhaps the demise of the CD will come more rapidly than first thought. Over the Christmas holidays, the number of downloads on iTunes skyrocketed, proving Apple’s smart tactic of selling iTunes gift cards at retail outlets. Since then more indicators are emerging.

Last week, Trans World announced their Q4 2007 financial results. Music sales dropped 28% in Q4, the top 50 music titles dropped 35% in Q4 and for the entire year the store’s music sales dropped 23%.

Two weeks ago, the NPD group released a report indicating that “consumer music acquisition increased by 6 percent in 2007, but average annual per-capita music spending fell by 10 percent”. The report also indicated that one million consumers dropped out of the CD buyer market in 2007, led by younger consumers. According to the press release, 48 percent of U.S. teens did not purchase a single CD in 2007, compared to 38 percent in 2006. Also NPD ranked Apple’s iTunes as the number two US music retailer, only behind Wal-mart.

Also last week, JupiterResearch announced that the digital transition was well underway, but digital sales are not enough to save the music industry. The announcement went on to say that “Yahoo! became the third big player to drop out of on-demand subscription services”.

Is Apple going to be the recording industry’s nemesis? Who will step up to the plate and provide consumers with a healthy alternative? Yahoo! couldn’t do it. Tower Records couldn’t do it. Trans World isn’t doing it.

Apple really understands the entire music experience. Apple also understands how to make it “just an Apple experience” and how to “lock us in” to their approach.

As far as the CD is concerned, its time has passed, just as vinyl and tape cassettes. This is the time for digital music, either as downloads or streams. As the market evolves, I hope that we have more than one choice of digital retailer to purchase and experience music. Competition not only maintains a healthy price point, but it also helps create interesting innovation.

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I realize just how much I don’t understand the recent history the gaming. Last week I was provided with the url of a web site called “for the love of gaming” put together by Scott Foe of Nokia. It seems that if you can answer all of the questions it reveals a character of a new game being introduced later this year. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to be able to get any more than 5 answers right each time I try.

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On December 4th 2007, Avvenu was acquired by Nokia. This means that the Avvenu services will now be provided by the world’s leading mobile communications company. With Nokia’s global stature, the Avvenu service is available to more people than we could ever have reached as a startup.

I’m impressed with the direction Nokia is taking to transform itself into the next generation Internet company. With my role on the Avvenu transition complete, I accepted the position of Head of New Businesses, reporting to Ilkka Raiskinen.

The New Businesses team analyzes and explores service business opportunities outside of current Services and Software scope using Nokia’s existing assets in new service solutions. The New Businesses team resides in the Context, Advertising and Emerging markets service line, but the scope expands to explore new possibilities in all service lines.

I’m extremely excited with my new role at Nokia and am looking forward to the challenges ahead.

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In his Midem blog post A Very Taxing Situation, Ted Cohen suggests we should consider a flat rate levy/tax/tarriff imposed on ISPs to compensate for unlicensed downloads and transportation of media.

“There’s a lot of discussion these days about the idea of a levy/tax/tariff on ISPs to compensate copyright holders for the unlicensed transport of music, film and television content across the Internet and mobile carriers. Whether or not these proposed revenues would offset the 15-20% drop in physical sales this past year, it is an interesting concept to consider.”

For me this brings to mind a situation we still live with today. In some countries, the recording industry benefits from a “tax” on the manufacture and distribution of blank magnetic tapes and CDs. I wasn’t supportive of this idea, and I’m not supportive of applying it more broadly to Internet access.

If the recording industry were to get a tax imposed on ISPs, then surely other industries, with alleged copyright violations, would want a similar ISP tax. This would include: television, movies, software, book publishers to name a few. Of course, these so called taxes would be passed onto the consumer. Consumers may ultimately end up paying more in Internet copyright tax than for monthly access. Surely there has got be a better way.

I’m all for an “all you can eat” approach - but on a voluntary basis. If the ISP or mobile operator I use, offer this service at an additional monthly fee, then I should have the choice whether I want to sign up for it or not. There are many people who have a hard time paying the $9.99 NetZero price to get to the Internet each month.

Let’s not impose additional reasons to create a divide between those that have access to the Internet and technology and those that don’t.

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What an exciting Formula 1 season. After the Japanese Grand Prix, two races ago, I was convinced Lewis Hamilton was going to be the first rookie to win the Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship and that Kimi Raikkonen didn’t have a chance. Even entering today’s race it was really only a mathematical probability that Kimi would win. I was still convinced the WDC would go to a McLaren driver, either Fernando Alonso or Lewis Hamilton.

