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Why do wireless devices need to be phones?
Wow, Verizon has just made a very important announcement today:
“Verizon Wireless today announced that it will provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network, wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company. Verizon Wireless plans to have this new choice available to customers throughout the country by the end of […]
“Go, and never darken my towels again.” -Groucho Marx
That being said,
Nokia is being handed a sharp lesson in business basics: don’t compete with your biggest customers.
In August, the Finnish phone giant announced it was going “beyond the phone” and creating an online portal called Ovi in a bid to become a major service company. This would offer music, maps and games - bringing […]
The G-phone stirreth
Google said to be shipping 50,000 Gphones by year’s end. A UBS analyst is rumored to have information that HTC, a Taiwanese handset manufacturer, will ship about 50,000 cell phones made for Google by the end of
the year. “These initial phones are not going to be for sale, says Benjamin Schachter, at UBS. “These are […]
RIM Slams Canadian Carriers for Data Rates
BunnyHero (wayne a. lee) says:
Rim blasts Telcos for high cost of wireless:
“Research In Motion Ltd., riding high after finally gaining entry into China’s lucrative wireless market, blasted Canadian cellphone companies yesterday for their high data rates and for not competing against each other strongly enough.” michael geist writes about the article: […]
Wonderful Wireless UK
# The UK is one of the world’s most competitive wireless markets
# Read it and weep. Orange here offers the blackberry 8800 for only 79 pounds with plan. The Pearl is free. Compare with Rogers here. ahem, not free.
# There’s wifi networks everywhere, mostly these are not free but they do explicitly offer and advertise […]
Thomas Purves
is an Entrepreneur and futurist for hire, lives in the great city of Toronto.
