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The Fabled gPhone Reportedly Lives

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:45:00 EST

That’s right the Google-branded phone that Google is supposed to sell direct and indirect, the thing whose existence Google pooh-poohed. The blog claims it’s real but won’t make the holiday rush as reported last month by others.

Blackberry is For Sophisticated People

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:47:00 EST

The era is for mobile phones it has become the essential need for almost every people. They have designed it so nicely that it has made a widespread popularity among the people in the arena of electronic devices. These multitasking device is very user friendly than other mobile. BlackBerry, has launched many handsets with some interesting features and beautiful look. When you visit to the mobile store so many latest mobile phones you may find of BlackBerry handsets. There are lots of models available in the market particularly on this brand likely BlackBerry Storm 9500, Curve 8900, Bold 9000, Pearl Flip 34 and Pearl 8110 etc. Most of the handset supports QWERTY keyboard that helps us for easy messaging.

Share Advertising Revenue With Your Mobile Phone

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

MoadCast brings the consumer and the advertiser closer together in a more meaningful, cost-effective and targeted manner with a revolutionary permission based mobile phone community. MoadCast offers its members a guaranteed revenue share of the advertising revenue generated through MoadCast's mobile phone advertising platform. Members join for free and have the ability to earn up to GBP45 per month.

How Economic Challenges Help Enterprise 2.0

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:30:00 EST

Enterprise 2.0 is described by Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen as, "a system of web based technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration, information sharing, emergence and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise." It is basically social networking for businesses. This article explores how the recent economic challenges are promoting the growth of Enterprise 2.0 in businesses.

Madoff Programmers Busted

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:15:00 EST

Two Madoff computer programmers who authorities say made the whole decades-long $65 billion Ponzi scheme possible were arrested Friday and brought up on criminal charges of conspiracy, falsifying the books and records of a broker-dealer and falsifying the books and records of an investment advisor. The SEC, which never tumbled to the ripoff before Madoff up and confessed last December, added civil charges.

Huawei for World Dominance?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:21:00 EST

Apart from all the Google news lately that has major relevance (like the new programming language 'Go'), there were two news of major significance that I think went through a bit quiet.

#1 Huawei signs a €170M deal with Telenor for LTE rollout

#2 Huawei will demonstrate TD-LTE with China Mobile for World Expo in Shanghai

7 years ago, I gave a presentation in Sweden in a forum addressing Asia that was managed KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) and the essence of my presentation was the 5-year planning for Chinese Enterprises - and I used the telecom sector to exemplify my thinking and Huawei in particularly.

1998-2003 was building up strong national entities leveraging the large domestic market - where Huawei consistently took market share and became dominant in almost all sectors (except GSM)

2003-2008 was the time to start entering the world market and we saw Huawei taking deals in Hong Kong, Thailand, US and Europe - slowly testing but also employing the traditional Mao strategy: from countryside to city, meaning starting with easier markets to build strength to take on the more difficult tasks

2008- is the time for world dominance!

And the two news-items above I referred to clearly shows the ambitions of Huawei.

Huawei beating Ericsson in their home market for a new strategic technology is major major news!! Ericsson's home market, as I broadly define as Sweden, Norway and Denmark, with very strong foot-hold in Europe and Middle East. E.g. the first ever AXE was deployed in Saudi Arabia. Thus, Huawei taking the LTE contract in Norway: an early contract, a very important contract as Telenor is an advanced operator that will be able to provide valuable feedback to Huawei.

The deal is not huge, only €170M, but still - Huawei and Starent (soon-to-be Cisco) will replace the whole mobile backbone infrastructure kicking out Ericsson and Nokia-Siemens, turning their network into an all-IP 4G network with 2/3G RAN - world's first when it is completed!