Kimi really kept his cool throughout the entire race, while Lewis lost his on the first lap and McLaren proved no match for Ferrari.

Congratulations Kimi - you deserve it!

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Universal Music Group along with SonyBMG and potentially Warner Music will join forces to provide a new subscription based music service targeting the iTunes and mobile consumers.

According to Macworld: As well as launching a rival to the iTunes music store UMG hopes to nurture the adoption of other music players such as Microsoft’s Zune, and develop a new business model in which music for consumers becomes essentially free.

JupiterResearch’s Mark Mulligan believes “the idea of working with device manufacturers to get revenue directly for music is not actually that crazy an idea”, while podcasting news provides us with Five Reasons Total Music Will Be A Total Failure.

From everything I’ve read, I’m of the opinion that Total Music is counterproductive in terms of DRM, consumer rights and business model.

The recording industry needs to agree on a viable approach to DRM that encompasses multiple devices, including the market leading Apple iPod. If Total Music doesn’t interoperate with Apple’s iTunes/iPod it will face an up-hill battle. Removing DRM and using watermark or similar technology will go a long way to overcoming the DRM issue we face today.

Total Music and its association with the big recording giants is likely to confuse people. On the one hand the recording industry is intimidating people through RIAA lawsuits, while on the other hand they want to hide the subscription fee so people don’t know they are paying for the right to legally listen to music.

No business model is free to the consumer. There’s always a hidden price to pay somewhere. It could be built into the purchase price of a device, subsidized by advertising or incorporated into a monthly phone bill - ultimately the consumer will be paying for the service. It seems to me that the recording industry is applying a web 2.0 approach to the Total Music business model and ultimately creating a very interesting experiment.

Clearly, this is an attempt by the recording industry to ensure that Apple iTunes/iPod does not develop a stranglehold on the digital music sector, something the PC industry couldn’t do with Microsoft. I believe that Total Music will be a distraction from the real work, that of alligning the business model with consumer behaviors and market opportunities.

Written by: Richard on October 7th, 2007

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Back in June, I wrote a post suggesting it was time for Kimi Raikkonen to turn up the heat. He’s certainly done that over the last few races, winning the Canadian, US, British, Belgium and the Chinese Grand Prix’s and coming second or third in four others. Kimi now has a chance to win the world drivers championship.

With Lewis Hamilton’s retirement and Kimi and Fernando Alonso finishing first and second in the Chinese Grand Prix yesterday, the championship is down to just 7 points. The battle for the world championship should go down to the wire in Brazil. If Massa can become the spoiler, Kimi has a chance to pull it off. I’m looking forward to the finale of an exciting season.

Written by: Richard on October 3rd, 2007

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In my opening statement at the Future of Music, Copy Rights or Wrongs panel I talked about the nature of the shift occurring in the music industry.

The music industry is shifting from being a business associated with CD sales to the virtual world of digital singles, consumers with multiple music devices, and a society that increasingly believes that recorded music should be free.

The shift to virtual music is so profound, that it is cracking the very foundations of the recording industry. The recording industry should be fighting for survival by adopting new, innovative ways to make money. And, it should be doing this as rapidly as possible. In reality, the recording industry can’t embrace the digital world fast enough. Instead, it is trying to slow the rate of change by changing copyrights into copy wrongs.

One of the examples I spoke of was how copyright law was being manipulated through proposed legislative changes as well as by RIAA lawsuits. The idea of “fair use” has been with us for many years and has been an integral component of property and copyright laws. It is now under attack. If the recording industry gets its way we may see fair use completely eliminated.

What does this mean? We may be forced to purchase separate copies of every song for every device we own. This would mean If your household owns five iPods, you would buy five copies of each song.

Only yesterday, at the RIIA lawsuit underway in Duluth, Sony BMG’s chief anti-piracy lawyer was asked if it was wrong for consumers to make copies of music which they have purchased, even just one copy. She replied, “When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.” Making “a copy” of a purchased song is just “a nice way of saying ’steals just one copy’,” she said.

I agree that the recording industry’s value proposition is under attack by the technology industry and in some cases has been completed hi-jacked. Current copyright laws may not be enough to protect “virtual” music. The answer, however, is not to change the laws or shackle technology innovation. There are still many more ways to make money from music.

We must start by incorporating technology into the business model itself. Instead of trying to maintain an existing business model through lawsuits and legislation, I propose the recording industry and the technology industry work as one in developing a new and successful business model. Until this happens we will continue to see a disenfranchised consumer, technology innovation that abuses copyright and plummeting record sales.

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