Given my apathy for Motorola interface, I refuse to use any of their phones, But when reader, Jonathan Hirshon, Principal at Horizon Communications, sent in this tip, I could not resist sharing it with all of you. Hopefully you benefit from his insights. iSync is great […] Read more »
Mac lovers might have been happy to upgrade to OS-X Tiger earlier this year, but like me they very quickly realized what a piece of garbage it really was. Two upgrades later, I have finally found a feature I love – the new improved wireless access. […] Read more »
Ben Kuo, who’s right outta SoCal, send us this Google Map mash-up that well maps the SoCal VCs and also restaurant maps with reviews. Fantastic. Read more »
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Instat is forecasting a super duper year for cell phone handset business, with sales topping $112 billion. India, China and Eastern Europe are leading growth in emerging markets, but the growth is going to slow they predict. Read more »
Wifi Hotspots are being reinvented. Earlier MetroFi did the same kind of mash-up! More of Google Maps. Read more »
On Jetblue we watch satellite TV. On Singapore Airlines they watch IPTV thanks to Connexion powered WiFi networks. According to Connexion director of wireless channel Adla Hendry half of all Wi-Fi-enabled devices on Wi-Fi enabled planes are logging to the internet. At present 60 planes owned […] Read more »
Russell points to Wikipedia’s list of top ten mobile companies in the world. (These numbers don’t match the data from ITU (thanks Robert) which puts companies like TeliaSonera at #10 spot with 22.5 million subscribers. Also missing America Movil with 60 million subscribers.) Not many surprises […] Read more »
Mary McDowell, who runs Nokia’s Enterprise Solutions business says Nokia doesn’t need to buy RIM, thank you very much. It can do quite well on its own and build a blackberry killer all by itself. Funny how everyone talks about building a Blackberry killer – Microsoft, […] Read more »
Order copious amounts of pizza and coke from Papa John, and you might get a free BlackBerry 7100g. Oh by the way you have to commit for a two month voice and data plan. I don’t see the synergies, but since everything wireless is hot, why […] Read more »
During California Gold Rush, the most money was made by folks who were selling picks and shovels, not the speculators. The same holds true for Silicon Valley. Back in the go-go 1990s, it was the Cisco-Sun-Oracle-EMC team that walked away with most of the money. History […] Read more »
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Light Reading reports that Covad is going to launch its commercial fixed wireless service sometime in the first quarter of 2006. I am not sure I believe that timeline. In October 2004, the company told me at Web 2.0 conference that it was going to be […] Read more »
Good Technology is having a really good day. The company signed Sprint as a partner for its Goodlink service, right on the heels of a deal with Cingular. In addition they bought assets of JP Mobile, one of the pioneers in the mobile mail space. I […] Read more »
Now that EVDO is here, and Cingular UMTS is nowhere to be found, why doesn’t it surprise me that SBC is making a big push on WiFi. San Antonio Business Journal reports that the largest Baby Bell will roll-out of a WiFi broadband wireless network in […] Read more »
As I said earlier, the affiliates could put a financial crimp on the Sextel deal. Now the news that Sprint is buying US Unwired for $1.3 billion. I wonder how the other affiliates will react. And does this mean the Nextel Partners gets bought for $5 […] Read more »
Tom Hanks, is a mighty fine actor, who does such a spectacular job of playing the every-man, that one can forgive him for occasional lapse of judgement, like The Terminal. One of the most improbable yarns, Hanks plays a visitor from the Balkans who is denied […] Read more »
Cafe.com, a LA-based wholesale wireless hotspot provider for establishments like Denny’s and Radisson Hotel chain ran afoul of domain hijackers yesterday. According to an email sent to its subscribers, at approximately 2am Sunday morning, the cafe.com domain name was hijacked by an offshore hacking operation. “This […] Read more »
Daily Wireless has a great post about how companies big and small are positioning themselves to become big players in the – Mobile WiMax chip market. Unstrung has a report as well. The companies include PicoChip, which recently raised a ton of money, and Beeceem, which […] Read more »
ATI’s recent troubles make it ripe for a takeover. AMD and Intel are interested in the company, so are TI and Broadcom. I suspect, Qualcomm will get in on the action since they are closely working with ATI on mobile graphic chips, and would not like […] Read more »
Alltel will have to sell some assets in rural Arkansas, Kansas, and Nebraska in order to get an approval from US Department of Justice for its $6 billion acquisition of Western Wireless. DoJ is worried about lack of competition in rural markets. Read more »
In response to my post questioning the unbridled optimism around the “Muni WiFi” projects, and Jupiter Research report questioning the economic viability of the Municipal WiFi networks, long time reader Chris Holland posted this comment which offers an analysis of Hermosa Beach, California’s municipality wifi network […] Read more »
