January 6, 2005

Working Women Inspired Toward "Life Simplication" in 2005: Turn Off The Phone...

Rugged Elegant Living: Baileys reported the results of a recent survey today regarding British working women. Their findings revealed that "information overload" is a major cause of stress in women's lives. In 2005, "Life Simplification" will be the key to...
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September 1, 2004

Philadelphia Considers Wireless Access For All

Yahoo! News: City officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot. The ambitious plan, now under discussion, would involve placing thousands of small transmitters around the city -- probably...
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July 8, 2004

Destination Wi-Fi, by Rail, Bus or Boat

The New York Times: In the United States, nearly six million people commute daily by public transportation, according to the Department of Transportation. Few operators offer wireless Internet access in their stations and terminals - much less on board -...
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June 28, 2004

Mobile Phones Exceed Fixed Line Phones

Financial Times: The number of people attracted to voice calls continues to grow. Throughout 2004, around 800,000 new subscribers have joined the mobile world every day, driven by strong growth in emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil. There...
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June 23, 2004

BEDD: Social Networking Meets Bluetooth

Yahoo! News: Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to mobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby. She is an early customer of a service in Singapore called BEDD that uses Bluetooth wireless communications to scan...
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June 6, 2004

Grassroots Wi-Fi Is 'Potentially Monumental'

The New York Times: Meanwhile, thousands of free hot spots have been established by public agencies, mom-and-pop businesses hoping to attract customers and individuals working to build a grass-roots based network. A handful of city governments, some in cooperation with...
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May 14, 2004

Wireless Broadband: Craig McCaw's Secret Plan

BusinessWeek Online: Although McCaw won't say what he's up to, the deals have again made him the talk of telecom. The wireless broadband technology he's investing in has the potential to be one of the most disruptive forces in the...
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May 10, 2004

Broadband Over Powerlines?

DigitalJournal.com: The Federal Communications Commission is looking into complaints from amateur radio operators about the use of electrical power lines for providing broadband internet service, a concept known as BPL, for Broadband over Power Lines. Many power companies and some...
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May 9, 2004

Pac-Man Hits The Streets

The New York Times: One recent sunny morning, in the student center overlooking Washington Square Park, four New York University graduate students wearing brightly colored sheets and sneakers and carrying cellphones gathered for a mission. Somewhere out there on the...
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May 7, 2004

Australian Teleportation Breaktrhough

The Age (Australia): Superfast computers, unbreakable codes and completely secure communications are a step closer, with Australian scientists demonstrating how to teleport data to multiple receivers. This follows the major breakthrough two years ago when members of the Australian National...
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May 3, 2004

RFID and Wi-Fi Watch The Kids

Legoland, the Danish equivalent of Disneyland, is the test bed of a new Wi-Fi version of Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags, the technology making converts everywhere from the halls of the U.S. Pentagon to the aisles of retail giant...
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April 16, 2004

Wireless Blooms Beyond Wi-Fi

BW Online: It's just one example of how the unlicensed portion of the radio spectrum is turning into a hothouse of technological innovation. For years, these radio frequencies were neglected, the lonely domain of cordless phones and microwave ovens. In...
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April 6, 2004

Reaching Out With VoIP

San Jose Mercury News: When was the last time you ooohhed and aaahed at your telephone? Probably never, right? Because let's face it, the traditional home phone may be amazingly reliable, but its coolness factor is almost zero. This might...
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April 5, 2004

First Soap Opera for Mobile Phone

Yahoo! News: The launch of TV's first-ever soap for the tiny mobile phone screen might not suit everyone's taste, but it is living proof that the TV and digital worlds are merging. With this convergence due to transform the average...
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March 19, 2004

Mobile Data: WiMax Versus 3G

Yahoo! News: Just when mobile operators are finally getting their costly third-generation (3G) networks up and running, a new wireless technology pushed by the computer industry is about to mess things up. At stake are tens of billions of euros...
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March 9, 2004

Multimedia Messaging (MMS) Booming In China

Taipei Times: China's top dotcoms believe multimedia messaging services (MMS) will become a gold mine sustaining their profit growth, and have earmarked large sums for aggressive development, state Chinese media said yesterday. Sohu.com Inc, one of China's three large NADAQ-listed...
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March 4, 2004

Game Market for Mobile Phones

Mercury News: Hawkins said Digital Chocolate will create sports games that resemble fantasy sports leagues, as well as titles for women that emphasize social networking. While he acknowledges that Digital Chocolate is late to the cell phone game, he said...
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February 27, 2004

