A billboard that can identify the age and gender of passers-by, then offer custom advertising according to their demographic, is already up and running in Japan. NEC Japan has been testing the digital billboard technology in major shopping centers over the past year. The American arm of NEC is preparing to bring them to the U.S. this year. The people watching billboards have had mixed reactions. M...

Copycense points us to a Billboard/Reuters article over the fact that music performers are not making very much money from online streaming services. The article is designed to be "shocking," but seems to leave out some rather important facts. For example, in the US, if Billboard did the same calculation, it would find that performers make even less from radio. That's because performers make ...

Billboard is reporting that Amazon MP3s deals with record labels to offer certain albums a day early and a few bucks cheaper have caused iTunes to raise a few eyebrows and flex some not-so-subtle music muscle. In exchange for a Daily Deal promotion on a new album, Amazon has been asking labels to provide ...

US Country Music singer Jason Aldean told the Houston Chronicle about how good it felt to have his "Big Green Tractor" be the first song by a country artist to hit No. 1 on the Billboard all-genre Ringscan chart. " Listen to ringtone here.

The first Samsung Bada phone, the Samsung Wave S8500, has been officially previewed today at the start of MWC 2010. Its been an open secret that the Wave would be show in Barcelona this week (largely because of the giany billboard poster Samsung had put up telling everybody about the Wave!), but this is the ...

  Well, that didn’t take much time. After getting a glimpse of Samsung’s bada-powered Wave on an advertising billboard, DailyMobile has leaked pictures as well as detailed specs of the phone. According to them, the phone is just 10.9mm thick, runs on 1GHz CPU and will feature 3.3-inch AMOLED screen (unconfirmed but mostly Super AMOLED), TouchWiz

  Samsung has finally let the cat out of the bag. At Barcelona, Samsung is displaying a huge billboard showing off their first bada phone dubbed as Wave (aptly named!). The teaser shows only the phone along with few highlighted features like AMOLED display, multimedia and messaging capabilities. The things we know for now is its

With Mobile World Congress just around the corner, Samsung has set up a huge advertisement for a new device called the Wave, with the tag line with Samsungs new mobile platform Bada. The guys at TheUnwired just caught this billboard going up in Barcelona, showing what appears to be the world’s first Bada phone.

With the big billboard required at the Mobile World Congress event hall, Samsung provides a glimpse of its upcoming Samsung Wave with Bada platform. The new Samsung Wave is a full touch screen phone, and comes with a camera module placed at its left corner. Details of the specifications is still unkonwn yet but will

A billboard in Barcelona is already advertising the Samsung Wave, the company's first phone to run their new Bada operating system. The device is expected to be launched next week at Mobile World Congress. The above photo, from All About Phones, doesn't show or tell too much about the device beyond confirming its name and OS, and showing what looks to be a full frontal touchscreen. Engad...