Kearney and the University of Cambridge's business school showed that among multimedia phone users, slow network speeds, along with cost and privacy concerns, are the top three obstacles to greater use of wireless data services.

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Playboy's multimedia strategy includes TV network, Internet and wireless customer connections, which have been growing 15% a year and are now 60% of the business (publishing is half that).

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Google could use the company to expand its advertising service from small text ads to multimedia display ads and offer more advertising options to a larger network of Web pages.

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They paid for the investment in network infrastructure and software development that has allowed us to have reliable broadband connectivity, multimedia websites, online chat and all the other cool stuff that we are coming to enjoy and rely upon.

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By building their own multimedia network, Qualcomm hopes that the carriers will skip the expense of building up their own infrastructure, and will instead pay for access to MediaFLO's network.

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Namma Diwani Local ICT Network (Budikote, KolarDistrict, Karnataka India) combines a radio studio, an audio cable network that delivers radio to local households, and a telecentre with computers, internet connectivity and other multimedia tools.

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