That’s it! Every little piece of news I’ve been wanting to blog but haven’t is complete. Do you know how many blog posts this would have been? Blogging is a full time job and I certainly wish I got paid to do it, but I’m not. On Monday I’m going to tell you who I’m…
Archives for April 2007
AT&T Will Upgrade Its High-Speed Network With Faster Upstream Speeds
AT&T’s Kris Rinne, executive vice-president of network planning and architecture, announces that AT&T plans to upgrade its UMTS/HSPA network to enable faster up-link speeds. With HSDPA pushing down-link data at broadband-speeds, AT&T wants to boost their Cingular wireless network’s current UMTS-based up-link speed using HSUPA. The HSUPA software upgrade would enable peak up-link speeds of…
IXI Mobile’s Ogo 2.0 – Here We ‘Ogo’ Again
The Ogo2.0 is the successor to the not-so-successful Ogo personal communicator from IXI Mobile. The idea behind the device was to keep users connected via Instant Messaging and Email. Conspicuously absent from the original Ogo’s feature set, the lack of voice capability, web-surfing, and camera essentially doomed the Ogo to falter in the shadow of…
Electrifying New Battery Charging Tech
In the quest to make our live truly “wireless,” tech startup Powercast has developed a method to wirelessly transmit power via radio waves. The company says that it harnesses the energy of radio waves to power and recharge devices equipped with a special receiver. This promising new technology has the potential to cut one of…
Motorola’s MC35 Has More Brain Than Beauty
Motorola has introduced a new EDA – that’s Enterprise Digital Assistant – that aims to take the PDA to a whole new level with an “all-in-one communication device that harnesses the voice and data applications people expect from an office setting and delivers them in the form of a durable and compact handheld mobile computer.”…
Can anyone recommend blogging software?
Someone told me to check out RapidWeaver, but I have Windows. Any similar blogging software available that you guys would recommend?
Google buys Nokia and Motorola
Larry Page and Eric Schmidt came to the gross realization today that they haven’t penetrated the mobile market at all. Instead of starting from scratch, an effort that would’ve taken several years, they choose to purchase two of the most important companies in our industry. Motorola is known for the infamous RAZR design and Nokia…
Sony Ericsson W890/W910 leaked photos
Over at Esato forums, user “nextgenerati” posted an intriguing photos of the upcoming Sony Ericsson phone. Apparently, it’s the slider device codenamed “edtna”, possibly the new W910 or W890, that will sport a 2 MP camera, and will be available in a 3G and/or a non-3G version. Photos look real, but the common sense tells…
40% of the UK mobile phone users have a music-enabled handset
M:Metrics has recently released some interesting stats how music phones have penetrated the UK market. According to the study there are 220 mobile phones in the country that can play music, representing 40% of the overall mobile phones marketshare. Ten music-enabled mobile phones account for almost half of mobile music consumption. Not surprisingly Sony Ericsson…
Fantastic four rip-offs: Nokia 5300, LG VX8600, MOTOKRZR K1 and Sony Ericsson W850
It’s weekend and we’re bringing you four rip-offs in a single post. Here are the Chinese “versions” of Nokia 5300 Xpress Music, LG VX8600 (clamshell Chocolate), MOTOKRZR K1, and Sony Ericsson W850. One wonders when will this end?