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Apple to Become Mobile Payment Leader this Week?

November 1, 2011

According to MacRumors, we can expect Apple to soon evolve retail beyond what it’s already done with its leading edge and clean store designs. The next step for Cupertino is allowing customers to make purchases in-store via the company’s free iOS app. An email you receive will be proof of the transaction and can be shown to store employees so they know the purchase has been made. Another source says the functionality is on its way November 3rd and will only be available to iPhone 4 and 4S users.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, Technology, Verizon, Wireless

Sound ID SIX Proves Bluetooth Headsets Need an App

October 31, 2011

Reheating a casserole? There's an app for that.

The evolution of the headset mirrors virtually everything else in the world – it has become more technologically sophisticated and a lot smarter. Case in point is the Sound ID SIX Bluetooth headset, a technological marvel which continues to impress me and the more I use it, the better it seems to get.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Blackberry, Broadband, Consumer Electronics, FCC, Gadget, HD Voice, IP Communications, Technology, Verizon, Wireless

China Telecoms and Incoherent US Foreign Policy

October 28, 2011

China telecom companies growing globally Go to any of the recent shows in technology and telecom such as CTIA Wireless and Interop and you see a huge presence from Chinese telecom companies like Huawei and to a lesser extent, ZTE. Moreover, talk to the competition and you will hear them say these companies are poised to “take over the world.”

This shouldn’t be a surprise because these companies have been able to benefit from the massive build-out of China’s tech and telecom infrastructure and while the rest of the world was experiencing post telecom-bubble burst syndrome, their Chinese competitors were feasting on home-grown growth and rapidly expanding worldwide.

No selling into the US Of course these companies are said to be state-controlled by the US which is why they aren’t allowed to make certain acquisitions or even sales into the US.

Posted in AT&T, Broadband, Cisco, FCC, Financial, Gadget, IP Communications, Technology, Verizon, VoIP, Wireless

iPhone 4S Review with Help from Duran Duran

October 27, 2011

Two days ago I happened upon a new iPhone 4S as a replacement for my current 4 model. On the same day, I had an opportunity to go to Madison Square Garden and watch a Duran Duran concert where I was able to put this state of the art phone through its paces. I found it ironic that Simon Le Bon, the lead singer of the group said he was first in the Garden 30 years ago – and that was around the time I was introduced to PCs and programming in general. Now, here I was using the new phone as a camera in what has to be one of the harshest environments ever in which to shoot photos and videos.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Broadband, Cloud Computing, FCC, IP Communications, Speech Technologies, Super WiFi, Technology, Verizon, Video, Wireless

See Digital Photos on iPad Immediately

October 27, 2011

Photojojo, a site I learned about at TMC and Crossfire Media's DevCon5 HTML5 developer conference this past summer has a new iPad card reader supporting CompactFlash and SD allowing you to immediately see photos you shoot with your digital camera. You can have the best of both worlds - no more waiting till you get to a PC to upload and then download to the iPad.

The CF reader is $30, the SD reader is $15 and for $40 you get both.

For about $60 you can further opt for an iPad card reader from Koolertron which handles all major formats such as CF, SD, MMC, MicroSD and M2.

Slowly but surely, the limitations of having an iPad as opposed to a PC or laptop are beginning to fade. If only Adobe Flash support were next.

Disclosure: I am the CEO of TMC

Posted in Apple, Broadband, Consumer Electronics, Gadget, Technology, Wireless, iPad

FreeWave Technologies Provides Secure, Long-Range Radio Communications

October 26, 2011

Submarine cable systems between the UK, Canada and Paris became essential in the 1850s as the British government found itself in a situation where it would fight wars, sign treaties and still have thousands of soldiers in the field fighting – totally oblivious to the end of conflict. This cost the UK a tremendous amount of money and reducing this cost became a priority. Once the cables were laid they also became invaluable to the shipping industry as they allowed ships to be rerouted to ports which would be more lucrative destinations.

Nowadays with 3G, 4G and WiFi networks overlapping in much of the developed world we take instant communications for granted but this is not the case.

Posted in FCC, Gadget, IP Communications, M2M, Networking, Security, Smart Grid, Super WiFi, Technology, Wireless

Occupy Protestors get "Arrested" App. "Irony" App Needed

October 25, 2011

It is difficult to know what the “Occupy” protestors want but it seems they aren’t happy with the way Wall Street works and believe it’s rigged; salaries are too big, etc. But whatever the reason they are there, some of them are now using their tech smarts to build apps which help their cause. For example, a new “I’m Getting Arrested” app lets a protester tell their friends quickly that they are about to go to jail.

Many of the interviews with protestors I’ve heard show strong socialist/Marxist beliefs and I find a dramatic irony between these views and the launching of an app which requires a smartphone.

Posted in 4G, Apple, Google, Technology, Wireless

Blackberry Outage: Lives Saved, Accidents Down

October 20, 2011

Abu Dhabi saw accident rates plummet by 40% with no fatal accidents precisely at the time when Blackberry had its three-day outage in the country. Moreover, in Dubai the accident rate dropped by 20% during the same period (perhaps they have more iPhones and Nokia devices?).

As word spreads, expect even stricter laws to prevent texting while driving. But as studies have shown, such laws tend to increase traffic accidents because it causes drivers not to text less but to hide the phone while they text, meaning their eyes are even farther away from the road.

Will Apple's new Siri on the iPhone 4S be the solution to the texting while driving problem? Perhaps.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Android, Apple, Blackberry, Broadband, Consumer Electronics, Gadget, Microsoft, Speech Technologies, Technology, Wireless

Identity Management is the Decade's Killer App and Facebook Knows it

October 17, 2011

How long before we hear the TSA say, "Boarding pass and Facebook ID please?"

Have we gotten to the point where Facebook has become so dominant as an online identity system that is going to enter the real world with business cards which can be read via NFC and RFID. Well according to a new Facebook trademark application the company seems to have huge ambitions in the offline world and one can easily see how a Facebook ID can become even more secure than a government issued identification card.

And for that matter, it is only a matter of time before such a card could be used as a payment system competing with credit card companies and banks.

Identity management is this decade's killer app and Facebook knows it... Once you have information on who a person is and it is authenticated, you open up the world of secure commerce. Couple this with location and you have a powerful security mechanism which could be used to ensure your Facebook charge card can only work when it is in the same location as your phone for example.

Posted in E-Commerce, Facebook, Social Networking, Technology, Wireless

Jobs, Ritchie & Galvin Dead but not Forgotten

October 14, 2011

As TMC's Peter Bernstein says, the rule of threes seems to be in effect. First we lost Steve Jobs who transformed the music, movie, computer and mobile markets and next we lost C programming language and UNIX OS creator Dennis Ritchie. The third death was that of Former Motorola CEO Robert Galvin who oversaw the creation of the first "large-screen" (19-inch), transistorized, cordless portable television and the first cell phone among a slew of other important innovations.

As I mentioned yesterday, the C programming language was the fourth one I learned after BASIC, Pascal and PL/1 and what made it unique was its infinite flexibility. All of a sudden a programmer could create dynamic arrays of pointers in a program instead of relying on fixed variables.

Posted in 4G, Apple, Broadband, Consumer Electronics, Gadget, IP Communications, Super WiFi, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon, Wireless

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