Technology Jobs Moving To Asia

Yahoo! News: Technology companies are seeing a rebound in business, but top executives this week said any jobs added to meet growing demand will likely be in countries where labor is cheaper than the United States. Executives speaking at the...
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February 23, 2004

Nokia Leaps Into Wi-Fi

WSJ.com (subscription): Nokia Corp., in a move that could loosen cellphone operators' grip on the wireless market, plans to unveil Monday its first handset capable of surfing the Internet using short-range wireless technology known as Wi-Fi. Nokia's Communicator 9500 will...
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February 16, 2004

Instant Messaging A Fact of Life For Kids

Mercury News: These days, when Alex wants to go to a friend's house or to play video games, he'll go to his computer and shoot me a quick instant message. It's easier -- and far safer -- than bursting into...
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February 13, 2004

F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet

New York Times: Homes could start being connected to the Internet through electrical outlets, and consumers and business may find it easier to make cheaper telephone calls online under new rules that the Federal Communications Commission began preparing on Thursday....
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February 12, 2004

Information Technology May Have Cured Low Service-Sector Productivity

New York Times: But the recent evidence compiled by Mr. Triplett and Mr. Bosworth shows that information technology may just be the cure for Baumol's disease. They found that from 1995 to 2001, labor productivity in services grew at a...
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February 10, 2004

Nokia Boosts Stake In Smart Cell Phone OS

Mercury News: Nokia will become majority owner of Symbian as Psion becomes the second co-founder to cash out of the mobile device software consortium only months after boosting its investment by acquiring part of Motorola's stake. The purchase of Psion's...
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January 21, 2004

Intel Outlines Broadband Wireless Vision

MSN Money: Broadband wireless technologies will help bring the next five billion users to the Internet, an Intel Corporation executive explained today at the Wireless Communications Association (WCA) annual symposium. Sean Maloney, Intel executive vice president and general manager of...
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January 19, 2004

Voice Over IP Trends

NewsFactor Network: But VoIP is not just a way of transmitting phone calls on the cheap, says De Beer. "It is, and will be, a component of a range of broadband applications that will combine voice, data and other communications...
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How Your Mobile Could Be Spying on You

Mirror.co.uk (UK): It's the kind of thing that only happens in films... The hero, desperately searching for a terrorist or kidnap victim, taps their name into a computer. A map comes up on the screen, pinpointing the precise location of...
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How Your Mobile Could Be Spying on You

Mirror.co.uk (UK): It's the kind of thing that only happens in films... The hero, desperately searching for a terrorist or kidnap victim, taps their name into a computer. A map comes up on the screen, pinpointing the precise location of...
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January 12, 2004

Feds seek wiretap access via VoIP

MSN Tech & Gadgets: The FBI and the Justice Department have renewed their efforts to wiretap voice conversations carried across the Internet. The agencies have asked the Federal Communications Commission to order companies offering voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service...
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January 6, 2004

D.C. Bans Hand-Held Cell Phones in Cars

Yahoo! News: It won't be a capital offense in this capital city, but motorists caught driving while juggling their cell phones could end up with a ticket and a $100 fine starting in July. The District of Columbia City Council...
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January 5, 2004

A Debate on Web Phone Service

New York Times: If the issue were limited to the 100,000 or so customers currently using Internet-based telephones, the debate might remain largely theoretical. But the service seems on the verge of a takeoff. The field's current leader is the...
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December 30, 2003

Mobile Phones & Touch Screen Interfaces

SMH.com: With the Internet now entrenched in business, a new wave of opportunity is emerging to extend beyond the network and into the physical environment. Mobile phone technology has become one of the key ways for extending the reach of...
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December 15, 2003

Voice Over IP

New York Times: Politicians have worked hard to keep access to Internet connections and many forms of Internet communication free from regulation and taxation. But the debate over how government treats the Internet is likely to reach a new level...
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December 14, 2003

Free Wi-Fi Blankets San Francisco

TechTV: A project to help bring free Wi-Fi to the masses is picking up steam in the San Francisco Bay area. If it succeeds, it could become a model for other similar networks all over the world. On "Tech Live,"...
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December 11, 2003

AT&T Joins Fray for Cheaper Calls Through the Web

New York Times: This certainly is a significant event," Kate Griffin, an analyst with the Yankee Group, a market research firm, said of AT&T's impending move, noting it may well be the most aggressive effort yet by a major telephone...
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December 2, 2003

