Posts Tagged with ‘wireless’

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 [...]

I have to say, I expected Verizon’s dispute with the open, Google-proposed terms for the 700MHz auction (scheduled to occur in January) to stretch well into the red, but apparently the telco has already ceased its moaning and groaning. Ars Technica’s Eric Bangeman reports that “earlier this week, (Verizon) filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss the case filed last month with the Court of Appeals….”
Of course, Verizon hasn’t completely lost its money-grubbing head and suddenly gone straight and [...]

Mozilla, the organization arguably responsible for giving the term browser extension great meaning and prominence in an increasingly Web-centric world, has made known its plans to “revitalize its mobile development efforts,” promising to deliver its first issuance of Firefox Mobile sometime in the not-too-distant future.
Not too distant, meaning sometime after Firefox 3 is offered as an official public release. Firefox 3, for those unaware, has yet to be so much as provided as something for Mozilla’s core of beta testers [...]

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 [...]

As amazing and as newsworthy as the iPhone might seem to be, it?s got a long way to go before it really makes itself at home in the land of ubiquity. In fact, in terms of sheer numbers, the Apple device doesn?t hold a candle to the long-reigning king of the smartphone world, the BlackBerry, in all its various iterations.
So when the blogosphere talks of the debut of cool new Web 2.0 mobile-specific sites, should we by default talk [...]

The division of Newscorp responsible for the company’s online offerings, Fox Interactive Media, announced Monday a version of MySpace formatted to fit mobile phone users’ screens, accessible free of charge and with no strings other than the require that one has the ability to roam the Web via their mobile device.
No need to be an AT&T or Helio subscriber (mind you, no word on whether this delivery is being made available across international boundaries, though I can’t imagine why [...]

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, open is good. Open is very good. It allows for lots of cooperation, commiseration, and, believe it or not, progression. Yes, progression. It’s true.
Unfortunately, Verizon Wireless doesn’t appear to like progression all that much.
The company has filed suit in federal court, asking that the rules the FCC is "imposing on the winner of valuable wireless airwaves to be auctioned this winter" be struck down and removed from the sales sheet, as it [...]

More Google news today, this nugget coming from the mouthpiece of the company, Eric Schmidt.
Talking in Aspen Colorado at an annual summit held by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the Google CEO spoke for the principal of free speech and the need to open networks (presumably the wireless variety) to ensure advancement of communications. Oh, and he also made it a point to tell those in attendance that his company would “probably” bid on the 700 MHz spectrum to be [...]