Motorola launches new phones

Motorola India Private Limited has launched the multimedia MOTO ZN300, a sleek slider with 3.1 megapixel camera and two MOTOYUVA WX candy bar entry-level handsets with FM radio – the MOTOYUVA WX160 and MOTOYUVA WX180.

The ZN300 has video recording too with 8x digital zoom and offers wireless printing. It has up to 32 GB removable memory.

It is designed for those who live on content consumption. It combines familiar digital camera functionality with strong features, giving you the freedom to shape pop culture, on your terms.

The handset has a 3.1 megapixel camera with LED flash. It comes with a USB 2.0 high speed connection, enabling transfer of pictures to computers and other devices.

The Moto ZN300 features Video Mixer, a powerful function that gives you the option to add customizable or preloaded transitions and sound effects to your videos.

The handset is available in the market at the price of Rs 7,999.

The WX180 has a 1.5″ 65k colour display and FM radio with RDS3 that displays available station information like song, music artist and genre, and storage space of 140 messages. WX 180 comes with a price tag of Rs 1,499

MOTOYUVA WX160 comes with the same features as its counterpart WX 180, when it comes to listening music on the radio. It has an embedded FM radio, with song and station information with RDS. The handset has a thin and compact design. It has a 1.3” black and white display with colour background, long-life battery and user-friendly functionality. WX 160 is reasonably priced at Rs 1,649.

Официален анонс на Motorola DROID от Verizon Wireless (видео)

Още по предварителен план се знаеше , че устройството ще види бял свят през Ноември , и ето че мобилният оператор отвъд океана го направи официално: Motorola DROID ще се появи официално в потребителската мрежа на Verizon Wireless на 6-ти Ноември за $199 (след $100 отстъпка по пощата). Сам по себе си дроида на Мото , може да бъде един от многото Андроид-лансирани устройства в мрежата на Verizon. Малко от спецификациите включват Android 2.0 , Visual Voicemail , 3.7″ инчов дисплей (с рез. 854×480) , 5mpx камера с двойа LED светкавица , включена 16GB карта с памет както и бета версия на Google Maps Navigation. Може да допълним списъка с плъзгаща че пълна QUERTY клавиатура , 3G , WiFi , гласово-активираща се търсачка , и директно сваляне на файлове от Amazon-MP3 магазина.

С всичко това , на кому е нужен iPhone , нали ?

via: Engadget

Motorola’s New Fixed Wireless Broadband Solution Enables High-performance Residential Access and Business Connectivity

Point-to-multipoint fixed wireless broadband solution helps service providers and enterprises extend connectivity to unserved and hard-to-reach locations and customers

October 27, 2009

 

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. – October 27, 2009 – The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business unit of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the latest addition to its industry-leading point-to-multipoint (PMP) fixed wireless broadband portfolio – the PMP 430 wireless broadband distribution and access network solution.

Offering increased throughput rates and better range in the 5.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz frequency bands, this high-performance connectivity solution enables businesses, government agencies and service providers to extend high-speed connectivity to unserved and hard-to-reach locations and customers. The PMP 430 can be co-located with existing Motorola PMP wireless broadband networks to offer service providers greater connectivity from their existing access point locations and is an approved solution for providing broadband connectivity within the guidelines of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

“The PMP 430 enables us to expand our network,” said Fergal Kearney, operations manager, Aptus Broadband. “The high throughput, low latency and long range enable us to provide connectivity to a larger number of subscribers in the area, some of which were previously difficult to connect.”

Motorola’s PMP 430 fixed wireless broadband and access network solution features Orthogonal Frequency Divisional Multiplexing (OFDM) tech¬nology to deliver outstanding throughput and long range as well as line of sight (LOS) and near-line of sight (nLOS) performance for reliable and secure data, voice and video connectivity. Offering more than 40 Mbps of total aggregate throughput per access point sector, the system can deliver more than 160 Mbps of throughput from a single tower location to difficult-to-reach subscribers, including those in multipath urban or rural areas. The PMP 430’s higher gain antennas and OFDM technology provide extended ranges of up to 40 miles (64 km) when the subscriber module is configured with a passive LENS or reflector. Motorola’s latest solution also offers low one-way latency of less than 3.5 msec, enabling customers to provide high Quality of Service (QoS) for latency-sensitive voice and video services. The throughput rates of the PMP 430 subscriber modules can be upgraded easily from 4 to 40 Mbps via a software key system to meet customers’ changing bandwidth requirements.

