Waiting for the Bell/Telus HSPA announcement (2)
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An announcement was expected as early as this week [National Post BCE and Telus in 3G network pact], but apparently the spell checking and t crossing on the PR release is taking a little longer. The cat is pretty much out of the bag however, they may as well tell us the full news. What might an HSPA announcement mean? For one thing they will be among the first to roll out a “naked” HSPA ...
Billing Revolution Unveils ‘Single-Click’ Mobile Billing And Payment Service (4)
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Although buying products from your desktop at home has become just as customary as buying products at the store, few have found reason to buy products on their cell phones. In an attempt to buck that trend and make it easier for consumers to buy products from their cell phone, Billing Revolution announced today that it will offer a ’single-click’ billing and payment service that will streamline mobile purchases. Once consumers are ready to buy ...
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Alex said:
I think there's still a long way to go before mobiles are usable enough to feel comfortable making purchases.
Why Are We Still Using Narrow Band Codecs for SIP to SIP Calls? (2)
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I really like the SIP Voice over IP implementation of the Wifi enabled Nokia Nseries phones such as the N95 and the N82. After all, they save me a lot of money these days as SIP to SIP calls for example even between different operators are free. On first thought, voice quality seems to be excellent, I can't tell the difference between a VoIP call and a traditional circuit switched call over a cellular network. ...
There should be a SIM-free option for LTE (1)
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In terms of general market perception, LTE has been stealing much of WiMAX's thunder of late. Now obviously we've seen the ascendance of LTE coinciding with one of the periodic nadirs of enthusiasm around WiMAX, and we should start to see the balance redress somewhat when Xohm launches and other smaller deployments also start to come online of the next 4 months.My current expectation is that by 2012/2013, we will see LTE user numbers for ...
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Alex said:
LTE, Identity, subscribers, billing relationships, phone numbers... there's so much more to this area then what he's talking about.
Joost To Kill Desktop Client (12)
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Exclusive: In what is likely to be a major shift in the company’s strategy, peer-to-peer startup Joost is going to stop making its desktop client. The decision to suspend the client is likely to be announced soon, I am told. The company is going to a browser-only strategy, in which much of its content is going to be available through a browser-based player. Joost, I am told, will release a small plugin that would embed ...
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Alex said:
This is good news. I really tried to use it, but their desktop client sucks.
Spectrum Bridge Launches Marketplace For “Fallow” Wireless Spectrum (1)
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You’d think that with the FCC conducting so many wireless spectrum auctions, that all that spectrum sold off for billions of dollars would be all used up. The sad truth is that many companies who win spectrum at auction end up sitting on it. All of this “fallow” spectrum is a big problem. A Florida startup called Spectrum Bridge today launched a marketplace to address this problem. Companies that own spectrum can use Spectrum Bridge ...
US mobile internet usage sees huge jump in Q2 2008 (4)
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With 3G usage in the US surpassing Western Europe, it’s not all that surprising to hear that the US has seen mobile internet usage increase almost a third in Q2 2008. The US has seen mobile web access jump 29.4% from Q1 to Q2 2008. Crisp Wireless reports that mobile internet traffic increased as mobile web users are taking a liking to in-the-hand mobile internet access. Notably, the following trends have emerged: Local news is ...
AT&T pinpoints EDGE/3G data network outage problems (1)
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When the premier data network in the US takes a nose-dive, people pay attention. Especially those people that were left without data access for hours. AT&T, reeling from the enormous bad-press generated by a multi-state data network outage on the East Coast, left us all hanging with their promise to find out exactly what caused 3G and EDGE data users to go through wireless data-withdrawal. Today, AT&T spokesperson Brad Mays told Ars Technica that the ...
The Death of DVD Sales in Korea a Trailer for U.S. Coming Attraction? (5)
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Hollywood take note: Sony Pictures is the sixth (and final) major movie studio to pull up stakes in South Korea, where blazing fast, ubiquitous broadband has sucker-punched the market for DVD sales and rentals, NewTeeVee reports today. In Korea, where average broadband penetration rate by household hit 90.1 percent last year (and in Seoul reached 107.8 percent), nearly 50 percent of Internet users say they download movies, and the typical users is downloading about a ...
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Alex said:
"the services are monetized through priority access points that guarantee higher speeds"
Where to Get the Cheapest Mobile Data Plans (14)
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Updated: We’ve talked about how popular wireless broadband is for a growing spectrum of the population. I personally would give up my iPod before my 3G USB modem. But how much bandwidth can you really get? DSL Reports recently noted that Canadian wireless provider Telus is backtracking on its original unlimited wireless broadband plan and capping users at 1GB for $65. That has some rural users in a tizzy since they use it for their ...
Connecting Back Home (1)
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For many years I’ve wished for some technology to allow me to check on things back home, to control devices and to stream content from wherever I am. Some applications have become available over the years such as the GSM module that is connected to my block heater in the car so I can remote control the heating in winter. The Slingbox is another good example which allows media streaming to notebooks and mobile phones ...
