Cellular tag
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4G and Clouds
As Ray Ozzie is exiting Microsoft, he has offered some views on the future of enterprise IT that are very provacative, saying basiclaly that those that faik to embrace the new model of cheap, available IT will remain stuck in the rigid, expensive, and poor user experience offered by traditional licensed IT models Full Story
Posted on October 27, 2010 9:00 PM
How Disruptive is Whitespace?
The recent ruling by the FCC to open up "Whitespace" spectrum, which live in the guard bands of TV broadcast spectrm between 54-862MHz, is creating a lot of buzz Full Story
Posted on September 26, 2010 8:33 PM
Precision location as part of the Future Retail Experience
Precision location capabilities like shopkick(http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/26156/?nlid=3447&a=f) which uses accoustic triangulation to locate a smartphone within an inddor setting (now used by Best Buy and several orher retailers) are starting to change the entire retail experience. Full Story
Posted on August 31, 2010 11:21 AM
Social Media and Digital Swarms
There has been lots of buzz lately around location-aware solcial networks such as Foursquare (http://foursquare.com/), Gowalla (http://gowalla.com/), and Loopt (http://www.loopt.com/). Now Facebook is muscling into the game with its 400M+ user base. It will be announcing a location-based service sometime today. Full Story
Posted on August 18, 2010 3:15 PM
3G to the Foxhole
Lockheed Martin recently announced they have developed a solution for secure communications using 3G smartphones in the battlefield environment (http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/lockheed-martin-develops-wireless-broadband-network-battlefield-communications/2010-08-16) Full Story
Posted on August 16, 2010 4:50 PM
My Trip to Australia: Experiencing Fast Mobile Internet
I now know what it's like to get fast internet to my mobile device everywhere I go. I recently took a trip for business and pleasure to Australia and was pleasantly suprised with 2-5 Mbps download speeds Full Story
Posted on August 13, 2010 8:54 AM
4G Empowering an Army of Davids
I recently finished reading Glenn Reynolds' Army of Davids (http://www.thomasnelson.com/consumer/product_detail.asp?sku=1595550542) Even though the book was published back in 2006, it is still incredibly relevant (and maybe even more so) given some of the current dynamics and technology disruption happening around us. The main theme of the book is that emerging technology like the Internet serves as an equalizer to give individuals power equivalent to large organizations. Armed with video cameras and wireless internet access, anyone can become a global reporter, providing more opportunities for the public to see the news through the eyes of many versus being filtered through the lens of big media. In addition to communications technologies, Reynolds postulates that advances in computing, nanotech and biotech are creating similar disruptions that will allow individuals to wield significant power in shaping their lives and environment. The so called "Army of Davids" effect is very similar to the "Digital Swarm" effect I site in my recent book, The New World of Wireless: How to Compete in the 4G Revolution (http://www.whartonsp.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=013700379X), where individuals and objects are able to self-organize to achieve significant outcomes using wireless networks and smart devices as a medium to collaborate. Full Story
Posted on July 11, 2010 9:50 PM
iPhone 4 - How much Smarter?
How much smarter will the iPhone 4 be and how much of an advantage will this create for Apple over competitors? The new phone has some significant upgrades. (http://venturebeat.com/2010/06/07/how-apple-is-setting-itself-apart-from-the-pack-of-iphone-clones/) Full Story
Posted on June 13, 2010 4:17 PM
User Interface Breakthrough?
When will we see the fundamental User Interface for Mobile devices change? I do not consider touch screens a major UI breakthrough given they have been around since the 1980's. Fundamentally, we have had the same windows/pointer based interface for the past 30 years! So are we ready for a change? Full Story
Posted on May 25, 2010 9:44 PM
How Disruptive is Android?
While Google's first move into products, Nexus One, seems like it has had negligible impact (about 150,000 sold to date), the bigger questions should be when will the Android ecosystem of devices wield enough power to drive open devices capable of operating on any network. Full Story
Posted on April 18, 2010 4:38 PM
4G Reality versus Hype
While the possibilities of a ubiquitous 100Mbps+ low latency network are incredibly exciting, we have to temper our enthusiasm a bit as the technical kinks, business model impediments, and device/chip economics are worked out. Full Story
Posted on March 31, 2010 12:03 PM
Cheap flying sensors
At the 2010 CES show in January, one of the more interesting products unveiled was the AR Drone by Parrot Systems http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/en Full Story
Posted on March 12, 2010 5:07 PM
Mobile Communities and Emerging Swarms
Everyday we read about mobile social networking becoming more prevalent. With the iPhones breakthrough in the mobile web browsing experience and overall UI (and others have followed suit), the limitations of using new types of content (maps, pictures, clips, songs) into social networking posts and communications via mobiles has been dramatically reduced. As a result, we are seeing an explosion in mobile communities. Full Story
Posted on March 3, 2010 4:04 PM
4G Business Model Disruption
There will certainly be shifts in the market as 4G rolls out, but will they incremental or radical? Full Story
Posted on February 17, 2010 7:23 AM
Google building the 4G backbone?
Google's decision to offer a gigabit high speed network trial in selected communities (http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/overview) represents another step in the companies evolution from an internet ad company to a network operator. Full Story
Posted on February 11, 2010 9:16 PM
Smart Dust and Digital Swarms
The recent article in the New York Times, (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/31unboxed.html) , "Smart Dust are We There yet?" talks about the progress in distributed wireless sensors which I have talked about in previous blogs. While we continue along the Moore's Law track towards smaller more capable nano-sensors, the more interesting part of the story is the surge in Participitory sensing where humans and their phones are the sensors. Full Story
Posted on February 2, 2010 8:27 PM
Apple Tablet - A Bridge to 4G for Enterprises?
While the buzz around the Apple Tablet (http://gizmodo.com/5434566/)the-exhaustive-guide-to-apple-tablet-rumors), or as some are calling it, the "iPad", reaches a fever pitch in anticipation of this week's announcement, most folks are talking about the disruption to the mobile consumer market. Full Story
Posted on January 27, 2010 2:32 PM
Capturing your life via 4G
The application we have all been waiting for us finally here. The ability to record your everyday life on video. uCorder Full Story
Posted on January 7, 2010 10:47 PM
M2M making its way into our lives
M2M does not only apply to exotic applications like environmental monitoring, precision farming, and supply chain automation. It is also starting to improve basic routine tasks. Full Story
Posted on December 20, 2009 9:01 AM
Femto vs. WiFi? Does it Matter?
I see that the debate between Femtocells and WiFi in the home rages on (http://gigaom.com/2009/11/02/who-needs-femtocells-if-we-have-wi-fi/) The basic argument against Femto's is that they are just offloading traffic from the carriers network and WiFi can do this just as easily. To... Full Story
Posted on November 5, 2009 7:12 PM
Are Satellites back in the game?
The recent announcement from A&T and Terrastar on National roaming ( http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/2009/09/ATT-TerreStar-Plans-Dual-Mode-Phone/ )raises the discussion on the relative merits of satellites for wireless services again. While this may fill in some gaps in AT&T's coverage, it is certainly not a viable long... Full Story
Posted on September 30, 2009 9:07 PM
Can Android lead us to 4G?
Strategy Analytics recently predicted Android Smartphone sales to increase by 900% in 2009. Putting aside the fact that 900% of a small number if still a small number, but the reality is that Android has some real advantages when thinking... Full Story
Posted on September 8, 2009 8:15 PM