“Service providers and enterprises seek technologies that are field-proven, cost-effective and easy to deploy,” said Tony Cecchin, senior director for global product operations, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions. “Motorola’s wireless broadband technologies deliver reliable connectivity to millions of business and residential subscribers across the world and the latest PMP 430 solution builds on this experience, offering low latency and flexibility for residential access, leased-line replacement and infrastructure for mesh access networks.”

Motorola relies on a worldwide network of best-in-class partners to deliver enterprise mobility solutions that provide real-time information for better decisions and better results. With a level of industry experience and business acumen that can only be garnered through in-the-field experience, our partners add significant value to enterprise mobility solutions. The PMP 430 wireless broadband distribution and access network solutions are expected to be available worldwide through Motorola channel partners and Motorola sales in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Motorola delivers seamless connectivity that puts real-time information in the hands of users, which gives customers the agility they need to grow their business or better serve and protect the public. Working seamlessly together with its world-class devices, Motorola’s unrivaled wireless network solutions include indoor wireless LAN, outdoor wireless mesh, point-to-multipoint, point-to-point networks and voice-over-WLAN solutions. Combined with powerful software tools for wireless network design, best-of-breed security, management and troubleshooting, Motorola’s solutions deliver trusted networking and access anywhere to organizations across the globe.

IPTV news - New report identifies IPTV market leaders

MRG has released its latest ‘Global IPTV Market Leaders Report’, identifying the top equipment and technology vendors worldwide as of October 2009, with little change in many segments.

The report, which tracks the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sectors, relates that there are currently more than 800 IPTV services in operation globally, with over 80 new operators starting new services since March 2009, of which most were in North America, Europe and the Rest of World regions.

In the IPTV Access sector, Alcatel-Lucent was found to hold a 51% share of the worldwide access market, as well as furthering its strength as a systems integrator and holding the number two position in the global middleware sector (behind Microsoft).

In the Content Security sector, Verimatrix retains its number one global market ranking, holding a 26% share of the global market (up 2% since March 2009), and with strong positions in all four of the regional markets.

In the Set-top Box sector, Motorola still dominates the global market, according to the report, with a 28% share globally – up 5% since March 2009 – followed by smaller and highly aggressive companies such as Amino, ADB and Netgem. Over 25 companies were found to compete in the STB market worldwide, which often represents over 60% of CapEx for IPTV operations.

In the Video Headend Encoders sector, Motorola also maintains its number one position with a 38% share of the worldwide market, while Ericsson/TANDBERG Television follows strongly with a 34% share (up 3% from March 2009) and is described as “closing the gap” on Motorola in this market sector, where the top five vendors are found to hold about 94% of the global market, leaving only 6% to the other six competitors.

In both the Middleware and Video-on-Demand (VOD) sectors, a crowded field of companies continue to struggle to compete against the Microsoft “juggernaut”, according to the report.

“Significant growth of China’s IPTV subscribers enabled both Huawei and ZTE to improve their rankings in several sectors,” said Jose Alvear, MRG Analyst. “These grew out of new developments at China Telecom and China Unicom as they expanded into different provinces.”

via IPTV news – New report identifies IPTV market leaders.

Motorola Calgary basado en android, en pleno desarrollo

Como algunos sabemos Motorola ya tiene un movil basado en android “CLiq” ahora vienen por su segundo movil, el cual podría estar a punto de aparecer según los últimos indicios de la industria. Ya se han filtrado imágenes del llamado Motorola Calgary, que estará a la venta muy pronto a través de la operadora Verizon en Estados Unidos.

El teléfono contará con tres botones de acceso a diversas funciones rápidas, además de la pantalla táctil que permitirá interactuar con el dispositivo. Por lo visto también existirá un joystick “óptico” que por lo visto funciona muy bien, y un teclado físico que se despliega como en otros modelos de smartphones.

