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This morning there is a lot of talk over The New York Times story, The Air Is Free, about the coming onslaught of WiFi handsets and how people can make calls piggy backing on open wireless connections. The WiFi phones sound so cool, but many forget that what is cool, is not always that functional.
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Both Ericsson and Nokia will supply network equipment for the deployment of T-Mobile’s planned 3G network in the U.S, the companies said this morning. Ericsson said it will “serve as the prime radio provider for WCDMA 3G services in certain markets, including New York City which is scheduled to be operational in 2007.” Nokia said [...]

It should hardly come as a surprise that we remain highly skeptical of the competitive voice service provider business, especially in light of recent shutdowns and overt reliance on discount pricing as a lure for the customers.
It was the same skepticism with which we approached our interview with Lisa Hook, Chief Executive Officer of SunRocket, [...]

Jon Arnold, unlike many of us naysayers has become increasingly bullish on competitive voice service providers (CVSPs) such as Vonage and Telio, and predicts sunny skies for them. Since then several others have joined the conversation. Moshe Maeir of Flat Planet Phone Co. wrote to us and pointed to one of his posts, arguing [...]

Goombah, the product of a Maine-based startup called Emergent Music, is announcing itself today. It’s another music discovery tool that uses collaborative filtering to recommend new tracks.
Unlike the competition, which we’ve written about more than once, Goombah doesn’t run as an iTunes plug-in with a web-based manager, but instead is an over-sized 38.1 MB (on [...]

Which embedded online video player is the best? Life Goggles puts them all together so you can make the call yourself. Personally, I thought Revver was the winner. Via Digg.