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- Gallery: verizon Wireless UM150 EV-DO modem
- A gallery of photos of the Verizon Wireless UM150 EV-DO modem. Both raw and attached to a MacBook Air. by Jason O'Grady
- Tags: Verizon, Wireless, UM150, EV-DO, modem, EVDO, Verizon Wireless, Modems, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason O\'Grady
- Image galleries 2008-05-07
- Why the FCC's 700Mhz auction matters
- The Federal Communications Commission's auction of 700 Mhz wireless spectrum can easily be portrayed as a he said, she said fiasco. But the bigger picture is worth watching. Google dangles $4.6 billion to prod the FCC to opening up wireless spectrum. Verizon agrees sort of. AT&T doesn't. Everyone wonders what...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Verizon, Telecommunications, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- verizon FiOS: Beware that first bill
- Despite my initial euphoria about Verizon's FiOS service--no outages and everything is just swell so far--the bill eventually comes due. And that first one is a zinger. In a nutshell, Verizon charges you full freight for the first two months and then the promotional service you signed up for kicked...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Verizon, Telecommunications, General, Broadband
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Vodafone: We're not buying verizon
- The Financial Times reports that Vodafone is pondering a $160 billion acquisition of Verizon. Vodafone says yeah right. But a weak dollar could make the deal possible.Welcome to merger Monday.Vodafone said in a statement:Vodafone notes press speculation that it is considering a possible offer for Verizon Communications. Vodafone wishes to...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Verizon, Telecommunications, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- The verizon FiOS installation: The key points
- As noted Friday, Verizon FiOS was installed in a package deal with telephone, Internet access and television service at my home. Here's a gallery right walking through the main parts of the installation process for folks that may be considering FiOS. Dan Bricklin had a detailed installation walk-through in 2005...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Verizon, Telecommunications, Microsoft, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Broadband
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Podcast: Oracle's customer-inspired 11g, Larry gets FIOS, Samsung's gadgetfest, VMware's IPO, and more
- This week on the Dan & David Show, my colleague Larry Dignan fills in for Dan Farber who is on vacation and the first order of business is a review of Oracle's 11g announcement. Larry was present for the festivities earlier this week in NYC and sees merit...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, VMware, virtualization, Verizon, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, Personal Technology, Open Source, Office 2.0, Microsoft, Intel, Google, General, Enterprise 2.0, EMC, Dan &, David Show, Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Stupid FioS broadband tricks
- The Verizon installer just left and I now have FioS--installation took about four hours and it was painless. I'll follow up Monday with all the details, but overall I'm just a bit giddy with more speed. So what do you do with 15 kbps downstream? You gloat. You smile. And...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Verizon, Telecommunications, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Comcast's catch 22
- Comcast is in a tough spot: It has to upgrade its network to compete with incoming competition from Verizon FioS. But to do those upgrades it has to have outages.And these outages tend to alienate customers. On the bright side at least my opening sentence on this post about Verizon...
- Tags: Broadband, General, Telecommunications, Verizon, Wired & Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- My verizon FiOS experience is about to begin
- On July 3 I had one of my last Comcast outages--I say that knowing I'll have another one soon. This Comcast outage had particularly bad timing since I've been evaluating Verizon FiOS. Amazing how quick I called Verizon after this latest Comcast glitch--the knocked out the TV and Internet access...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Verizon, Telecommunications, General, Entertainment
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- Podcast: News to know midday: AMD benchmarks; iPhone accessories; verizon FiOS
- On today's podcast: George Ou rips AMD over benchmarks. Jason O'Grady surveys iPhone accessories. Verizon FiOS here I come.
- Tags: Verizon, News to know, General, Apple, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- Vonage-verizon patent infringement hearing today: but no decision yet
- Colleague Anne Broache reports that a federal appeals court weighing the patent case that Verizon filed against Vonage heard arguments earlier today but did not immediately reach a decision.Anne thinks that one hint about what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may be thinking...
- Tags: Vonage, Verizon, Regulatory, News
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- verizon CEO on iPhone craze: we've got compelling offerings, too!
- While I was participating in a AT&T Video Share demo, here at NXTcomm, my colleague Marguerite Reardon from the News.com side of our shop was at a press conference featuring Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg.So happens that Seidenberg runs the wireless services company that is the number one competitor of AT&T Wireless-...
- Tags: Verizon, SBC-AT&, T, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- verizon gains more FiOS Internet, TV traction; delusional on iPhone impact
- Verizon said Wednesday that it has 1 million FiOS Internet customers and nearly 500,000 FiOS TV viewers.The disclosure was made at the NXTcomm Conference (see Russell Shaw's blog coverage). FiOS is Verizon's residential fiber-optic service that's encroaching on cable turf. That Verizon is getting traction--not sure a family video of...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Verizon, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Mobile, iPhone, General, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Do you care if Microsoft is in your TV?
- Microsoft updates its Internet Protocol television IPTV platform named Mediaroom in its latest volley into the television market. But what's most notable here is that Microsoft is aiming for Mediaroom to be an "ingredient brand."Intel is the most successful at the ingredient brand strategy. After all, we all know Intel...
- Tags: General, Microsoft, Personal Technology, Telecommunications, Verizon
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Opera Mini beta advances mobile Web browsing; verizon Wireless blocks it at the door
- Opera's beta of its latest Mini browser is a vast improvement on mobile browsing. For starters, it renders a complete Web page as its meant to be viewed and fits it to your screen. No WAP addresses, no URLs with "m" in them and no navigation issues where you feel...
- Tags: General, Mobile, Motorola, Personal Technology, Verizon, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Seven screen shots: forthcoming verizon FiOS TV Interactive Program Guide
- Just this morning, cable television industry trade newspaper Multichannel News posted a link to a file that when opened, contains a Flash demo of features offered in Verizon's forthcoming interactive media guide for its FiOS TV service.The guide, which Verizon calls IMG (nice acronym for "image," as well) will be...
- Tags: Verizon, IPTV
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- verizon to court: why is Vonage objecting to our Patents NOW?
- InternetNews reports that on Thursday, Verizon urged a federal appeals court to reject Vonage's contention that a recent Supreme Court decision on obviousness justifies the reversal of a $58 million infringement judgment against the Internet telephony company. Verizon had written in its appeal that the April 30...
- Tags: News, Verizon, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Vonage threatened as AT&T bundles VoIP with cell in two test markets
- AT&T is starting to bundle its CallVantage VoIP service with its cellphone service.The imminent three-month trial will be offered in two markets: a total of 14 AT&T Wireless stores in Portland, Ore. my home town as well as in Central New Jersey.Legacy or new AT&T nee Cingular subscribers...
- Tags: Verizon, SBC-AT&, T, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Vonage: we want a do-over in verizon patent infringement trial
- Vonage has asked the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit to shelve its Verizon patent infringement judgement and send the case back to a lower court for retrial.The impetus: a unanimous opinion released by the Supreme Court on Monday, seen by some as a rework of Patent infringement law....
- Tags: Vonage, Verizon, patents, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- verizon's FiOS network: Payback time?
- Verizon reported its first quarter results and they are notable for one key reason--most of the maximum capital spending for its FiOS fiber-optic network is through the pipeline. Simply put, the earnings hit--11 cents a share in the first quarter--that Verizon...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Verizon, Telecommunications, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
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