El Calgary -nombre en clave de este terminal- incluye una cámara de 3 megapíxeles, toma para auriculares de 3,5mm, GPS, Wi-Fi, ranura microSD y una de las últimas versiones de Android. De hecho, parece que el sistema Android va de lo más suave en este prototipo.

Fuente: theinquirer

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Mit dem Segen von George Lucas: Motorola Droid

Der Begriff “Droid” ist tatsächlich von Lucasfilm geschützt worden. Motorola lizenzierte den Namen nun, um damit sein Smartphone mit Android 2.0 passend zu verzieren.

Hat Motorola sein Mojo wieder gefunden? Jedenfalls baut sich um das schlanke Droid in Amerika schon mal ein kräftiger Hype auf (siehe die Fansite Phandroid), denn diverse Vorabtester haben dem Droid bescheinigt, das bislang beste Android-Smartphone zu sein. Vertrieben wird es übrigens von Verizon Wireless. Es erhielt auch schon eine gelungene Werbekampagne, die Apples TV-Spots parodiert. Ein kleiner Vorgeschmack der “iDon´t”-Serie ist im Web zu sehen.
Motorola kündigte vom Start weg 10.000 Apps und einen festen Erscheinungstermin an: Am 6. November gehe es los.
Im Vergleich zum iPhone 3GS fällt der Droid nur leicht dicker aus. Auf der Seite lässt sich eine kleine Tastatur herausziehen. Das 4,3-Zoll große Display habe angeblich eine Auflösung von 480×800 Pixel und wird von den Vorabtestern in den Himmel gelobt. Motorola bestätigte die 5-Megapixel-Kamera mit Blitz. Angetrieben wird das Gerät von einem OMAP3430-Prozessor von Texas Instruments. Falls der mit 800 MHz getaktet wird, wäre das etwas mehr Performance als im iPhone oder Palm Pre. [rm]

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Apple Mighty Mouse Product Review

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With the laptop revolution that has seemed to overtake the at-home computer world in the last few years, innovative technologies to further the convenience of the laptop are more important than ever. One essential tool for laptop users is the wireless mouse, which gives users the familiarity of a typical mouse with the ease of a wire-free setup. Fortunately for the multitude of Mac users who account for a large portion of the laptop computer market, Apple has come out with a wireless mouse that trounces those of their PC counterparts. This handle-held wonder is appropriately named the might mouse and it can be purchased for 69 USD online or in an Apple retail store.

The mighty mouse has multiple features that make it well worth the purchase. Such features set the mighty mouse well above its competitors in the PC world. The Mighty mouse offers extremely concise handling and precision control with its laser-tracking engine. Additionally, the might mouse offers a Bluetooth connection that offers wireless capabilities that stays connected even a room away, up to over thirty feet.

Another attractive feature of the mighty mouse is its AA battery chamber. The mighty mouse seems to run on very little power. One changing of the AA batteries can power your mighty mouse for up to eleven months! And with a power-saving feature that shuts down the mouse when not in use, the owner never has to shut off the mighty mouse to enjoy such optimal power-saving operation.

The mighty mouse also boasts a touch-sensitive technology that finally allows Mac users to right and left click with their mouse. Another handy feature of the mighty mouse is its scroll ball, which is centered on the top of the mouse. This ball allows users to not only scroll up and down, but allows full directional scrolling of 360°. Additionally, pushing on the ball of the mighty mouse opens the Mac's dashboard, a display of extras that can include sports scores, weather, and more.

The final, and possibly most innovative feature of the mighty mouse is the squeezable sides. Squeezing the sides of the mouse shrink all open windows so users can view all of their documents and programs at once on the screen.

When Apple set out to add the wireless mouse to its arsenal of technological goodies, they certainly didn't skimp out. Apple's mighty mouse contains a slew of features including a laser precision engine, optimal battery life, 360° scrolling, Bluetooth wireless connection, and squeezable sides for expose view. All of these amazing features make the Apple mighty mouse the most convenient and powerful wireless mouse available on the market.

