The Google-Yahoo search advertising pact will get approval from the US Department of Justice in the next few weeks, but not without some serious scaling back of the deal, according to one analyst, says CNNMoney.com.
Thomas Weisel Partners MD Christa Quarles expects the justice department to put limits on how often Yahoo will be allowed to run Google's ads on Yahoo's Web properties.
Yahoo's revenue-sharing agreement gives the Internet portal flexibility on the number and the type of Google ads it can show. Quarles predicts the justice department will not trust Yahoo enough to give it that much freedom.
Sony Ericsson offers unlimited music downloads
Sony Ericsson plans to begin a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks to compete with Nokia in expanding business beyond the sale of the phones themselves, reports International Herald Tribune.
The service, Play Now Plus, to be sold solely through telecommunications operators, will provide subscribers access to millions of songs, and users can keep up to 300 songs after their six- to 18-month contracts end, the company said on Tuesday.
"In a few weeks' time, this service will be available with Telenor," Lennard Hoornik, head of marketing for Sony Ericsson, said at a news conference in Copenhagen.
Mobile calls take off with Ryanair
The no-frills carrier has already equipped 10 of its aircraft with the technology to make this possible and eventually it plans to spread this to 50 of its fleet, according to Telegraph.co.uk.
According to Howard Millar, Ryanair's deputy chief executive, call charges will be similar to those already imposed for international roaming by mobile phone companies.
"I believe the main demand will be for texting," Millar said. "We are also looking at selling mobile phone top-ups."
Cellphones to swallow keys
The big goal of convergence seems to involve emptying our pockets, not of cash, although that is a side-effect, but of things, CNET Reviews reports.
The fully-equipped tech nerd used to carry a cellphone, PDA, MP3 player and digital camera. Cellphones took over all those functions, so convergence went looking for something else to subsume. And it found car keys, which, thanks to new smart keys, can easily be converged into the cellphone.
This latest effort is spearheaded by Nissan, Sharp and Japanese phone company NTT Docomo.
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