Mobilog

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

AT&T in Deal to Return to Wireless Market. AT&T, which spun off and then sold its wireless cellphone operation, has signed a five-year deal with Sprint to sell wireless service over Sprint's network. By Kenneth N. Gilpin. [New York Times: Business]
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Computerworld: Wireless LANs Find Their Voice. And thanks to accelerated hardware and software development, these phones are morphing into wireless IP headsets and Star Trek-like voice-activated communicators and software phones, also known as softphones, that are just another program on a laptop or handheld computer. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Palm Sees Uptick in Development of Mobile Enterprise Applications. E-mail and messaging remain the killer apps in mobile wireless. But that may soon change, says PalmSource CEO David Nagel. More than 330,000 now on tap to create applications for the operating system. [eWEEK Technology News]
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RIM Announces Overhauled Enterprise Server. New BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Version 4.0, offers features to ease, enhance and secure enterprise deployments of mobile devices. [eWEEK Technology News]
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Camera Phones Link World to Web. Semacode, a free system released this month, lets users scan bar codes on everyday objects with their camera phones and instantly pull up all sorts of information about them. It's an information bridge between the world and the Web. By Chris Ulbrich. [Wired News]
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Cometa falls from the sky. Cometa Networks Inc. plans to announce Wednesday that it will shut down, after its investors and board of directors decided to pull the plug on the fledgling Wi-Fi hotspot service provider, a spokeswoman for the company said Tuesday.

"The board of directors and the investors decided that the financial return for investors wasn't perceived to be sufficient to attract the required capital for a national network deployment," said Jennifer Gehrt, from Communiqué Public Relations, which handles public relations for Cometa. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Middle East - growth in GSM multimedia networks: an assessment. With the increasing adoption of GPRS (General packet radio services) by telecoms operators across the Middle East, and the more recent launch of 3G (third generation) networks by countries like the UAE, there is a surge of demand for quality Arabic infotainment and entertainment...more. Full Story & Source: cpilive.net [3G Analysis]
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All 3G roads lead to roam for laptop users. Imagine being able to use a global mobile data service that gives connection speeds faster than are possible with 3G services today and that works if you are in the UK, Japan or Australia. This vision inched closer to reality on Wednesday with the news that hardware vendor IP Wireless had begun shipping dual band PC Card modems that would use radio spectrum that has been awarded to 3G operators in Europe, Australasia and the Far East. Full Story & Source: silicon.com [3G Analysis]
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Listening to Wireless Users - Location and Segmentation. In the third of four interviews about how the mobile industry should meet users’ needs, Michael Hulme of researchers Teleconomy talks about how carriers don’t get location and segmentation of their users. Full Story & Source: thefeature.com [3G Analysis]
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Fixed-to-Mobile Substitution: Does 3G makes it more complicated?. Earlier this month, The 3G Portal featured a story that claimed “the road to fixed-mobile substitution starts with 3G” (our emphasis). This is not correct. Nor is it that simple....The report observes that fast and capacious network improvements like 2.5G (EDGE) and 3G (WCDMA) are helping to remove the traditional 2G limitation of needing to maintain high pricing and low usage. With these restraining factors evaporating, then we will see more deliberate strategies by 3G operators to take on the fixed voice call marketFull Story & Source: the3gportal.com [3G Analysis]
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Advanced cellular data services, increased terminal capabilities, and the launch of digital terrestrial TV broadcasting in many countries, are just some of the drivers that have created a market for TV over cellular services. Live TV over cellular services are forecast to be employed by more than 120 million users worldwide by the end of 2010, equating to shipments of approximately 56 million handsets in 2010, according to IMS Research. Worldwide, TV services are forecast to have higher penetration rates into CDMA technologies than into GSM-based technologies. In addition, users with access to cdma2000 1xRTT technology are predicted to be the greatest single TV service user group worldwide. Asia is expected to see the greatest penetration of cellular TV services, followed by the Americas, Europe, and The Middle East & Africa.
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