Qualcomm’s Gobi wireless platform aims to make it easy for manufacturers to put a 3G network card inside a laptop without going through multiple carrier certification programs. If widely adopted, it would gives the company a foothold inside the fast-growing laptop market — and a way… Read More »
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Femtocell frenzy is how one paper described the Mobile World Congress Show in Barcelona last week, but at the Portable Computer and Communications Association meeting held Tuesday and Wednesday in Plano, Texas, the solution to the fixed part of fixed-to-mobile convergence seemed to be… Read More »
Dual-band Wi-Fi and cellular handsets were popularized before the iPhone, but as the mainstream wakes up to the benefits of network hopping, more Wi-Fi enabled handsets should start popping up. But the dirty little secret (is it really a secret anymore?) is that Wi-Fi gulps power,… Read More »
The about-face taken by Verizon Wireless today when it said it will open up its network and platform is, at first blush, a good thing for consumers and developers. But I just got off the company’s conference call, and there are certain details that have… Read More »
Updated post press conference, read My Take #2: Google (GOOG) has just announced its much talked about Google mobile phone platform, Android, and has announced a large list of partners who are working with the company. The company said it’s worked with T-Mobile, HTC,… Read More »
David Churbuck Reports that Venture Capital investments in Boston area are swooning, just as Sox is rising. (By the way, curse out of the way, next year, its all about baseball…. just baseball!) My sense is that IT investment opportunities – the traditional bedrock of the… Read More »
Two Days To A Manic Monday The upside of weekends is that one gets to indulge in spring cleaning. Upset at th Yankees loss last night, I cleaned the apartment furiously. The place is shining given that Yanks have made losing a habit. I also stayed… Read More »