Motorola Takes 802.11n Technology Outdoor with Powerful Mesh Wide Area Network Solution

802.11n mesh access points help cities and businesses build a reliable, high-bandwidth wireless network infrastructure to meet growing mobility needs

October 08, 2009

Schaumburg, Ill. – October 8, 2009 – The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the AP 7181 access point, a high-performance, reliable and secure 802.11n outdoor mesh wide area network (MWAN) solution. Offering data speeds of up to 300 Mbps and featuring Motorola’s proprietary ADvanced Element Panel Technology (ADEPT) antenna system, the AP 7181 provides municipalities and enterprise customers with a flexible wireless network solution that supports their current and future data, video and voice needs.

Motorola’s AP 7181 outdoor mesh access points provide more network capacity, enable more applications and support more users than 802.11a/b/g mesh solutions, accelerating return on investment. Motorola’s innovative ADEPT antenna system enables the AP 7181 to achieve maximum performance by communicating two simultaneous data streams in the same channel and avoiding the self-shadowing of typical multi-antenna solutions. With antennas integrated into an aesthetic enclosure, Motorola’s solution overcomes the limitations of multiple antenna sticks in a typical 802.11n access point. Network availability and reliability is further strengthened with 802.11n radios specifically designed by Motorola to maintain full power at high data rates, ensuring enhanced client connections and superior mesh throughput throughout a coverage area.

“Our customers seek solutions that can support a broad range of fixed and mobile applications, from automated meter reading to field mobility to wireless video surveillance,” said Nelson Santos, president, Scientel Wireless. “802.11n mesh networks offer a compelling connectivity option with one infrastructure having enough bandwidth and capacity to support many of these applications simultaneously.”

Motorola’s outdoor mesh solution offers the powerful capabilities of 802.11n technologies, while also maintaining backward compatibility and improving performance for 802.11a/b/g clients, which helps customers maximize their existing mobility investments. The AP 7181 access point offers robust mobile data connections throughout a network by leveraging Motorola’s MeshConnex™ routing technology to enable efficient routing, low hop latency, low routing overhead, high-speed handoffs and proven scalability. The field-proven MeshConnex technology allows the AP 7181 to maintain a continuous video connection to or from a moving vehicle or train, enabling video surveillance in real time. Municipal and enterprise customers can also leverage these mobility features to deliver high-speed Internet access to mobile workers who need to stay connected to key office applications while in the field.

Municipalities are increasingly looking to wireless broadband technologies to help them save money and enhance city services with advanced mobility applications that include e-citations, automated meter reading, intelligent traffic systems or wireless video security for public safety. The increased data rates and network capacity delivered by the Motorola AP 7181 solution enable municipal customers to leverage a single private wireless network to support a wide range of mobility applications while offering WiFi access to residents and businesses. Businesses and education institutions are also finding an increasing need for mobile access across campus environments, seeking solutions that can offer superior throughput and stronger backhaul connections while delivering reliable and secure coverage using fewer access points. The AP 7181 offers organizations involved in the education, transportation and industrial markets a cost-effective wireless broadband solution that has enough capacity, power and throughput to support even the most bandwidth-demanding applications like video and voice.

“Working with municipal and enterprise customers across the globe, Motorola has a long history of delivering innovative solutions that enable them to leverage mobility applications to help streamline operations, increase worker safety and improve productivity,” said Scott French, MSSI vice president and senior sales director for emerging technologies and solutions, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions. “Motorola’s high-capacity, high-throughput 802.11n mesh solution will enable customers to future-proof their network infrastructure investments to support both current as well as future application needs.”

Customers can leverage wireless network design and management solutions from the Motorola One Point Wireless Suite to ensure faster deployment, maximum network performance and reduced network maintenance costs. The recently introduced Motorola BroadbandPlanner is an intuitive software solution that helps customers propose, design, deploy and measure outdoor 802.11n mesh wireless networks. With an advanced RF modeling engine, ability to export design information to Google Maps for easy viewing, and streamlined measurement and verification capabilities, this innovative solution helps customers propose wireless network solutions with confidence and deploy them with maximum efficiency.

Once deployed, the 802.11n mesh wide area network can be accurately monitored, managed and optimized using the Motorola Wireless Manager. Offering network administrators a visualization of their entire outdoor and indoor wireless network through a Google Map view, this comprehensive management solution makes it easy to manage the complexities of a multi-layer wireless network by clearly showing performance metrics, network relationships and locations of all wireless elements.

