Posts Tagged with ‘wireless’

… and all I got was this bricked iPhone.
You may have heard something or other about a phone that got released today? I didn't even go stand in line, bad tech blogger that I am, but my husband gleefully stood in line for nearly four hours to get his phone, and surprised me with one (even after my well-documented complaints) as well thanks to the largesse of a gift certificate that had been planned for the pre-3G phone pricing.
A summary [...]

Yesterday, I tuned in to no fewer than three liveblogs for the announcement of the phone I've been waiting for: the 3G iPhone. Last year I even replaced my Motorola RAZR at the unsubsidized price just so I could get the iPhone 3G when they finally came out with one, so yesterday's announcement had me darn near hysteria.
Today, however, the dust has settled. And Apple and AT&T may just have conspired to lose themselves a customer who was willing to [...]

It’s January 1st, and we’re creeping ever closer to the day of the 700MHz spectrum auction, a so far widely publicized event to be orchestrated by the FCC. Some 260 or so applicants have submitted their names as participants in the process, including Google, AT&T, Qualcomm, and Alltel. Even Chevron is on the roster.
We mention this contest once more here at Profy for the fact that Forbes, a highly-regarded publication with a primarily business-centric focus, recently put forth [...]

Red Herring late last week published a speculative piece questioning Google’s candor in seeking the 700MHz spectrum to be auctioned in January. The article’s author, Cassimir Medford, pondered whether the Web giant truly does seek the “C” block it now officially claims to crave, or simply wishes to instigate a disturbance in the world of wireless communications in the US through a public showing of intent, throwing its financial weight around as a means of attaining the end [...]

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 [...]

We all knew the memo would come.
It’s the last day of November, and Google’s decided it fitting to top its monthly quota of announcements off with an official notice of intent to “apply to bid for wireless spectrum” in the new year.
The collective reaction from the public? Finally.
Yes, the message has been delivered not a moment too soon. And, looking at the FCC’s auction rules, just shy of the deadline. The commission has declared December 3rd, 2007 the cutoff [...]

Earlier this week we touched a bit upon the topic of Amazon?s debut of its own e-book reader, dubbed Kindle, focusing a good deal on the general stuff concerning the item. You know, how the device would presumably do in an era still mostly averse to electronic books; whether it?s selling point of ?free? wireless 3G access will make it a hit; whether the experience is similar enough to the tried-and-true pulp-based paper equivalent to warrant the attention it?s so [...]

Yesterday, Amazon’s main man, Jeff Bezos, took the press for a ride to a predicted future where trees grow as they please, no longer threatened by pulp-hungry paper mills, and where the invention known as the e-book finally gets the acclaim it’s been due.
That is, if such critical celebration is even warranted. Which is somewhat difficult to say definitively at the moment. Difficult for me to say, anyway.
Why? It all has to do with the medium – meaning [...]

You’ve seen it happen. You may have experienced it yourself one or more times in your youthful years. For an unlucky percentage of the global population, the horror can even continue into the stretch of taxpaying careerdom.
“It”, or “the horror”, is, you may have already guessed, bullying. Yes, bullying. The punches, the slaps in the face, the wedgies, the name-calling, the locker-room antagonism. All of it falls under that deeply impactful term, one that can remain clearly fixed in one’s [...]