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Really like the fact that my favorite newsaper, the New York Times, has just launched a web site optimized for mobile phone users. They even released a press release about it.
The site, http://mobile.nytimes.com, provides access to news and information from NYTimes.com via mobile devices including Web-enabled phones and PDAs.
Readers can scan headlines on the section-fronts or read the complete articles from Latest News, World, Business, Sports, Arts and all other top-level sections of the Web site.
Spent some time playing around with it already via my Treo 650 (Sprint service), and let me tell you the downloads are much faster than via the regular NY Times web site! How much faster -- very much faster!
The NYTimes.com mobile site can be activated for free by typing http://mobile.nytimes.com into the Web browser of a Web-enabled phone or PDA.
Get all the news that's fit to download!
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Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on September 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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In a tit-for-tat battle,
Vonage today announced that it has acquired ownership of three patents from Digital Packet Licensing Inc. that enable voice over internet protocol technology (VoIP). The three acquired patents, U.S. Patent Nos. 4,782,485, 5,018,136 and 5,444,707, are directed to the compression of packetized digital signals commonly used in VoIP technology.
This acquisition of these VoIP patents is obviously in response to
recent litigation by Sprint and
also Verizon. I speculated that the rash of lawsuits by the carriers against Vonage, knocking Vonage's stock down even further, could be "sweet revenge" for bringing down their profit margins. But it could also be a precursor to a takeover of Vonage by
Sprint or Verizon. The cheaper Vonage stock goes, the less money it takes to acquire them.
In any case, Vonage is claiming that this "acquisition of these three significant patents now places Vonage in control of pending litigation against Sprint Communications LP and
Verizon Communications, among others, in federal court for infringement of one of these VoIP patents." We'll see.
As if on cue, Klausner Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has filed suit against Vonage Holdings, Inc. for patent infringement, with damages and royalties estimated at $180 million. The lawsuit asserts that the Vonage VoIP voicemail platform infringes Klausner Technologies' U.S. Patent. 5,572,576. Klausner Technologies filed a $200 million patent infringement lawsuit against America Online (AOL) before AOL gave in and licensed it for AOL Voicemail. I sincerely hope this isn't one of those "obvious" patents and Klausner Technologies isn't extorting money for obvious ideas. I hate patent trolls.
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Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on July 10th, 2006 with no comments.
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Skibare has the goods on a potential incestuous relationship between Quest, Level 3, and Sprint/Nextel. Aren't Quest and Sprint/Nextel rival competitors? Looks like the carriers and major backbone providers have to get along much more than the 1990s if they want to survive the impact of wireless and VoIP technology. But with the major carriers doing deals with each other, AT&T now part of SBC, and other consolidation in the carrier arena, I wonder if won't have to break up the carriers in the near future (like we did Ma Bell) to prevent just 4-6 major carriers from dominating the U.S. telecom sector.
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Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on June 5th, 2006 with no comments.
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MapQuest Navigator is now Available on Sprint and Nextel BlackBerry devices. In addition, MapQuest Mobile v2.5 now enables Finding Places, Customized and Multi-Point Routing Options, Canadian Coverage and more.
MapQuest yesterday announced MapQuest Mobile v2.5, offering a range of new features, including access to MapQuest's 15 million points of interest, multipoint routing, walking directions, customized routing options, and coverage in Canada. MapQuest Mobile, the #1 revenue generating downloadable application in the US1, is available in the US through 12 wireless carriers, and on 250 mobile phones.
In addition, MapQuest Navigator -- the GPS-enabled application featuring text and audio turn-by-turn directions -- is now available from Sprint (NYSE:S) on Sprint and Nextel BlackBerry devices. The downloadable application features an in-car navigation-like system with a moving, full color map display while letting consumers receive phone calls. MapQuest Navigator for BlackBerry devices is available for a 90-day free trial download at
www.mapquest.com/mobile on the Get it Now link.2 Supported models include: the 8703e and 7130e powered by Sprint, and the 7520 and 7100i powered by Nextel.
"We're focused on offering mobile solutions to help consumers find places while they are on the go," said Alan Beiagi, Director of Wireless for MapQuest. "Enhancing our product offerings for mobile phone users and expanding our MapQuest Mobile coverage to Canada provides convenient and compelling solutions for subscribers to get to their destinations."
Among the new features of MapQuest Mobile v2.5:
Finding Places
- Users can access the more than 15 million of Points Of Interest from the MapQuest.com database, including restaurants, hotels, gas stations and theaters.
- Subscribers can search for a specific business or place by category, name or location, and click-to-call that business directly from the MapQuest Mobile application.
Navigate
- Multipoint Routing lets users select multiple destinations to get a complete set of directions from point A to B to C, etc.
- Pedestrian Navigation provides directions and maps for walking routes.
- Reverse Directions lets users get directions back to the point of origin. Advanced Routing lets users choose the fastest or shortest routes, or those that avoid toll roads and highways.
Get Maps and Driving Directions
- Directions can include advanced routing options (shortest time, shortest distance, avoid tolls, avoid highways, walking), and multi-stop routing. All maps, routes, multi-routes and places sent from Mapquest.com will be stored in a “Sent from Web” list.
- Users can easily access their most recent locations and multi-routes, and they can save locations and multi-routes to a Favorites folder.
- Users can store a favorite Businesses or Place in a “Favorites” list.
Canada
- Maps, directions and point of interest information is offered for all Canadian territories.
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Honestly, who can keep track of all of the Baby Bells, Ma Bell, the wireless services providers -- wasn't it supposed to be easier after the breakup of AT&T that began in 1974 with the U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust suit against the telephone monopoly. (Thanks Wiki! -- and more on that later.)
Now we have a news report about how AT&T is going to "de-brand" the Cingular name after its receent purchase of the company and turn it into AT&T; this after SBC bought AT&T earlier and deciced to change its brand nane to AT&T.
Crazy or what!
But how about fixing the often spotty wireless service that Cingular (er, I mean, AT&T) provides -- why bother fixing the brand name if the brand attributes (the stuff that makes the brand the brand) aren't so good?
A little background music please:
Continuing the phone dereg history, under the terms of the settlement finalized on January 8, 1982, "Ma Bell" agreed to divest its local exchange service operating companies in return for a chance to go into the computer business as AT&T Computer Systems. (That's rich, isn't it?
Effective January 1, 1984, AT&T's local operations were split into seven independent Regional Holding Companies, also known as Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) or "Baby Bells."
Reduced in value by approximately 70%, AT&T continued to operate all of its long-distance services, although it lost market share to competitors like MCI and Sprint.
Who knows what other deals lurks in the minds of the phone and wireless providers ...
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