The latest attempt--a joint venture with Sony--produced a sleek model with a built-in camera and the ability to combine text, graphics, photos and audio clips, but Ericsson has lost market share.

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SIMpill, a South African firm, makes a small device that clips on to a medication bottle and sends a text message to a central computer whenever the cap is removed.

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Alex Laats , president of the Delta Division of BBN and of Podzinger, said that the company is poised to outgrow Podscope because the BBN text transcripts are more relevant for searchers than the audio and video clips shown by Podscope.

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Its software allows video creators to embed instructions for the player to show several kinds of advertising in videos, including pre-roll video ads, text ticker ads that run along the bottom of the image, and small clips displayed in the corner of a video.

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By giving away its site's traffic in exchange for more video views, Google is likely betting on the future of "in-stream" advertising--video ad clips or pictorial ads overlaid on videos--rather than the display ads or text ads that typically appear on Google's sites.

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