The unending saga of Broadcom vs. Qualcomm took another twist when Broadcom offered to receive $6 for every handset sold with a Qualcomm chip that was found to infringe a patent for a battery- saving feature. Qualcomm summarily rejected the offer saying it would have to pay US$1.5 billion to US$2 billion over the three [...]
Archive of entries posted on June 2007
Will Apple break the Walled Garden
Cellular operators decided to get on the Internet browsing bandwagon many years ago. When they first started, Wireless Internet browsing was behest with numerous problems. First, the data networking technologies were so slow. If that wasn’t bad enough, they helped develop a technology called WAP that made it even slower to browse content. Second, mobile [...]
iPhones for less than $15! No Waiting in Line
Would you like to have an iPhone? But cannot shell out $499 or don’t want to stand in line? Bidwarslive.com is allowing people to get an iPhone without waiting in line and without the massive price tag. Bidwarslive.com is auctioning 4 Apple iPhones in July. But they don’t go to the highest bidder! The iPhone [...]
MojoBaby launches Mobile Content site
Mobile content launch pad MojoBaby officially launched this week. MyMojoBaby.com or MojoBaby.com focuses on sharing content with friends and family; Users can post photos and text messages from their mobile phone, somewhat like the love child of twitter and flickr. The nice thing about MojoBaby is a widget called Mojo Player that can be embedded [...]
T-Mobile HotSpot@Home is a Winner for Many
T-Mobile launched its HotSpot@Home across the U.S today, entering a new era in Fixed-Mobile convergence (Cellular-WiFi convergence). For an additional US$19.99 a month over any voice plan of at least a US$39.99, you can make unlimited calls on any of T-Mobile’s 7,000 WiFi hotspots or on your home WiFi network. HotSpot@Home is available only on [...]
iPhone plans are a winner for AT&T
AT&T just announced the price plans for the iPhone. The monthly plans are as follows: $59.99 for 450 minutes of voice, 5000 night-and-weekend minutes, Unlimited EDGE $79.99 for 900 minutes of voice, unlimited night-and-weekend minutes, Unlimited EDGE $99.99 for 1350 minutes of voice, unlimited night-and-weekend minutes, Unlimited EDGE Also, the iPhone is only offered with a two [...]
Clearwire to go mobile….soon
Clearwire, the upstart WiMAX provider, recently announced plans to expand from just a DSL/cable modem replacement service to offer a mobile service as well. Going mobile is no surprise for WiMAX – it is the whole point in the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. Clearwire Chief Strategy Officer Scott Richardson laid out plans to migrate to a [...]
What could GrandCentral do for Google?
News is flying around the blogosphere and tech news sites, after TechCrunch broke the news that Google is in talks to acquire or has already acquired GrandCentral, the “one number for life for all your phones” telephony company. The basic idea around GrandCentral is to give everyone one single number so that your business and [...]
Fring comes to Windows Mobile phones
Fring has further expanded its mobile VoIP (mVoIP) community by adding Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 series devices to its list of supported handsets. The software is going to work on around 300 Windows Mobile series 5.0 & 6.0 handsets and PDAs! Fring is a VoIP-IM aggregation client, that allows fringsters to communicate for free [...]
Mandriva Linux says no Patent deal with Microsoft
Mandriva, the company formerly known as Mandrakesoft, that publishes the Mandriva GNU/Linux operating system says on a posting on the company blog by CEO François Bancilhon that there will be no cross-licensing pact with Microsoft. Mandriva has offices in the U.S., France, and Brazil and sells in more than 140 countries through dedicated channels and [...]
