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Mio and ATX partnering to bring you real time info you can use

James Allan Brady, Apr 1st 2008 Discuss [0]

Mio, long time manufacturer of GPS devices, is partnering with ATX, a major provider of telematics services in both the US and Europe. The types of things this partnership will bring you include lots of location-aware types of data including local weather, weather for your planned destination, in-depth traffic info, and business directories that change as the respective businesses open and close. Read The Full Story

ClarityLife Mobile Phones – simple enough your grandma can use it

James Allan Brady, Apr 1st 2008 Discuss [1]

This phone is specifically designed for older people serving two purposes. First it literally is easy enough your grandma can use it as that’s who it’s for, second it also acts as an emergency response device phoning for help from emergency services when its needed. Read The Full Story

iPass giving consumers Hotspot access and more

James Allan Brady, Mar 31st 2008 Discuss [0]

iPass has long been a purveyor of WWAN and WiFi hotspot access, but up until now its been limited to employees of corporations who bought into the service. Today there are two new tidbits regarding iPass, first the addition of a lot of WiFi hotspots, second they are going to start offering their services to individuals. Read The Full Story

Google vying for ‘White Space’ to broaden wireless broadband coverage

James Allan Brady, Mar 25th 2008 Discuss [0]

Google has reportedly written a letter to the FCC asking for permission to use the space between channels 2 and 51 on TV sets, which aren’t used by cable services, to offer up wireless broadband services. Such a move would offer up more coverage and maybe even faster and/or more reliable transfer speeds. Read The Full Story

FCC 700MHz Auction – the full results, no loose chaff

James Allan Brady, Mar 21st 2008 Discuss [1]

The big winners were AT&T, Verizon, Qualcomm, and Frontier Wireless, Google didn’t win a thing. VZW took most of the popular C-Block, and ATT picked up 227 licenses from the B-Block. VZW seems to be the biggest spender dropping a few million short of half of what the entire spectrum sold for at 9.63 billion dollars, that secured them all of C-Block save for Puerto Rico, Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico, basically the areas where they wouldn’t make any money anyways. AT&T spent about 6.64 billion dollars in the auction which got them a 12MHz spectrum of Block B. Read The Full Story

Flash on the iPhone – What Adobe should have said, was nothing

James Allan Brady, Mar 20th 2008 Discuss [0]

So apparently what Adobe really meant when they said that they could bring Flash to the iPhone with just the SDK was that they could start working to bring Flash to the iPhone using the SDK. They can’t actually bring Flash to the iPhone until Apple gives them more access to the background services and all that jazz. Read The Full Story

Ultra Spacestation – 6 bays for all your flash storage needs

James Allan Brady, Mar 13th 2008 Discuss [1]

This weird, weird card holds 6 really, really small USB flash drives. There are two versions, a 12GB version (6x2GB) and a 6GB version (6x1GB). Read The Full Story

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Panasonic KX-TDE600 enterprise level VoIP systems – looks like a CRT TV

James Allan Brady, Mar 5th 2008 Discuss [1]

I really have no clue why the designers thought this rack mounted system needed to look like a CRT television with a burnt in image of “Panasonic” smack dab in the middle. Regardless, we’ve slowly managed to move from the office, to the IDF, and now this would be something more likely found at the demarcation point.

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Teraoka Deli Touch Pen could make your next trip to the deli more pleasant

James Allan Brady, Feb 22nd 2008 Discuss [1]

Apparently service, convenience, and swift are all now former characteristics associated with Deli’s in major cities. The lackeys behind the counter generally don’t care about you, your order, or your return business like they used to. Read The Full Story

Comcast Stands By Internet Filtering, What’s Your Take?

Daniel Lim, Feb 13th 2008 Discuss [11]

The cable giant, Comcast Corp has formally admitted to FCC with the uses of Managed Internet Traffic to slow down customers’ file-sharing application, intentionally. They blamed peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent as the main culprit of network congestion and said a managed network is a necessity to prevent heavy users with similar application for media sharing like video, movie and music, etc. Read The Full Story

Buddy Beacon friend locator is coming to other carriers

Ewdison Then, Feb 13th 2008 Discuss [0]

I love Helio’s Buddy Beacon and I use it to track down Vincent or Daniel from time to time making sure they are being good. Buddy Beacon lets you locates your friends on a map via the GPS in your handset. Read The Full Story

Clear Channel, FCC, XM, and Sirius in massive pile up, but there may be an end in sight

James Allan Brady, Feb 11th 2008 Discuss [6]

So ever since XM and Sirius even mentioned the possibility that they might be merging they have had to battle the FCC, the NAB, and Clear Channel to the death. Well apparently they got past the FCC (sort of) and past the NAB and now their last opponent is Clear Channel. Read The Full Story