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Can netbook subsidies from wireless companies work for schools?

Can netbook subsidies from wireless companies work for schools?Wi Fi Health Debacle LoomsWhile Schools in France remove Wi Fi over health concerns and the German govt. warns it citizens not to use it and Libraries across Europe remove same the U.S. is in a fury to spread this disease across...

Tags: Vertical industries, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, health care, netbook subsidy, netbook, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

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Cliq builds on iPhone idea, pushes away from smart"phone" category

How about 'commer'?(A shortened version of communicator.) Moto gets points for coming up with the idea of making a specific function social easier with the Cliq. But putting all their eggs in the "social" basket seems risky. Isn't the appeal for this kind of limited in the overall market? We'll...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Cliq, iPhone idea, Apple iPhone, phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

A Peek Ahead â€" A Technology That Should Get More Visibility

PEEK - An inexpensive communication option Some bloggers get in trouble for accepting free products to try out and then write about. Rest assured, no one gives me anything. I don’t do bribes and I’m not going to start now. I paid out of...

Tags: Phone, Family Member Question, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Online Communications, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-29

News to know: Microsoft; Apple; Google; Hack attacks

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search) Microsoft denies holding up Win 7 tools...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows 7, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS, Keyboards, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Peripherals, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-04

$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

There Is No Such Thing As a $99 Netbook. Not From Apple. Or Anyone.

There Is No Such Thing As a $99 Netbook. Not From Apple. Or Anyone.Sure it could happen ...... but it would be heavily subsidized. My guess is that it would [b]not[/b] look like a traditional "netbook", but something along the lines of this little item from UMID:http://www.slashgear.com/umid-m1-changes-afoot-non-3g-first-case-os-tweaks-2538895/I expect an Apple...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?Yes! India can do it.I think, India can do it, because of it size and manpower. They have done it for Mobile phone.India has the second largest cell phone users in the world and call charges are cheapest in the world and main thing...

Tags: Notebooks, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

RadioShack to sell Acer netbook for $99 - with 2-year contract

RadioShack to sell Acer netbook for $99 - with 2-year contractWhen will the other netbooks catch up?We've been hearing about this being speculated but so far only Radio Shack, Acer, and AT&T have bitten. Where's the rest of the market?you would think they would learnRadio Shack used to bundle...

Tags: 3G, WiMAX, WIRELESS, Acer Inc., AT&T Corp., RadioShack Corp., Radio Shack, MSN Dialup

Discussion threads 2008-12-12