If you set the bar low enough, everything exceeds your expectations. For instance, I assume as a reporter most people would try to spin me. If they don’t, it makes me smile and turns my day into a great day. Same is the case with cellular … Read More »
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You know a platform is getting popular when there are hacks and cracks, and of course trojans and viruses for that particular platform. Symbian is the latest. Mobiletracker is running a story onTrojan horse for the Series 60 phones.Sophos, an anti-virus maker, has warned of … Read More »
Eric Lin writing in TheFeature says its 1999 all over again. “When PDAs and mobile phones were young, companies big and small made the mistake of assuming that users wanted the same things on their mobiles as on their desktops. This year the direction has … Read More »
Google’s bumper IPO not withstanding, the recent hiccup in the stock markets is taking its toll on the IPO market. Most companies are canceling their IPOs. The latest one is Metro PCS, a small mobile operator based in Dallas. The company had earlier run … Read More »
BBC reports that efforts are currently underway to add more oomph to WiFi, and two competing technologies are proposing to get the data rates of over 500 megabits per second. The battling technologies, are called WWise and TGn Sync, and are backed by two different … Read More »
Alex Goldman has an interesting article on Earthlink and its plans to be a “broadband” provider sans content. Why bother, Alex argues, and points to Excite@Home disaster. ISP-Planet: “Michael Lunsford, EarthLink’s Executive Vice President of Marketing and Product, says that the company in the past … Read More »
Connecting with strangers in the rain using bluetooth might be the new new thing in networking inspired intimacy. Unstrung looks at a project by Umbrella.net to wire Umbrellas with bluetooth connectivity. Via an umbrella with a PDA embedded in the handle, users create an on … Read More »
Nextel got what it wanted, for a price. FCC yesterday gave the final order on the public safety spectrum swap. Nextel will spend $3.25 billion to get out of 800MHz and gain access to 1.9GHz spectrum. The 800-MHz band will be cleared to make … Read More »
Looks like Research in Motion aka RIM is getting pretty serious about its product portfolio. Legg Mason analyst Timm Bechter in a note this morning pointed out that the company will release several new devices over the next 4-5 months to update the product portfolio. While … Read More »
What do all-star shortstop Derek Jeter, skateboarding lord Tony Hawk, and Tinseltown’s hard drinking, starlet-of-the-moment, Lindsey Lohan, have in common? Turns out they’re all big fans of the Danger Hiptop, also known as the T-Mobile Sidekick. Well, now the folks at T-Mobile are hoping to … Read More »
Since I last ranted about Blackberry versus Good, there has been an update. Siemens launched a new phone, SK 65 which has Blackberry built in. While cross-shaped SK65 might not win any design points, it does prove my point that surely and slowly Blackberry … Read More »
RF Micro Devices is one of those companies which makes chips that are used by most of the cell phones on the planet. Unlike Qualcomm and Texas instruments, which make the guts of the cell phone, RFMD’s products are marginal in comparison, though no less important. … Read More »
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