Microsoft has thrown its hat into the municipal Wi-Fi ring, partnering up with MetroFi, based in Mountain View, California. MetroFi takes the ad-supported free muni Wi-Fi model. Katie Fehrenbacher at GigaOm thinks that Microsoft might have pumped some cash into the deal, but no one is talking. Microsoft plans to utilize location info from Wi-Fi [...]
Convergence, it’s aterm that has been thrown about for years and years but only now are actually starting to see some evidence of it happening. Take the Samsung SPH-P9000, a brand spanking new device that is capable of both voice and data communication over a WiMax connection. Now, while WiMax is not yet [...]
Imran Ali describes a fascinating concept called crowdsensing, which would require turning mobile phones into something called a spime – a term coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling (a man who, I believe, once wrote in one of his mid 1990s novels that copyright would be impossible to enforce on the Internet). A spime, according [...]
EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized), aka EVDO, aka 1xEV-Do Rev. A (Revision A), is a wireless network available through some cellular service providers, particularly CDMA, in Europe and Asia. It’s just starting to make its way into Canada and the US, and some people think that it can help increase mobile VoIP quality, because of its [...]
More VoIP IPOs
Another VoIP company is going public. This time, instead of hardware, it’s a softswitch maker, Veraz Networks Inc. Veraz will trade on the NASDAQ once their IPO is out. [via New Telephony]
Skype Pocket PC 2.1
Jim Courtney gives some details about the new 2.1 version of Skype for Pocket PC and it has me [...]