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Samsung Wins 23 ICES Innovation Awards
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., an established leader and innovator in consumer electronics, I.T. and Telecom, has won International CES 2010 Innovations Awards for 23 different products, including three best of innovation awards. Samsung has won more than 100 CES Innovation Awards in three years, for multiple product categories like; TVs, home theater, digital audio,... »
Tata Communications Partner With Tomizone To Offers Wi-Fi In India
India’s leading telecom giant Tata Communications Internet Services Limited and Australia’s largest provider of Wi-Fi hotspots Tomizone have announced a partnership deal by which TCISL will use… ] Related Topics: Australia, India, Info, Internet, LEC,... »
The next challenges for mobile phones: find me and tell me who I am
Mobile phones could soon have improve tracking facilities that will remember the places we frequent and use the data to build a profile of what kind of person we are There are two great short-term challenges left for mobile phones: knowing where we are and knowing who we are. It looks as though 2010 will be... »
Why GoGo In-flight Wi-Fi Is Garbage
Earlier this morning, when I got on a plane to visit Orlando, Fla., I thanked my stars when I found out that I was on a Delta flight with GoGo in-flight Wi-Fi. I had to wake up at the ungodly hour of 3 a.m. to get to the airport and as a result was... »
Sprint in ‘Overdrive’: Touts 3G/4G Wireless Wi-Fi Router
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — A new wireless router from Sprint will let you share your wireless broadband connection from one Wi-Fi device to another.It’s called the Overdrive, and it’s good where either 3G or 4G service is available. You can connect as many as five devices that are enabled …(141 words) Related Topics: 3g,... »
Consumer Poll: Wi-Fi Is Wanted
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — The Wi-Fi Alliance says its new consumer poll demonstrates that Wi-Fi has become a sought after feature in consumer electronics. The poll results, announced at CES, show strong interest in a wide variety of Wi-Fi enabled entertainment applications, as well as a desire for a …(307 words) Related Topics: application,... »
Truphone Comes to Android – But no VoIP over 3G
Truphone fans will be happy to hear that the popular VoIP application now works on Android mobile handsets, though support for the new Google Nexus One is coming soon. Truphone’s new Android application enables free calls to other Truphone, Skype and Google Talk users – though only over Wi-Fi and not 3G. I don’t... »
AT&T Launches Wi-Fi Service at Tulsa Airport
Travelers who will be making their way through the Tulsa International Airport will now have the added convenience of having access to AT&T’s wireless Internet service at their fingertips. AT&T— an industry leader in Wi-Fi with the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network — and the Tulsa International Airport today announced that AT&T Wi-Fi is available... »
Hotspot Usage Shifting Toward Handhelds
With the increasing prevalence of Wi-Fi-enabled handsets, hotspot usage by handheld devices has increased significantly. As a percentage of total connects, handhelds increased from 20 percent in 2008 to 35 percent in 2009, according to In-Stat. The research firm reported that by 2011 handhelds are anticipated to account for half …(286 words) Related Topics: 2008,... »
Hotspot Usage Shifting Toward Handhelds
With the increasing prevalence of Wi-Fi-enabled handsets, hotspot usage by handheld devices has increased significantly. As a percentage of total connects, handhelds increased from 20 percent in 2008 to 35 percent in 2009, according to In-Stat. The research firm reported that by 2011 handhelds are anticipated to account for half …(286 words) ... »
Cablevision Wi-Fi Cloud Is Getting Easier, Smarter & Busier
Cablevision, the Bethpage, N.Y.-based cable operator, has quietly soft-launched a new automated sign-in process that allows its customers to log into its Wi-Fi cloud that covers many busy Long Island and New York City venues such as Madison Square Gardens, Radio City Music Hall and Long Island MacArthur Airport. (The network also serves southern... »
Consumers, Not Businesses, Giving Wi-Fi Hotspots a Boost
Earlier this month, when I visited Paris for the Le Web 2009, the most important thing I “packed” for the trip didn’t weigh an ounce: an account with Wi-Fi hotspot aggregation service, Boingo. It alone allowed me to stay connected, avoid expensive hotel Wi-Fi access fees and most importantly, not feel out of touch... »
Europe’s txtr Ready to Fight Amazon’s Kindle
txtr, a Berlin-based startup, is building an e-reader that it hopes will be Europe’s answer to the Amazon Kindle. Christophe Maire, CEO of the company, sat down with me in Paris earlier this week and gave me the details. He is one of the co-founders of gate5, a German navigation/mapping service that was acquired... »
WiGig puts Wi-Fi systems in shade
If you’re wondering what hot new technology might be coming your way in 2010, here’s one tip: very fast home wireless systems that outperform today’s speediest Wi-Fi systems. Make no mistake, Wi-Fi is a terrific system for hooking up multiple computers to each other and to the internet, cable-free. Everybody loves it. To read this report... »
HotSpots Are Hot
Let’s face it, the idea of WiFi by the major mobile operators in the USA has been more trial and error, or when they chose to explore it, for the most part it was more like seeing someone dip their toes in the water in the past, as in reality only T-Mobile and to... »