However, the unholy-alliance Cisco/Huawei probably will not last, but Huawei still will benefit greatly from deploying commercial LTE and have a very strong reference from Telenor. How Huawei will work with replacing Starent or trying to re-ally with Cisco is another question. From my recollection, Huawei and Cisco are not the sweetest friends but the Telenor deal may change that relation.

Another of Ericsson extremely important account has been China Mobile, where Ericsson has had a minimum of 30% market share for the last 15 years (via numerous reforges) and here again, Huawei is aggressively going after the market leader at its strongest bases.

Huawei, not Ericsson, will demonstrate TD-LTE at World-Expo making Huawei a leading technology partner to China Mobile - not Ericsson.

According to Dell 'Oro, Huawei now has 20% market share in the mobile networks -being #2.

There are other chinese companies that employs the same strategy: Oil, Steel, Cars (Geely buying Volvo), etfc.

Mobiata Launches TripDeck

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 EST

Mobiata announced the availability of TripDeck, a new premium app for the iPhone and iPod touch that organizes and tracks itineraries for travelers on the go. The app offers complete itinerary management for virtually every component of a business or personal trip, including flight information and live flight status, car rentals and driving directions, hotels, meeting times and locations, restaurants, trains and other related travel details.

Proof Point for Information Worker Vision

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:05:00 EST

At the start of October I wrote a 'story of problems overcome', which set the case for a field worker and how Converged Mobile Devices or Smartphone could be used to solve problems in productivity etc. This was my vision of the Information Worker and I was happy to see an interesting article from Ryan Kim at the SF Chronicle on how more users are shifting their computing workload to their mobile devices instead of their laptops.

Millennial Media Adds Mobile Support to Hopenhagen Global Effort

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:31:00 EST

The Hopenhagen campaign urges citizens of the world to visit the Hopenhagen.org website, sign a petition demanding their leaders support climate change, and share their messages of hope through social media applications. As a campaign that is using social media to connect the people of the world with their leaders, mobile is an important element of this outreach, Millennial Media has been selected to drive reach and awareness to the Hopenhagen campaign to mobile internet users throughout the U.S. Millennial Media, the largest mobile advertising network in the U.S., will deliver 10,000,000 impressions from November 7th through December 7th in support of the campaign.

Movirtu Launches MXPay at Africacom

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

MXPay enables mobile operators to deploy existing mobile money systems to those living on less than $2 a day

Wyse Extends Market Leadership in Workstation

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:30:00 EST

Wyse is launching support for VMware View 4 with integrated support for PCoIP across its line of existing thin clients, including immediate support for Wyse thin clients based on Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded Standard. Wyse will also support PCoIP on its line of Linux and segment-leading Wyse ThinOS clients in the near future. Advanced protocols such as PCoIP have the potential to provide a new class of users the benefits of virtual clients, those using applications that have traditionally required powerful PCs or workstations. For this user segment, Wyse introduces the Wyse P20 zero client, its smallest, stateless access device designed specifically for the PCoIP protocol.

PCs Still Leading Operating System On-Campus

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:45:00 EST

Mobility is another key area of growth on-campus. Meraki specifically looked at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California as a test site. Findings show that 60% of all devices on the Westmont campus connect to the wireless network from 10 or more locations on the campus. Westmont's students have an average of 1.54 devices each, and connect to the wireless network a minimum of 20 days per month.

Regarding Google’s $750 Million Acquisition of AdMob

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST

“The news that Google acquired mobile advertising player AdMob for $750 million confirms the legitimacy of the mobile advertising industry, and overcomes any skepticism of whether small screens can offer big opportunities to reach mobile consumers,” says Dave Gwozdz, CEO of Mojiva Inc., which operates a mobile ad serving platform and mobile ad network. “The fact that Google has placed a premium on owning a mobile ad network is very notable. The market has definitely matured to the point where it makes sense for online behemoths to try to combine networks, analytics and delivery technologies in the hopes of capturing a share of this growing market.”

