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China Mobile, one of the Olympic sponsors, has built TD-SCDMA networks in six key Olympic host cites, notes Market Watch.
The Olympic handsets feature dual mode GSM/TD-SCDMA standards and come with chips for satellite TV, using China’s Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting. It’s similar to Europe’s DVB-SH standard for digital video broadcast. It uses both satellites and terrestrial ‘gap fillers’ to broadcast to handheld devices. The phones are reserved for athletes, officials, volunteers and VIP guests.
Lenovo Mobile’s TD900 is one of Lenovo Mobile’s “new vision” model series released in July 2008. The TD900 is a tablet phone; it supports TD-SCDMA/GSM dual mode and 3G applications such as video phone and mobile-TV with auto-roaming.
Content is delivered by a satellite broadcast network, not China’s new TD-SCDMA wireless broadband. Several radio programs and approximately eight TV channels including CCTV1, CCTV Olympics and CCTV News, will be provided free.
This year, China Telecom bought Unicom’s CDMA business. China Telecom plans to support 100 million subscribers on an expanded CDMA network.
China Mobile is also expected to carry the responsibility to make China’s TD-SCDMA standard commercially viable. If it gets an official license as expected, this should help to get foreign handset vendors involved — although the majority of its people still like to buy GSM handsets from Nokia and other suppliers.
China is also developing Long Term Evolution, but based on TD-SCDMA, to be known as TDD LTE.
But can China wait until 2010 or 2011, when it’s expected to be ready, asks Market Watch? Hey, I know where they might get a mobile television satellite cheap. Toshiba said it will shut down its four-year-old, satellite-based digital multimedia broadcasting service in Japan, which it offers through their Mobile Broadcasting Corporation unit.
The MBSAT from Mobile Broadcasting Corporation is a three-axis attitude stabilized geostationary satellite designed and manufactured by Space Systems / Loral, based on the SS/L 1300 bus and featured a 12m-aperture (40 foot) S band high gain antenna.
In 2005, South Korea began a similar mobile TV service using Satellite-DMB (S-DMB) and terrestrial DMB (T-DMB) service. Since launching in May 2005, South Korea’s TU Media has signed up more than one million subscribers, uses the S-DMB (satellite digital multimedia broadcasting) standard, offering 15 video and 19 audio channels.
Toshiba said the Japanese service has failed to attract sufficient customers in the face of demand for free mobile broadcasting services that are targeting mobile handsets. Toshiba said it will dissolve the company and end services by March of next year. It is expected to cost Toshiba about $232 million. The company launched the service in Oct. 2004.
Related Dailywireless articles include; 2008 Summer Olympics: On Demand, China Showcases TD-SCDMA at Olympics, 2006 Olympics Unwired, China Mobile Goes TD-SCDMA , Olympics on ATT MediaFLO Channel, Olympic Marketing Metrix, Olympic Mesh, China Mobile Goes TD-SCDMA, WiMAX Now ITU Standard, HSPDA in China, Cell Data on a Single Channel, UMTS TDD: The Other Broadband Standard, TD-SCDMA Joint Venture.
Hewlett-Packard's Procurve switching business plans to buy wireless access kit provider Colubris Networks for an undisclosed sum.
Gmail, Google’s e-mail service, is offline for many users right now. Those wondering if they are alone in experiencing the outage can find comfort on Twitter, says C/Net, which is up and sizzling with Gmail down alerts. To track the spread of the outage (and to find out when it is corrected), take a look Twitter Search, which is posting dozens of items a second about the outage. Gmail’s business e-mail service is also apparently down.
Users already logged into Gmail when the outage started may be able to read messages in their inbox, although sending messages generates an error. [No nothin' at the DailyWireless tower].
The Gmail Blog explains https, but so far nothing about the GMail outage. Https keeps your mail encrypted as it travels between your web browser and servers, so someone sharing your favorite coffee shop’s public wifi can’t read it.
UPDATE: It’s working okay for me, now, in Portland, Oregon.
Did he ever return,
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn’d
He may ride forever
‘neath the streets of Boston
He’s the man who never returned.
– Kingston Trio
Defcon 16, August 8-10, 2008 in Las Vegas, anticipates 5,000 to 7,000 attendees at the annual hacker fest. Lock hacks, contests, and intrigue at Defcon, says C/Net.
The highlight was the restraining order preventing three MIT students from presenting their research on hacking the Boston subway system, says C/Net. The students attended the event and even gave a news conference after the order came down on Saturday, but did not present their highly anticipated talk.
Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is representing the students, called the court order “an illegal prior restraint on legitimate academic research in violation of the First Amendment.”
One of the more controversial events at the event was a “Race to Zero,” in which teams modified samples of viruses and tested them against antivirus software. Four teams managed to complete all the levels and get through the antivirus software.
Robert Graham and David Maynor of Errata Security explained how they could defeat firewalls, intrusion detection systems and even armed security guards by Fedexing a modified iPhone to a fictitious employee. The phone calls home every hour and can then be instructed to sniff network traffic, discover nearby wireless devices and even download information. The idea for shipping an iPhone equipped with WiFi auditing tools like TCP dump and Nmap came mostly out of necessity for Graham and Maynor, explains Dark Reading.
Rick Hill and others “warballooned” , sending a balloon some 150 feet into the air for about 20 minutes. They used special antennas and scanning software to scope out the Las Vegas skyline for unsecured wireless networks on Friday. They scanned about 370 wireless networks up and down the Las Vegas Strip using a WRT54G, Alchemy, Kismet Drone, & IP camera.
Hidden in the back of a 22 foot moving truck, Hill and his team of about a dozen volunteers launched the balloon Friday morning.
