Talk about a wireless global village. By May 2007, Northern Singapore will have 2400 wireless hotspots set up. Citizens will have free Internet access. For a monthly fee, they will also have unlimited VoIP calls and TV over broadband (IPTV), amongst other services. The free services are will be available for 2-3 years, depending on [...]
Motorola iRadio
Want to listen to NPR (National Public Radio) content on your mobile phone? Motorola’s iRadio offers 24/7 access to over 600 channels of music programming with no commercials. [via Wireless IQ] iRadio is only one of several efforts to offer streaming audio and video content over mobile devices. Other efforts involve mobile TV. It’s [...]
If you’re like me, you might not be entirely pleased with the strength of your WiFi reception on a PowerBook G4. I seem to get a pretty bad deal, especially behind doors for some reason. I thought WiFi was able to get through wood!
Anyway, check out the Quickertek Connect, a 2dBi wireless antenna [...]
After backtracking on their former feelings about VoIP (banned its use over their data network), they’re now apparently big on offering VoWiFi (VoIP over Wi-Fi) over the new AWS spectrum they acquired in a recent US FCC auction. They’ve already upgraded their equipment and network in New York City. Given they spent US$4+B and plan [...]
Just recently we covered the new wifi handset from SMC, and it seems like they’ve been busy. Today they announced a deal with pan-Euro wifi hot-spot provider The Cloud forming the “first mobile roaming Skype service on WiFi handsets with access to over 8,500 public WiFi hotspots across Europe.”
Users will pay £6.99 per month for [...]