WilCon Manages Infrastructure Risks

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

This is part three is a series of interviews with Eric Bender, president of Wilshire Connection. Wilshire Connection, or WilCon, is the largest independent local network and neutral fiber infrastructure provider in downtown Los Angeles. In this segment Eric discusses how WilCon managed risk to their network during the initial construction process, the continuing management of critical telecommunications infrastructure, and the role WilCon could play in the event of a major incident impacting the telecom industry in Los Angeles.

Cisco Transforms Unified Communications

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

As part of today's portfolio announcement at Cisco's Collaboration Summit, the company introduced a ground-breaking version of its industry-leading unified communications platform, featuring innovations and enhancements designed to reduce costs and increase operating efficiencies between and within global enterprises. Cisco® Unified Communications System Release 8.0 enables organizations to collaborate in new ways that remove barriers to communications with partners, suppliers and customers through integrated voice, video, presence, instant messaging and Web sessions.

Our Social Network Just Got Bigger

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:15:00 EST

LG Electronics Canada and Rogers Wireless today announced a world first: the LG Eve, a new Android OS-based smartphone designed specifically for social networking, is now available exclusively at Rogers. The LG Eve provides customers with the freedom of mobile social networking, making it easier to stay connected anytime, anywhere.

LTE - The Rise of the Mobile Prosumer

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST

Such consumer & technology transformation has distorted the way 'Prosumer' consume their products & services, and interact with their mobile devices. The industry awaits to see if Asia’s Top Telecom guns can decide on a unified approach to map revenue streams back to the operators. The average handset has evolved from the humble voice-box, to the total media centre. As a result thousands of start-up companies are profiting out of the Telecom sector's advances, supplying the various add-ons which inevitably accompany any new wave of technology.

Cloud Storage: A Business Model Toolkit for Service Providers

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:50:00 EST

We have built a free Cloud Storage Toolkit for Service Providers to help them answer the question: "Should we enter the Cloud Storage marketspace?" The toolkit includes a tutorial and a spreadsheet - both of which are accessible immediately when you sign up for our Cloud Storage Strategy newsletter.

Vodafone 360 Samsung M1 Expands Market Reach of LiMo Handset Portfolio

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile industry leaders today announced the Vodafone 360 Samsung M1, the second LiMo compliant device built upon LiMo Platform Release 2 (R2). This latest handset developed by Samsung offers mobile consumers a unique mobile experience presented through Vodafone’s stunning feature-rich, highly customizable Vodafone 360 user interface (UI) – providing a new set of Internet services for the mobile and PC that gathers all of a customer’s friends, communities, entertainment and personal favorites in one place. Following in the footsteps of the Vodafone 360 Samsung H1, the Vodafone 360 Samsung M1 is designed in price and function for a larger segment of mobile consumers.

Prevx SafeOnline Boosts Confidence in Online Banking

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:01:00 EST

Internet and PC security specialist Prevx today launched a free security program designed to protect websites and internet users from the risks of online fraud without impacting the user experience. Banking, government, and e-commerce sites can now sign up to the Prevx SafeOnline Business Partner Program and receive free protection against malware that compromises their customers' confidential account numbers or passwords. This unique program boosts confidence in online transactions with free customer support, free real-time reports highlighting threats affecting a company's website and free customer use of Prevx's new SafeOnline technology. This powerful technology, successfully tested by Immunity Inc., protects a PC user from threats such as phishing, DNS poisoning, screen grabbing, man-in-the-browser and key stroke logging. Prevx SafeOnline can be downloaded and active in seconds, does not impact the user experience, requires no website changes, complements existing security products and even prevents infected PCs from compromising an online transaction.

