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Archive for December, 2008

Dailywireless In/Out List

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 31st, 2008

Okay, here’s my own In/Out list:

Dailywireless: Ins and Outs 2008 Edition

Out
In

WiFi City Clouds
WiMAX City Clouds

Cellular Data
Mobile WiMAX

Navigation Devices
Smartphones

iPhone
Android

WiMAX
LTE

LTE
Advanced IMT

Triple Play
Femtocells

Kevin Martin
Jonathan Adelstein

NASA
Space X

Cynicism
Thoughtfulness

2008: Radio Highlights

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 31st, 2008

RadioWorld has a nice piece called 2008: The Year in Rearview.

Finally, there’s one thing I wish I could put on this year’s In/Out list, but I can’t, not yet at least. It’s an idea inspired by my longtime friend and colleague Jay Allison in his introduction to the book “This I Believe II,” and with [...]

New Year’s Eve EarthCams

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 30th, 2008

EarthCam will webcast the annual New Year’s Eve Times Square celebration live from New York City.

The 2009 Times Square event, now in its 13th year, will feature more than 25 live cameras. Additional cameras in New York include views from Midtown and Columbus Circle. Cameras in other locations include London, Moscow and Prague, along with [...]

The Magic Bus

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 30th, 2008

An experimental program called Aspirnauts (aspire, seek, achieve) connects kids on a school bus to the Web through donated, Wi-Fi-enabled laptops.
It was started by Vanderbilt University medical scientist Billy Hudson, who was looking for a unique way to give back to his hometown. One day he tagged along for the bus ride - upwards [...]

Voice Added to WiBro

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

A cell gets out and it will imitate everything! — The Thing

South Korea has ratified a voice-over-WiMAX standard, reports IntoMobile. The new protocol, approved by the Korea Communication Commission (KCC), is essentially a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology. South Korea’s WiBro has been a data-only system since going live in 2006.
Now Korea Telecom [...]

LG Wrist Phone

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

LG’s LG-GD910 packs a touchscreen LCD, 3G data, and a built-in camera for videoconferencing on a wrist, says Engadget.

The wrist-phone features support for both 3G and HSDPA with a 1.43-inch color LCD. LG is expected to show this off at CES next month and plans to release it in Japan and Europe. [...]

Cellphone As Disease Detector

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

A new MacGyver-esque cellphone hack could bring cheap, on-the-spot disease detection to even the most remote villages on the planet, reports Wired. It could revolutionize disease detection in the field.

An off-the-shelf Sony Ericsson cellphone has been modded using only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires.
The bulge is the filtered light source that [...]

Martin: Free Internet Prospects Dim

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin does not see much chance of getting his free broadband proposal out the door before he exits in mid-January, says Broadcast and Cable Magazine.

Martin talked about that and more with B&C Washington Bureau Chief John Eggerton in the January 5, 2009, issue of Broadcasting & Cable.

What is the status of your [...]

Nokia: World’s Largest Computer Maker

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

Nokia has become the world’s largest computer maker, says Tomi T Ahonen, author of Communities Dominate Brand. And not by its sales of all phones, only by counting smartphones.
“If you accept the premise that smartphones are computers, (as Nokia calls the N-Series or as Apple calls the iPhone), then the numbers are clear, says analyist [...]

SMS Price Gouging Investigated

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

The NY Times says carriers are ripping off people with text messaging fees. The cost of delivering text messaging is virtually nothing. Text messages are tiny free riders, tucked into what’s called a “control channel“, space reserved for operation of the wireless network. It’s pure profit for cellular carriers because it doesn’t require a [...]