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125,000 Vegas CES attendees invading desert town for sizzling electronics show. Each person, emitting 100 watts, like light globes, crushing Vegas’s AC system, 1.3 BILLION watts raising heat. TV’s, computers, smartphones, other gadgets draining juice. AC maxing out at Las Vegas Convention Center. CES heat won’t melt cell towers and mobile gear. Root Metrics and PC Mag [...]
Yes, over five years ago, I bought and sold high-end phones on e-Bay, mostly for fun, until I realized I was generating $25,000 in income. Not enough to retire from my day job, but the business generated a little cash and became a hobby. Within a year or two, I had repeat customers [...]
The Sprint Samsung Nexus S Story Like many of you, I upgraded to a Samsung Nexus S a few days ago. Then I spent time today with the Sprint Community and Google Samsung Nexus S forum folks online. Lots of chat about weak RF signals. So I Googled around the Web and found mostly praise [...]
There’s a lot of discussion these days about mobile devices–phones, iPads, Kindles, netbooks. I suppose a car or truck is a mobile device too. Although it weighs several thousand pounds, put gas in it, start it up and it moves. It’s mobile. But a fridge is not a mobile device, unless you’ve installed wheels under [...]
It happened so rapidly. It arrived in the night. You couldn’t see it. It changed your life. It connected you to friends and family. The “it” is a roaring future wireless vision thrust upon you and me–a world of smartphones and other gadgets, a mobilized planet where possibilities are necessarily real. Welcome to the world [...]
Jay Hinman talks about Video Streaming Services When I interviewed Tricia Higgins at MobiTV about its live video streaming services last year, the company had 10 million customers. That’s grown to over 15 million with no end in sight. Through its carrier partners–AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile–other broadband services like AT&T U-Verse and content producers, MobiTV [...]
Patent infringement litigation in the mobile smartphone market continues growing. Microsoft sued Motorola over everything from synchronizing email to handset power control. Apple is suing Nokia and HTC. And Kodak is suing Apple! In most cases, most of these patent litigation case are settled out of court and act as threats against mobile handset makers. [...]
Mobile social networks are alive and well in South Africa. MXit, a mobile service, offers instant messaging, online chat rooms, mobile media and other mobile services primarily to South African youth. Herman Heunis, founder and CEO, is the driving force behind the company’s growth as he faces the challenges of growing wireless communications in a [...]
