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The New York Post is reporting that six companies including Nextel and T-Mobile are going to light up New York City with wireless networks of all hues by mounting antennas on the lamp-posts. These companies will pay about $25 million a year to the city for a right to put antennas on 18,000 lamp posts, [...]

Amdist all the hoopla around Motorola’ new products, one news which got little mention was the deal struck between Moto and Blackberry for MPx. By now, Blackberry has signed-up most major phone makers, and has worked out plans to embed its software/service on all sorts of SmartPhone OS platforms. We are looking at a defacto [...]

One of the biggest problems with ITunes is that despite easy downloads, one finds it difficult to get recommendations on songs, especially if you don’t like mainstream crap. But no more, thanks to new P2P tools like AudioScrobbler. Song Buddy, Music Plasma, and Music Mobs. Now I can listen to cool MP3 thanks to recommendations [...]

On Live Journal I found this wonderful, insightful and delightfully funny essay on evolution of voice as a communications tool. This is a piece unlike any I have read, and takes us from the Bell, the inventor not the monoply to the VoIP today.
“It occures to me, that regardless of how far we’ve all [...]

Next Transmeta Efficeon Delayed; Firm Explores Business Changes: Sometimes you can’t win! Whenever something right happens to this little company something goes wrong for Transmeta. The company says that there are some problems at its chip foundry will push out the majority of designs using its next-generation 90-nanometer Efficeon processor until 2005, and that [...]

German cell phone operator E-Plus is likely to announce its 3G service on August 16, joining Euro big daddies, O2, 3, Vodafone and T-Mobile in the high speed wireless sweepstakes. wo handsets, the Nokia 7600 and the Sony Ericsson Z1010, which supports i-mode, will be available according to company press release. Research firm Current Analysis [...]