Walt Mossberg says that the amount of control that US cellular operators have over handsets and applications is terrible for innovation:
So it’s intolerable that the same country that produced all this has trapped its citizens in a backward, stifling system when it comes to the next great technology platform, the cellphone. A shortsighted and often [...]
Microsoft launched a unified communications platform (merging email, instant messaging and telephony) that Business Division President Jeff Raikes claims will put an end to telephone tag:
“The era of dialing blind, the era of playing phone tag, the era of voice-mail jam…that era is ending . . . I don’t want to get in touch [...]
Orange, Apple’s exclusive partner in France, is required to sell the iPhone unlocked, if requested by a customer. The reason: French law prohibits the tying of a device to a cellular service. Operators can sell phones for a lower price if they subsidize it, but if the customer just wants the phone, they have to [...]
I have not been posting much over the past couple of weeks because I was ill for several days and then very busy with projects. There are so many conferences this month, one of which is my own Muniwireless event in Silicon Valley.
Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco (Oct. 15) in San Francisco: new mobile apps [...]
I am such a fan of free open Wi-Fi, but even that won’t get me into a McDonalds (I hate fast food in general). Nevertheless, it is a step in the right direction for European public hotspots which are still dominated by large carriers charging a lot of money for access. The Netherlands’ KPN offers [...]