Coffee Table Tags

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:15:00 EDT

Embedding tags in books is probably the most obvious way to connect print content with online content so it's surprising more book publishers are not following Rough Guide's lead. Their new coffee table book, Earthbound: a Rough Guide to the World in Pictures is tag-enabled.Each image in the book is linked to a QR Code that resolves to a Google map of the location for more context-specific Stewart McKienoreply@blogger.com0

Smart Phones, Mobile Software, Coupons and Grocery Lists

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:54:00 EDT

I want to be able to go to a grocery store (food store) and take out my iPhone, photograph the bar code label (UPC code) and have my GPS location uploaded to a website that will instantly provide me with all the discounts, coupons and rebates available for that product (UPC code) in that specific store location (GPS coordinate).

Shrouding the Net Neutrality Debate in a Cloud of Politics

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:15:00 EDT

The FCC finally moved the network neutrality debate forward Thursday, voting to begin developing open Internet regulations. The debate is actually quite simple – should the government regulate, or not regulate the Internet? That discussion revolves around the six principles of network neutrality proposed by the FCC.

The Open Shanzhai Appstore in China?

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:09:00 EDT

obile Mondays in Beijing is normally not a big thing for me and given that I have to spend an hour to go to the events in Orange Labs in Zhongguangcun, I have not been to a single event yet. When we Trolltech, we participated in an event but as I was traveling, two of my colleagues participated.

However, yesterday is was an interesting topic and a lot of people: Mobile Applications Stores for China and Orange Labs/+8* had an interesting panel:

- Wang XIaodong, Aspire (ASP to China Mobile for Mmarket)

- Yang Zhi (?)(Vice Director, China Telecom Research Institute)

- Danny Huang (Orange Open Source Lab)

- Max Hu (SonyEricsson)

- Wang Bo (CEO Bokan)

and from Nokia, Fan Tianxin, biz dev manager at Forum Nokia, was there to defend the Ovi Store.

Unsurpringsly, most of the event was centered about Apple's success with iPhone and the AppStore or as Danny Huang called it, the APPleStore. But one of the guys made some weird statements about that the Appstore is far from good, which was a bit weird. He probably meant that there are still room for improvements and his main point was that the social networking element of Appstores were missing. I think I have seen some blogs hinting at the next gen iTunes/AppStore will feature far more of the social networking capabilities.

The whole event should have been held in Chinese instead of English as most of the panelists were really uncomfortable in english and a lot of interesting facts/discussions were lost in translation.

My favorite conclusion though was based on Bokan's comment about all upcoming Shanzhai Android phones (not OPhones) and that there should be one independent appstore. Instead, i draw the conclusion together with Markus (ex-colleague) that that would be the Open Shanzhai Appstore - all apps for free! And it is actually possible given that the Android Java apps can be cheated to decompile and reveal full source alas easy to create a Shanzhai appstore..

This is actually quite a vital thing. Shanzhai phones are gray-market phones traditionally built on Mediatek's chipsets with a full reference implementation for the chinese market (and for others) where a small 10-people company can basically build their own phone and ship in retail and avoid all taxes and IPRs and therefore sell at a discounted price compared to traditional OEMs like ZTE, Huawei, Nokia and Samsung.

There is a lot of activities from these players to trying to build and ship Android devices and they definitely have an incentive of trying to decouple any official or unofficial Android marketplace and distribute freely (and that may actually happen) - thus the headline: The Open Shanzhai Appstore

Balsamiq Taking Traditional Storyboards All the Way to Cool Mockups

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:01:00 EDT

I published an article in July 2009, which stated my thoughts and findings on Mobile Application User Interface design etc... Traditionally the actual GUI design Phase has probably been about 25% of the whole project time, but now with the iPhone and the nature of the beast that is the App Store, the demanding iPhone Users and the cool device itself... Apple and developers in turn, are pushing this initial design phase to about 60%. Apple's definition of the design phase, is that it consists of four sub phases focusing on...

Shrouding the Net Neutrality Debate in a Cloud of Politics

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:38:00 EDT

Skill Set of an Enterprise Mobility Developer?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:50:00 EDT

Following on from my articles on thoughts and findings of Enterprise Mobility, I have decided to delve a little deeper into the area of development. In particular I thought it would be fun to put down what I believe could be the skill set or attributes, of an Enterprise Mobility Developer.

