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It really pays to work for a company that provides room for creative investigation and experimentation as a matter of corporate principle. This way we get nice toys to play around with. A few weeks back our very first Apple iPhone arrived. Okay. A lot of people were enamored by its good looks and cool […]

I just did a presentation discussing the developments in both the Internet and Mobile space. My presentation was entitled “The Third and Fourth Screens”. This conference is sponsored by the Jesuit Communications. It is called The 1st JesCom Media Convention. Here are the details.
This August, Jesuit Communications, Inc. will be holding its first media […]

I have not been blogging lately due to on-going commitments, more entertaining pursuits (like writing parallel computing stuff) and numerous developments in the life. Fortunately, most of them are very positive. Friendly neighborhood tech blogger Abe just posted a note about Globe launching its own Mobile TV service and I just could not resist commenting […]

Here is a textually.org article on Verizon users sending over 10 billion SMS messages in one (1) months time. This is definitely something special for America.
Verizon Wireless customers sent and received more than 10 billion text messages in June 2007, a company record and the highest reported total of any wireless service provider in the […]

Looks like the mobile world is a washed with news about major mobile Linux initiatives.
First, we see Nokia joining the Linux Foundation together with Marvel Semiconductors and VirtualLogix. Nokia already uses Linux in its Nokia Internet Tablet line. Aside from this Nokia is set to release a Linux/Open Source developer friendly Symbian Series 60 […]

Here is an announcement via Engadget about the impending release of another iPhone clone … the Meizu miniOne. Wow. Another iPhone clone that plans to be launched in China towards the end of 2007.

This miniOne “entrance” model (which will likely be called something else once the English is cleaned up) will lack a camera and […]

NetworkWorld has this fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) feature about a Global Military Telecommunications System that looks like a mix of satellite phone technology and commercial mobile phone technology (such as GSM).
LGS announced its Tactical Base Station Router (TacBSR), which was developed by Bell Laboratories, in February. The TacBSR is a single box that provides instant […]

Bloody battles have been waged here and abroad by operators and regulators on the proper use and allotment of the airwaves. The right to use a particular frequency band is particularly sensitive because only one operator can use the said frequency band to prevent interference. Therefore, literally chunks of the sky have been chopped up […]

Here is a report from Jason spotting a test YouTube Mobile Page. This is particularly interesting because this provides once and for all the YouTube is going mobile.
At the end of last week there was a lot of talk in the blogosphere about the YouTube Mobile site going live and I was looking forward […]

VentureBeat has this scoop on some fabled Google Phone features. Here is the list and some of my comments.

Blackberry-like, slick device. Slick and slim devices seem to be the rave nowadays. The RAZR saved Motorola and Samsung is coming out with a lot of these types of phones. The Samsung phone with all the Google […]