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Google is expanding its advertising business into a new domain: graphical ads that appear on mobile devices. As with the company’s text-based mobile ads, the Google image ads are displayed on the basis of keywords that appear on Web sites that people visit with their mobile phones. (Iwantmedia 4/24, http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9926580-7.html 4/23)

Razr anyone? Motorola can’t even give those things away anymore. The once-proud company reported horrible earnings today, with sales down 21 percent and a net loss of $194 million. But the big takeaway was the 39 percent collapse in its mobile phone business. Mobile device revenues in the quarter dropped $2.1 billion compared to last year. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/24/motorolas-loss-is-apples-gain-that-21-billion-sucking-sound-is-coming-from-the-iphone 4/24)

Filmmaker Spike Lee is teaming up with cellphone maker Nokia to direct a short film comprising YouTube-style videos created by teenagers and adults using their mobile phones. “Within five years, new movies will be made with devices like these,” says Lee. (Iwantmedia 4/24, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/technology/24cell.html 4/24)