Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
In the recent FCC auction, Dish Network purchased a block of the available spectrum for around $740 million. There is a lot of questions regarding what they plan to do with this. It is a one way spectrum so its uses are somewhat limited. There is a ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
It looks like Motorola may spin off its handset division. The handset division has been a drag on corporate earnings for some time as it continues to lose market share to Nokia, Samsung and others. While it had a big win with the RAZR, it has not had ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Netflix spent most of yesterday down. The site outage affected internet access as well as a number of their fulfillment centers so no movies were shipped. This was a pretty major outage and I can only imagine what this must have cost the company in lost revenue.
It is ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Google has filed comments with the FCC related to wireless devices operating in the "white space" from interfering with televisions and wireless mics. Google is quoted as saying this upgrade to their wireless device "will eliminate any remaining legitimate concerns about the merits of using the white space for ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
AT&T and Verizon were named the winners of the FCC wireless auction related to the 700mhz spectrum block. As a result, the 2 biggest wireless companies just got bigger. AT&T is currently the largest wireless company and with the added licenses and control of the spectrum is ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
It is expected LG will announce a number of new phones at the CTIA show in April. Some are expected to be strong contenders for the iPhone while others will be similar to current flip and candy bar style phones currently available. A new version of the Chocolate ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I have noticed lately more and more people that do not use a cell phone case with their phone. It used to be phones were too big to comfortably slip into a pocket. With phone now much slimmer and more compact, people, inlcuding myself, just slip them into ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
I was browsing some new cellular related sites today and was put off by what some think of as customer service. When i clicked to close the window on this store, instead of leaving the site a chat window popped up with a rep trying to get me to ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
CTIA is coming up in about 2 weeks. It will be interesting to see what is on the horizon. One rumor is that Blackberry is going to be adding their own music service. This may put some pressure on Apple and the iPhone. Interestingly enough Apple ...
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