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Archive for December, 2003

Back to the Future

David Nagel, CEO of PalmSource, the company which develops and promotes the Palm OS platform, said his company sees good business ahead with wireless devices. “Smartphones overall and wireless devices in general are an enormous potential,” he told a media briefing. “Increasingly, we are turning the bulk of our attention to the…wireless market.” Palm launched [...]

Ricochet Rescued Again

US wireless ISP Ricochet has been pulled from the brink again, this time by EDL Holdings, which is owned by the president of Advantage Wireless, one of Ricochet’s distributors and a large cellular reseller. EDL’s president and CEO, Victor Mitchell, will become Ricochet’s CEO and said he plans to cut prices and expand coverage in [...]

Vodafone UMTS trial in Germany – without handsets

Vodafone (DE) said it will start a field trial of UMTS in Germany but will only offer data services. The company said the trial will be limited to corporate customers only.

But He Left Out Indoor Plumbing

Paul Boutin includes the Internet (#1), personal computers (#4) and cellular services (#6) in his list of “10 technologies that have changed the way we live.”

Transcomm Network Upgrade Complete

UK Mobitex operator Transcomm has completed a £1.1M network upgrade that it says will increase capacity, decrease latency, and recover faster from telco outages. In a press release Transcomm said that “data delivery times” have improved by as much as 25%. The company also said it has added base stations in southeastern England and Northern [...]

Byrne on PowerPoint

David Byrne, the head Talking Head, interviewed by Wired News about his new PowerPoint-based artwork: “…because people make art out of all kinds of crappy things…”.