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Adaptable Real-Time Turn-by-Turn Handset-Based Navigation: Airbiquity's aqNav is a real-time, turn-by-turn audio navigation platform for GPS- enabled mobile handsets. It leverages existing wireless voice networks to create enhanced 411 navigation services using a commercially available Text-To-Speech TTS navigation server. These services are available anywhere within the widely-deployed wireless voice coverage area. Because aqNav updates location...; Tags: Handset, Wireless Voice, Airbiquity, aqNav Platform, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; White papers 2006-09-15
$4.3 bln spent on wireless voice by middle market firms in 2004: In-Stat/MDR estimates that middle market firms will spend approximately $4.3 bln on wireless voice services in 2004, a 16% increase from 2003, and translating to $41 per user per month. Per user monthly rates are only expected to escalate in the future for this market. However, wireless voice service usage...; Tags: wireless voice service, wireless voice; Blog posts 2004-10-29
wireless voice Proves Invaluable to Pacific Sunwear Distribution Center: Outfitting active teens via 920 stores in 50 states and Puerto Rico keeps Pacific Sunwear's distribution center cranking year round. The company streamlined operations by deploying SpectraLink's NetLink Wireless Telephones to provide employees with mobility as they go about their daily tasks. The surf- and skate-influenced apparel retailer found it...; Tags: Voice, Distribution Center, SpectraLink Corp., Wireless Voice, Retail, Wi-Fi, Wireless; Case studies

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Aliph releases new Jawbone that is 50% smaller than the original: IMHO, one of the best Bluetooth headsets you can buy after getting the swing of putting it on and off is the Aliph Jawbone. Today the announced a new model that has several improvements that look like they actually listened to what consumer wanted changed. There should be one at...; Tags: Gram, Battery, AT&T Corp., Model, Aliph Jawbone, Battery Life, Engineering, Retail, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?: As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...; Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15

Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices: I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
UC Law bans classroom web access: I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...; Tags: Web, Professor, Student, University Of Chicago Law School, Law School, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-14
City walks away from $17m network: Who wants a free Wi-Fi network? Not Philadelphia. After Earthlink pulled out of Philly Wireless Tuesday, the city wants no part of the network. Apparently Earthlink had been negotiating with the city and nonprofits groups to to hand the $17 million network over but couldn't come to...; Tags: EarthLink Inc., City, Network, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move: In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual suspects of Facebook or Google. Comcast is Plaxo's biggest partner and provides hosting for all Comcast email subscriber address books....; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Comcast Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!: Pursuing a career in Information Technology comes with certain responsibilities and baggage -- among these are having to act as a personal, unpaid member of the Geek Squad whenever a friends and family computer is ill. Yesterday I got a phone call...; Tags: America Online Inc., Internet, E-mail Providers, 3G, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Google losing cellphone battle?: In the fight to create a competitor to the Apple iPhone, which defines the Mobile Internet Client MIC category, many people put their money on Google and its Open Handset Alliance. That bet looks shaky today. RIM has come up with its own "iPhone...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Alliance, LiMo Foundation, Verizon Communications Inc., T-Mobile, Cell Phone, Sprint Communications, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Limo adds Mozilla, Verizon to its bandwagon: The LiMo Foundation, a consortium that is building an open software platform for handsets based on Linux, has added Mozilla and Verizon to its roster The full roster of partners added today includes: Infineon Technologies; Kvaleberg AS; Mozilla Corporation; Red...; Tags: LiMo Foundation, Verizon Communications Inc., Mozilla Corp., Limo, UI, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?: Since I am based in Europe and come from a finance background, I have a special interest in what happens in this part of the world. Over the last couple of years, I've been consistently told by 'experts' that saas/on-demand business applications and especially those that are finance related will...; Tags: On-demand, Vendor, QuickBooks Online, Smb/Sme, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14
News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day: Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone...; Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Live Webcast: Assuring Voice Quality on IP Telephony Rollouts: IP Telephony deployment changes dramatically when the job grows from "a few sites" to a full company-wide rollout across many locations. Achieving a high level of QoS for VoIP across the WAN and Internet often runs counter to the interests and needs of other network traffic on a converged infrastructure....; Tags: Deployment, QoS, Telephony, Webcast, Performance, IP Telephony, IP, VOIP, Performance Management, Telecommunications, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Webcasts 2008-05-14
Bapuli Online messaging (zip): This easy to use free IRC server software allows instant messaging within a home network using instant messaging clients like Pidgin and Miranda IM and others. The software does not require configuring .conf files and other such settings. Best suited for wireless networks within a home. This version is the...; Tags: Software, IM, Messaging, Instant Messaging, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Online Communications, Software/Web Development, Management; Software downloads 2008-05-14
Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost: The final nail in the coffin of municipal Wi-Fi was hammered today as Earthlink pulled the plug on Philadelphia's wireless program, as the Wall Street Journal reports. "This was about a business model that simply didn't work," said Rolla Huff, chief executive of the Atlanta-based Internet services...; Tags: EarthLink Inc., City, Network, Municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Greetings from Lesotho: It's amazing how dependent we become on technology. Internet access and a working mobile phone are something that most westerners now take for granted. When they are gone, however, you feel oddly disconnected. You can't pop online to check news. You can't check email. Without a working mobile phone, you...; Tags: Phone, Mobile, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean, Telecom & Utilities, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-13
No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly: EarthLink on Tuesday threw in the towel on its Philadelphia Wi-Fi project, which the ISP was trying to transfer to a non-profit or the city's operating group. Now EarthLink is trying to pull out its gear. EarthLink says in a statement: After months of negotiations with...; Tags: EarthLink Inc., Network, Wi-Fi Network, City, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Automating the factory floor: Brendan O'Malley, CIO at Tasty Baking, describes how the company is automating its manufacturing operations by using a new "voice-picking system" in which employees are directed to each location on the factory floor via headset to ensure that the correct quantities of ingredients are being placed on each pallet. by...; Tags: Factory, Manufacturing, Administrator; Blog posts 2008-05-13