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iPhone: Money Machine

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 22nd, 2008

Less than two years after saying it would enter the business, Apple now says it is the third-biggest maker of cellphones in the world by revenue, after Nokia and Samsung. And it sold more phones than Research In Motion, the maker of the iconic BlackBerry, says the NY Times.
Apple sold 6.9 million 3G iPhones in [...]

FCC Commissioners: Coming to Your Town

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 20th, 2008

FCC Commissioners may be in your town this week for their DTV Outreach program.
The FCC identified target television markets for specific DTV outreach, including all those markets in which more than 100,000 households or at least 15% of the households rely solely on over-the-air signals for television reception.
The five FCC Commissioners and senior Commission [...]

WhereCampPDX Unconference

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 17th, 2008

WhereCampPDX, a free conference focusing on all things geographical, is being held at the Souk office center in the Old Town neighborhood of Portland, Oregon on Oct 17-18.
It’s an unconference, modeled after O’Reilly’s WhereCamp and planned by the participants. Everyone gathers together, plans sessions, and have break-outs. It kicks-off with an art opening [...]

Trapeze Networks: Big MAN in China

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 14th, 2008

Confucius: By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. - Up the Yangtze

Trapeze Networks says it has won the Hangzhou Wi-Fi Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) project, the largest Wi-Fi MAN in China. Trapeze Networks will deploy [...]

SpecEx.com: E-Bay for Licensed Spectrum

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 14th, 2008

Spectrum Bridge (FAQ) has been called the eBay of wireless spectrum. The company aims to link buyers and sellers in the secondary spectrum market.
The FCC has granted some licensees the right to unbundle their spectrum. Spectrum owners may resell it to other parties, lease it, or even timeshare it. Spectrum Bridge lets companies find [...]

Simon & Schuster: Mobile Treatment

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 14th, 2008

Simon & Schuster will make more than 500 of its titles available through MPS Mobile. Mobile users can text title names to the short code 22646 to receive a direct link to the content or can visit the mobile site, wap.global-reader.com, on their phones. MPS Mobile is a division of Macmillan Publishing Solutions.
Simon & [...]

India: 20% of Global WiMAX Users

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 14th, 2008

A recent decision by India’s Department of Telecommunications to allocate and auction WiMAX spectrum at 2.3 and 2.5 GHz, will enable India to connect over one billion new customers, proclaimed WiMAX Forum president Ron Resnick this week.
The WiMAX Forum today highlighted activity in the burgeoning Indian market. They project the Indian WiMAX market, including devices, [...]

11 Troubled Web Companies

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 10th, 2008

Fans of Twitter, Pandora, Skype, Zillow, and seven other Web companies had better hope these start-ups find creative business plans to weather the financial downturn, says C/Net. These 11 Web 2.0 favorites have landed on Webware editor Rafe Needleman’s list of companies that are potentially in peril.

On Friday’s edition of the Daily Debrief with [...]

MIT’s CarTel: Car Sensor Does Route Planning

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 10th, 2008

MIT’s CarTel, a distributed, mobile sensor network and telematics system, combines mapping WiFi access points in the Boston metro area with a Web site that shows all the trips made by a driver and provides interesting ways to visualize one’s trips, individually and collectively.
A small embedded computer, about the size of a cellphone, is [...]

Nikon’s Wireless WatchMan

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 7th, 2008

Nikon has announced the Media Port UP (”UP” read as individual letters), today. It’s a multimedia playback headset that also supports Internet connection.

A display, headphones, and mobile A/V player, are integrated with Wi-Fi, high-capacity memory, and batteries in a single wearable unit. The UP allows users to watch high-quality images, videos, and music anywhere. [...]