Sidekick Shows Faint Signs of Life

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:30:00 EDT

Microsoft and Danger, obviously its most dangerous unit, were up at the crack of dawn Tuesday morning saying that they were ready to start restoring the Sidekick user data that Danger came ever so close to losing forever in the last couple of weeks. They sensibly started with personal contacts on the T-Mobile smartphones.

American Sins, GPS, GIS and Mobile Software Applications that Show It All

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:00:00 EDT

A team at Kansas State University using per-capita stats maps out the regions where there is the most sin. This is interesting not just for the sensationalism of it, but for the cleverness of the team at Kansas State. How does one take per-capita stats and make them interesting for the masses that suffer from sound-biteitis? We can learn from this team. Let's first take a look at the 7 deadly sins.

Building Smartphone Apps

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Smartphone apps are the most exciting trend in computing since the advent of web apps. How do you as a developer take advantage of this? More generally, how do you do that and get maximum reach for your app across the diversity of smartphones out there. If you’re writing a consumer app you can get away with just targeting the iPhone (albeit missing some market opportunity). If you’re writing a business app you need to be able to reach all the users in the enterprise. There just are no homogeneous mobile device environments in any place but the smallest mom and pop shops now.

Steps for Success in Enterprise Mobility?

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:45:00 EDT

This is the last in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this final article I have decided to sum up the thoughts and findings of the previous articles to form an initial set of 'Steps for Success' for an Enterprise Mobility Strategy.

Jump Start your Enterprise Mobility Education Now!

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:15:00 EDT

Online classes from ‘Sybase Mobile University’ will provide you with the knowledge you need to make your organization’s mobile projects a success. Let our top instructor bring you up to speed on the latest mobile application developments and how to overcome common pitfalls. There is no cost for these online mobility courses.

The Future of Mobile and Route Sales Applications for Smart Phones, Part 1

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:38:00 EDT

I can see multiple mobile applications and technologies converging rapidly to provide some very interesting scenarios for mobile and route sales people. Consider the following scenario. A mobile sales person or route sales person is driving through an unfamiliar territory. She stops in a parking lot and activates an application on her Smart Phone that identifies her location and requests visibility into the location of all current and past customers, and any known sales prospects. Her application, using Google Maps provides a map with color coded "push pins" showing the exact locations of each. Tapping on any push pin identifies the street address, name, product and account history.

Imagine There's No iPhone

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:00:00 EDT

The ultimate goal of any software vendor is...to make sure that their software runs on iPhone. The time will come when entire J2EE stack with EJB will run on iPhone. Singing... You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Imagine there's no iPhone
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no iPhone
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no iPhones
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope Flash Player'll join us
And the world will live as one

Sorry, John :)

Gold Medal Goes to Latin America

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:15:00 EDT

Latin America is predicted to be the strongest region of growth in 2010, Investment is flooding to the area and telecommunications is essential for the region to fulfill its potential. Backed by Government incentives and commercial opportunities figureheads such as Humberto Roca, CTO , Antel, Israel Madiedo, CTO, Cablevision , Claudio Bermudez, CTO Grupo ICE, Peter Jones, VP Technology, LIME , Miguel Angel Gray , Millicom International Cellular CEO Central America , Robert Masse, CTO Telefonica del Sur (Telsur) and Pedro Planas , CTO LA, Telefonica Media Networks SA have agreed to meet in Panama on November 10th this year at the illustrious NGT Summit to discuss technology investment to support market growth.

Welcome to the NOW Network

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:28:00 EDT

Sprint announced the availability of Sprint and Nextel service to customers in the 20 busiest underground stations in the Washington, D.C. Metro system. The move promises to improve the workday commute for hundreds of thousands of passengers who depend on Metro to travel between their homes and workplaces each day. It also will make touring the historic sites of the Washington, D.C. area easier for millions of tourists who visit the Capitol area annually.