AT&T sees massive data network outage on East Coast (1)
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AT&T has been struggling to keep up with demand on its data network since the launch of the iPhone 3G. Tests and speculation have all but absolved the iPhone 3G of any inherent defect as the root of sluggish data network performance on AT&T’s 3G network. At this point, AT&T’s recently upgraded 3G network is seemingly to blame for problematic 3G performance. This morning, AT&T added some icing to their bitter 3G-cake when the No. ...
Beyond 3G: The Manuscript is Ready (1)
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Some of you might have noticed that recent blog entries haven grown in size again and speculated that I have a bit more time at hand again. Well you have guessed right. Over the past months, I spent most of my free time working on my next book, to be published by John Wiley and Sons by the end of the year. Finally, the manuscript is ready and the title will be "Beyond 3G: Bringing ...
Giving Google Chrome A Spin. This Thing Moves Fast. (53)
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Google announced Chrome yesterday and the company has already offered Windows XP and Vista owners the opportunity to try it out. And although I’ve only been able to use it for just a little while, Google Chrome is not only one of the fastest browsers I’ve ever used, it’s easily one of the best. The Google Chrome install was quick and easy. In a matter of seconds (literally), I downloaded the application from the company’s ...
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Adam said:
The first reviews are looking good!
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Alex said:
yup!
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paul.grayson said:
Chrome is sweeeet! Looks good (apart from crappy windows fonts) and is darn fast too! Also I like the ability to make shortcuts to launch gmail etc as separate windows without all the browser back/forward gubins. I might actually use this as my main browser for a while on my Mac via Parallels.
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Adam Selwood said:
Have been using it now for a few minutes, and also very impressed.
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That Kid from Omaha said:
Wow. Could anyone write a more gushing PR release, err, "review?"
Live From Google Chrome Press Event (23)
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The world was introduced yesterday to Google’s new browser, Chrome, via a comic book. Today, Google is holding a press conference at its headquarters in Mountain View to demo the new browser and discuss the reasons behind its development. If you’re interested in reading the comic released yesterday that introduces Chrome, you can find it here. Below are our notes from the conference, which started at 11:00 am PT. You can now download Chrome (just ...
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Alex said:
I've been using this for about 30 minutes now, and it's absolutely fantastic!
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yangyang42 said:
Wow, Chrome is super fast. Go try it!
Dilbert “Bell Canada” cartoon still true 11 years later? (1)
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Scott Adams, creator of “Dilbert”, made a segment of his cartoon back in 1997 that spoke about Bell Canada. With all the restructuring and re-branding changes that are happening currently at the new Bell(er), I’m curious if this is still the case. Check it out here
Qualcomm ignores Broadcom patent injunction, ordered to pay fines (1)
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In a move that should at least somewhat restore your faith in the US legal system and corporate accountability, U.S. District Judge James Selna found that Qualcomm violated (more like ignored) a previous injunction that barred the chip-maker from selling 3G chips in the US that infringed on Broadcom’s patents. This most recent ruling requires that Qualcomm fork over their profits from sales of its QChat push-to-talk technology for Sprint. Court documents indicate that Qualcomm ...
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Alex said:
Maybe now Qualcomm will start selling QChat stuff at cost?
Canadian iPhone Users: You're doing it wrong (4)
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According to big red, hardly anybody (1.2% of subscribers) used more than a 1GB of data on their iPhone in their first 4 weeks of usage, with 95% using less than 500MB and 91.2% using less than 200MB. Rogers is keen to share the stats as a prelude to “right-sizing” their new lineup of data plans once the current $30/6GB special offer runs out. These numbers are of course a little disingenuous. You would expect ...
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Simon said:
Looks like Rogers will be coming out with new data plans in October that are quite a bit more reasonably priced. It can't happen soon enough for me as I'm still without a cell phone 6 months after I handed in my old one.
iPhone Reception Problems are All Your Fault (23)
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An internal source at AT&T discussed the problems fixed by the 2.0.2 update, explaining, in no uncomplicated terms, that the update controlled the UMTS power control in the phone. Each iPhone requires a small amount of power from the transmitter and that power is requested by the phone itself. If too many phones ask for too much power at once, the transmitter starts shutting down, resulting in dropped calls. The iPhone 3G was asking for ...
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Clint said:
so wait.. apple can remove apps from people's phones that they don't want you to use (despite the fact that the phone is your property), but they can't make you update such that you don't get dropped calls?!?! LAUGHABLE!!
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Globalive has started a grass roots branding effort and wants to be different from Bell, Telus and Rogers. They’re hoping to start a trend in the Canadian wireless market by less “telling and a lot more listening”… starting with a new discussion forum called WirelessSoapbox.com. According to the website: WirelessSoapbox.com is designed to be a place [...]Shared by Alex (18)Contribute comment
