Did the proprietary wireless technology Z-Wave just do a leap frog move into the smart energy home over a more standards-based approach like ZigBee? Verizon confirmed with me late last week that its inaugural smart home energy pilot will initially be based around Z-Wave. Read more »
Veebeam announced that it’s raised $6 million in the first tranche of a two-tranche funding round. The startup, which makes a wireless USB system for streaming from the PC to the TV, will use the funds to ramps up production and ship product to customers. Read more »
Adding mobile apps to ride-sharing options will open up the services to all those car poolers that just don’t want to plan in advance. On the other hand, maybe that’s not such a good thing. Read more »
If you want to eject a disc from your Mac, there are currently two ways of doing this in OS X that most users know of, but there’s actually a hidden app that you may not know about that resides in the menu bar. Read more »
Despite storage becoming so cheap, it is still a good practice to keep tabs on your hard drive’s capacity. I’ll help you to arm yourself with the tools to figure out where that space is going, and how to maintain and protect it in the future. Read more »
Do you sometimes forget to follow up on important emails, or struggle with adding follow up reminders to your calendar? FollowUp is a useful, free and easy-to-use service that you can use to automatically send yourself a reminder to follow up. Read more »
So, you want to enable multitasking and other iOS 4 features on your iPhone 3G or iPod touch 2G? We’ll walk you through how to enable many of the new iOS 4 features that got left out on some of the older devices. Read more »
Are you the kind of person who has to have the latest versions of hardware and software? If so, don’t bother to read on; for the rest of us, it’s worth considering if and when to move to a new version. Read more »
Still don’t know what Google TV is all about? The company wants to explain it to you in detail, and it has released a new video tour to do so. The video features various third-party content sources compatible with Google TV, but Hulu.com is notably absent. Read more »
Okay, we admit it: We’re a little sad today that GigaOM didn’t win a Webby, but that shouldn’t stop anyone from checking out the long list of web video sites and ventures that did. In fact, web video was one of the big winners of this […] Read more »
A New York-based private equity firm’s plans to build out an open nationwide 4G wireless network may simply be a facade aimed at pumping up the value of the spectrum it indirectly owns, according to several satellite industry analysts. Will the network ever come to fruition? Read more »
After a lengthy wait and at least one delay, Verizon today began to push out the Android 2.1 update to its Motorola Droid customers. The update includes many feature I’ve enjoyed since January — multitouch and voice-to-text support just to name a few features. Read more »
Harbinger Capital Partner’s bold plan to build out an open 4G wireless network has more moving parts than the latest OK Go video, and would require a minimum of $6 billion to build. I’m skeptical that a competitive LTE network will come out of the plan. Read more »
Verizon Wireless is the child of a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone, but one parent wants to change the custody arrangement. The Financial Times says Vodafone, which owns a 45 percent stake in the venture, is pressuring Verizon Communications to pay up. Read more »
Huawei today demonstrated the next generation Long Term Evolution network technology in trials that reached speed of 1.2 Gbps. That’s faster than wireline services, delivered via cellular networks. But before you dump your FiOS wireline subscription, know that the LTE Advanced technology is years away. Read more »
Verizon has made an art form of sending mixed messages, and it raised things to a new level when its top executives couldn’t decide what Verizon’s new mobile data pricing strategy should be. Will it offer bundles or usage-based plans? Depends on who you ask. Read more »
Verizon Wireless will reportedly require a data plan with the purchase of some new feature phones. The move could be a sign of how the carrier plans to charge for usage on its upcoming LTE network. Read more »
Verizon’s pricing for its next-generation Long Term Evolution Network will likely involve a base subscriber fee plus usage charges for the bandwidth consumed on devices that need a cellular connection, said the carrier’s CTO. So will that pricing model resemble that of a utility? Read more »
Forgive my schoolgirl crush on faster mobile broadband, but after Alcatel-Lucent said today that in conjunction with LG Electronics it had completed the first uninterrupted data handoff between a CDMA network and an LTE network, I got really excited as that means LTE is in sight! Read more »
Forget the phone. The big news out of Google today wasn’t the Nexus One, but the web store that the company created as a way to get a certain class of Android devices it calls superphones into consumers’ hands and gain some control over the OS. Read more »
The ThinkPad brand has long been associated with top-notch business-class notebooks. The famous black notebooks have appeared in conference rooms the world over, and the ThinkPad brand has come to mean fine quality business notebooks. The folks at Lenovo look to bring the ThinkPad into the […] Read more »
The heads of British Sky Broadcasting and Carphone Warehouse, two smaller British ISPs, so far aren’t impressed with BT’s planned fiber-to-the-cabinet network because it isn’t flexible enough, nor is it future-proof. Is this a sign that copper has no place in broadband networks any longer? Read more »
Verizon yesterday said it tested a fiber technology that delivered 10 Gbps downstream over its FiOS network and 2.4 Gbps in upload speeds. It smoked its current speeds using Huawei gear and a forthcoming standard called XG-PON. Read more »
Qwest isn’t betting that the pay-TV model will last beyond the next five years. In a video interview, Neil Cox, a Qwest executive, discusses the future of pay TV and how Qwest will profit off its wired network in a wireless world. Read more »
Carriers are rapidly losing their power in today’s mobile ecosystem. To stay relevant they will have to become more agile, learn to share and use their cash to move ahead rather than play a waiting game hoping the Googles and Apples of the world will fail. Read more »
