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Wireless wins some, loses some as Congress adjourns
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WASHINGTON—As Congress broke for midterm elections, the wireless industry won a few battles, but for the most part failed to get legislation it supported ...

China Telecom approached by foreign investors

Following reports that China Telecom was close to selling a stake to a foreign strategic investor, China's largest fixed-line operator says it has indeed been approached by five foreign, interested parties but said that uncertainty around 3G licensing in China and rules on IPTV need to be resolved before it could get more involved in talks with potential investors. Reports had said that Japan's NTT DoCoMo, France Telecom, Verizon Communications, Deutsche Telekom and Singapore-based SingTel were potential suitors. You can bet that investors are clamoring for a piece of China Telecom as China is a high-tech market relatively untapped by foreign investors.

Read more about China Telecom's potential suitors:
- at the GlobalInsight Web site

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- 3G in China is big money
- SK Telecom invests in China Unicom

Reporting live from CTIA I.T. here in Los Angeles, it's mostly a mobile play here at the show, but IPTV has come up once in a while. While at the Ericsson booth, I took in a demo of their IPTV GUI and the functionality of their platform (more on this later). I also …

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Mercer Study Reveals Key Strategic Issues Facing Mobile ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... However, industry executives were very optimistic that by 2009 the wireless industry will bring about those performance-based enhancements to significantly ...
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Qualcomm Goes With the Flow
TheStreet.com - USA
As TV goes mobile, the wireless industry once again finds itself divided. And as before, Qualcomm (QCOM - commentary - Cramer's ...

SKY MobileMedia to Acquire e-SIM Business to Create the Most ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
SKY MobileMedia, Inc., a leading provider of application software platforms for the wireless industry, and e-SIM Ltd (OTCBB:ESIMF), a leading provider of Man ...
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Cyren Call, M2Z Waiting on the FCC
Unstrung - New York,NY,USA
... would need congressional approval in addition to the FCC’s. What’s more, Cyren Call faces some weighty opponents, including the wireless industry’s most ...

Minneapolis deploys WiFi with eye on WiMax

The city of Minneapolis has committed to building a citywide WiFi network capable of upgrading to WiMax at a later date. BelAir Networks and US Internet will supply the equipment for the network, which will cover a 54-square mile sector of the city. The WiMax idea is interesting since Minneapolis would need to obtain some licensed spectrum to operate such a network. Where is it going to get the spectrum?

To read more about Minneapolis' WiFi network:
- take a look at this report from TechWeb

Sprint launches pay-per-view movies

Sprint Nextel says it has launched the first pay-per-view service for mobile phones in the U.S. that streams full-length movies for those times when "watching a movie in a theater or on a home entertainment system isn't possible," according to Alana Muller, director of entertainment and product marketing with Sprint. The company's press release details when customers could use such a service: to take their minds off of a busy day during a lunch break, while waiting for a child's soccer practice to end, to breeze through a two-hour wait at the airport or to keep kids busy in the backseat. Imagine a group of kids trying to watch a movie on a tiny cell-phone screen. Don't most minivans come with a DVD player anyway? Customers pay between $4 and $6 to get unlimited access to the movies within a set period. The company didn't specify if customers pay for airtime charges too. You also have to wonder about battery life.

For more about Sprint's new pay-per-view service:
- check out this release

Sprint launches pay-per-view movies

Sprint Nextel says it has launched the first pay-per-view service for mobile phones in the U.S. that streams full-length movies for those times when "watching a movie in a theater or on a home entertainment system isn't possible," according to Alana Muller, director of entertainment and product marketing with Sprint. The company's press release details when customers could use such a service: to take their minds off of a busy day during a lunch break, while waiting for a child's soccer practice to end, to breeze through a two-hour wait at the airport or to keep kids busy in the backseat. Imagine a group of kids trying to watch a movie on a tiny cell-phone screen. Don't most minivans come with a DVD player anyway? Customers pay between $4 and $6 to get unlimited access to the movies within a set period. The company didn't specify if customers pay for airtime charges too. You also have to wonder about battery life.

For more about Sprint's new pay-per-view service:
- check out this release

Palm gets boost with Treo 700wx

RBC Capital Markets reiterated its "outperform" rating on Palm and the company's shares increased after Sprint Nextel announced plans to offer the Treo 700wx smartphone that supports EV-DO and runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0.

"Verizon had exclusivity on the Windows Mobile Treo 700w since its launch in January," said RBC analyst Mike Abramsky in a research report. "The 700wx includes more 'program' storage and tethered modem functionality, but is otherwise similar to the 700w."