Customers can purchase the AP 7181 mesh solution beginning in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Motorola delivers seamless connectivity that puts real-time information in the hands of users, which gives customers the agility they need to grow their business or better serve and protect the public. Working seamlessly together with its world-class devices, Motorola’s unrivaled wireless network solutions include indoor wireless LAN, outdoor wireless mesh, point-to-multipoint, point-to-point networks and voice-over-WLAN solutions. Combined with powerful software tools for wireless network design, best-of-breed security, management and troubleshooting, Motorola’s solutions deliver trusted networking and access anywhere to organizations across the globe.

Vodafone to Offer Digital Music Service with No Limits or Restrictions

This just in: the Kindle 2 is falling from $299 to $259 and they will be selling an international version with built-in AT&T SIM card for $279 on October 19. Quoth the suits:

“Kindle has revolutionized the way we purchase and read books, by making it mobile, easy and intuitive,” said Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T. “We are excited to work with Amazon to help readers access books even faster and from significantly more places than ever before, including more than 100 countries and territories around the world through AT&T’s global wireless coverage.”

The new international model will be available for sale in 100 countries. No word on international content but presumably that’s a matter of rights management in each country.

Amazon Lowers Price on #1 Bestseller Kindle to $259 and Introduces New Addition to the Kindle Family of Wireless Reading Devices–Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless
#1 bestseller Kindle now $259,Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless now available for pre-order at $279 and ships Oct. 19

SEATTLE, Oct 07, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN 90.80, -0.11, -0.12%) today announced that it is lowering the price of its #1 bestseller Kindle to $259, down from $299. Also today, Amazon.com introduced a new addition to its family of portable reading devices–Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless. Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless now enables readers to wirelessly download content in over 100 countries and territories. Readers can pre-order Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless starting today for $279 at www.amazon.com/kindle and it ships October 19.

“Kindle is the most wished for, the most gifted, and the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items we sell on Amazon, and we’re excited to be able to lower the price,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO. “We’re also excited to announce a new addition to the Kindle family–Kindle with global wireless. At home or abroad in over 100 countries, you can think of a book and download it wirelessly in less than 60 seconds.”

Kindle wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution 6-inch electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle utilizes the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so you never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot or sync with a PC. Readers can wirelessly shop the Kindle Store, download books in less than 60 seconds, automatically receive newspaper and magazine subscriptions, receive personal documents, and read from their library–now in over 100 countries and territories.

“Kindle has revolutionized the way we purchase and read books, by making it mobile, easy and intuitive,” said Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T. “We are excited to work with Amazon to help readers access books even faster and from significantly more places than ever before, including more than 100 countries and territories around the world through AT&T’s global wireless coverage.”

The U.S. Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore) now has more than 350,000 books, including New Releases and 104 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, which are typically $9.99 or less. More than 75,000 books have been added to the U.S. Kindle Store in just the last five months. Starting today, Lonely Planet guides are now available in the Kindle Store, joining existing travel guide selection from publishers Rick Steves, Frommers and Michelin.

“Lonely Planet is excited to make a vast selection of travel guides from Australia to Zanzibar available to Kindle customers around the world,” said Lonely Planet CEO Matt Goldberg. “Travelers can now pack as many Lonely Planet guides as they want into Kindle’s 10.2 ounces and download new guides wirelessly while travelling around the world.”

Over 50 top U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Times (UK), Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Shanghai Daily are available in the Kindle Store for single purchase or subscription, and can now be delivered wirelessly in over 100 countries and territories. Over 35 top magazines, such as The Economist, Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Forbes, Fortune, PC Magazine, and The New England Journal of Medicine are also available for single purchase or subscription, and can also be delivered wirelessly in the U.S. and abroad. U.S. Kindle customers can also continue to take advantage of the Kindle Store’s selection of over 7,000 blogs and receive new posts while traveling overseas.

Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless offers customers the same features that have helped make Kindle with U.S. Wireless the #1 bestselling product on Amazon.com, including:

– Slim and Trim: At just over a third of an inch thin (0.36 inches) and weighing just over 10 ounces, Kindle is pencil thin and lighter than a typical paperback.