Microsoft Finds Lost Sidekick Data

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:30:00 EDT

You have, perhaps, heard about the failure of the T-Mobile USA Sidekick smartphone – known for its remote data storage and the fact that (gad!) Paris Hilton is a devotee – and how Microsoft’s $500 million 2008 Danger acquisition, which invented the thing, managed to permanently lose what looked for a while there like everybody’s data because Danger didn’t back anything up before it or Hitachi screwed up a SAN upgrade or maybe it was a server failure; there are various excuses floating around.

Nortel CallPilot Debuts ‘Visual Voice’ on Unified Messaging Platform

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EDT

A joint development by SpinVox and Mutare Software, Mutare EVM with SpinVox Speech-to-Text, also known as Visual Voice, is an application implemented in Enterprises as a server-based software solution, it merges voice and data into one unified messaging experience and is compatible with any email system or Internet-enabled device. It enables business users to process voicemail up to four times faster as they can now prioritize, forward, file, copy and delete converted voicemail messages with the same ease and convenience of email, improving individual productivity, customer responsiveness, and workgroup collaboration.

Mobile Innovation Flies “Under the Radar”

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:05:00 EDT

Speaking of the mobile app market blowing up, I wanted to give you a heads up regarding a great mobile event: Under the Radar on 11/19 in Mountain View, CA. From global carriers and handset manufacturers to media companies, branding partners, press and VCs — anyone who’s anyone leveraging new mobile tech and interested in catching [...]

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Patching Problems on BlackBerry Bold 9000?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EDT

BlackBerry recently pushed out another update of the OS for the BlackbBrry Bold, and it appears that wireless upgrades are still a problem. BlackBerry maker RIM has just posted another update for the phone, 4.6.0.297, that appears to be a set up patches on top of the previous upgrade.

Is Sidekick Platform an Actual Cloud Service?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:30:00 EDT

My previous post about the Sidekick failure seems to have whipped up a bit of a frenzy around whether or not the Sidekick platform is an actual cloud service. On one side you people saying it isn't a cloud because it's not redundant or distributed or api accessible or whatever. On the other you have the media saying hey it's a web based service, so it's a cloud.

Whether the Sidekick platform is or isn't "cloud computing" is totally secondary to the real issue. The Sidekick failure has beautifully illustrated a major potential problem facing the use of any remotely hosted web services, cloud or otherwise and this is trust.

My issue with the sidekick cloud debate isn't whether or not it's a failure of cloud computing. You can't blame a buzzword. Cloud computing isn't any single technology but instead it's a new way to market, manage, deploy and operate web centric software and infrastructure. So I do agree it isn't a failure of cloud computing so much as a failure to build an adequate DR strategy among other things.

This failure does in the most simple terms demonstrate a key problem facing cloud computing, you are trusting someone else to manage your data / infrastructure. But leading an argument by saying it isn't a cloud because clouds can't fail is ridiculous.

Bluetooth SIG Opens Nominations for Best of CES Awards

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:00:00 EDT

The SIG’s Best of CES Awards is a revamped version of the organization’s annual Best of CES contest. The new awards program was designed to create a simple and flexible nomination process to better shine a spotlight on the year’s most exciting Bluetooth devices. Submissions must no longer fall into a product category and can be entered when nominated by a member company or the SIG itself.

Easiest Way to Make an iPhone Media App

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EDT

TapLynx lets designers and developers create truly unique iPhone media applications with customized content and their own distinctive look and feel simply by filling out a configuration file. The framework is optimized for presenting the latest content (through standard RSS feeds), including text, images and video, all viewed inline within the application. The framework also supports multiple ad formats and servers to monetize content. Users of the app can easily share the content with their Facebook, e-mail and Twitter followers. All apps work equally well on the iPod Touch.

