RIM’s Lazaridis: if goverments can’t deal with the internet, ‘they should shut it off’
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has made some pretty bold statements in the past, but he may just have topped himself in responding to the recent issue of countries banning or threatening to ban BlackBerrys -- to which you can now add Indonesia to the list. Speaking with The Wall Street Journal in what's described as a "fiery" interview, Lazaridis said that "this is about the Internet," and that "everything on the Internet is encrypted. This not a BlackBerry-only issue," before adding that if "they can't deal with the Internet, they should shut it off." But that's not all
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: before-adding, black, blackberryban, blackberrys, entry, goverments, indonesia, internet, lazaridis, mike, mike lazaridis, saudi arabia
BlackBerry email, web and messaging banned in UAE due to ’security concerns’
Looks like those regulators over in the Middle East don't mess about. Following this week's revelation that the United Arab Emirates' telco overseers weren't happy with being unable to monitor how people were using their BlackBerrys, today we're hearing what their solution to the problem will be: an outright ban. Internet access, email and instant messaging on RIM devices will be blocked in the UAE starting this October -- provided, of course, that the Canadian phone maker doesn't do something in the meantime to appease the authorities
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: communication, concerns, data, internet, messaging, regulators, result, saudi arabia, saudiarabia, snoop, web
Validas study finds Verizon smartphones consuming more data than iPhones
You know how we've good reason to believe that Verizon Wireless is at least mulling the switch to capped / tiered data plans?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, datacapping, datacaps, internet, Reason, study, study-finds, user-consuming
T-Mobile webConnect Rocket 2.0 leaks out, brings along Mac support and microSDHC slot
T-Mobile's webConnect Rocket has only been delivering "4G speeds" to users in search of mobile internet for a handful of months now, but already the company looks to have a successor on deck.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: brakes, internet, leaks, mobileinternet, Modem, osx, release-date, slam-the-brakes, slides, webconnect, wwan modem, wwanmodem
TWC rebadges Sprint Overdrive, offers it as IntelliGo mobile 3G / 4G hotspot
And then, there were three. Three ways to snag an Overdrive , that is. Months after Sprint issued the original 3G / 4G mobile hotspot, Clear came along and introduced a rebadged version of the same thing
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: carolina, intelligo, internet, mobile hotspot, mobile-internet, north, northcarolina, roadrunner, Runner, sprint, texas
How-to: stay connected while traveling internationally
It's a harsh reality that every avid traveler faces, and unless you're fortunate enough to have been born in a generation where you're not expected to check your inbox every half-hour, glance over Twitter updates every 7.23 minutes seconds and tell the world where you're at this very moment via Foursquare, you've probably found yourself wondering how on Earth you're going to remain connected once your swipe that passport and leave the comfy confines of a native network .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Borders, Carrier, faces, internet, messaging, mobile-internet, rental, result, tell-the-world, traveler, video, voip, young-jetsetter
Google I/O recap: more web than you can shake a frozen dessert at
Whew, Google really knows how to pack it in. Two days of Google I/O and we've got enough info on the future of the web, phone, and television to write a couple sci-fi novels and retire
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, download-server, flash, gingerbread, google io 2010, googleio2010, internet, microsoft, partners, server, web, web-browser
Android 2.2 will invite you to visit ‘Flash-enabled’ sites, rub Apple’s nose in it
The battle for minds is well and truly on now, and if there was any doubt that Google and Adobe are cozying up together to take on Apple , let it now be extinguished. TechCrunch is reporting that the latest version of Android -- you know, the one with the 450 percent performance improvement and buttery smooth Flash playback -- will, upon updating, guide you to visit a selection of Flash-enabled websites. Countering Apple's list of iPad-ready (aka Flash-free) websites, this is clearly intended as a showcase of the Adobe software's capabilities
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: consternation, desktop, flash-enabled, flash10.1, internet, prominent-promo, rich media, richmedia, showcase, truly-on-now, upon-updating, web
Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ to include USB tethering, WiFi hotspot functionality
And the good Froyo news just keep flowing in. TechCrunch have flexed their exclusive muscle this morning in revealing their discovery that Android 2.2 will come with built-in tethering and WiFi hotspot support. That means you'll be able to use your phone's 3G internet connection to hook your laptop up to the worldwide webosphere, with a choice of wired or wireless methods
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: entry, forthcoming, froyo, frozen, hotspot, internet, laptop, operators, tethering, their-exclusive, usb tethering, wifi, worldwide
Survey says: most teens don’t have a data plan, almost all send texts
Microsoft and Verizon might think all the kids want to do with their new Kin phones is pay absurd data rates for a half-baked Twitter experience , but it turns out Generation Upload is still actually just Generation Text Message. That's at least the word according to a Pew Internet Research survey published on April 20th and neatly summed up by a new Flowlogic infographic published today -- only 23 percent of American teenagers with cellphones use social networks with their phones, while 72 percent of all teens use text messaging.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cell-phone-use, graphs, infographic, interesting, internet, kids, message, pew research, pewresearch, result, survey, texting, verizon