| Mobile phones with Ultra high speed Internet | | | | The promise of watching DVD videos on your |
| connection promises a lot, are we there yet? | | | | Windows Smart phone |
| Imagine flipping open your mobile phone and being | | | | Already many Japanese commuters are watching |
| able to check the balance on your bank account, | | | | video on their mobiles while commuting long |
| finding the latest scores of your favorite sports | | | | distances from their homes to their work on the |
| team, if you're on a diet find out what your daily | | | | subway. Well if you own a Windows Smart |
| calorie intake is, find out that your tofu lasagna is | | | | phone, you can convert a new DVD movie on |
| only a 600 calorie lunch, download the hippest | | | | your computer to watch it on your Windows |
| ringtone, find out which space station is about to | | | | mobile device. No matter how old you are, folks |
| fly over your home city, and finally find a great | | | | of every generation enjoy movies of all kinds. I |
| restaurant that you and a friend can dine at. | | | | don't know about you, but I am a Film Festival |
| The chief executive of eBay, Meg Whitman says, | | | | junkie. When the Vancouver film festival come in |
| "Window into the possibilities of what might | | | | to town, I purchase the Visa Gold Express ticket |
| happen when high-speed broadband services are | | | | allowing me to sneak into a movie 5 minutes |
| widely adopted in other places too". More and | | | | before the curtains roll. There are 5-10 seats |
| more cellular customers will want to be listening to | | | | reserved in every theater for Visa Gold express |
| streaming music on their cellular phone. An | | | | pass holders. The most popular and well received |
| innovative company called Amp'D mobile wireless | | | | film Festival movies are later turned to DVDs and |
| has leased bundles of services from Verizon | | | | that is what I look forward to watching. A very |
| wireless. In no time soon, the 18-year-old to 35 | | | | popular software called Pocket DVD studio 3.5 |
| year old market will be able to bundle what media | | | | allows you to convert any DVD movie you watch |
| they would want on their cellular phones before | | | | at home to the following |
| it's shipped to their home. They will be able to | | | | formats:wmv,avi,mpg,mpeg,pm,rmvb,tivo2go. |
| select version of their favorite sitcom, a new ring | | | | What's nice is that you won't have to spend an |
| tone, games they would like play on their Amp'd | | | | entire afternoon converting only one movie. Diane |
| mobile phone. | | | | Dumas, an editor at Pocket PC took five hours to |
| A country where three quarters of the population | | | | convert a DVD movie to Windows media video |
| owns cellular phones is Korea. Back in the 60s, | | | | format. However, using the pocket DVD studio |
| there was one television for every 300 people in | | | | 3.5, she was able to convert her DVD movie in |
| that country. Look how far technology has | | | | less than one hour. |
| influenced Koreans. In fact, if you are a Korean | | | | What happens after you convert it ? |
| couple looking for an apartment, a sign will display | | | | 1. Save the DVD you converted either on a |
| on the bottom of the for rent sign showing the | | | | storage card or your desktop hard drive |
| Internet connection speed for that particular | | | | 2. Synchronize the converted DVD to your |
| apartment block. This is very important for many | | | | Windows mobile device using ActiveSync |
| young Korean couples and can be a deciding | | | | 3. Now sit back at your favorite WiFi hotspot, |
| factor whether or not they rent that particular | | | | lazyboy chair or park and watch your DVD movie |
| apartment. | | | | on your smart phone |
| New cellular technology is so close, but when you | | | | Another exciting development that's happening in |
| get there expect to pay | | | | Spain right now is a service called Sim pay. What |
| The Ministry of information and communication or | | | | is Sim pay? |
| MIC in Korea says that people will be able a surf | | | | This service already exist in Spain and has the |
| the Internet while they're traveling in their vehicle | | | | ability to use your cellular phone to make mobile |
| at 60 kph. This service is called WiBro. MIC has | | | | payments easier. The goal of Sim pay which is |
| leased the following three Korean telecom | | | | also a nonprofit organization is to have the entire |
| companies: SK telecom,KT and Hanaro to be able | | | | network of European cellular users, all 70 million of |
| to offer high-speed wireless Internet access. | | | | them be able to select on their cellular phone, |
| You're probably asking what does this have to do | | | | "buying with Sim pay". An equivalent Sim Pay |
| with North Americans? There will come a time | | | | service can be adapted to United States. Pay pal |
| where your cellular phone will be able to read the | | | | now has more than 60 million account holders in |
| radiofrequency identification tags, the bar code | | | | the world. Perhaps pay pal will look at this model |
| that you see on every single item in a grocery | | | | and take note. |
| store. Imagine having a MIC cellular phone that will | | | | What is the real-life application of Sim pay? |
| be able to read the expiry date of: milk, cheese, | | | | If you travel frequently to Seoul, the capital of |
| yogurt, fresh meats, baked goods, and seafood | | | | Korea, you may stumble upon a experimental |
| at your local grocery store. Imagine your MIC | | | | café where you can order an Asian |
| cellular phone being able to pick up a signal from | | | | version of cappuccino and be able to pay for it |
| an advertisement which would ask you to | | | | with your cell phone. In fact you may not even |
| download a preview of a brand new movie. You | | | | have to interact with a human being, you simply |
| never thought that your cellular phone could do so | | | | order your to cappuccinos on your cellular phone |
| many things did you? The predicted success of | | | | screen and t hen pay electronically and receive |
| this wireless Internet service is overwhelming. | | | | your receipt of electronically as well. But how |
| WiBro is estimating that there will be over 9 million | | | | does the cappuccino taste prepared by a Korean |
| new subscribers between now and 2011. | | | | robot? |