DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld) will be the new standard for mobile TV in the European Union. Nokia helped with the technology. This move has been made in order to increas the system’s audience, although some EU states, like Britain and Germany, opposed. An EU executive said that “DVB-H will be published by the Commission in the list of official EU standards.” All Member States of the European Union will have to encourage the use of DVB-H for the launch of mobile Tv services.

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We are getting close to the deadline for declaring an intent to bid on the 700Mhz wireless spectrum in the US, that’s set on December 3rd. Wall Street Journal stated that Google will announce the intent to bid today. Unfortunately, it is possible that Google will bid low and might not win the spectrum.

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The European Union proposed to “open radio frequencies allocated exclusively for GSM mobile phones services to other technologies, such as 3G mobile data.” GSM Association says that if the European Parliament approves, a 3G network in the 900MHz band will be able to provide a 40% grater coverage, with the same capital, than 3G network in the 2,100MHz band. If the 900MHz band could be use, by 2012 about 300 million more people from Europe, Africa and Asia will be able to use the mobile broadband. We don’t know when we’ll here the final decision of the abandoning of this EU legislation which lasts for 20 years.

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Now that the Cowon Q5W is released we found out more details about it. The Cowon Q5W is still a 5-incher with touchscreen and Windows CE, but the new and amazing stuff is the codec support: AVI, OGM, MPEG4, DivX, XviD, ASF, WMV9, Ogg, APE and FLAC. Another new detail is that its browser supports Flash. It also has an optional Windows CE Office Viewer that helps you get your work done. You could also change skins of the UI. We think that the Cowon Q5W deserves to be priced at $549. Cowon also announced that a version with GPS will be released next month.

After Lexus made a system that tracks the driver, now they show us, on the 2008 LX570, another monitoring system. This system will help you avoid any other vehicles, trees or walls which reduce your visibility. It also has a side mounted camera which gives you a better view below your passenger. The system is capable of doing this things due to an 180-degrees side-to-side view which gives you the impression that you are standing in front of the car.

via Engadget