There’s about a zillion frequency bands for 3GPP technologies these days - 700MHz, 850, 900, 1800, 2100, 2600, AWS, various Japanese ones, upcoming UHF bands and so on.But there’s some notable absences - unlicenced 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. The ones that …

In April 2006, Susan Greenfield sponsored a debate ( More ) in the house of Lords based around the impact of the latest technologies on the way young people might think and learn differently from previous generations. In her book…

I am working on some ideas for my course at Oxford University next week about Web 2.0 and user generated content .. And here is one ..

It is motivated by two articles:
Firstly, a business model for Web 2.0 is elusive .. Yes, we can talk about the advertising business model .. But that has not yet worked as the financial times argues in the article Web 2.0 fails to produce cash and secondly - this great article from the MIT technology review articulates the problem brilliantly ..

The problem
Synergies between advertisements and social networking / web 2.0 are yet to be found ..

As facebook found out much to it’s dismay with it’s Beacon program – that advertising on social networks is not easy .. and I summarise the problem from the MIT technology review article ..

Yes, sites have impressive user numbers…

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Be sure to click on session details. Why? Because on these pages, you can leave a comment asking the speaker about anything you’d really love to have covered.

For example, ask Dan Saffer of Adaptive Path about the future of gesture interfaces on […]

Like many of my blogs, this one comes out of extrapolating a conversation – in this case, two separate conversations – and I have extended ideas from these conversations. It is a bit of a gedankenexperiment

So .. Here we go .. Thoughts welcome ..

Inspite of many optimistic (non SMS) data projections year on year from around 2000 – Operators missed them all. They tried WAP, they tried MVNOs, they tried all sorts of bundles .. And notably although flatrate was a key driver to increased data .. Flat rate alone was not enough ..

Something else was needed ..

And suddenly .. in 2007 or thereabouts .. they started hitting data projections ., and what was the cause? Ironically, there were two (seemingly mutually contradictory developments) that have led to the uptake of Mobile data…

Verena over at PingMag filed a great report, from her visit to the recent RFID expo held in Tokyo, with an overview of several embedded tag designs including the school uniform emblem pictured below. As we noted previously (Here and Here), the trials with students - and prisoners - continues to be a hot topic especially considering the more recent noise about youngsters mobile phone usage.

Dave Cushman at Faster future blogspot has put together a slide deck explaining the above principal | View | Upload your own Nice one Dave and JMac adds his own contribution All good stuff and of course this all comes…

Nortel accelerates 4G strategy: Nortel is aligning its 4G wireless broadband strategy to address early market opportunities that are emerging for WiMAX and LTE. As part of this strategy, Nortel says that it is focusing its main wireless R&D resources on 4G LTE and wireless applications, with WiMAX development re-aligning around the strategic agreement announced with Alvarion.

BridgeWave Funds Gigabit Backhaul for 4G: As WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) deliver higher bandwidth applications and faster data speeds to consumers, operators will require increased backhaul capacity. BridgeWave Communications’ latest round of funding – $10 million in Series 4 funding – will help it increase its presence in gigabit wireless enterprise and fixed mobile operator networks as they migrate into the next-generation gigabit mobile backhaul space.

Femto Cell Advocates Look Forward to 4G: The Femto Forum on Thursday announced it has joined forces with the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance, as it starts to look beyond the use of femto cells in current mobile networks. Femto cells are small base stations for wireless home broadband. They improve indoor coverage and increase capacity. When a user is making calls and surfing the Web with a phone or laptop equipped with wireless broadband, signals are sent via the femto cell and a fixed broadband connection. So far the Forum has spent a lot of its energy on 3G (third-generation) networks, but it will now also start to look forward, and adapt femto cells to become a part of upcoming next-generation networks, based on, for example, WiMax or LTE (Long Term Evolution).

4G harmonization: it’s up to you: First, let’s make our opinion clear: harmonization of Wimax and LTE makes good sense for the development of the industry. Participants from both the Wimax and LTE camp and IEEE and ETSI 3GPP standards organizations have recognized the need to collaborate on development of communications. Vodafone is among operators that have called for the merging of Wimax and LTE because this will reduce conflicts and costs for the industry.

Sprint’s new Airave service, like T-Mobile’s Hotspot@Home delivers customers unlimited mobile minutes while at home.
Like T-Mobile’s service, AIRAVE works with either DSL or cable broadband service. Unlike T-Mobile, Airave does NOT use WiFi to connect to a cellphone, it uses the cellphones own radio
The new femtocell-based system can extend cellular coverage and offer unlimited […]

Comtaste Training is proud to announce its new training course about Flex 3 development using BlazeDS. The course is the result of some enquiries made by our clients about those topics.
I’ve worked on the outline of the course and it’s ready and I’ve just published it on the italian section of Comtaste’s site (I’m working on the english outline for this training course):

Enterprise Flex Applications: Using Flex 3 with BlazeDS and Java (JEE)

The Flex 3 and BlazeDS course adds to Comtaste’s course programs and it is the open source alternative to the Enterprise Flex Applications:Using LiveCycle Data Services and J2EE (Java EE) training course.

The Flex 3 with BlazeDS is a 3-consecutive-day lessons and we’re scheduling it in the following three locations: London, Milan and New York City.

At Glastonbury (wikipedia), the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world, Orange is trialling a dance-powered phone charger and a solar- and wind-powered charging tent.

Not to be outdone, the UK’s O2 is showcasing its new pedal-powered charger at the O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park in London from 3 to […]

According to national statistics institute Indec, Argentina had 42.7 million mobile subscribers at the end of June, up 20% year-on-year. Meanwhile, fixed line local telephony traffic expanded 19.2% to 1.28 billion calls in June 2008 compared to June 2007, while domestic long-distance calls were up 22.4% to 312 million. There were 9.3 million fixed lines installed in the country, a growth of 2.5% compared to the same month last year, while public phones totalled 135,800, down 12.1%.