http://wirelessinnovator.com/ en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:01:39 -0500 editor@technologyinnovator.com http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15627&sectionID=13 This weekend, we listed several notebook deals, all at the lowest total price we could find. Below are the best ongoing deals, listed in order of... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:11:28 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15626&sectionID=13 In the market for a new smartphone? With their laptop-like features, today's all-in-one models can keep you entertained and connected no matter where you go. From the T-Mobile G1 to... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:09:41 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15672&sectionID=8 This past Friday EE Times reported that WiQuest, a former competitor of Alereon, closed its doors. One question that will surely be asked is “What does this mean for the... Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:00:51 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15630&sectionID=7 After a long wait, Google's Android smartphone is finally here. Manufactured by HTC, the G1 packs a touch screen display, Qwerty keyboard, 3.2-megapixel camera, 3G, and Wi-Fi. But do all... Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:15:58 -0500 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15631&sectionID=7 Sony and Amazon are pushing digital books into the mainstream, but despite repeated attempts, eBook readers have remained a luxury rather than a necessity. Below we looked at some of... Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:17:08 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15559&sectionID=13 Recently, my spouse purchased an Asus Eee PC™. She bought it so that she could have an inexpensive and lightweight means to get on the Internet and check her Gmail™... Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:08:41 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15729&sectionID=45 Acer held a major press conference last week, but you could be forgiven if you didn’t know about it because the event took place in Budapest, Hungary, which isn’t exactly... Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:43:33 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15558&sectionID=13 Recently, I saw an article in which a top SONY executive exclaimed that 90 percent of SONY’s products would be networked by 2010. I found these comments interesting for two reasons. First, I naturally thought about the... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:07:23 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15557&sectionID=13 I am not sure why it is, but nearly every time I participate in a press meeting or do a UWB technology interview, I inevitably get asked a question about... Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:01:31 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15731&sectionID=12 In the past 18 months, security peripherals vendors have begun to notice a change in buying patterns. Essentially, fingerprint readers, which first came to market as an esoteric way for... Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:47:19 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15386&sectionID=52 The French regulator has chosen the TV channels for its first DVB-H multiplex, and delayed as it might be, almost a year or so late, and it possibly won’t make... Wed, 28 May 2008 20:35:23 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15385&sectionID=52 Sony seems to have engineered a key first step in the bid by cable operators in the US, to free themselves from the long term set top control exercised by... Wed, 28 May 2008 20:33:26 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15402&sectionID=7 Attendees of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year might have easily overlooked what could become a huge success. Modu, an ultracompact cell phone launched by the Israeli... Tue, 27 May 2008 21:09:17 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15389&sectionID=52 The New York Times had a great article on Sunday about the success of Pure Digital Technologies “Flip Video” camcorder. The article’s basic message: Pure Digital has created a big... Mon, 26 May 2008 20:43:52 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15227&sectionID=41 Washington -- U.S. President George Bush is marking a day of solidarity with the Cuban people by allowing people in the United States to send cellular telephones to family in... Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:36 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15208&sectionID=12 Spyware, viruses and worms continue to plague most organizations, but security challenges tied to the use of handheld devices and mobile and remote computing are growing at a rapid pace,... Tue, 20 May 2008 17:08:04 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15201&sectionID=8 According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, technologies such as NFC are enabling a completely new segment of mobile applications - proximity services or local... Tue, 20 May 2008 16:52:31 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15225&sectionID=41 Washington -- High tech gadgets such as cell phones are bringing profound change to developing nations, and not just economic progress.  Text messaging, the Internet and other innovations are having... Mon, 19 May 2008 15:29:05 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15224&sectionID=41 Washington -- Cell phones are an example of what is sometimes now called leapfrog technology, a product that allows developing nations the benefits of a reliable and extensive communications network... Mon, 19 May 2008 15:27:06 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15195&sectionID=8 Recently both Apple and Lenovo introduced some very thin laptops; the MacBook Air and the Lenovo x300. The MacBook Air is a very elegant looking machine. Very sleek. To make... Tue, 13 May 2008 16:39:24 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15384&sectionID=41 So Sprint Nextel and Clearwire finally created their much anticipated joint venture, keeping the hopes for a genuine mobile broadband challenge to the US telcos alive, and striking a blow... Wed, 07 May 2008 20:32:05 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15383&sectionID=41 Nokia has made a major breakthrough for its Ovi mobile web services portal, getting formerly hostile T-Mobile International on its side. The two companies have signed a Europe-wide content and... Wed, 07 May 2008 20:29:41 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15202&sectionID=8 According to new a research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of cellular network connections used for machine-to-machine communication will grow from 37.5 million connections in 2007... Tue, 06 May 2008 16:55:27 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15182&sectionID=7 Found as standard on nearly any portable device you can think of, Bluetooth has come of age: It is now the automatic choice for wireless device interoperability. Cost-efficient and robust... Fri, 02 May 2008 14:59:00 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15387&sectionID=8 Within a few years, a fully broadband mobile internet will be taken for granted by users in many parts of the world, and operators are already gearing up to put... Thu, 01 May 2008 20:37:09 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15183&sectionID=8 This is part two of our profile of Chris Ruff, the CEO of UIEvolution. Prior to joining UIEvolution, Ruff was co-founder and CEO of Aptelix Inc., a software startup specializing in... Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:00 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15241&sectionID=12 Anchorage, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin is encouraging state employees to donate used cell phones to the Cell Phones for Soldiers project. In addition, Department of Administration Commissioner Annette Kreitzer... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:04:32 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15388&sectionID=52 Mobile TV technologies have multiplied rather than consolidated, and despite an early dominant lead by DVB-H, in what seemed a two horse race with Korea’s T-DMB, there are now at... Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:39:30 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15167&sectionID=52 The confidence with which Sony strode onto the stage at its pre-show National Association of Broadcaster (NAB) annual event in Las Vegas, said much about how the Blu-ray win has... Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:14:13 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15166&sectionID=52 The two powerful groupings that are chasing the standard for what we feel is likely to be THE US standard for mobile TV, the ATSC extension called M/H for mobile... Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:12:31 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15165&sectionID=8 The success of any technology platform in the 4G world was always going to be decided partly by its IPR policies, given the heavy burden that patent royalties have placed... Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:11:10 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15164&sectionID=7 Two of Europe’s major chip manufacturers, STMicro and NXP, are to place their wireless activities into a joint venture, though with ST owning 80% of the combined company, the deal... Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:09:00 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15147&sectionID=41 We recently had the privilege of speaking with Chris Ruff, the CEO of UIEvolution. He’s been with the company since its founding eight years ago, starting off as employee number... Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:25:04 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15203&sectionID=8 According to a new report from the telecom research firm Berg Insight, more than 100 million mobile subscribers in Europe will use location-based services by 2012. Mapping, navigation and search... Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:00:03 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15209&sectionID=12 Technology workers looking to keep their skills out front of employers' future needs would be wise to focus on wireless technologies, research commissioned by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA)... Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:11:43 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15127&sectionID=45 Thinner and lighter than your average notebook, an ultraportable laptop is capable of cramming all the computing power you need in a footprint no bigger than a hardcover book. However,... Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:21:27 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15010&sectionID=52 You’d be a pretty rubbish satellite TV supplier if you never had at least one ace up your sleeve in answer to the vagaries of the satellite world. Satellites can... Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:28:25 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15009&sectionID=52 From an ISP’s point of view, P2P traffic can appear to be exceptionally daunting. If they choose to block it, as some have accused almost all of the major US... Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:25:54 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=14971&sectionID=45 NPD Group reports that US consumer technology sales, which it defines as "IT, imaging, audio, video, and consumables" reached a record $129 billion in 2007. This was a 6.5% increase... Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:54:42 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=14970&sectionID=41 A march Nielsen Mobile report says that 58 million US mobile subscribers have seen a mobile advertisement on their phones in the past 30 days. This represents 23% of all... Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:53:07 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=14956&sectionID=41 Getting mobile users to do anything besides talk presents a conundrum. Users are far more likely to interact with mobile multimedia if the cost is low. Yet getting them to... Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:39:28 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15008&sectionID=8 Here is a sad story of two handset chip companies – one beset by legal battles and the hostility of much of the industry, and currently excluded from the business... Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:25:02 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=15007&sectionID=8 In the evolving mobile internet, one issue is critical to all parties – whether the operators or the internet services companies will be the dominant channel in delivering applications to... Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:23:16 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=14960&sectionID=13 Productivity is a top concern for business travelers and they are demanding connectivity on-the-go according to a February 2008 Sommers Market Research survey sponsored by Hyatt Place. According to the... Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:23:19 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=14959&sectionID=41 A recent Harris Interactive survey has found that US consumers are already banking and making purchases using their mobile phones. According to the study, 16% of US mobile phone subscribers... Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:21:21 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=14962&sectionID=52 A Springboard Research report estimates that the Indian mobile TV market could bring $360 million in revenues in 2008. A survey of 1,215 mobile users in six major Indian cities... Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:26:07 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=14964&sectionID=41 Three out of 10 US consumers are interested in receiving coupons on their mobile phones, according to JupiterResearch's "Mobile Coupons: Identifying New Opportunities Beyond Early Trials” report. The company said... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:42:45 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=14914&sectionID=52 Killer whales became an endangered species this week as Israeli IPTV middleware specialist Orca gave up its independence to be acquired by French conditional access company, Viaccess, itself a 100%... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:05:31 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=14913&sectionID=52 When operators and investors ask us about NextWave, and whether or not its vision can be turned into reality, creating a new wireless powerhouse, the question in always answered with... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:03:51 -0400 http://wirelessinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=14966&sectionID=7 That's according to a March report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Of those surveyed between October and December 2007, 51% said it would be hard to give... Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:46:17 -0400