(CELLular phone COmpany) The wireless counterpart of the land-based telephone company. See telco.
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- Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity
- Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivityGimme? No, its socialism in actionWhy do you figure the government has any right to dictate what phones are available through what carriers? I don't happen to like the iPhone - but I know a lot of people...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Google Airwaves Inc among list of 700mhz bidders
- It isn't a surprise that Google bid on spectrum in the FCC auction for the 700mhz spectrum, however I found the name it filed under interesting -- Google Airwaves Inc. There has been speculation that Google and Apple entered the auction together, and maybe this is the reason for...
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
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- ATNix contracts on BYOD; Dont count on itI am willing to place bets that there still is going to be a "minimum service commitment" of 1 year, especially if you opt to go "post-paid" vice their go-phone pre-paid. AT&T isnt gonna just let you ride their network without a contract...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?
- Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?Everything on God's green earth...Everything on God's green earth produces something harmful to others...!Headline:Warning to all computer users. Excessive reading of ZDNet causes excess spurious emissions of light energy from laptop screens which causes blindness in lab animals.This is...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?
- Two years ago, I pondered whether the bill cell phone companies were the next "big tobacco" after it had come to light that cellco's were over-meddling in the work of independent researchers at the University of Washington. Not only did cellco's look to discredit the research before it was...
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- EMI/Amazon execs unplugged: Will Amazon's DRM-free downloads dent Apple?
- Right about now, the question is whether or not Steve Jobs wishes he never penned the open letter that he did in February 2007. The one where he eschewed Digital Rights Management technology (the same anti-piracy technology that preserves the dominance of Apple' iPods and well as of iTunes' downloadable...
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Move over iTunes. Here comes the Secure Video Processor Alliance
- Meet Jas Saini. He's chairman of the Secure Video Processor Alliance -- an alliance whose members are not about to take Apple's incursion into the home entertainment and content multiplexing market lying down.The battle to be your content multiplexer is on. It's a battle that most people don't...
- Blog posts 2006-09-21
- Europeans and Americans differ on their mobile phone perspective
- Europeans and Americans differ on their mobile phone perspectiveEuropean "mobiles" are greatif you're a 17-year-old girl who has nothing better to do with her time than play games on a 3 cm screen with thumbs the size of a pencil.Those of us who don't want to put in the learning...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-06
- Yuck. Chocolate never tasted this C.R.A.P-py
- Over the past few days, Verizon Wireless VZW has been turning some heads with the announcement of a new addition to its handset line-up -- this one. LG's super stylish Chocolate pictured left. The device handset is one part EVDO phone (EVDO is the type of wireless broadband network...
- Blog posts 2006-08-01
- FDA to revisit cellphone cancer risk. It's about time.
- According to Reuters: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it will review wireless-phone safety following a recently published study that raised concerns about a heightened risk of brain cancer......The researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life compared data from 2,200 cancer...
- Blog posts 2006-04-07
- Recent Blackberries are steps backward from earlier designs
- When people drop in for a visit to my office, they can't help but wonder if I'm running a wireless phone store on the side. The devices -- all of which are on loaner for my evaluation -- are literally lying all over the place. Some I've hung...
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
- Broadband penetration isn't the whole story
- Broadband penetration isn't the whole storyUhmmmmDial-up is not broadband, it's a fact that internet dial-up access in the US is very cheap, but they tried the same in the NL, only when people get used to the speeds delivered by broadband, they will never switch back. But that's easy talk...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-06
- Desperately seeking: Cellco Dead Zone (Not Spot) Mashup
- Berkman Center fellow David Isenberg has a great idea for a mashup: A mashup that lets people add cellular dead zones (not-spots) to a Google Map? I know several places where I lose service predictably every time I drive there. Cellcos have this info but they are...
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
- Bellsouth targets Google with cyberextortion?
- Bellsouth targets Google with cyberextortion?Dumb & DumberI'm not surprised. I have warned before on ZDNet that telcos are looking at their low-margin businesses and trying to think of new ways to apply gateways / set-tops.On the other hand, I am disappointed. Bellsouth have chosen to show the telco...
- Discussion threads 2006-01-22
- Cellcos too slow on new smartphone turnaround time
- Cellcos too slow on new smartphone turnaround timeYeah, where's the Gen 3 web on phones?You know, we kept hearing about G3 cell phones...you can play games on them, check your email, etc. Ok - I bought into it. Sure, my Verizon camera phone can send photos to other...
- Discussion threads 2005-10-18
- New HP iPAQ hw6500 smartphone is a dud
- Here at Gartner Symposium ITxpo, HP held an early morning breakfast to give the press a preview of the Windows Mobile-based smartphone that it announced today: the HP iPAQ hw6500 Mobile Messenger pictured left. You can’t buy such smartphones the way you buy PDAs. They have to be...
- Blog posts 2005-10-18
- Cellcos too slow on new smartphone turnaround time
- Here at Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Florida, HP announced its new iPAQ hw6500 Mobile Messenger smartphone. In a separate blog entry, there's a picture and I've detailed my first impressions of the device. But if you want to skip the movie, my take in that blog entry was to skip...
- Blog posts 2005-10-18
- Analysts surprised by EV-DO price drop? Doh
- News.com's Marguerite Reardon has reported that Verizon Wireless is getting aggressive on mobile broadband by dropping the all-the-data-you-can-eat-per-month price on its high speed wireless broadband service from $80 per month to $60 per month. Verizon Wireless isn't even done its multi-billion dollar rollout of the 3G-rated wide area wireless...
- Blog posts 2005-08-30
- Former Palm founder "nails it" on smartphone culture clash
- I just got done listening to a recent DiamondCluster Wavelengths Podcast interview hosted by Dan Bricklin and DiamondCluster vice chairman and global managing director John Sviokla. Their guest interviewee was Palm co-founder Donna Dubinsky. After leaving Palm, Dubinsky went on to co-found Handspring -- originators of...
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
- Will the Moto Q rise to the hype? We'll see
- The blogosphere and the tech news sites were all abuzz this week after Motorola and Microsoft officially announced the Moto Q -- a razor thin smartphone based on Windows Mobile 5.0. Currently, the prevailing OS for Pocket PC-based smartphones is Windows Mobile 2003. That's what runs on the...
- Blog posts 2005-07-27
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