Category: Gadget-related Services
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Verizon Wireless Launches SMS Traffic Alert Service
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, Verizon Wireless announced that it will offer its mobile phone customers the ability to receive text messages alerting them to traffic conditions along highways throughout the United States. The service is being provided with technology from Autodesk Location Services. According to the press release announcing the new service: Travelers…
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U.S. Mobile Carriers Only Get 3 Percent of Their Revenue from Data Services
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out an article on CNET News.com that says Verizon has struck a deal with Telcel to allow text messaging between Latin America and Verizon’s U.S. customers. Telcel is the largest mobile carrier in Latin America. Verizon Wireless now allows text message exchange between its customers and mobile phone…
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Cometa Shutting Down its WiFi Network
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWi-Fi Networking News reported that Cometa will wind down its WiFi network which had an estimated 250 locations here in the New York Metropolitan Area and Seattle. The model that they were using was to be a “wholesale” public WiFi operator, meaning that they would build and operate public WiFi networks…
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President Bush Needs to Demand One More Thing to Ensure High Speed Internet For All
Reading Time: < 1 minuteZDNet reports that President Bush called for universal broadband access in the United States by 2007. His initiative includes: streamlining the process of granting broadband providers access to federal land, backing the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to deregulate fiber-optic connections, supporting the U.S. Department of Commerce’s development of specifications for broadband…
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Smartphone Thoughts Documents Carrier Switch to T-Mobile with an MPx200
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn one of the more interesting articles I’ve seen recently, David McNamee of Smartphone Thoughts recounts his switch-over to T-Mobile with an MPx200 originally put in service on AT&T Wireless. T-Mobile currently doesn’t sell the MPx200 for use on its network, but since it’s an 1800/1900 GSM/GPRS phone, it definitely works.…
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The Importance of the Handset Unlocking Policies of U.S. Mobile Phone Carriers
Reading Time: 2 minutesA lot of people thought that mobile phone number portability would allow them to freely move from one carrier to another without having to buy a new mobile phone. This has not proven to be the case for a couple of reasons: Incompatible Technologies: Although the number of mobile phone technologies in…
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BBC Says Young People Are Fashion Conscious With Respect to Gadgets
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe BBC reported on a survey conducted by insurance and finacial services company DirectLine that says half of all British people aged 16 to 34 expect to replace their mobile phones and DVD players every three years. More interestingly, over half say that fashion plays a large role in the gadgets they…
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13Donuts Does a Good Comparison of Satellite Radio Services
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen my wife and I were in Texas in February, we saw a lot more satellite radio receivers in cars than we do around town near our home in New Jersey. I suspect that’s because the Austin and San Antonio markets are less diverse from an over-the-air radio perspective than New…
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NewsFactor Review Says Hitachi G1000 is the Best Smartphone for Web Surfing
Reading Time: 2 minutesMark Long of the NewsFactor Network compared four mobile phone/PDA combo devices with wireless internet capability and picked his favorite for wireless web use. The devices he compared are: the palmOne Tungsten W, the Siemens SX56, the Samsung SPH-i700, and the Hitachi G1000 on Sprint PCS. Mark’s criteria in this evaluation are…