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AT%26T+matches+Verizon%3A+Welcome+to+the+wireless+price+wars

AT%26T+matches+Verizon%3A+Welcome+to+the+wireless+price+warsMaybe they are worried by the competition...Metro PCS beats their prices already.http://www.metropcs.com/Plans/Default.aspxIt's too bad...that instead of service wars, we get price wars. Instead of paying a lot of money for crap, now you get the same crap for less money. Whoopie.It's all still horribly overpriced...Not only Cell, but...

Tags: MetroPCS, Analog Cellular, Feb

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

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In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

$99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer Experience

$99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer ExperiencePhone as a uniform data device NOT mobile providers' preferenceMobile phone companies prefer NOT to be treated as just a data ISP. Instead they have traditionally maintained false fragmentations, such as separate voice, SMS and lately data streams, when all can be...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Wireless Customer Experience, phone, wireless, carrier, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Google and Sirius XM: Build my "Dream" Handheld

The current rumor-mongering seems to indicate that HTC's "Dream" will soon be making landfall in the US. Based on the initially leaked specs of this device, it still sounds like it doesn't do what I really would want it to do in order to replace by Blackberry 8820. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Handheld, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Video, Sirius, Android, Mesh Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Networking, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-24

Oddball thinking about OOP

Here's a variant thought about object oriented programming: it's a failure most directly because no one's developed a programming environment that fully implements the core messaging ideas - and the reason no one's been able to do it is that the OO ideas apply mainly to analog,...

Tags: Object-oriented Programming, Messaging, Analog, Programming, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Centennial Wireless

Editor's note: Because evaluating wireless coverage requires experience with the network in a wide variety of physical locations, CNET does not rate wireless carriers. We can, however, tell you everything you need to know about the major carriers. We invite your feedback and ratings in our user opinions section--the more...

Tags: Cellular phones, Centennial Wireless, carrier

Product reviews 2008-05-05

FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?

FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?time to open your wallet and pay respectsince the spectrum is sold, you have to bow and pay the usage fee to the MAN.RE: FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?[i]Google didn’t win any licenses.[/i]ROTFLMAO!! I...

Tags: Federal government, Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Mhz auction winner, Now-What, Verizon Communications Inc., MHz Auction, Verizon Wireless, spectrum, FCC, usage fee, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

Reporter's Notebook: Apple's iPhone SDK rollout

Cupertino â€" After the announcement of iPhone support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync services, and after the testimony by software developers â€" most of whom had never used a Macintosh or an iPhone â€" about the ease of coding with the new iPhone SDK, and after Apple...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Notebook, SDK, Apple Inc., Reporter, Games, Personal Technology, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-06

The battle for the soul of your smartphone

The cut-throat market for the chips that power smartphones and handhelds just got more competitive. In the past few days, no fewer than five semiconductors companies, including Samsung, ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and, yes, even Nvidia, have all announced new application processors: Nvidia APX 2500 press...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Processor, Mobile, Smart Phone, NVidia Corp., Chip, Application Processor, SoC, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Sling Media Slingbox Solo

Hot off its acquisition by EchoStar, parent company of the Dish Network satellite service, Sling Media is back in the saddle with a new product, the Slingbox Solo. The latest Slingbox model is essentially a streamlined version of the Slingbox Pro. Like that 2006 model, the Solo ($180 list) can...

Tags: Smart phones, Microsoft Windows, Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Internet, Slingbox, SlingPlayer, Sling Media, SlingPlayer software, phone

Product reviews 2007-09-27

Bill would forbid laws against muni Wi-Fi

Bill would forbid laws against muni Wi-FiDisagree on principleState legislators should be allowed to do stupid things without Congressional interference, as long as they take responsibility for doing so. Bills like this just keep the knuckleheads in office longer by allowing them to pass the buck.Why?What is the federal...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, municipal Wi-Fi, federal government, spectrum

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

Lots of motivation for creating rich internet applications

Lots of motivation for creating rich internet applicationsRichness is not an all or nothing propositionI regularly teach a course on designing RIAs and one of the things I'm always challenging my students to think about is to not think of an RIA as an all or nothing proposition.While I agree...

Tags: motivation, Richness, Flickr, rich Internet application, richness

Discussion threads 2007-07-31

U.S. Cellular

Editor's note: Because evaluating wireless coverage requires experience with the network in a wide variety of physical locations, CNET does not rate wireless carriers. We can, however, tell you everything you need to know about the major carriers. We invite your feedback and ratings in our user opinions section--the more...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Handhelds, U.S. Cellular, CDMA

Product reviews 2007-06-06

The endless journey to 3G

The endless journey to 3G3G vs WiMax vs GovernmentsGovernment certainly does hold back technology in more ways than one and the FCC has done a horrible job of managing spectrum. (Why havent we converted AM/FM radio to digital yet?)I am skeptical about WiMax because the hype surrounding it ignores...

Tags: Federal government, WIRELESS, Cellular phones, spectrum, 3G, FCC, WiMAX, AM/FM Radio, government

Discussion threads 2007-05-30

EXCLUSIVE: 1995 Newsgroup posting proposing VoIP predates Verizon, Sprint patents

This ones quite a story. I am not a patent attorney, but I would think that this info would be useful to all the players involved in the VoIP patent infringement cases between Vonage and Verizon, and Vonage and Sprint. Dan Connor, who runs the Vonage Forum, has just found...

Tags: patents, Regulatory, General

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Complete Verizon-Vonage patent analysis Part One: 6,282,574

My interpretation: I agree with Om that the technology described here is so generic that a claim for infringement is highly unlikely. Entitled Method, server and telecommunications system for name translation on a conditional basis and/or to a telephone number, Verizons U.S. Patent 6,282,574 refers to:An enhanced name translation...

Tags: Vonage, Regulatory, General

Blog posts 2007-04-09

FCC to decide fate of valuable wireless spectrum

The FCC will soon decide how much radio spectrum to reserve for a state-of-the-art emergency response system for police, firefighters and ambulance crews, The Wall Street Journal reports With broadcasters freeing up analog spectrum as they convert to digital, a battle is brewing between commercial interests and those that...

Tags: FCC, Mobile/wireless, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Cell phone coverage holes hurt public safety

Cell phone coverage holes hurt public safetyWith the existing towers, if they could just store the customers routs fora reasonable length of time, that would help a lot. In the case of James Kim that would have saved his life. Well, in emergencies, that information would also have to be...

Tags: Cellular phones, Cell Coverage, cell tower, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2006-12-15

When it comes to media, the medium defines the DRM

I was over at CNET on Tuesday being interviewed on video, about mobile video. I spoke about the trends, digital rights management DRM, the role of wireless carriers, media producers, and content owners.DRM is pivotal in the digital media world, it protects content. Whoever owns the dominant DRM will...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, video

Blog posts 2006-12-13

Largest study ever declares cell phones safe!

Largest study ever declares cell phones safe!"10 millimeters which reaches the center of your brain"10 millimeters is less than half an inch. Can you say pea brain? :)I am sceptical about the physical health risks - but about mental?I am sure a substantial body of evidence could be brought forward...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, phone, cell phone, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2006-12-06