Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/4517/the-best-mobile-search-engine In this first video Robert Scoble talks to Bob Lastt from Taptu about search engines on mobile phones. It is quite long so if you want to go straight to a demo of the Taptu service just watch the second video. Back…
T-Mobile gives in, allows pro-rated early termination fees
Contract killing has never been so sweet. No, we’re not condoning homicide-for-hire, we’re talking about killing your wireless contract with your wireless carrier. AT&T already gave in to consumer demand, and Verizon recently jumped on the pro-rating bandwagon, so it’s not really surprising that our favorite US carrier is now offering a pro-rated Early Termination…
Sprint Arcade – subscription gaming for mobile phones, seriously
Poor Sprint. They’re always getting the short-end of the wireless-market-stick as the No. 3 national carrier. Their CEO is gone. They just had their WiMAX aspirations knocked down a notch with the recent WiMAX 3G standardization. The whole WiMAX deal is still on the table. So, now Sprint’s trying to regain lost ground in their…
Successful initial test of Finland’s next-gen wireless broadband LTE network
Remember that new 4G tech that Verizon was considering for their next-gen wireless broadband network? Yea, well, the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) protocol isn’t just being considered in Finland, the ultra-fast high-speed wireless 4G protocol has already wrapped up a successful trial in Nokia’s homeland. The LTE/SAE (Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution) Trial Initiative (LSTI) kicked…
Nokia sells music and games, Sony Ericsson will do the same in 6 months
Nokia’s Music Store, currently in the UK only, and the N-Gage gaming service, currently delayed until December, are all efforts under a new branding scheme called Ovi. Sony Ericsson wants in on this action too and they have announced plans to launch a service called PlayNow Arena. No details for pricing, but some interesting tidbits…
Theft protection for the mobile warrior – SprintSecure Laptop Guardian does EVDO, anti-theft
Being completely mobile endows a sense of freedom that no cubicle can match. There’s nothing like traveling all over the place with a wireless data connection ready to do your bidding. That is, until you get jacked for your laptop. The one problem with rocking the mobile warrior lifestyle is that you have to essentially…
Kylie Minogue beats breast cancer, launches mobile social network
In our world of ever increasing mobile phone usage and likewise popular social networks, is it really all that surprising that pop-star Kylie Minogue has launched a new mobile social network? Well, not really, but we still give her props for battling cancer, winning, and celebrating by bringing the world another mobile social network. The…
Day-light savings time screws with some Alltel customers. Did you get shafted?
Day-light savings time. It’s the quirky American tradition to squeeze out as much productivity out of the general working populace by rolling back (or forward) the clock to keep daylight in time with business hours. And, with more and more people relying on their mobile phone for telling time, bugs and glitches have the potential…
Sprint considering WiMAX network options
It seems the Sprint/Clearwire alliance that we assumed was a lock is now in question. Sprint is now on the lookout for creative ways to put that ear-marked $5 billion to good use. The WiMAX proponent in the US can still seal the deal and join forces with Clearwire to bring the 3G WiMAX network…
Speaking of “fair-use” – O2 UK kills 200MB “unlimited data” limit for iPhone users
Unlimited data plans, and their carrier-defined usage limits, have been getting a lot of coverage recently. Wireless carriers love to use the term “fair-use” to define their policies regarding these supposed “unlimited data” plans. But, to whom, exactly, are these policies “fair?” Not the consumer, that’s for sure. O2, Apple’s partner carrier in the UK,…