I got 3 separate emails asking me why I didn’t blog about this. I did. A week ago.

I want this built into every Nokia phone ASAP. 5x lower power consumption, faster pairing and NFC … what’s not to love! Did you see the demo? It totally blew my mind. Read the Press Release over at Bluetooth.com for more info. Via: Matthew Miller

Semi on topic: I love NFC. More so than words can describe. It is absolutely brilliant and I have no idea why we don’t have it here in the states yet. Check out what they’re doing in Japan with NFC 2.0!

Engadget Mobile: Do you believe that mobile carriers are to controlling in the actual design (hardware and software) of cellular handsets these days? If so, you’ll probably love an opinion paper by Columbia law professor Timothy Wu. Wu suggests that cellphone design and innovation is being inhibited by cellular service providers. We all know why…

Is this a dream? Have we landed in some alternate reality where the world’s hottest devices inexplicably rock 3G radios with compatibility on American bands? That’s the only conceivable explanation we can come up with after catching wind that HTC’s X7500 / Athena / T-Mobile Ameo will pack not one, not two, but three frequencies…

Some time ago I blogged about a talk given by Nokia Australia General Manager Shaun Colligan at a Leadership Matters seminar in Perth on the impact of mobile technology on the media. It wasn’t long after that I got in touch with Shaun and told him what we were doing at PerthNorg and we agreed…

Eyeball, the VoIP Call Completionâ„¢ company, today released AnyFirewallâ„¢ Engine, a firewall and NAT traversal SDK that incorporates the most comprehensive implementation of STUN, TURN and ICE. Together with AnyFirewall Server, AnyFirewall Engine ensures 100% seamless call completion for VoIP phones, services and applications. The growth of the Internet has created a global shortage of…

I listened to this during breakfast, 15 minutes is all you need. Rafe has a chat with Ewan and they discuss how much CES and Las Vegas rocked, Nokia’s position in America vs Europe, the significance of the iPhone on the mobile industry, and briefly touch upon 3GSM. Enjoy it! Source: All About Symbian Direct…

Nokia and Engin promise that “making Internet phone calls with the Nokia N80 Internet Edition is as easy as making a traditional phone call”, with Ilkka Tales, CEO of Engin saying that: “People are increasingly using Internet Telephony to dramatically reduce the cost of their home and business phone bills. Now we can offer them…

Jan is an anthropologist, a VERY interesting title if I do say so myself. He travels the world and talks about technologies impact on society. Very deep stuff, definitely something I’d love to do for the rest of my life. Wouldn’t you want to travel the world? Anyway here is some more info from his…