Sponsored WiFi Access, Sending Party Pays and The Future Of Media
We continue to see more of what I am calling the sponsored model of public WiFi. After all the municipal models failed, with city and county governments in many places buying into a very flawed model that was heavily overplayed by Earthlink and a group of advisors to cities, plus an over dependence on... »
fring and Skype Video calls on your Mobile Phone
Just a week after fring released an Android version, fring has now announced video calls over your mobile phone’s Internet connection. It supports both fring video calls and Skype video calls.Pretty cool to have a videoconference call using your cell phone. Currently fring video is only supported on Nokia touch (such as X6, N97 mini,N97,... »
UK Government net disconnections could scupper free Wi-Fi and breach EU laws, says expert
The Government’s Digital Economy Bill could be in breach of EU laws, according to an internet law expert. Professor Lilian Edwards has also warned that the Bill could make it impossible to operate a free wireless network legally. The Bill, published last week, contains an outline of the Government’s plans to terminate internet connections that... »
Some Random Posts Worth Reading
Dean Bubley on The Android-Dean and I had dinner in San Diego a week ago Saturday at Flemings Steak House and Wine Bar in the Gaslamp. We enjoyed some excellent service from GM/Operating Partner Bob Andrews (he’s been Flemings Top Operating Partner four out of the last five years or so) and it was... »
Truphone Offers Free Calling on Thanksgiving
Truphone is in a giving mood this holiday season, offering free calling on Thanksgiving. Only way to top that offer for Christmas is to pay you to make call on their network on December 25th. Now that would be sweet! Check out the news: Truphone to Give Away Free Calling on Thanksgiving12 hours of free calls... »
fring for Google Android Launches
fring is finally available for the Google Android. It’s about time! One drawback though is that SIP and SkypeOut calls are not yet available on Droid devices. There’s always a catch… In addition to Skype chat and Skype-to-Skype VoIP calling you also get MSN and GoogleTalk support, real-time presence and live... »
Qualcomm Breaks the Gigahertz Barrier on Smartphones
Qualcomm has just released a new chip family focused on smartphones, including one that breaks the gigahertz barrier. The chips’ capabilities make clear that the line between phones and low-end notebooks are blurring. They’re based on the Scorpion CPU that is at the heart of Snapdragon chipsets and uses an 800 MHz to 1... »
Is Apple Stopping Progress?
It’s time not to put the hammer down, but to throw it up again. Yesterday Nimbuzz made noise via GigaOm’s Om Malik, with news of their client now offering what is called Nimbuzz Out, which is in many ways a clone of Fring, Skype Out and Truphone combined, as the new feature it allows... »
Nimbuzz Takes on Skype, Launches New Calling Service
Nimbuzz, a Netherlands-based VoIP and messaging startup, is introducing a premium calling service called NimbuzzOut. This service is available via an upgrade of its mobile client, which is currently available from the iPhone’s iTunes Apps Store, the Ovi Store and GetJar. So far, Nimbuzz has offered a meta-client that works on PCs, Macs,... »
AdMob Sees Explosive Mobile Phone Internet Usage
A fascinating if not predictable report from AdMob was just released yesterday showing explosive mobile phone web surfing growth. In their September 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report AdMob received more than 100 million ad requests from 14 countries, and more than 10 million ad requests from 64 countries. This data was collected using AdMob’s... »
As Phones Get Smarter, Browsing Booms
Web browsing and Internet usage on mobile devices is booming, reports AdMob, a San Mateo, Calif.-based mobile advertising startup that tracks data across various mobile devices, applications and browsers. In its September 2009 Mobile Metrics report, the company found that of the top 10 devices in the U.S., five had touchscreens, six had Wi-Fi... »
Boingo Goes Blackberry-A Huge Boon For Voice
My agency has represented Boingo for 18 months or so now, and long before that I was a Boingo customer, a happy customer, who found that using it on my Nokia N & E Series devices and my laptops was always something that allowed for easy connectivity. One of the missing pieces, more due to... »
Australian prime minister honours scientist behind wi-fi
An Australian radio astronomer who helped develop wi-fi technology has won the Prime Minister’s prestigious Science Prize. Wi-fi technology has become an essential part of everyday life. It is found in personal computers, video games, mobile phones and much more. … Scientist John O’Sullivan, with a team of CSIRO scientists, is the man who made it happen.... »
BlackBerry Storm 2: Three Reasons Why It is Better Than The First Edition
All the about-BlackBerry blogs are buzzing about the official announcement of the BlackBerry Storm 2, the touchscreen device by RIM that is going to replace the first edition launched last year. If you haven’t had the chance to take a closer look at it, check this video. Why is the Storm 2 better than the “old”... »
The Future of 4G: LTE vs. WiMAX
LTE, the 4G mobile broadband technology backed by major cellular network equipment providers and operators, casts a long shadow across the WiMAX landscape—even though LTE products are thin on the ground and no operator has launched commercial service using it. Verizon, however, has committed to rolling out LTE (Long Term Evolution) starting next year, delivering... »