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dotMobi aims around the wireless Telcos to boost mobile Internet

dotMobi aims around the wireless Telcos to boost mobile InternetUselessMobile phone web is useless, and web access on a PDA is barely useable.Total crap. Aside from emails, telcos can stuff it.MobiI've seen several mobi sites - pretty impressive, considering this extension is early stage. With the companies (Microsoft, Google, Samsung,...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Mobile-Phone Web, wireless, mobi, telecommunications company, wireless Telco, mobile, mobile Internet

Discussion threads 2006-12-22

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Are you a mobile broadband hog? Should that be your problem?

Well, if I am a light user, I DO NOT want to pay for the hogs that drive upcosts for the carriers. I want a dirt cheap plan, that will immediately throttle me if I start hogging, or, possibly give me the option to pay more if I want to...

Tags: Smart phones, Wireless and Mobility, Network technology, Apple iPhone, mobile broadband, AT&T Corp., broadband, mobile, UNLIMITED

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

How Verizon might ruin Android

Okay Dana - how might Verizon ruin Android?By not actually writing an answer to the posited headline, it sure appears to me that you are trying to get comments from people like me to write your article for you. It might work a little better if you actually posited an...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Will the Palm Pre come to Verizon? Analysts debate

Do any of you realize that analysts get paid to GUESS about things?So here we have a bunch of idiot analysts GUESSING what might, or might not, happen regarding Verizon and the Palm Pre. Give me a break.It's like the report I heard in Bloomberg TV the other morning. The...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Federal government, WebOS, Verizon Communications Inc., Pre, Palm Inc., Palm Pre, phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Genachowski unveils 5th and 6th principles: net neutrality and beyond

Two new principles would bar discrimination from cable, telco and even wireless networks. by Richard Koman

Tags: Richard Koman, Net Neutrality, Genachowski, Wi-Fi, Cable, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless And Mobility, Telecommunications, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-09-21

It's Official: Avaya Acquires Nortel Enterprise

Now What Can Nortel Customers ExpectOkay now that is over, we are all now interested in product rationalization that is going to occur. RE: It's Official: Avaya Acquires Nortel EnterpriseThis seems like it will be very interesting over the next several months. I think that Nortel Customers can expect to...

Tags: Wi-Fi, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Wireless and Mobility, Avaya Inc., Avaya Acquires Nortel Enterprise, Nortel Networks Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Netbooks changing the PC game

The only one not getting it is AppleApple is the only one not seeing the market of Netbook form factor... I'll tell you this, many people with Macbooks (4.5 lbs) envy people with netbooks.Wait until Apple releases a "net tablet"no one will want a netbook after that. :)(The "iPad"?)I told...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, computer game, PC, game, netbook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Wireless: Examining the race to the bottom

Interesting perspective, but you left out some things.The cable companies still enjoy monopoly positions in many locales. In places where there are two forms of service available, growth is higher but profits are under pressure by discounts and competitive offers. So, if there were comparatively as many competitors, the situation...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Cellular phones, Vertical industries, wireless, TracFone

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Telecoms don't want broadband bucks with strings attached

4.7 Million? Million with an "m"?Seems to me, that wouldn't be enough money to get Verizon's trucks out of the parking lot. Are you sure it's not 4.7 BILLION?Right...Bill Cosby, your a very funny guy!It?s time for telecoms to accept net neutrality, and it?s time for the FCC...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Vertical industries, Verizon Communications Inc., telecommunications, broadband, government

Discussion threads 2009-08-15

Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single package

Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single packageWhy Adrian...apparently you aren't a glassy-eyed Apple fanboi Anytime you post anything even mildly critical of Windows, Bing, or anything MS the usual suspects come out in force and try to paint you as a rapid...

Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, cellphone industry, Apple iPhone, cell phone, handset, single package

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?

Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?I've been saying this for a while.[i]When it comes to trade-offs between security and convenience, convenience always wins.[/i]security = 1 / convenienceRE: Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?I can't believe that you're endorsing having the police in any country "wardriving" around to detect...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wireless and Mobility, LANs, Wi-Fi, WLAN, router, Wi-Fi connection

Discussion threads 2009-07-23

Will pre-teens really adopt the new iPod touch as a VoIP phone?

Will pre-teens really adopt the new iPod touch as a VoIP phone?NO! Apple will block VOIP appsOnes like Ventrillo and TeamSpeak will be blocked if they plan on making an app.some have already been blocked... I forget the names. But ones like Skype and Fring are allowed since you...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Digital media, Digital music, phone, VoIP phone, VoIP, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, new iPod Touch, camera, Fring

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)

Is the wired telecom business just as doomed as beleaguered automakers like GM and Chrysler and the newspaper industry? It's quite possible a few years down the line. And this wireline fallout will have ramifications well beyond the usual suspects such as AT&T and Verizon. Simply put, cutting the...

Tags: Bailout, Business, Craig Moffett, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Larry Dignan, Network, Networking, Personal Finance, Phone, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Company, Telephony, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireline

Blog posts 2009-05-18

20% of U.S. households shun landlines, go mobile-only

20% of U.S. households shun landlines, go mobile-onlyWould you drop your landline and go mobile-only?Would you drop your landline and go mobile-only?Tell us in TalkBack.No - its just not cost effective..Instead I have opted to tell Verizon Local good-bye and hello to Broadvoice a VoIP Telephony company. This is great...

Tags: Network technology, Advertising & Promotion, Broadband Internet, U.S. Households, mobile, cable, DSL, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

Should the US government impose wireless fee limits like the EU?

Should the US government impose wireless fee limits like the EU?ClarificationI believe that these price caps apply specifically and only to "roaming" charges, i.e. between countries in the EU.The EU can and is doing this because one of its goals is a "common market", and the telecos have resisted encouragement...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wireless fee, U.S. Government, telecommunications company, phone, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

How to make technology conferences suck less

How to make technology conferences suck lessNice postJoe,Thanks for sharing this information. I attended ClueCon last year and it was great- for some of the very reasons you mention. I enjoyed it so much that I'm volunteering this year to help out. I think community-organized is important. I also think...

Tags: NETWORKING, Network technology, ClueCon, network, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

Alcatel Lucent to offer Phone 2.0 features

Alcatel-Lucent has designed a new interface that promises to bring your telephony experience - whether landline, mobile or IP - further into the 21st Century. Its new Rich Communications Manager, being unveiled today, is designed to do everything we've come to expect from cell phones today - things like text...

Tags: Alcaltel-Lucent, Alcatel, Alcatel-Lucent, Phone, Sam Diaz, Telecom & Utilities

Blog posts 2009-03-30

The downside to corporate wireless plans

The downside to corporate wireless plansAT&T et alI agree - is it not amazing AT&T does not stay open for service on weekends - I have blogged about it myself. If it was for religious reasons like a Chick-fil-a you could maybe understand. The key word is customer in customer...

Tags: Wi-Fi, 3G, Wireless and Mobility, Telecom & Utilities, TMO, corporate wireless plan, wireless plan, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Will telcos ever embrace open source?

Will telcos ever embrace open source?You're not really discussing open source here.You're talking about the business model for the delivery of information.So when you write:The Internet itself grew up in defiance of the telcos. Its business model is anathema to them. Thus telcos and cable operators do all they can...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, open source, telecommunications company, Internet, cable, business model

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Colorado's Wiggins Telephone Association Offers Rural America True, End-to-End Fiber Optic Internet Access Up to 100Mbps With D-Link Equipment

Wiggins Telephone Association's copper telephone network was at the end of its 30-year lifecycle. Demand for new data services was placing new burdens on the existing telco network. Many of their customers were still using dial-up connections, and Wiggins was not able to deploy broadband services like DSL in many...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Internet Access, Fiber-optics, Wiggins Telephone Association, WBR-1310, Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology

Case studies 2009-02-23