Wireless carriers openly considering charging per service
That slide above is no joke -- it comes from a marketing webinar put on by two companies that count Verizon, AT&T and Vodafone as clients, and it describes a system that identifies customer internet activity and charges a different rate for using Facebook than watching YouTube, while allowing access to Vodafone services for free. Yes, that's basically the nightmare scenario for net neutrality advocates.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: allot communications, facebook, fcc, internet, joke, marketing, net neutrality, netneutrality, operator, techniques, the-application, two-companies, verizon, webinar
TimeCommand dock turns your iPad into a very pricey dimmer switch
XtremeMac has been crankin' out iPod docks for years, and now former CEO Gary Bart has launched Stem Innovation, a company dedicated exclusively to iOS accessories. For its first trick, Bart and company have introduced TimeCommand which (as its name implies) goes beyond the whole dock thing and comes across as a control station for the bedroom. Among its many charms are iPhone / iPod / iPad compatibility, the ability to control your mood lighting (including a dimmer and a "wake by light" feature), battery backup (don't miss work, even if the power goes out), an app with Internet Radio playback, and something called Stem:Sonic iQ digital signal processing
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, bedroom, control-station, entry, feature, gary bart, internet, internet-radio, iphone, ipod, ipod-touch, power, stem innovation
FCC addressing net neutrality on December 21st (updated)
Well, well, look at what's been added to a tentative agenda when the FCC meets on December 21st: net neutrality . Here's how the item reads: Open Internet Order: An Order adopting basic rules of the road to preserve the open Internet as a platform for innovation, investment, competition, and free expression. These rules would protect consumers' and innovators' right to know basic information about broadband service, right to send and receive lawful Internet traffic, and right to a level playing field, while providing broadband Internet access providers with the flexibility to reasonably manage their networks
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: chairman, congestion, content, genachowski, hurt-the-public, internet, regulation, result, security, web-sites, words
Verizon hosting 4G LTE news conference tomorrow to discuss launch plans
Guess what people, Verizon's LTE network launch is really for real and the carrier has now scheduled a news conference for tomorrow where it'll discuss its December plans in more detail. Tony Melone, VZW's chief tech officer, will be on hand to answer any questions beyond the already known plans for 38 metropolitan areas to get the 4G LTE treatment -- accounting for a cool 110 million Americans who'll be able to ride the lightning of faster internet speeds on the move. The event kicks off at 12PM and we'll make sure to tune in, if only to find out what Tony's answer is to the inevitable "what is 4G" question
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breakingnews, internet, launch, lightning, news-conference, verizon, verizonlte, vzw
Verizon launching LTE network in December 2010 (video)
Verizon's been talking details on LTE deployment for some time now, but even at CTIA earlier in the year, the carrier insisted that it would be the first half of 2011 before the next-gen network was active in the US of A. Now, it looks as if the engineers have been working triple-time in order to get Long Term Evolution live in the States under Big Red's branding, as a new VZW commercial (embedded after the break) has affirmed that the first LTE waves will go public here in December 2010. Yeah, next month .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engineers, internet, launch, long term evolution, mobileinternet, states, the-engineers, time, verizonwireless
RIM’s Jim Balsillie says ‘you don’t need an app for the web,’ rejects Apple’s appification of the internet
It's no secret that RIM doesn't exactly agree with Steve Jobs' characterization of the company's prospects, and Jim Balsillie has some more to say on the Apple vs.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: adobeair, balsillie, browser, couple, fri, internet, jim balsillie, mobile, rim, Steve, support
Smartphone Coaster keeps your eyes on the prize, even while you eat
From the parallel universe known as "you've got to be kidding me" comes yet another trinket from New PC Gadgets that'll undoubtedly sell well despite being about as mindless as a product comes.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: coaster, dinner, earthlings, entry, eyes, gadgets, internet, new pc gadgets, peripheral, prize, restaurants, tables, trinket
T-Mobile G2 getting an OTA update to add WiFi calling and tethering?
It almost sounds too good to be true, but apparently some G2s are getting an official (if stealthy) OTA update from T-Mobile that adds the inexplicably withheld Android 2.2 native internet tethering back into the phone, along with the UMA WiFi calling T-Mobile plans to offer on all of its forthcoming Android handsets. What's not to love? Well, so far our G2 hasn't been offered the update, which is, like, totally unfair
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: beautiful-dream, dream, internet, internettethering, its-forthcoming, mobile, mobile hotspot, native, tethering, uma, wificalling
Motorola Bravo, Flipout and Flipside hands-on: hastily handled and summarily shot (video)
Looking for a new Android form factor on AT&T and don't mind a bit of BLUR?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, flipout, flipside, form, hastily-handled, internet, mobile, motoblur, motorola bravo, motorola flipside, motorolaflipside, nintendo, result
Intel says no MeeGo phones until first half of 2011, Nokia just shrugs
While Nokia remains mum about the status of its first MeeGo handset, Doug Fisher, Vice President of Intel's Software and Solutions Group and General Manager of Systems Software Division, is being decidedly more talkative. According to an interview published by Forbes , MeeGo phones and tablets are in the works but we'll have to wait until 2011 to handle them
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: annoucement, chance, delay, fisher, general-manager, intel, internet, mobile, retail, user, windows, world