Mobile Virtual Network Operators are quite fashionable these days, but eventually they will prove to a train wreck. How crazy it is? Forbes.com published a seriously speculative and flimsy piece about Apple building its own MVNO. It got Slashdotted, despite the fact there were no facts […] Read more »
Bill McFarland, CTO of wireless LAN chipmaker Atheros Communications tells Unstrung: The new 802.11n standard could offer far greater data rates of “Up to 600 Mbit/s.” Cisco’s new chief development officer Charlie Giancarlo in an interview with me predicted a gigabit/second wirelessly by end of the […] Read more »
Tropos signed up Tulsa Metronet as its 200th customer. The network will cover 72 square miles in the Tulsa metro region.The network will soon start selling $24.99 a month wifi service that will be powered by Tropos’ MetroMesh products. Read more »
Sprint launched its EVDO service, soon after Verizon upped the total number of EVDO-enabled cities to 50. Sprint says about 150 million people in at least 60 metropolitan areas across the nation by early 2006 will have access to its service. For now, if you read […] Read more »
JiWire, the total number of WiFi hotspots has climbed to 68,644 in 101 countries. 6100 are free. Rest you have to pay for! Read more »
Away from the hubbub of the blogs and general fascination with the new Disney MVNO, there is some legal trouble brewing that could possibly derail the Sprint-Nextel union, or at the very least put an economic crimp in their future plans. Nextel has been sued by […] Read more »
Jay Horwitz, Senior Analyst at JupiterResearch is using pretty much the same words as I did yesterday, in his recent report – “Because the benefits of municipal wireless networks are inherently difficult to measure, and because it is too early to look at outcomes, examining breakeven […] Read more »
Of course, you can try out the Yahoo! SMS search product now (just text 92466!) Also enjoy my piece on the coming mobile search wars. I think Yahoo is going to kick some serious ass in wireless. Mobile Tracker adds Yahoo SMS search is available for […] Read more »
Unstrung reports that TGnSync and wWise, the two warring 802.11n tribes are going to smoke a peace pipe, and will likely announce a unified standard by November. TGn is backed by Intel, while TI is pushing wWise. Have you noticed how Intel is trying to push […] Read more »
xMax, a new wireless technology from a no-name company called XG Technology, based in Florida is being touted as another option for rural wireless networks. The company claims its better than Flash OFDM and offers 4-to-5 times the range of the current networks. I am not […] Read more »
Micah Sifry believes that cheap WiFi based muni-networks are about empowerment and opportunity. Joi Ito agrees, and points out that its not that tough. Chris Holland thinks that for Hermosa Beach, a city he calls home, can do it for $200,000. Just a few observations. I […] Read more »
Muniwireless says, “Charleston, South Carolina is selecting a third-party provider for free Wi-Fi access in the city on a non-exclusive basis.” Read more »
Mike correctly points out that the Sprint WiMAX trials with Motorola equipment and Nextel’s trials using TD-UMTS technology from IPWireless show that the company is still trying to figure out best use for it 2.5 GHz spectrum. Either way, the licensed spectrum gives them a leg-up […] Read more »
MobHappy believes a lady having an orgasm will most likely be the big ringtone hit of this summer. You can get it here. Almost as good as Meg Ryan in Harry Met Sally? It will cost you $4.40! Read more »
Engadget has scored live photos of the new iTunes phone. Ad if these photos are really of the model likely to be sold, it is a mega-disappointment. For no reason I was getting excited about this phone. It has disastrous Motorola interface married to iPod elegance. […] Read more »
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Deutsche Telekom is contemplating selling off its T-Mobile USA business, which could get as much as $30 billion from potential buyers that could include Vodafone. World’s largest wireless operator does not have a US presence though it has a partnership […] Read more »
Nearly 3000 beta-testers in North Carolina’s Research Triangle area, who were using Nextel’s Flarion-based wireless broadband service are going to find that their connections are no long working. Nextel has switched off the trials, leaving many happy users disappointed. “There’s a lot of sad customers,” said […] Read more »
Spamming might be a deplorable and annoying practice, but mobile operators are willing to risk the ire of consumers because it acts as a big boost for their bottom line. “The more text messages received and sent by a subscriber, the more money the operator makes,” […] Read more »
Business 2.0 : As phones become increasingly complex, the industry must make them easier to use, says Pertti Korhonen, chief technology officer for Nokia (NOK). I sat down with Korhonen this week to sound him out on the industry and its future. He also talked about iPod […] Read more »
Citizens Wireless will deploy Flarion’s FLASH-OFDM technology in Blacksburg, Christiansburg and Radford, Virginia, to business and residential consumers. Citizen’s is a Virginia telecom coop. Last week, Digita of Finland chose FLASH-OFDM technology for a countrywide deployment of mobile broadband access. Read more »
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