Archive for 'Mobile Broadband' Category
Nokia and Friends To Wage Mobile War On Everyone Else
29 January 2008“Nokia estimates that in 2010, the total Internet services market will be approximately €100 billion ($146 billion),” said Nokia president and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. “Nokia’s goal is to be the world’s number-one in bringing the Internet to mobile devices.”
Nokia has slowly been pushing its way into absolutely every aspect of the industry. Nokia’s VP of […]
AT&T Broadband Subscribers Get Free Wi-Fi Access
29 January 2008- 10,000 Free Hotspots
- Who Needs Muni Wi-Fi?
- AT&T, Apple Driving Public Wi-Fi
AT&T and Apple are driving Wi-Fi availability outside homes and coffee shops and off campuses.
Apple creates the demand for free Wi-Fi with its iPhone but especially its iPod touch, which can only connect to the Net with Wi-Fi. iPod touch users are […]
AT&T Connects Subscribers to New York Times
29 January 2008AT&T’s mobile phone subscribers can now download New York Times content from the paper’s mobile Web site. News, sports and entertainment will be available. “Consumers want immediate access to breaking news and a wireless handset is a powerful tool for staying connected and informed, regardless of where people are,” Mark Collins, VP of Consumer Data […]
Mobile Broadband Speed Reminiscent of 1996-1997
29 January 2008“Speed. If you look at the growth of broadband video to the PC, it tracked the adoption rate of cable and DSL. I have the hardest time watching a one-minute clip on my Verizon [Wireless] phone - EVDO - and it reminds me of my Internet ventures of 1996-1997.” - BiggerBoat co-founder and CEO Adam […]
Social Networks Should Be Built For Mobile
22 January 2008“Mobile by its very nature is social,” said SP. So, it’s no surprise
that CES devoted time to address the issue of UGC and social
networks. The market has been shifting with sites like Facebook and
MySpace branching out to mobile networks, but “things are very
fragmented,” said Jon Mantell, director of video services for Helio,
a mobile phone service […]
BBC Sees Four Major Digital Media Major Trends in 2008
4 January 2008Four of the five technologies that the BBC lists as being on the rise in 2008 are connected with digital media:
1. The Web to go
2. Ultra-Mobile PCs
3. IPTV
4. WiMAX
And the case can be made that the fifth, Mobile VoIP, will play a significant part in growing the market for multimedia devices that come with built-in […]
Movil, Yahoo Heating Up Latin America
4 January 2008America Movil, the leading wireless service provider in Latin America, and Yahoo have announced a partnership to provide the framework for making Yahoo!s mobile services available to the millions of users in 16 countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. The partnership sets up Yahoo and its oneSearch to be the most accessible mobile […]
Newly appointed Sprint chief Daniel Hesse resigns from Nokia’s board
30 December 2007http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8TQJC9G0.htm
In-flight Internet raises etiquette concerns
28 December 2007Phone calls, expletive-laden chats, pornography open up ‘ticklish area’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22398410/
Clearwire’s net pipe is good for on-the-go users
28 December 2007‘Pre-WiMax’ network is speedy out in the open, not so much indoors
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22401780/