Vint Cerf, who many herald as the father of the internet, it was either him or Al Gore, neither you or I really care, is one hell of a forward thinking individual. He developed Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) in the late 1990s because he knew that one day men and women would be flying all…
Rumor: Next generation iPhone to be RFID enabled
Chalk this one up as a highly suspicious piece of information, but Einar Rosenberg, who is in charge of the Near Field Communications group on LinkedIn, a social network no one really uses anymore except those trying to find a higher paying job and to show off which fancy schools or companies they’ve worked for,…
Brief: Google paying Best Buy to preinstall Google Mobile Applications on devices
Google and Best Buy have announced a partnership whereby Best Buy employees will offer to install the Google Mobile Application for customers purchasing mobile phones from a retail Best Buy store. It wasn’t mentioned how much money Best Buy would receive from Google, but rumored estimates range from “I’m going to leave my job and…
Dentyne Chewing Gum: Tapping into the growing number of people discontent with social networks
Few advertisements have the power to stop me in my tracks, make me think, and then smile. Dentyne, a manufacture of chewing gum, are running two advertisements in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit that remind people that communicating with people digitally can never, and will never, reach the fidelity of “face time”. Since…
Car Finder: An iPhone app for those of you who park miles away from an entrance
America is so big that an iPhone application like Car Finder [iTunes link] had to be written. You haven’t experienced American capitalism at its most sinister until you’ve walked from one end of a Super Wal-mart to the other. Such large abominations stocking goods produced in South Asia have parking lots that go farther than…
Why don’t operators start charging for mobile data like the do for broadband at home?
Many of you are surfing IntoMobile, downloading illegal torrents, and watching a YouTube video of a cat playing the keyboard, all at the same time thanks to broadband. I personally don’t know anyone who uses dialup, and I doubt you do as well. Have you ever stopped and thought to yourself why the business model…
Nokia Siemens Networks: So we lost the bid for Nortel’s wireless unit, can we get their fiber optic stuff?
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) disappointingly lost the auction for Nortel’s wireless unit. Those assets would have given them a strong upper hand in the LTE patent space, but more importantly it would have given them a chance to get some business on the other side of the pond. No use in crying over spilled milk…
IDC + Canalys: Q3 2009 was a record breaker for smartphone shipments
The economy, which is experiencing either a recession, or depression depending on who you ask, is starting to look better, but make no mistake, a lot of people are still hurting and will continue to hurt for a few more years. It’s surprising then that in the midst of all this belt tightening and frugal…
Telenor: There’s nothing to do in Norway, so we’re going to rebuild our wireless network
Norway, home of browser vendor Opera, and delicious lutefisk, has a population of less than 5 million people and is roughly the size of the state of New Mexico. I’m sharing these facts with you to give some context to the next statement: Telenor, the number one operator in Norway, is going to rebuild their…
Video: The Spirit of Berlin, an iPhone controlled minivan
A few students at the Freie Universität Berlin got together and modified a Dodge minivan (also called people carrier in the UK) into a remote control car, with the controller being an iPhone. It’s pretty freaking wild.