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Despite Google's refusal to turn over data on people's Internet use to U.S. prosecutors, the company is actually betraying its customers' trust by retaining information on every search and resultant Web-page retrieval. If phone companies logged the content of everybody's phone calls, consumers would be outraged. Perhaps Google's respecting the privacy of its customers is not congruent with the goal of Internet domination...
...pioneered "mobisodes," customized cell-phone mini-programs meant to promote existing TV series and provide new income streams. This year cell-phone entertainment and information revenue is expected to top $34.6 billion worldwide, up from 2005's $27 billion, according to the Yankee Group research firm. CBS and Fox are marketing mobile-phone content directly to consumers, bypassing tie-ins with wireless-phone companies. CBS is selling news and Entertainment Tonight video "alerts" for mobile phones, while Fox Corp. has opened a new "mobile storefront" called Mobizzo to sell clips...
...could take half a decade before the winners and losers of this battle emerge. One prevailing paradigm, from analyst Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research, forecasts cable firms and Web portals as most "promising" because consumers look to them for both onscreen and online content. His studies indicate that cell-phone content may become way too pricey for most consumers. The right mix of advertising with video on demand, he contends, stands a good chance of breaking out as the biggest earner...
TIME: How does AM/FM survive in a world of satellite radio, iPods and new stations on cell-phone networks...
...Cell Phones In addition to various recaps, news, clues and screensavers, 3G cell phones will deliver Lost Video Diaries, a selection of 22 two-minute original clips. A catch: not every mobile-phone service will carry them...