– Reads Like Real Paper: Kindle’s 6-inch electronic ink display reads like printed words on paper because the screen works using real ink and doesn’t use a backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other electronic displays.

– Stores Up To 1,500 Books: Kindle’s 2 GB of memory holds up to 1,500 books and Kindle books are automatically backed up by Amazon so customers can re-download titles from their library.

– Read For Weeks On A Single Charge: Kindle’s electronic ink display sips battery power so users can read for over two weeks with wireless turned off and up to four days on a single charge with wireless on.

– Read-To-Me: With the experimental Text-To-Speech feature, Kindle can read most newspapers, magazines, blogs, and books out loud.

– Automatically Syncs With Kindle and Kindle Compatible Devices: Amazon’s “Whispersync” technology automatically syncs customers’ last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless, Kindle with U.S. Wireless, Kindle DX, and Kindle compatible devices like Kindle for iPhone.

– Wirelessly Receive and Read Personal Documents: Wirelessly send, receive, and read personal documents in a variety of formats such as Microsoft Word and PDF.

– Instant Dictionary Lookup: Kindle comes with the New Oxford American Dictionary and over 250,000 definitions that appear instantly at the bottom of the page.

– Choose Text Size: Kindle lets readers customize their reading preference by providing six different text sizes.

– Bookmarks, Notes, and Highlights: By using the QWERTY keyboard Kindle users can add annotations to text, as well as highlight and clip key passages and bookmark pages for future use.

In an effort to gain back some of the revenues lost by piracy, many of the world's biggest music producers have signed agreements with Vodafone to allow a digital music service that has no restrictions or limits. The new service will give customers access to over one million songs and will allow Vodafone to sell the music without the anti-piracy protection software known as digital rights management (DRM) (source: tech.yahoo.com).

Several marquee names in the music business such as Universal Music Group, EMI Music and Sony Music Entertainment are already said to be signed and on board with the plan. Vodafone is also currently in talks with Warner Music Group which would allow for even more music to be made available once an agreement has been reached (source: tech.yahoo.com).

Vodafone says the deal will enable DRM-free music to be sent to any digital device such as a computer or a cell phone. From there, the user can opt to put the music onto any portable device such as an iPod if that is their desire. The catch is that the device has to be registered to the Vodafone customer. This will eliminate file sharing that could cut into the already shrinking revenue stream quite considerably (source: tech.yahoo.com).

In the past, the music industry has relied on DRM anti-piracy software to help fight against piracy. But facing sharply declining sales of digital music, the music industry is now ready to remove the software in an effort to increase sales (source: tech.yahoo.com).

With the new deal, customers will be able to choose from over one million tracks from names such as Coldplay, Duffy and a multitude of others. Customers will be able to get as many songs as they desire with no limits or restrictions, all for the same price. While there is no mention of any firm numbers of that price, Vodafone does say that pricing will depend upon region (source: tech.yahoo.com).

As the old saying goes, “If you can't beat them, join them.” This is the angle that the music industry now finds itself having to take as the only other alternative is to continue to take in anemic revenues. In other words, something is always better than nothing and the music industry unfortunately has to wake up to that cold reality. As for the consumer, the new plan will allow great flexibility, freedom and the peace of mind that comes with downloading songs that you know won't contain any viruses or malware.

Want to see what a rip-off the Olympics would have been? Check out CPS boss Huberman's deal with Motorola.

Talk about dodging a bullet. Chicagoans in the neighborhoods are breathing a little easier this afternoon, now that the IOC decided to screw Rio instead of Chicago.

While boss Daley swore it wouldn’t cost the people of Chicago a dime, who really believed that story.

We see a little taste of what would have been in today’s Sun-Times story on CPS school boss Ron Huberman and his sweetheart deal with Motorola. Millions of dollars for stuff we didn’t want and never got.

Chicago schools chief Ron Huberman — Mayor Daley’s former corruption-fighting chief of staff — is being accused of a “significant management failure” that set the stage for alleged contract irregularities at the city’s 911 center that cost taxpayers $2.25 million.

In an explosive new report, the city inspector general’s office characterizes Huberman as so derelict in the oversight of a contract with Motorola while he was executive director of the Office of Emergency Management and Communications that he should be suspended if he still worked for the city.