Archive for the 'Wireless Communications' Category
Diane Sawyer of ABC interviews the Bits blogger Nick Bilton about texting at dinnertime and the propriety of poking around the e-mail or cellphone of a significant other.
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March 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Cellular Telephones, Daine Sawyer, FaceBook, Facebook.com, Internet, Internet etiquette, People, Personal Computing, Phones and Mobile Devices, Sawyer, Diane, Silicon Valley, Start-ups, Technology and Society, Text Messaging, Wireless Communications, cellphone, infidelity, texting | No Comments
Consumers have to do the math when deciding whether to pay more upfront for the freedom of a so-called unlocked phone or pay less for a device with strings attached.
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March 3rd, 2010 | Posted in AT&T Corp|T|NYSE, Cellular Telephones, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Sprint Nextel Corporation|S|NYSE, T-Mobile, Verizon Communications|VZ|NYSE, Wireless Communications | No Comments
Monday’s roundup of Web nuggets includes an application that deletes text messages from both phones, a 1995 essay on cyberhype and a study on how people read news online.
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March 1st, 2010 | Posted in Advertising and E-Commerce, Apple, Cellular Telephones, Company News, Computers and the Internet, Consumer Electronics, Cyberattacks, Extortion and Blackmail, Internet, Phones and Mobile Devices, Policy and Law, Start-ups, Technology and Society, Text Messaging, TigerText, What We're Reading, Wireless Communications, Yelp, andreessen horowitz, iPhone, online news, text messages, user reviews | No Comments
Microsoft’s new mobile phone software, coming at the end of this year, offers “tiles” instead of icons, and has “hubs” for similarly themed functions.
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March 1st, 2010 | Posted in Microsoft Corp|MSFT|NASDAQ, Smartphones, Software, Wireless Communications | No Comments
Selling the radio spectrum that is used for over-the-air television would create a bonanza for the government (and even make our smartphones work better).
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February 27th, 2010 | Posted in Economic Conditions and Trends, Telephones and Telecommunications, Television, Wireless Communications | No Comments
Our Friday morning roundup of technology news also looks at 3-D movies and televisions and the poor sales at Palm.
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February 26th, 2010 | Posted in 3-D movies, 3-D television, Apple, Apple Inc, Apple Inc|AAPL|NASDAQ, BBC, Bits Scan, Blogs and Blogging (Internet), Bloomberg LP, British Broadcasting Corp, Cellular Telephones, Company News, Company Reports, Computers and the Internet, Consumer Electronics, FaceBook, Facebook.com, Google Inc, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, Guardian (British Newspaper), Hacking, Handheld Computers, Internet, Inventions and Patents, Kallasvuo, Olli-Pekka, Nokia, Nokia Oyj, Nokia Oyj|NOK|NYSE, Ovi, Palm, Palm Inc, Palm Inc|PALM|NASDAQ, Palm Pixi, Palm Pre, Patents, People, Personal Computing, Phones and Mobile Devices, Privacy, Research in Motion Ltd, Research in Motion Ltd|RIMM|NASDAQ, Silicon Valley, Smartphones, Social Networking (Internet), Start-ups, Technology and Society, Twitter, Wireless Communications, iPhone, news feed, phishing | No Comments
The company cited slower-than-expected consumer adoption of its products, leading to orders that were weaker than expected.
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February 26th, 2010 | Posted in Palm Inc|PALM|NASDAQ, Smartphones, Stocks and Bonds, Wireless Communications | No Comments
The LG, a cellphone with an (almost) built-in projector and the Aaxa, which uses lasers for clearer images, represent a new generation of projectors.
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February 25th, 2010 | Posted in Computers and the Internet, LG Group, Movies, Optoma, Recordings and Downloads (Video), Smartphones, Wireless Communications | No Comments
In a rapidly growing market, Hewlett-Packard’s smartphone sales have fallen about 80 percent over the past five years.
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February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Hewlett-Packard Co|HPQ|NYSE, Sales, Smartphones, Wireless Communications | No Comments
Using a technique called geo-fencing, the North Face will send shoppers text messages as soon as they set foot near a store.
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February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Advertising and Marketing, Publicis Groupe SA|PUB|NYSE, Shopping and Retail, Text Messaging, Wireless Communications | No Comments
