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Archive for February, 2006

Downtown London Cloud

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 21st, 2006

The Cloud, a hotspot operator with operations in the UK, Sweden and Germany, has entered a partnership with the City of London to create a WiFi cloud throughout a square mile in downtown London.
Cloud Networks currently runs several Wi-Fi hotspots in London, including the Canary Wharf, the British Library and Coffee Republic, a chain of [...]

AT&T Wireless + Yahoo

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 21st, 2006

AT&T and Yahoo are launching a service that lets people use Cingular mobile phones to get access to their photos, e-mail, instant messaging and address books on their Yahoo accounts, reports Reuters.
The AT&T Yahoo Go Mobile service is part of the Yahoo Go brand. Yahoo hopes to make its services available to users on a [...]

Microsoft’s Mobile VoIP

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 20th, 2006

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship”. - Casablanca
Microsoft has developed a Skype-style free internet voice service for mobile phones that analysts believe could wipe billions off the market value of cellular operators.
The service is included in a mobile version of Microsoft Office Communicator due to be released this year. [...]

Big City WiFi Clouds

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 17th, 2006

Seventy-six trombones led the big parade, with a hundred and ten cornets close at hand. They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos, the cream of every famous band! - Professor Harold Hill
The City of Chicago is planning a metro WiFi network that would allow residents and visitors to surf the [...]

12 WiFi Analyzers Compared

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 17th, 2006

Unstrung reviews 12 Wireless LAN Analyzers. They pulled together a variety of laptop-based and handheld tools that help WLAN administrators analyze and troubleshoot problems, and tested them at Syracuse University’s Real-World Labs.
They asked vendors to send products that focus on WLAN analysis at the physical- and data-link layers. As encryption becomes the status quo on [...]

Photos On The Go

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 16th, 2006

SearchForMedia.com, a provider of Internet-based video and audio search engine solutions for consumers and digital content providers, today announced the launch of www.searchforipod.com, a free online video download community for video iPod owners.

Searchforipod.com is a division of FUSA Capital Corporation which owns and operates SearchForVideo.com, an online video search portal that aggregates free online video [...]

Web Browser for Nintendo

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 16th, 2006

Opera Software today announced a Web Browser for Nintendo DS users in Japan.
DS users will be able to surf the full Internet from their systems using the Opera browser. The browser will be sold as a DS card. Users simply insert the card into the Wi- Fi enabled Nintendo DS, connect to a network, [...]

MySpace Mobilizes with Helio

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 16th, 2006

Virtual cellular operator Helio, spun off from the Earthlink + SK Telecom partnership, today announced its planned services and phones for a launch this spring. The Earthlink Blog has more details.
Helio will feature MySpace Mobile at launch, offering mobile access to the MySpace community from Helio phones, including moblogging. MySpace On Helio will essentially give [...]

PBS + MovieBeam

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 14th, 2006

“We have every movie ever made, in every language, anytime, day or night”
- J. Walter Thompson

Walt Disney has introduced a pay tv system to deliver high-definition films to U.S. homes utilizing public television spectrum. Moviebeam uses ABC broadcast affiliates and the National Datacast Network, which was established in 1988 as a for-profit subsidiary of [...]

3G World Conference

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 14th, 2006

C/Net has a good review of the latest 3G news at the 3GSM World Congress under way this week in Barcelona. Here are the latest press releases from the show and keynote speakers.
At the 3GSM World Congress, TI predicted its third iteration of the OMAP platform would transform the mobile phone into a personal and [...]