Devicescape users can now purchase access to the T-Mobile HotSpot network on both English and German language Devicescape sites London, 22nd July, 2008 - Devicescape Software and Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's ...
Wed, Jul 23, 2008 Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. say they have agreed to settle a high-stakes licensing dispute and end a series of legal battles that has spanned several continents.
MOTOROLA has sued a former executive for allegedly violating a non-compete agreement and threatening to reveal its trade secrets by taking a job with Apple's iPhone division, the mobile phone maker said in a ...
An Apple fan site cited an AT&T memo to store managers noting that iPhone 3Gs will not be available for 10 to 14 days, while other reports indicated the iPhone 3G was sold out in all Apple stores with no new inventory expected for at least two weeks.
Some analysts questioned whether the shortages were real or artificially created to build buzz and further increase demand. But with shortages lasting weeks, carriers with competing products, such as the RIM Blackberry, the Samsung Instinct, and the LG Voyager, will likely step up marketing efforts.
More than one million iPhone 3Gs were sold during the initial weekend. Some stores reported a steady stream of sales as long as inventory held out. The device is in high demand as it provides features that the original lacked -- namely, GPS and high-speed 3G. The 3G capabilities, in particular, are pushing units out the door and may explain the shortages.
Worldwide Black Market
3G is a nearly ubiquitous phone transmission medium, built for international use. Some analysts believe many of the iPhone 3Gs sold in the U.S. are winging their way across the globe to countries such as China and Russia where the iPhone is not yet scheduled to be sold. Reports of Russian and Chinese sales indicate the devices are entering these countries somehow.
In addition to these black markets, the iPhone 3G is sold in 20 countries other than the U.S., further putting pressure on inventories. Apple will launch the iPhone...
The International Telecommunication Union has re-ignited the battle between 4G technologies, writes Unstrung, by approving the technical requirements for next-generation mobile broadband technology, IMT-Advanced.
With the general specifications now set for IMT-Advanced -– ITU-speak for 4G -– candidate technologies can be submitted to the ITU starting this October.
The WiMax camp (backed by the IEEE) and the LTE camp (backed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project - 3GPP) are now prepping their candidates — 802.16m and LTE-Advanced, respectively.
Key features of ´IMT-Advanced´ include:
IMT-Advanced calls for very wide channel widths. The technology needs 40MHz and preferably up to 100MHz channel allocations, says Unstrung. Requirements of that kind are completely new territory for the cellular industry.
IMT-Advanced poses an opportunity for WiMax and LTE to get together. But opinions seem to vary about the likelihood of the two camps burying the hatchet and blending their rival technologies, says Unstrung.
Related DailyWireless articles include: Mobile WiMAX: Fast, Cheap and Out of Control?, 4G: War to End Wars , AT&T: It’s LTE, Verizon: It’s LTE, Sprint: It’s WiMAX, Xohm “Partners”?, T-Mobile: $10B in 3 Years, Nokia Siemens: LTE Works, and XOHM Live?.
After the technical sessions concluded on the first day of OSCON, some attendees headed across town to see Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, give a presentation to local Portland group Legion of Tech.
Shuttleworth, who traveled to space in a Russian Soyuz craft in 2001 after selling his company Thawte to Verisign, is notable for being the second self-funded space tourist. During his presentation at McMenamins brew pub/theatre, he shared the details of his experience in space.
He’s spent the last year focused on Launchpad. It’s a free software hosting and development website that makes it easy to collaborate across multiple projects.
“The great task in front of us over the next two years is to lift the experience of the Linux desktop from something that is stable and robust and not so pretty, into something that is art,” Shuttleworth said to applause from the audience earlier in the day.
More on OSCON 2008 is available at
The just completed $4.25 billion auction of wireless spectrum has changed the industry "forever" in Canada by ushering in a new era of increased competition that will mean lower prices for consumers, says ...
Today Amimon, Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony announced the formation of the WHDI working group with the goal of establishing the WHDI standard for Wireless HDTV connections. The group’s intention is to complete the new standard in 2008.