For more about Palm's Windows Mobile-based Treo:
- read this article from Forbes.com

Google slips into U.S. mobile marketing arena

Without much fanfare, Google has entered the mobile marketing arena by allowing AdWords customers to insert marketing messages, such as clickable links, in listings retrieved through Google's mobile search service. Advertisers can create their own mobile advertisements and marketing messages and pay only when consumers click on the ad.

For more about Google's AdWords mobile service:
- check out this article from RCR Wireless News

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Innovative Mobile Retailing Solutions Resolve Key Roadblocks to ...
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... For premium content to continue its rapid growth, the wireless industry must make the consumer experience faster, easier and more logical. ...

The big hang-up
Sunday Paper - Atlanta,GA,USA
... It’s interesting that immediately after New York passed the ban on cell phone usage in cars in 2001 the wireless industry noted a drop in usage, but just 18 ...

Wi-Fi's 'N' to Get Industry Group Nod
MSN Money - USA
NEW YORK (AP) - A wireless industry group, worried about incompatibilities among next-generation routers and network cards, will start certifying products next ...

Metric: 84% of Brits use WiFi at home
A recent AOL survey has found that while most are new to the technology, more than a third of Internet users have wireless access points set up in their homes. According to the survey of more than 2,000 U.K. Internet users, nearly all (84 percent) have WiFi access in place at home. However, most are just getting used to wireless networking; of the group, 75 percent went wireless in the last 18 months, and 39 percent got their WiFi hookup in place within the last six months. When asked where they'd most like to use their wireless networking connection, about half said they'd like to surf in their garden, and a quarter chose their bed.
For more information on the survey:- read this article in The Register

1. RCN to offer wireless services
Following in the footsteps of competitor Comcast, RCN said yesterday it will begin reselling wireless phone service to customers in the Boston area, adding the fourth element of a quadruple play service bundle to its existing wireline, cable and broadband Internet products. While the service will be marketed under the RCN name, it will actually be provided by Bethesda, Md.-based MobilePro, and at least for the time being, customers will be billed separately by MobilePro. According to an article in The Boston Globe, RCN hopes to differentiate its wireless plan by offering value-added services such as video content and remote control of digital video recorders DVRs. RCN also expects to allow users to be able to use one phone for both wired and wireless calling.
RCN is reading from the same playbook as Comcast, which announced late last year, in combination with several other cable giants, that it would roll out its own wireless service late this year using the Sprint Nextel network. In Comcast's case, though, the wireless deal didn't form an MVNO relationship with the carrier, but rather a joint venture giving the cablecos equity in customers they mutually acquire. Seems like a much smarter move for the long term.
For more background on RCN's wireless play:- read this report in The Boston Globe

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Road Trip: Testing Google's Free Municipal Wi-Fi Network
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... She assured me that Google is working quickly to ... Wi-Fi to the evolution of the mobile-phone industry. "It takes 10 years or more for wireless infrastructure to ...

A 'very bold and very brave' approach to wi-fi
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* Ericsson wins $1B managed services deal in India
* Motorola: $30 phone won't cut it in Brazil
* China Netcom urges government action on 3G licenses
* DoCoMo gets scammed on mobile TV
* NENA weighs in on Cyren Call proposal
* VC: Mitsui & Co doles out the cash
* SPOTLIGHT: MS Office 2007 to feature WiFi hotspot management
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A buyers guide to laptops by John Gibb

When you're buying a laptop, it can be difficult to know what to look for. Most people have bought a desktop system before, but the number of first-time laptop owners is growing every year, and the configuration of laptops is different in many notable ways.

In laptops, one of the most vital things to look for is a long battery life. Don't trust what the manufacturer says - look for objective, independent tests instead. A laptop is just about useless if its battery lasts a few hours, unless you only plan to use it in places where there's a power outlet to plug it into.

Another very important factor is the laptop's weight. If your laptop is too heavy, then it'll end up just sitting on your desk, acting as an overpriced desktop system, or perhaps breaking your shoulders when you try to carry it around. It is far better to sacrifice a little speed for a lighter weight - trust me on this one.

An often-ignored factor that is well worth paying attention to is the build quality of your laptop. Laptops are expensive, so it's tempting to just get the cheapest one you can find, but it's enormously frustrating when the case starts to crack, the keys start to fall off the keyboard, the system starts to overheat, and so on. It's just not worth it to buy a badly-built laptop, no matter how cheap it might be.

While wireless networking technology isn't unique to laptops, it is much more important in laptops than it is in other computers. If you are buying a laptop now, you're almost certainly going to want to use it with a wireless network some time over the next few years, and you should choose a system that makes this as painless as possible, or you'll regret it at some point.

John Gibb is the owner of Laptop resources For more information on Laptops check out http://www.laptop-computer-sources4u.info

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