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Nothing like a pair of high-brow Europeans slapping each other in the streets, huh? In response to Nokia's forthcoming Comes with Music service, Sony Ericsson is confirming rumors by announcing a competing unlimited music download service dubbed Play Now Plus. The service, which will be available "solely through telecoms operators," will provide subscribers with access to millions of tunes, and customers can even keep up to 300 jams after their 6- to 18-month contract expires. According to SE's marketing head Lennard Hoornik, it'll be rockin' on Telenor within a few weeks, and it will spread from Sweden into more of Western Europe in Q1 2009 and into other world markets in Q2 2009. We're told that the service will run early adopters 99 Swedish crowns ($15) per month, and so far as we can tell, you don't have to have a specific SE phone to get in on the action.
Hot on the heels of Hasselblad's latest 31-megapixel monster, rumors of Canon introducing a 1DS Mark III, and the RED camcorder getting more real everyday comes news that Ikonoskop is looking to bust out the "first new Super 8 movie camera design in over 20 years." The Swedish firm is hoping to offer up a Double Super 8 version of its "compact and affordable A-Cam SP-16 Super 16-millimeter model," and will feature a good bit of similar attire such as the same interchangeable C-Mount lenses, parallel viewfinder, 100-foot film capacity, and "microprocessor-synchronized frame rates between 6- and 37.5-frames per second." The device would utilize a "hybrid" design to use "16-millimeter wide film to capture Super 8 sized frames," and although the company boasts about its numerous advantages, the "main downside is that relatively few film stocks are available in the format." Still, things aren't off and running just yet, as Leif Bystrom has announced that the outfit needs 25 eager customers to lay down a €1,000 ($1,301) deposit ensuring that at least that many will be sold for the €5,200 ($6,764) retail price. So if you need no more introduction to convince yourself that this bad boy is worth your while (and coin), send your down payment on in so we can see this thing materialize.
After Jens Nylander filed for bankruptcy in Sweden and moved to Switzerland, we sort of figured his troubled past was behind him, but it seems the law has reared its ugly head once again, and Jens could be facing six years and six months for failing to pay some customs back in the day with JoS. Jens claims it was all a misunderstanding: "This goes back to December two years ago. At that point we were importing 300 to 400 shipments of mp3 players per year. The problem stemmed from two shipments of mp3 players and FM receivers. Two of the boxes were mistakenly classified as mp3 players, without mentioning the FM receivers. That meant that we paid 320,000 kronor too little in customs and VAT." Customs authorities didn't take too this too lightly, and a prosecuting attorney has been holding onto the case for two years, finally to spring it on Jens this week. The wild thing is that not only did Jens of Sweden pay the charges as soon as it recognized its error, but Jens was at that point owed one million kronor by customs officials for over taxation -- which Nylander understandably partly blames for the company's bankruptcy -- meaning the 320,000 kroner in "underpayments" from JoS was just going to be deducted from that one million anyways. Of course, that's Jens' side of the story, the prosecuting attorney was unreachable for comment, but while Jens says "This is very difficult for me, for the colleague involved and our families," he seems confident that it'll be Jens FTW on this one, so that he can go back to whatever auditory tomfoolery he's getting into in Switzerland.
Brace yourself, but life ain't all fun and games for members of the bomb squad. We know, you're shocked, but in addition to having one of the most dangerous jobs around (like, did you see Blown Away?), these poor sods have to do it cruising around in a 30 kilo (66 pound) suit. Enter the Segway: apparently four have been ordered for use by bomb techs in Malmö, Göteborg, Stockholm and Arlanda Airport so Swedish bomb squaddies can finally show up in style, and need no longer hoof it all the way to the package site. Sounds good to us, but help a Segway out! Looks like they're only gonna get a po-po paint job, but where's the custom-fit bomb armor for the loyal personal transporter, we ask?
Considering how governments are suddenly feeling that tracking your every move, or at least providing the means for someone else to, is such a brilliant idea, it's no surprise to see the Bluetooth masters at Cambridge-based CSR buy up NordNav and Cambridge Positioning Systems. The new mishmash of companies now has consolidation on the brain, as it's developing an all-in-one microchip that will sport both Bluetooth and GPS functionality on a single module. Additionally, the chip would reportedly "drain less power and be cheaper for handset makers than having two separate chips in their devices," as both technologies would have one processor doing the work, resulting in a more efficient process. The company's CEO claimed that its combo chips would cost manufacturers "an extra dollar per chip as opposed to around $5 to $10 for putting in a current standalone GPS chip," and moreover, these devices are designed to be ultra-sensitive, giving it connection abilities indoors and in "deep urban areas" where current units fall short. Already being hit up by a few anonymous mobile producers, CSR plans to get these things shipping "during the first half of this year," and hopes to start turning a profit on them by 2008.









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