Three “important” people are going to have to go to their local office supply store and pick up some new business cards. Tim Bray, co-creator of the XML specification, left Oracle to join Google. He’s going to be an Android Developer Advocate, otherwise known as a cheerleader. His frank and honest blog post about why…
Hot Off the Press: The 6 page FCC Broadband Plan [Can I haz 300 MHz of spectrum in 5 years?]
The FCC has just published a scan of the 6 page document (seriously, the American government rocks my socks!) that they’re going to give to Congress in hopes that they’ll meet their demands. Within the first two paragraphs you can tell the FCC really cares about broadband, and are going so far as to call…
Spectrum auction in the UK may be delayed because Vodafone and O2 don’t like the terms
While America wrapped up their spectrum auction nearly 2 years ago, with Verizon being the winner and announcing that they’ll have an LTE network up and running by the end of this year, many countries on this side of the pond are still flipping through their agendas, trying to find a good date to get…
Nokia launches “Design by Community”, because “Design by Committee” is already trademarked
Nokia Design is looking to mess with your mind. They want you, oh humble blog reader who is either A) addicted to the internet to such an extent that you’d kill yourself if Facebook went away, or B) someone in India who has an unhealthy obsession with the Nokia brand because you’ve fooled yourself into…
Deutsche Telekom: We need more bitches up in this management hizzouse
Deutsche Telekom Germany, otherwise known as T-Mobile, will be instituting a quota, more accurately described as goal, to have 30% of their upper a middle management positions be filled by women by the year 2015. “Having a greater number of women at the top will quite simply enable us to operate better” said CEO René…
Photo: Nokia C6 press shot leaked, it’s got a touch screen with a side sliding QWERTY keyboard
What you’re looking at is a leaked press shot of the Nokia C6, the second device in Nokia’s new Cseries. If I had to guess the specifications, and this is purely speculation here, I’d say the C6 has a 3.2 inch screen, WiFi, GPS, and will not cost more than 250 EUR ($345). It’s supposed…
Ultrabrief: Microsoft posts, then removes, Silverlight beta for Symbian
Update: It’s official, one day after this blog post went live. Click here to grab the bits. Over 2 years ago Microsoft and Nokia announced that Silverlight will be making its way to S40, S60 (Symbian), and Maemo (now MeeGo). They finally came through on March 11th, delivering the bits for Symbian, but then it…
MIX 2010 starts in a few hours, here’s how to get live coverage [Windows Phone Series 7]
MIX, Microsoft’s conference for developers with designer blood running through their veins, is going to kick off in a few hours at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino. Will and our new rockstar writer Marin will be there, but will the allure of all those gambling machines, street hookers and cheap drugs keep their coverage…
TeliaSonera: Our LTE network is barely 3 months old, but we’re upgrading it anyway; 100 Mbps
TeliaSonera, owner of the first commercial LTE network in the world, only launched their advanced network 3 months ago, yet those crazy Swedes can’t get enough bandwidth and are upgrading their service to offer a theoretical maximum speed of 100 Mbps. We’ve seen early benchmarks hit a peak speed of 43 Mbps, yet only maintain…
Nokia to change how they measure mobile industry unit shipments, will include Asian counterfeits
Nokia released a press release today stating that they’re going to be “revising its definition of the industry mobile device market that it uses to estimate industry volumes”. The new definition will include “vendors of legitimate, as well as unlicensed and counterfeit, products with manufacturing facilities primarily centered around certain locations in Asia and other…