WiMAX News & Opinion

As an editor, I occasionally like to look into word/phrase history. Having ardor for the written word does this to us linguaphiles. So, let's talk about brainstorming.

As a channels editor, I brainstorm quite frequently with many of our sponsors especially when it comes to feature story ideas.

You knew it was going to happen. In this technological era, how could it not happen? As of midnight earlier today, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith hit the theatres and streams of Storm Troopers, wookies, jedis and other types lined the streets like a bunch of freakish ants waiting for a seat.

(Don't think for a minute that I hadn't considered joining in on the fun....as an avid Star Wars fan, co-workers were surprised I showed up today.

Exemplary action!

So the recent e-mail subject header tells me (as does Babel Fish). The body says Lese selbst (according to Babel Fish, "vintage") and I'm given a link to who knows where.

According to an article on Yahoo!

TigerDirect filed a law suit in April against� computer giant, Apple in an effort to relinquish it's name on the search engines. Apple, who released OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, had an early win in the courts since TigerDirect requested a preliminary injunction, basically forcing Apple to stop using the word "Tiger".

TigerDirect asked for $75,000 dollars in damage because the Internet has been monopolized with Tiger references that point directly to Apple when conducting a search. They just felt lost amidst the large cat references, I suppose.

May 15, 1930: Ellen Church, a registered nurse from Iowa becomes the first airline stewardess on a flight from San Fransisco to Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Church, who had a fascination with air travel signed up for flying lessons and when Boeing Air Transport turned her down for a pilot job, she proposed that the airlined have registered nurses aboard to assist people with common fears with flying and other such needs. Boeing liked the idea and hence, she was hired.

Ellen Church defined the standards that were upheld through the 1930's, when stewardessses were required to be registered nurses, single, younger than 25 years old, weigh less than 115 pounds, and stand no higher than five-feet, four-inches tall.

Just arrived to my inbox:

CEI, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited goverment have issued a statement to approve the mergers between SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI.

In comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission this week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute urged quick approval of the proposed mergers between SBC and AT&T, and Verizon and MCI.

“These mergers will result in significant public interest benefits,” said Braden Cox, technology counsel at CEI and author of CEI’s comments to the FCC.

It's my blog, so I'm going to use this as a tool to wish my parents a very happy 33rd anniversary!

Yes, my parents have been happily married now for 33 years. And I'm sure they've been a fantastic 33 years, I mean, having me and all made it worth while. (Like I said, it's my blog)

So Happy Anniversary to Anne & Pete. May you have another 33+.

And to make this technologically oriented, my dad uses Nextel, whereas my mom uses Verizon Wireless. And since she's "in", I call her more.

Now if I can get them to switch to VoIP....

....and technology.

I had the honor of being a judge at Soundview Preparatory School's annual middle school science fair last night. I'm no Rich Tehrani� traveling the country speaking about VoIP, but I definitely enjoyed being a guest at this awesome event and I have to say, the future is in good hands.

It was important to me to participate� at this event� because I am an advocate of science and technology (afterall, I do work for TMCnet.

Dear Santa, Boyfriend, or anyone else who is planning to buy me a present,

Sprint and Samsung just announced a new phone that I desperately want. Here are the details. Please make note of it.

...according Bill Gates. An article from Reuters says that Mr. Gates feels the iPod won't be able to uphold it's integrity because the mobile phone is stepping up as contender.

(Interestingly enough, I just blogged ABI Research's report on mp3 players and how they need to have some more portability.)

Apple's numbers prove that they're ahead of the game, what, with over 5 million iPods sold in the last quarter.

An interesting report was just issued by ABI Research this morning.

The report states that digital audio players need to be more like their ancestors....portable. Vamsi Sistla, director of residential entertainment research said "Today's so-called portables are still tied by an umbilical cord to the computer and a broadband connection.

I'd like to point your attention to one of our channel sponsors, Amae Software, and their latest release.

Amae just issued a new reporting tool for the Amae CI Suite which helps managers, supervisors obtain information on the performance of their staff instantly.

Here is the full release:

Amae Software Releases Automated Performance Index and Performance Metrics in the Amae CI Suite

I read an interesting post on a friend's blog today - she mentioned that her father had a "voice pal" in Japan using "voice over internet", and being in the VoIP space here at TMCnet, I had to inquire about this.

Turns out that her dad was contacted by some Japanese folks who were looking to improve their English skills and since my friend's dad is very interested in Japanese culture, he made some� pals using the ever famous Skype.

What really moved me about� my friend's� blog entry� was the nature of the conversations between my friend's dad and his Japanese friend. They exchanged lengthy e-mail discussions on Hiroshima, Vietnam and the war in Iraq. It was a pleasure to read what my friend's father had written to his Japanese friend about his take on the current events and the events that had transpired, sharing personal stories of the Vietnam era and how all too often other countries misinterpret or judge all of America for the actions of the government.

...will hurt you.

I just had the unfortunate experience of learning that my broadband bill went up� a whopping $20 per month because a "promotional" rate had ended. If I knew that I had a promotional rate, I might have done something about it six months ago when I signed up for service.

What Cablevision� my broadband company has done to me is disgraceful, nevermind� that the cable guy was an hour� past the window they gave me when I had said� disgraceful services installed.

In case you missed the release from Intel, here's the latest dish on the vision of Sprint, Intel and the WiMAX adventure:

Sprint And Intel To Explore WiMAX Broadband Technologies

Sprint and Intel Corporation� announced an agreement to engage in joint efforts to advance the development of IEEE standards-based 802.16e WiMAX mobile technology, which can provide high capacity wireless broadband coverage and services throughout metro areas and an enriched multimedia user experience.

The companies will collaborate on technical specifications, perform equipment trials and conduct interoperability testing to examine possible next generation wide-area wireless broadband devices and services.