WHDI operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band (FAQ) to enable robust wireless delivery of “uncompressed” HD video (including 1080p). WHDI allows secure, encrypted HD video delivery through multiple rooms with less than one-millisecond latency.
WHDI takes the uncompressed HD video stream and breaks it into elements of importance. The various elements are then mapped onto the wireless channel in a way that give elements with more visual importance a greater share of the channel resources,
The objective of this special interest group is to enhance the current WHDI technology to enable wireless streaming of uncompressed HD video between home devices such as game consoles, computers and tvs. The new interoperable standard aims to ensure different devices can interconnect.
“WHDI technology complements other wireless and wired standards with a new class of connectivity within the home,” said Dr. David Lee, the founder of the HDMI standard and a member of AMIMON’s board of directors. “WHDI’s connectivity matrix introduces to consumers new possibilities to enjoy their high-definition entertainment network.”
Three wireless systems for connecting HDTVs are competing for the home, says EE Times. This “battle of technologies” is being fought between three contending systems, 5 GHz, 60 GHz, and ultra wideband (UWB), according to ABI Research. Most established wireless vendors are waiting to see how the market evolves, says the research firm.
There is no consensus among consumer manufacturers on a single standard or unified wireless HD format. But wireless connections are expected to simplify A/V installations and allow more flexibility in positioning TVs.
EE Times says two different wireless standards are in the works on the same 60-GHz spectrum.
Both will operate in the unlicensed 60GHz band, from 57-64 GHz. WirelessHD, promoted by companies like SiBEAM, operate in the 60 GHz range for uncompressed HD video distribution at rates above 1 Gbps. The WirelessHD Consortium - including firms such as Panasonic, Samsung and Sony have completed the WirelessHD (WiHD) standard Version 1.0 for data rates of up to 4Gbps.
Slydial lets you connect directly with another person's cell phone voice mail, bypassing the traditional ringing process that often results -- sometimes disastrously -- with someone picking up on the other end.
Users call (267) SLY-DIAL from either a cell phone or a landline, and are prompted to enter another person's cell phone number.
After playing a short advertisement -- unless users pay a subscription fee or 15 cents per call to skip ads -- Slydial puts callers directly into their target's voice mail.
Recipients should then get a voice mail notification, and sometimes they will see a caller's number show up as a missed call, too.
Gavin Macomber, co-founder of MobileSphere Ltd., the Boston-based communications company behind Slydial, said there were currently some technological limits. It can only be used in the U.S. right now, and generally won't work with prepaid cell phones.
Also, sly dialers must have the caller ID feature activated on their phones, which Macomber said is meant, in part, to prevent people from using it to harass people undetected.
Macomber thinks it can be useful not only in the dating scene, but also in the hectic business world.
"Everybody has gone through the scenario where they've called somebody and just hoped they got voice mail so they didn't have to have a conversation," he said.
Nora Rubinoff, 45, who runs an administrative support company, At Your Service Cincinnati Ltd., has found Slydial helpful both for business and personal situations. She has left reminder messages for people one of her clients intends to interview. And when her husband travels to a different time zone for...
So when Yang, who is spending his summer as a volunteer for the Olympics next month, found out through the Mac community that Apple would open its first store in China on July 19, he knew he had to be there from the beginning. He arrived at the shop, located in a swank shopping mall in the Sanlitun area of Beijing, 22 hours before it was scheduled to open. He was among more than 100 others who camped overnight -- even though he already had his MacBook and wasn't interested in a new iPod. "I don't have anything I need to buy," he says. Still, because he wanted to be there, Yang spent $26 for an adapter cable he could have easily purchased elsewhere.
Smuggling Challenge
Apple executives want to make it easier to convert more people like Yang from the cult of Mao to the cult of Mac. Apple plans to open a second store in Beijing in 2009 and another in Shanghai later. "We expect to be successful here in China because the entire economy is growing," says Ron Johnson, Apple's senior vice-president for retail.
The company has a long way to go. While Apple dominates the digital music player market in the U.S., it sold only 700,000 iPods in China last year, accounting for just 7.5 percent of...
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