Nokia today announced that Warner Music Group will make its diverse catalog of new stars and legendary artists available through Nokia Music Stores around the world as well as through Comes With Music, a ...
Proxim has been selected for a huge WiMAX deployment in Germany. The network will cover over 12,400 square miles (20,000 sq. km.) and will provide service to over 2.5 people upon completion.
Televersa Online, a leading full service telecommunications provider in Bavaria, Germany, will use Proxim Tsunami MP.16 WiMAX products to build its WiMAX network. Televersa acquired a 3.5GHz broadband wireless access license for the network and has already deployed Proxim Tsunami MP.11 base stations and subscriber units as the core communications platform for its wireless “viaAIR” service across the 20,000 sq km region.
Televersa Online, serves a population of 2.5 million people in 750,000 households and businesses throughout South East Bavaria, a mostly rural area covering approximately 20,000 square kilometers (12,400 square miles), from Munich Airport to the Czech and Austrian borders. Many of Televersa’s customers either had no other option for fast Internet access or were dependent on expensive and often insufficient alternatives.
The company’s wireless “viaAIR” service is designed to reach 95 percent of the region’s households and businesses, while wired DSL connections are available to only 60 percent. Following the deployment of a WiMAX network, Televersa Online will be able to offer either wireless DSL or WiMAX depending upon the customer’s location.
Televersa Online has already deployed over 400 Proxim Tsunami MP.11 base stations. License-free MP.11 technology allows Televersa to offer service in regions outside of its WiMAX license as well as offer cost-effective internet connection to areas with less than 50 customers. With the addition of the WiMAX network, Televersa Online will be able to launch a broadband wireless service to even the most remote areas.
The first certified implementation of mobile WiMAX has gone live in a deployment in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Idaho Falls using Alvarion gear. DigitalBridge Communications announced today that its Alvarion-built WiMAX network in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Idaho Falls, Idaho, was now operational, supporting full mobility and high-speed hand-off.
It also plans to upgrade its other markets to mobility by the end of the year.
The local tv station had very interesting story that ran their live camera with sound through a laptop which connected (via WiFi) to the Alvarion client and to the television station. It was quite a demonstration, and a good story, showing connections all over town.
DigitalBridge said its current Jackson Hole audience area reaches some 3,000 homes and businesses. The company indicated it eventually wants to expand WiMax mobile capabilities throughout its 200,000-household deployment area.
DigitalBridge has built WiMAX networks in 14 smaller communities across the US using Alvarion’s now-WiMAX Forum-certified BreezeMAX gear, but Jackson Hole is the first market where it has turned on the mobility software.
The CPEs currently consist solely of Alvarion PC cards embedded with Beceem Communications chipsets, but DigitalBridge will be able to support virtually any mobile WiMAX client, CEO Kelley Dunne said.
DigitalBridge is using the same 2.5 GHz spectrum used by Sprint and Clearwire. It will depend on the much-larger Sprint-Clearwire deployment to create a market for the dedicated WiMAX handsets and embedded consumer electronics DigitalBridge hopes to sell and support.
Over the next 8 months, DigitalBridge plans to switch on the mobility features in its remaining 13 markets: Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Rexburg, Sun Valley and Twin Falls; Idaho; Connersville, Liberty, Washington and Vincennes; Ind.; Butte and Missoula; Mont.; Sioux Falls; S.D.; and Appomattox; Va. All of the markets are too small to be considered competitive with Sprint and Clearwire’s nationwide rollout.
Perhaps the most encouraging sign comes in the form of record sales for the new "iPhone killer" Sprint co-developed with Samsung. Despite mixed reviews, the Instinct smartphone broke the company's record for the first week of sales for any high-speed EVDO mobile device.
"The strong early response tells us that wireless customers recognize Instinct as a highly innovative and convenient touchscreen device combined with the fast speeds available on the largest national mobile broadband network," said John Garcia, president of Sprint's wireless division.
The Comeback Road
Since joining the company early this year, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has been leading efforts to stem subscriber defections through the launch of beefed-up customer service and a $99 voice/data plan. That renewed focus on subscribers appears to be paying off. During a recent meeting with investors, Verizon Communications President Denny Strigl noted that Sprint's performance had picked up in the past 30 days, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Sprint has also agreed to spin off its fledgling WiMAX network, which had been threatening to drain as much as $5 billion from the company. A joint Sprint/Clearwire WiMAX deal announced last year will launch with a combined $3.2 billion investment from industry giants Comcast, Intel, Time Warner, Google and Bright House Networks.
And last month Sprint and infrastructure partner Samsung Telecommunications said WiMAX was ready for prime time. Recent tests in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., areas show that the network has passed rigorous performance criteria pertaining to signal-handoff problems Sprint encountered earlier this year, the companies said.