Telecom Risk and Security Part 4

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:39:00 EDT

A 40 year old building with much of the original mechanical and electrical infrastructure. A 40 year old 4000 amp, 480 volt aluminum electrical buss duct, which had been modified and “tapped” often during its life, with much of the work done violating equipment specifications. With the old materials such as buss insulation gradually deteriorating, the duct expanding and contracting over the years, the fact aluminum was used during the initial installation to either save money or test a new technology vision – it all becomes a risk. A risk of buss failure, or at worst a buss failing to the point it results in a massive electrical explosion.

HAVA Mobile Player App for iPhone

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Monsoon Multimedia announced the availability of the HAVA Mobile Player application for iPhone and iPod Touch users. The HAVA Mobile Player app allows HAVA customers to view and control their home television service, including cable, satellite and TiVo, from anywhere in the world on their iPhone. The HAVA Mobile Player for iPhone was designed for seamless integration with Apple's unique smartphone allowing viewers to control their home television service (whether it's cable or satellite, receiver or DVR, standard or high definition) via the touch screen interface.

Social Action Network is iMac and iPhone Compatible

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EDT

"So Act is now highly compatible with iMac in a four column format allowing the maximum amount of hi-res, web multi-tasking that our members can handle in one screen," said Greg Halpern, President, So Act Network. "This breakthrough allows members using iMac to interact with up to eight windows on one screen without scrolling at all. For Mac lovers who also have iPhones, they can access their private network on So Act while on the go. This provides many huge advantages. For example, while having a multi-person conference in Conversations, you can leave to go out to lunch or shopping but you can stay in the meeting remotely on your iPhone even receiving files to review and continuing communication without missing a beat. The possibilities are endless and of course the Apple experience makes it remarkable."

All I Wanted Was to Buy an iPhone

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Long story short. Apple did cancel the order. But it takes 3-4 days for Apple to clear the transaction from ATTs system. In the meantime, they put a hold on my ATT account – so no new purchases or changes can be made. So basically – I can’t have a new phone until Apple's system releases my account. You gotta be kidding me? What transactions takes 4 days to clear in this digital age??

Africa is Treated as a ‘Priority Market’

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

$18 billion investment in ICT makes Africa a priority market for world's investors. Chief Executive of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Engr. Ernest Ndukwe has confirmed that telecoms investment in Nigeria in the last eight years has exceeded USD18 billion, and they are not alone as the entire continent is seen as a priority market by the worlds investors. This came to light at the Recent NGT Africa summit lead by Ahmad Farrouk, CEO, MTN Nigeria who addressed the fifty strong Telecom leaders on the Growth potential of Africa’s communication industry, sharing his ideas on the importance of deploying networks in rural communities in order to connect harder to reach subscribers and increase market growth.

All is Not Lost in the Great Sidekick Screw-Up

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:30:00 EDT

You may have heard about the failure of the T-Mobile USA Sidekick smartphone– known for its remote data storage and the fact that (gad!) Paris Hilton is a devotee – and how Microsoft’s $500 million 2008 Danger acquisition, which invented the thing, managed to lose what looked for a while there like everybody’s data permanently because Danger didn’t back anything up before it or Hitachi screwed up a SAN upgrade or maybe it was a server failure; there are various excuses floating around. The situation cast another long shadow over clouds everywhere and has certainly done nothing to enhance Microsoft’s reputation, T-Mobile’s either. Google and Apple may count it a win.

Cisco Buys Starent Networks

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Cisco, which just plunked down $3 billion to buy Tandberg ASA, makers of videoconferencing gear, said Tuesday morning that it’s going to buy nine-year-old Starent Networks for $2.9 billion, a 21% premium. Starent supplies mobile and converged carriers with IP-based mobile infrastructure widgetry and Cisco figures the mobile Internet is now at an inflection point as IP-enabled Smartphones and other connected mobile devices become ubiquitous.