Management & Biz Dev Consultant

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Sony netbook, sorry, Lifestyle PC. 20 cm screen, 600 grams. WiFi, Bluetooth. Verizon 3G data in the U.S., T-Mobile and Vodafone in Europe. Nothing in New Zealand or Australia. Sorry, mate. Sony also has a "Webbie… Continue

Cisco builds stuff for service providers. They're at CES primarily to talk about their latest effort to extend their brand into the consumer realm, but there's no doubting they're network guys to the core. Interesting comment from their service provider group SVp & GM Tony Bates: they're deploying technology that makes service provider networks video aware. Of course, it's with the consumer's best interests in mind. If a service provider knows that video is streaming through it's network, i… Continue

The Consumer Electronics Association identified four major trends that will drive the consumer electronics in 2009. Two depend on the wireless data industry to make it happen: mobile devices that provide the same user experience as in-home or in-office gizmos, and devices with embedded Internet capability. (The other two are evolving display and control technology and anything that's green. Anything.) In the long run, it's good news for Clearwire. They see themselves as providing connectivity t… Continue

Last to first, real time tweets from Las Vegas...

• Tethering is deciding battle between mobile carriers & CE industry. CE guys don't get it, think it's a tech problem. It's the money!
• Novatel Wireless hasn't signed any carriers yet. Expects to Real Soon Now. If they do, it's a significant market signal re tethering.
• Novatel Wireless also into tethering. Selling gizmo combining mobile data card, embedded Linux, WiFi tethering. Serves 5 users at once.
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Last to first, realtime tweets from Showstoppers event at MacWorld in San Francisco, 5 January 2009... • Advice to Truphone: go ahead, stick it to The Man! • Truphone guy sez he's heard about something called hacking somewhere but doesn't know what it means. Really.. • I will try Truphone next week from New Zealand, if I can figure out how to load it on my hacked iphone. • Drobo showing usual data back up stuff, it's good but expensive, now offering a Linux NAS. • Truphone, Skype pot… Continue