In the short term, however, Sprint is relying on the Samsung Instinct to keep Apple's new iPhone 3G...
To fight off the iPhone 3G from Apple and AT&T Sprint launched the Samsung Instinct on June 20th.
Today, the mobile Web environment is in a period of rapid change, thanks in no small part to Apple's iPhone. From the phone's introduction in June, 2007, through March, 2008, 5.4 million iPhones have sold, and to date developers have created more than 17,000 sites or "Web applications" optimized for the device.
But this isn't a story about the iPhone, per se; it's a story about designing for the mobile Web. The iPhone was just a catalyst of sorts, bringing buzz, investors, and new technology to the sector. As a result, the mobile Web design and customer experience bar has been raised.
Changing the Game
"Mobile Web used to be WAP," says Matt Murphy, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, the venture capital firm that has started a $100 million "iFund" to develop applications for the iPhone. "Now you have a real browser and a real device. The iPhone is a game-changer."
"From a design experience perspective, it's changing the way people view the Web and the value of the mobile Web," says Kelly Goto, the founder and CEO of San Francisco-based GotoDesign.
Pre-iPhone, says Cameron Moll, principal interaction designer at LDS Church and author of the influential e-book Mobile Web Design, companies typically took one of four approaches to the mobile Web: 1] do nothing and let mobile users scroll their way around sites designed...
For that we can thank Moore's Law, which should more accurately be called Moore's Bubble. Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, predicted decades ago that the number of transistors that engineers could cram onto a wafer of silicon would double every 18 months for the foreseeable future.
Moore's Bubble has created a market for ever more powerful computers at lower prices, not to mention a generation of cheap, pocket-sized gadgets.
Let's talk about the best computer choice for your student -- or for you. Thanks to Mr. Moore, it's likely to be a laptop machine today, rather than a desktop. And if you don't like an idea of a laptop because the screen and keyboard are too small, here's my advice: buy a laptop, hook up a keyboard, monitor and mouse, and use it as a desktop machine.
Laptops, of course, offer portability, and that increases the price. But on the whole, when the average price of a computer is now in the $600 to $700 range, a 20 percent to 30 percent premium for portability doesn't mean as much as it did when PCs were selling for $1,500 to $2,000.
There are four general classes of laptops on the market today, and picking the one that's right for you is more important than a particular brand or specifications.
At the highest, and least portable end, are desktop replacement machines. They can do everything a desktop computer can do....
That's the premise behind MyRapidMD, a program that sends a java file containing information that could save emergency medical crews time in helping you should you be in an accident or unable to provide information yourself, says Mark White, president of the company.
"We took the Medical Alert bracelet idea into the 21st century," he says, adding the program was designed by first responders to help their colleagues when someone is in crisis and unable to speak for themselves.
Emergency responders work on a format called "SAMPLE" -- signs and symptoms, allergies, medication, past history, last intake and events prior. The first hour, often referred to as the "golden hour," may determine how well you do. Emergency crews need information fast, and White says putting it on a cell phone, which most adults and a "whole lot" of adolescents and kids have, makes things simple.
The information resides on the cell phone, but it doesn't rely on whether the phone can get a signal. As long as there's power to the phone, the responders can scroll through and get it, along with a picture so there's no case of mistaken identity should person and phone be separated for some reason.
The data are backed up by a 24-hour call center so responders can enter your unique number and also receive your emergency service profile. And there are specific places where they look for that number.
Your record doesn't contain your home address (although it lists your city), Social Security number or credit card information. It's of no use to someone who might steal your phone,...
The corporate card began as a way to ensure that employees could pay for what they needed -- whether last-minute airfare to Chicago or a steak dinner for 12 clients -- to win business. Corporate cards, in theory, work just like any credit card, except that the company picks up the tab. Every month the issuer would send out a statement and the executive -- or more often his assistant -- would submit his expenses.
Usually in the form of illegible and half-crumpled receipts stapled onto paper that the poor folks in the accounting department would have to decipher. As one can imagine, the opportunities for padding were considerable. Who's to know if that dinner for two was for clients or your girlfriend? And the difficulty of separating the legitimate expenses from the non was such that it was often easier to just write the check.
An Orwellian Twist
But today, thanks to new reporting software, businesses can tighten up their expenses and stop the wastage by both more closely monitoring employee spending and reducing the costs of processing the payments. It is progress with an Orwellian twist, however. Big Brother might not know what you're thinking, but he sure knows how you spend your time -- and the company's money.
Corporate cards allow companies access to detailed information on employee spending. Travel managers can now use Web-based tools to view itemized purchases...
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