- Apple IPhone Has Wireless Industry Scrambling to Keep Up on Wired: “…the one million customer inquiries that AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson said his company has received regarding the iPhone are not a million pre-orders, and no one will know how much of a chunk Apple will eventually bite from the cellular market.” Yea, but everybody else in the wireless industry would kill for a million inquiries about a single handset.
- AT&T to speed up HSDPA, add dozens of new markets on RCR Mobile News: “AT&T Inc.’s wireless division {formerly Cingular} is testing an upgrade to its HSDPA network {brand name is BroadbandConnect} that the carrier says will dramatically increase uplink speeds…. from current uplink peak speeds of 384 kilobits per second and averages of 150 to 200 kbps, the… upgrade will put uplink peak speeds in the range of 1.5 megabits per second.” [ via Atmaspheric | Endeavors ]
- April Fool’s Pranks For Nerds on Wired: “The best geek pranks involve making a gadget or a piece of software appear ‘broken.’ Since the tech savvy will quickly notice these pranks, they are best performed on the inept, the perpetually preoccupied and the woefully unaware.”
- Ten of the best April Fool’s Day hoaxes: US museum, AFP article on BreitBart: ” Here are 10 of the top April Fool’s Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped.” Imagine the impact of Sid Finch on the Mets roster today.
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