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NTT DoCoMo Reaches 10 million 3G Users

February 24, 2005

Japan’s NTT DoCoMo announced it has reached the milestone of 10-million users for its 3G service. DoCoMo’s FOMA service was launched in the fall of 2001 and is available in virtually all populated areas of Japan. In a statement, the company attributed the rapid the rapid growth of the W-CDMA service to the fact that [...]

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Commoditization Comes to PBX

February 23, 2005

Om Malik has a nice update on Popular Telephony’s strategy of commoditizing the $2-billion PBX market. Malik notes that the company has signed a deal with Commoca to make IP phones that are based on Texas Instruments’ Titan chip platform. Commoca, will make a touch screen IP phone that will be sold to large enterprises [...]

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Grid Computing Interview

February 21, 2005

BetaNews has a good interview with Dr. Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke about the future of grid computing.
A couple of interesting points: First, they don’t seem to be thinking that much about the vast space of P2P approaches and applications, although they see the relevance and relationship:
So, there is a whole class of interesting things [...]

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Motorola Enters into Wide Ranging-Alliance with Skype

February 18, 2005

Motorola and Skype announced this week at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, that Motorola would launch a line of “Skype Ready” products, including cell phones and handsets. In addition, the two companies will explore opportunities broadly across both companies, leveraging Motorola’s strength in mobility, advanced technologies, mobile devices and accessories and Skype’s rapidly-growing [...]

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“Napster To Go” – Away? Bankrupt?

February 7, 2005

In its inimitable fashion, The Register takes down Napster’s ludicrous new Napster To Go service. So, they really think that people are going to be happy only being able to access the music they have downloaded if they continue to pay the monthly subscription fee? What I wonder is what kind of idiots dream up [...]

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Python and Bit Torrent

February 6, 2005

Inspired by a press release from Nokia announcing the launch of the powerful Open Source Python programming language for the Series 60 Platform, allowing developers to create to execute Python commands and run Python scripts and applications on Series 60-based devices, James Enck muses that a little tinkering with Python and Bit Torrent might lead [...]

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RFID Adoption and the Open Source Economy

February 6, 2005

Now, here is a great example of the dilemma that many companies feel they are facing as they struggle to adopt new collaborative technologies. ComputerWeekly.com reports that many early adopters of RFID are reluctant to share information about their deployment experience, potentially holding back the development and adoption by others that will be so necessary [...]

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Nextel to Turn Off Flarion Trial

February 6, 2005

Well, it didn’t take long after the announcement of the Sprint-Nextel merger for Nextel to apparently abandon its Flarion FLASH-OFDM trial. Om Malik reports that Nextel has moved to shut down the trial well in advance of its planned completion next summer, frustrating many happy users. Why might they have done this? Martin Geddes nails [...]

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Voice the Killer App for Wireless LANs

February 1, 2005

New research by Infonetics Research suggests that carriers believe that voice is the application most likely to drive the adoption of wireless LANs in the enterprise. Over half of the service providers surveyed in the study said the greatest barriers to enterprise Wi-Fi market growth are the unproven business model and the lack of mature [...]

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Multiroom DVR Is On Its Way

January 31, 2005

According to Parks Associates, multiroom DVR is going to arrive as competition spurs cablecos, satellite vendors, and telcos to deploy entertainment networking solutions. They project that cable and satellite television providers will step up deployment of multiroom DVR solutions to the point that the number of units will exceed 25 million in 2009. While mass-market [...]

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