Thursday, June 24, 2004

Orange, T-Mobile Drink Java. SAN FRANCISCO -- Motorola, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson and Sun... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
5:11:42 PM    comment   

Thanks for the (Handset) Memories. As applications get more complicated, the memory supporting such sophisticated functionality will have to keep up, says ABI Research. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
5:11:18 PM    comment   

Need for Speed. Two wireless operators laid out their high-speed evolution plans- Sprint pledges to go with EV-DO, while Cingular issues a request for proposal on a UMTS buildout. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
5:10:49 PM    comment   

JavaOne - Mobile operators join app testing program. SAN FRANCISCO - Orange SA and T-Mobile AG's T-Mobile Europe unit are the first carriers to join the Java Verified Program, a group formed to ease the approval of Java-based applications for mobile phones and speed them on to carrier networks, Sun Microsystems Inc. is set to announce Thursday.
5:10:20 PM    comment   

Fujitsu's WiFi Cell Phone.

fujitsu_23a.jpg imageI couldn't get the fish to give me a good translation on this page, but I think we can get the gist. A new phone from Fujitsu, running Windows CE .NET (and possible a Linux version?), CF slot, and (here's the good stuff) 802.11b. So the question is, how long before someone writes a program that will capture dialed cellular numbers then switch live calls over to WiFi whenever the phone can find an open access point?
Read [FujitsuJP]

Update: Here's a link to the English version of the release. Thanks, Jon!
Read [Fujitsu]

[Gizmodo]
5:09:59 PM    comment   

Time Warner Considers Mobile Phone Dabble.

daffy_phone.jpg imageFeeling pressured by various phone companies' ability to bundle cable television, internet, and cellular service to their customers, Time Warner is making noise about moving into the mobile provider market itself. Hey maybe they could buy up MCI and become MCI/Time Warner or something? I bet no one would get fired over that.

Don't except Time Warner to do much more than dip a toe in the market, though. They'll most likely end up selling rebranded service a la Virgin Mobile or MTV or my mom or whoever else is reselling services these days. And maybe they'll rape repurpose one of the Loony Tunes characters again, like they did with Roadrunner. I'm sure everyone would love to purchase sputtering cell phone coverage from Porky Pig.
Read [ZDNet]

[Gizmodo]
5:09:37 PM    comment   

Toshiba Develops Prototype "World's Smallest" Fuel Cell.

toshiba_tiny_cell.jpg image

PCWorld is reporting that Toshiba is releasing a fuel cell this year that is being billed as the "World's Smallest," an always-dubious claim, but undeniably appealing, as Toshiba's .9 by 2.2 by .4 inch cell can produce 100 milliwatts of power over 20 hours with just two cubic centimeters of methanol. Oh, actually, as I read this again the small unit a prototype -- it's a notebook-class version they intend to release later in the year, which we sort of already knew about.
Read [Yahoo/PCWorld]

Related
MTI Demos Mobion Fuel Cells on Tapwave Zodiac [Gizmodo]

Update: Have a picture, and a link to the English press release, on me. Actually, here, take two.
Read - Press Release [ToshibaJP]

[Gizmodo]
5:09:03 PM    comment   

Logan Airport using BlackBerries for background checks. Massachusetts State Police are using BlackBerry wireless handheld devices to do background checks on suspicious persons and vehicles at Boston's Logan Airport, comparing information on the scene to a database with information on more than 200 million U.S. residents. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
5:08:31 PM    comment   

Cingular, Sprint PCS, Verizon in cellular data arms race. Cingular Wireless and Sprint PCS announced plans today to deploy high-speed cellular networks over the next two years, setting the stage for a multibillion-dollar high-speed data arms race with Verizon Wireless. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
5:08:06 PM    comment   

Boeing's in-flight broadband launched in Asia. The in-flight broadband Internet access is based on the Connexion by Boeing service. Its launch in Asia follows Lufthansa AG's rollout last month on flights between Munich and Los Angeles. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
5:07:37 PM    comment   

Asia Pac: Shift to Next Generation Networks. TELCOS in the region are moving towards next-generation networks (NGNs) in the wake of increasing customer demand and competition. An NGN is a packet-based multi-service transport which offers rich voice, video and data applications to the end user. Sharat Sinha, Cisco Systems - director of marketing and strategy, service provider operations, Asia-Pacific, says telco movement towards NGN in the region is stimulated by technological and business reasons.Full Story & Source: emedia.com.my [3G Analysis]
5:06:06 PM    comment   

