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Archive for June, 2008

HotSpot@Home Goes National

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2008

T-Mobile USA is announcing today that its @Home voice service will be available nationwide starting July 2, reports C/Net. Here’s a mini review in the Seattle Times.
T-Mobile has been testing their Internet telephony service since February in Dallas and Seattle. It is meant to replace traditional home phones, and will be offered to any T-Mobile [...]

Mobile WiMAX: Fast, Cheap and Out of Control?

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2008

If you’re not scared of them, you’re in big trouble.
- Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

Mobile WiMax may become a spent technology even before it gains any commercial traction, a market research group has warned.
According to Frost & Sullivan (press release), unless spectrum auctions and commercial mobile WiMax rollouts gather momentum before the end of [...]

Blue Sky for Satellite Broadband?

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2008

Northern Sky Research, a satellite analyst firm, expects satellite broadband users in North America will break the one million mark in late 2008 or early 2009. About 1.25 million Americans will use satellite broadband in their homes and small businesses by 2011, up from 600,000 last year, according to Pike & Fischer while global [...]

WiFi Security Worries Users

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2008

Trend Micro, an Internet content security company, reported today that residents of the Atlanta metropolitan region are not using Wi-Fi hotspots, even though the city is the fourth highest metropolitan area for Wi-Fi availability and the highest rated “wired” city in the nation.
The study, which surveyed over 500 Atlanta residents on their Internet usage habits [...]

Nokia + Symbian: Open, Open, Open

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2008

Symbian (wikipedia), the market leading operating system for mobile phones, celebrated its ten year anniversary today — with a bang. Nokia, the world’s largest cellphone company, plans to acquire the 52 per cent of Symbian it doesn’t already own and make the platform open source.
“Our vision is to become the most widely used software [...]

Adelstein: Internet For Everyone

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 23rd, 2008

FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein (wikipedia) and several high-profile technology executives and industry advocates on Tuesday launched an initiative to make broadband access a national priority in the U.S.

At the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, Adelstein and others unveiled InternetforEveryone.org, a national initiative of public interest, civic and industry groups.
It seeks to foster a [...]

George Carlin

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 23rd, 2008

Comedian George Carlin (wikipedia) has died at age 71. NewTV gathered together some of his performances.

A mix of profane and profound, Carlin had strong opinions on corporate ownership and media. Here he is with Terry Gross.

The 2 Watt Computer

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 23rd, 2008

Don Park, co-founder of Dailywireless and past president of Personal Telco Project in Portland, says CherryPal is announcing a two watt nano computer.

This is an early announcement but if its affordable, a 2 watt debian box with Wi-Fi could be the PTP deployment platform of choice once we run out of Netgear WGTs.

CherryPal uses Freescale’s [...]

Android Delayed

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 23rd, 2008

The Wall Street Journal says Google’s open platform, Android, won’t arrive on handsets until the fourth quarter. But Om Malik and Dana Blankenhorn at ZDNet say it’s the carriers that have delayed Google’s Android launch.

T-Mobile is sucking all the oxygen out of the room with its demands for proprietary advantages in the phone it [...]

Olympic Mesh

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 23rd, 2008

Strix Systems today announced that its Personal Mobile Command (PMC) systems are being deployed for emergency response vehicles and tactical mobile communications at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Silicon-Star Science & Technology Development and Beijing Aerospace partnered in the design and integration of the PMC which delivers instantaneous triangulation between public safety vehicles and security personnel [...]