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By: 7 Technologies to Solve the Spectrum Crisis: Broadband News and Analysis «

7 Technologies to Solve the Spectrum Crisis: Broadband News and Analysis « — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:20:48 +0000

[...] hundreds or thousands of tiny base stations. The network architecture itself must evolve, but vendors are already taking steps to ensure that evolution happens. Now carriers just have to buy into [...]

By: The Dream of Mobile Content Delivered at HQME: Tech News and Analysis «

The Dream of Mobile Content Delivered at HQME: Tech News and Analysis « — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:28:47 +0000

[...] from their iPads is forcing mobile operators, entertainment companies and electronics companies to rethink their networks. But the entertainment industry, San Disk and mobile operators are also dreaming up a new standard [...]

By: Silicon’s Secrets: What Chips Tell Us About the Future of Mobile: Tech News and Analysis «

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:14:47 +0000

[...] chips and software, which are designed to work together in large base stations and in small ones. Alcatel-Lucent is using it in its LightRadio products I wrote about a few weeks ago. By creating a platform of chips aimed at differently sized [...]

By: Mark Kelley

Mark Kelley — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:24:42 +0000

“it has built smaller antennas attached to a single radio that can send and receive Wireless signals using multiple radio technologies including 4G 3G and some 2G technologies.”

How is this different than a femtocell other than the multi-radio capability? is this an ODU? It’s clear that size reduction (ala a cell phone) of antennas and electronics have made mobile networks possible in the first place. Irrespective of a high gain panel, you cannot change propagation characteristics from a 30 meter outdoor location that’s well situated to wireless traffic.

By: Mobile World Congress: 5 Trends To Watch: Tech News and Analysis «

Mobile World Congress: 5 Trends To Watch: Tech News and Analysis « — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:15:29 +0000

[...] Networks Meet the Cloud: All the big gear makers from Alcatel-Lucent to Nokia Siemens Networks will have something to show mobile operators that will allow them to [...]

By: Qualcomm’s FlashLinq, Wi-Fi Direct and the New Connectivity: Tech News and Analysis «

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:50:55 +0000

[...] to avoid harming the network in a way that could help operators without adding costs. I’ve covered similar technologies as well as the need for [...]

By: Meet the New Mobile Network: It’s a Cloud « Blog of Intellectual Capital

Meet the New Mobile Network: It’s a Cloud « Blog of Intellectual Capital — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:43:43 +0000

[...] Read the whole article here. [...]

By: Baz

Baz — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:17:52 +0000

Wasn’t the whole point of PCs and mobile devices like the Palm and BlackBerry that we have all the information we need on our persons – on our own Personal Computers – and not relying on dumb terminals connected to a mainframe?

Seems we’ve gone back to the future with more OSs relying on a mainframe (sorry – The Cloud) to be functional, with the added caveat being “Providing you have a constant connection to the internet”.

It one thing to use The Cloud to backup non-essential and non-private files, but maybe these new devices with their new OSs that aren’t the only thing that is ‘dumb’.