DoCoMo seen offering Linux-based 3G phones

Reuters: NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile operator, aims to offer third-generation (3G) handsets that run on the Linux-based operating system as early as the second half of 2004, according to a source close to the firm. Linux software is free...
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November 28, 2003

Cell Phone Viruses

The Rutland Herald Online: As more consumers begin surfing the Web and sending e-mail messages on cell phone and hand-held devices, along comes a new worry: worms and viruses that spread via Internet-enabled handsets. The problem is still small, with...
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November 16, 2003

Massively Multiplayer Interactive Soap Opera Style Games with Mobile Phone

IT Director: ... There are a growing number of retail store outlets selling Tolkien and Moorcock-esque wargaming figures and an apparently strong appetite for buying them. There are a number of successful online Internet multiplayer games, Everquest, for example, has...
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November 13, 2003

Silex Claims Silicon Breakthrough

Light Reading.com: One of the most sought after prizes in the global semiconductor industry – the demonstration of optical gain in silicon – has been successfully achieved by Silex subsidiary Translucent Photonics Inc, in Silicon Valley, California. “This is a...
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November 12, 2003

Netherlands university rolls out enormous hot spot

ZDNet: The University of Twente in the Netherlands has rolled out a unique campus-wide wireless hot spot, claimed to be the biggest in Europe. Covering 140 hectares (346 acres) with 650 Cisco Aironet 1200 series access points, it supports more...
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October 27, 2003

Sony, DoCoMo Join on 'Smart Card' Phones

My Way News: TOKYO (AP) - Sony Corp. and Japan's top mobile phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, plan to cooperate in developing a system that will allow people to use their cell phones to pay for train tickets or buy items...
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October 19, 2003

Cellphone Deals Sweeten in Face of New Rule on Keeping Number

New York Times: Bet Sirianni is the subject of an intensifying courtship. The overtures -- like the recent offer for a free second cellular phone -- may win her over to a longer-term relationship. Her mobile phone service provider, AT&T...
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October 17, 2003

Physicists Smash Internet Speed Record

CBC News: Researchers have more than doubled the world speed record for internet data transfer. Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland sent the equivalent of a full-length DVD movie in about seven seconds. Colleagues at the California...
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October 14, 2003

To Whom May I Direct Your Free Call?

New York Times: In the fall of 2000, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis had not yet earned any powerful enemies, at least so far as they were aware. They were just two obscure Swedish entrepreneurs who had worked with three...
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October 13, 2003

Cell Phones Now Debit Cards in S. Korea

AP via Yahoo! News: Kim Won-jung walked up to a vending machine and bought an orange drink. But rather than insert coins, she paid with the press of a cell phone button. Kim's Samsung handset has a debit card inside,...
Posted by Timothy Fredel at 11:24 PM | See the full story

October 6, 2003

The Changing Face of Communication

San Francisco Chronicle: For Melvin Patterson, who has been completely deaf since he was a toddler, communication is a visual experience. In the past, conducting a conversation using traditional nonvisual telecommunications tools like telephones and pagers was frustrating. Text...
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September 28, 2003

Dialing the future at Dartmouth

International Herald Tribune: Perhaps because of its geographic remoteness, Dartmouth College in the small town of Hanover, New Hampshire, has long been willing to try novel means of communication. The college introduced e-mail messaging on its campus in the 1980's,...
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September 23, 2003

Expanding Market for Digital Memory Cards

Power Digital Card Press Release: To meet the exponential increasing demands of the digital market for memory cards, PDC (Power Digital Card) completed its first phase of expansion and is expected to reach the monthly production throughput of 6 million...
Posted by Timothy Fredel at 2:00 PM | See the full story

September 17, 2003

Wireless Domain Faces Big Changes

Charleston.Net: The new rules allowing for number portability will lead to fat discounts and shifting control of cell phones used for business, industry insiders predict. "It will turn the wireless world upside down," said Susan Cheney, Midwest vice president for...
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September 8, 2003

Asian Mobile Phone Makers Push Nokia

Daily Express, Sabah, Malaysia: Asia's mobile phone makers are mounting an aggressive campaign to build their presence in the region but challenging the dominance of heavyweight Nokia will be tough, analysts said. ... Asian mobile phone makers, already major domestic...
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August 31, 2003

More Companies Are Routing Calls via Internet

New York Times: Internet telephony, as it is known, is no longer restricted to adventurous techies. The technology, based on software technology that enables the Internet to route traffic, has matured to the point that voice quality is virtually indistinguishable...
Posted by Timothy Fredel at 10:33 PM | See the full story
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