Challenges abound for next generation mobile communications (3G): EU viewpoint. By encouraging 3G, Europe is trying to repeat the success of the GSM standard (2G) which has brought mobile phones to over 80% of consumers in Europe today. However, the Commission identified many challenges before 3G can reach mass market scale...more Full Story & Source: euractiv.com [3G Analysis]
5:05:40 PM    comment   

Can mobile phones replace our wallet?. Yes we believe it can, and it can be smarter: for example applications can be linked and transactions can be more secure. A wallet can be integrated into a mobile phone by including a multi-application smart card. Every application correspondes to a particular traditional function, for example one application can be a particular credit card. These applications can be smarter and more secure than the traditional cards, cash or keys they replace. Such a system is currently under large scale testing in Japan. You can read about wallet phones in more detail here...Full Story & Source: eurotechnology.com/ [3G Analysis]
5:02:18 PM    comment   

South Africa: 3G launch exerts downward pressure on GPRS tariffs. Vodacom promises commercial launch within months; will cut price of older GPRS technology. Ross admits GPRS prices are too high and that this has slowed adoption. When it launches its 3G network later this year, Ross says Vodacom will cut GPRS prices. 3G won[base ']t mean the death of GPRS, he says. For a while, at least, Vodacom[base ']s 3G network will be limited to SA[base ']s major metropolitan areas. Full Story & Source: financialmail.co.za [3G Analysis]
5:01:35 PM    comment   

A Marketer's Dream: Your (3G) Cell Phone. "The potential is there to harness the cell phone to the vast databases of user profiles[~]the dossiers that supermarkets, retailers, and mail-order companies have created on their customers. So far, however technical challenges and privacy concerns have kept many marketers from venturing into customers[base '] pockets and purses. It[base ']s a sensitive business. Anything resembling mobile spam could provoke an angry backlash against marketers. (The arguments in this feature are relevant to those who believe 3G can recoup its costs through m-commerce - Steve).Full Story & Source: textually.org [3G Analysis]
4:40:23 PM    comment   

M-Generation treat mobiles as life-support devices. A new study launched by the Teleconomy Group has revealed that UK society has given birth to the [OE]M-Ager[base '] - individuals born into a generation of mobile users that are so emotionally attached to their phone they don[base ']t see how they could live without it. Full Story & Source: 3gnewsroom.com [3G Analysis]
4:39:57 PM    comment   

Many People Ready To Go Mobile Only, Maybe. LetsTalk (who is hardly an unbiased party) has come out with a study showing that, if coverage were a little better and prices were a little lower, a large percentage of them would be willing to ditch their landlines for mobile phones. Basically, what they[base ']re saying is [base "]if my mobile phone works as well as my home phone, sure I[base ']d ditch my landline.[per thou] This isn[base ']t all that surprising...Full Story & Source: techdirt.com [3G Analysis]
4:39:28 PM    comment   

The Google PC.
On the Google PC, you wouldn't need third-party add-ons to index and search your local files, e-mail, and instant messages. It would just happen. The voracious spider wouldn't stop there, though. The next piece of low-hanging fruit would be the Web pages you visit. These too would be stored, indexed, and made searchable. More ambitiously, the spider would record all your screen activity along with the underlying event streams. Even more ambitiously, it would record phone conversations, convert speech to text, and index that text. Although speech-to-text is a notoriously imperfect art, even imperfect results can support useful search. [InfoWorld.com]
This column is a companion to another from a few weeks ago: Google's supercomputer. Meanwhile I've been working on a story about Longhorn, for which I had long and an extremely interesting interview with Quentin Clark, the architect of director of program management for WinFS. I'd like to transcribe the whole thing to post along with the story, when it runs, but the upshot is that Microsoft is planning more and better integration between WinFS and XML -- both in terms of data definition and query -- than I'd previously heard, which is welcome news. ... [Jon's Radio]
4:37:44 PM    comment   

Due to what Gilder calls "regulatory sclerosis," demand for last-mile broadband fiber is going unmet in the United States. Instead, high-speed wireless access services can leapfrog the fiber lines directly to your computer and provide even higher rates of data transmission-- over the same CDMA network that's already in place to route cell phone traffic. In fact, wireless bandwidth may soon surpass the bandwidth of broadband to the home, and the Centrino chips from Intel that enable wireless access on PCs, will become obsolete.

4:36:56 PM    comment   

Worms Like Wireless Phones, Too. A new worm is thought to be the first pest that spreads itself from phone to phone by means of the Blue-tooth wireless technology. By J. D. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology]
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