Wired’s Threat Level looked behind the scenes and snapped photos of their network gear. Defcon uses about 40 Aruba AP-70 wireless access points.
In the video (above), Defcon founder Jeff Moss, alias “Dark Tangent,” discusses the ethics of hacking and disclosure issues that provoke debate, and often lawsuits, at the event.
Meanwhile, at Black Hat, August 2-7 at Cesear’s Palace, agencies including the FBI, US-CERT, and the military make the pitch for assisting in the U.S.’s fight against cybercrime and cyberwar. A paid ticket to Black Hat Briefings also includes a free admission to DEFCON. Jeff Moss, founder of DEFCON, also runs Black Hat.
Canon has introduced two new multifunction models, the Pixma MP480 and Pixma MP190 Photo All-In-One printers and three new color scanners.
"The popularity of the iPhone makes it an ideal platform for developing applications that incorporate quality real-time VoIP, giving consumers real-world communication experiences like in-game, multi-person chat," said Emerick Woods, GIPS' CEO. According to Steve Rust, vice president of business development for GIPS, "A limited number of development companies are already using the software, but we can't divulge who is developing what, but we anticipate great gaming, chat and multi-party voice applications to hit the market soon." Rust indicated that the software was available now.
VoIP ApplicationsCustomers who now enjoy the voice features of Facebook and MySpace may soon be able to communicate in the same way when accessing the sites on their iPhones -- once a motivated software developer creates the app for iPhone customers. Similar applications that bring voice to instant-messenger software running on the iPhone will also be possible. Also of interest is the possibility that using stable VoIP software on the iPhone would allow users to bypass the AT&T voice network entirely -- all that is required would be a VoIP engine and interface. Users could make calls directly over the Wi-Fi network and avoid the tollgate of a cellular provider.
Apple acknowledged that it would allow Wi-Fi VoIP, but not over other networks, as that would violate its exclusivity contract with AT&T. Numerous blogs already detail ways in which users can enable Skype applications, for example, to place and receive phone calls over Wi-Fi and...
Steve Jobs tells the WSJ’s Nick Wingfield that the iPhone App store is red hot, with 60 million downloads one month after launch.
If sales stay at the current pace, Apple stands to reap at least $360 million a year in new revenue from the App Store, Mr. Jobs said. “This thing’s going to crest a half a billion, soon,” he added. “Who knows, maybe it will be a $1 billion marketplace at some point in time.”“I’ve never seen anything like this in my career for software,” he said.
Apple keeps 30% of the proceeds from application sales while the programs’ creators keep 70%.
Jobs didn’t give an updated sales tally for iPhone 3Gs which sells for $199, half the up-front price of the previous $399 model (with a two year contract). But three days after the new 3G iPhone’s July 11 debut, Apple announced that it had sold 1 million units. It took 74 days for the original iPhone to hit the one million mark.
Tech Crunch summarizes the stats for the Apps Store during the first 30 days:
AT&T offers 3G service in 300 major metropolitan areas while their slower 2.5G EDGE network is available nationwide.
In other news, Global IP Solutions, the leading provider of IP multimedia processing solutions, announced today a voice over IP (VoIP) solution for Apple’s iPhone. GIPS says iPhone developers can quickly integrate VoIP applications for games and social networks.
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Best Buy has announced a pilot rollout of electronic-gear kiosks at major U.S. airports. Nine are already in place, with the remaining three to be deployed by September 1. Airport terminals already sporting the bulky vending machines are: Atlanta (ATL), Boston (BOS), Dallas (DFW), Houston (IAH), Las Vegas (LAS), Los Angeles (LAX), Minneapolis (MSP) and San Francisco (SFO). "These are similar to kiosks consumers are already familiar with," said Jeff Dudash, spokeperson for Best Buy. "Consumers are already comfortable with buying cosmetics and other items like this from vending machines." The company hopes people will flock to vending machines that deliver SD cards, MP3 players and USB cables, as well.
The Price Is RightUnlike $3 bottles of soda and ridiculously expensive hamburgers, Best Buy promises to keep prices low in its vending machines. "These are not airport prices," said Dudash. "Customers can expect the same type of price on items that they'd find in our retail stores."
The kiosks were developed by ZoomSystems, maker of the popular iPod kiosks. ZoomSystems claims it has 61 "ZoomShops" in 11 major U.S. airports already. Other locations that sell kiosks with everything from cosmetics to iPods include hotel lobbies, shopping malls and department stores. The company recently signed a deal with Macy's to set up iPod vending machines in many of its department stores.
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Today, Verizon announced it will implement Visual Voice Mail on the LG Voyager. It will cost $2.99 a month per line. A similar visual voice mail option is available for Sprint’s Samsung Instinct and AT&T’s Apple iPhone, that are available without monthly charges, notes CNet’s Crave.
The Visual Voice Mail system implemented by Verizon is the same as the others; it has a simple interface that lets you pick and choose which voice mail message to listen to, plus you can delete, reply to, and forward each message. The Visual Voice Mail service is powered by Alcatel-Lucent and Comverse.
Alcatel-Lucent is deploying their 5150 Messaging Applications Broker (MAB) to deliver voice, text and video messages through the intuitive visual interface. Visual Voice Mail eliminates the need to dial-in and listen to messages in sequential order.
You can reply with a voice message of your own if the other person is also a Verizon Wireless customer and view certain information like date and time of receipt, message duration, and more, in order to prioritize your response. Verizon lets you store up to 40 messages for 40 days.
It’s currently available only on the LG Voyager but Verizon expects to offer Visual Voice Mail on more devices, but they haven’t said which ones yet.
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