Posts Tagged with ‘3g’

You have the most successful touchscreen handset on the market, your brand image could sell contacts to the blind, and guess what?  You are largely responsible for a roadblock in the advancement of mobile social networking.  What I'm referring to is the fact that new iPhone applications are not allowed to run continuously as a background processes. 
Of course, I doubt Apple or its head man Steve Jobs directly intend to inhibit the advancement of mobile social media by [...]

It’s safe to say that a good portion of the world resides in a 3G era. It's here in North America. It's over there in Europe, and Asia. And in numerous pockets elsewhere. Wireless broadband, though short of being a quantitatively “mainstream” convenience (in the way, say, domestic DSL and cable Internet services are today), is all over the globe. And if it's not everywhere, it soon will be. Looking at where we've come from, it's reasonable to think that [...]

Earlier this week we brought you word about Skype’s imminent delivery of a mobile phone, which the company partnered with the international wireless network, 3 (Three), to provide consumers in many parts of the world with mobile VoIP calling and IM service. Well, folks, it’s arrived.
Today, the 3 Skypephone, as it has been labeled, is released to the UK market.
The debut of this official wireless-network-sanctioned wireless VoIP device is a first for a major Western carrier, and one that [...]

Skype has for a while shown to maintain just a small piece of itself in the world of wireless communications, what with its relatively lackluster sales of Skype-specific handsets (think Netgear, Philips, and SMC VoIP devices). Now the eBay-owned company is set to enter into the great big sea of cordless chatter with its announcement of the impending debut of its first cellular-network-backed handset in a new partnership with the international cellular network, 3.
The device, to be made available on [...]

Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of the globally phenomenal VoIP institution, Skype, recently spoke at a conference in Budapest about the company?s substantial success in a supposed effort to quell unease about seemingly low financial returns recently released by the entity?s proprietor, eBay.
Currently occupied with running the IPTV venture, Joost, Zennstrom highlighted Skype?s achievement of attaining some 220 million users, and predicted that the company would begin to garner ?substantial income? further down the road. Skype brought in $90 million in revenue [...]

Let me start this off by stating that I recognize the intention as good. Apple making strides to bridge its soon-to-be-released iPhone with the wealth of content YouTube providesis a no-brainer. All those video clips wrapped inside a luscious UI to take with you wherever you go? What could be better? (High-resvideo clips wrapped in a luscious UI, of course. I presume that’ll come with time.)
There’s a problem with iPhone-YouTube picture today, however, and it has to do with a [...]

Pandora, the wonderful online custom radio service, will soon be treading very deep water if and when the Copyright Royalty Board of the United States Library of Congress institutes the proposed internet radio rate hike in a number of weeks. So the company has to keep ahead of the game by an extra few feet at all times. Its newest move may prove smart enough to ensure that the company has quite a bit of life left [...]

You see them everywhere these days. Mobile video messages. Mobile web. Mobile MySpace. It’s hard to ignore it all, especially with the advent of 3G and beyond. They’re said to be the next frontier in Web 2.0. Only, there’s a problem, and a big one at that: the fee.
We’re not charged only for voice. We pay as well for email on the go, those text messages from our phones to our buds’ – even videos can’t be uploaded to YouTube [...]