I’m borrowing a colleague’s tiny little Verizon wireless cell modem gizmo, the MiFi 2200, and I’m totally impressed with it, except for one huge thing: what the heck do the lights mean?
I’m sick of tapping into wifi signals where I can find them and being stuck without any Internet access when there isn’t one, or when it’s password protected. So I sprung for a Verizon Mifi2200 device that they tell me will met me connect from my MacBook Pro to the Internet anywhere, any time. But how do I get it all set up on my Mac?
According to Bango, over 20% of people visiting web sites to purchase content using their mobile phones are now connecting via WiFi. This presents a major challenge to both content providers and operators as these mobile visitors are unrecognized by the networks, making it difficult to sell and market mobile services to them and significantly impacting mobile content revenues. (more…)
The two primary Twitter applications for the desktop – TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop – released new versions in the past 24 hours.
Both are the latest salvoes in a battle where one winner could gain supremacy as the app on the desktop for keeping in touch with what’s happening on Twitter (and, if you wish, Facebook as well).
I know that is a shocking and controversial headline, but there are a number of serious points to be made.
Firstly I like linking to people who link to me, whether on the post they first wrote, or on the syndicated copy that now appears on SEOmoz, even when the name referenced is “Andy Beal”.
If you look over to the right side of my blog you’ll see a Google Latitude component.
What does that do? It shares my location with you.
The crushing dominance of the iPhone is broken—at least for now—having given way to the BlackBerry Curve. This just-released report has come in from the NPD Group (www.npd.com), a prestigious consumer research agency. After months of topping the charts, the iPhone acquiesces to what consumers have pegged as their number one choice—the BlackBerry Curve. (more…)
I’ve been experimenting with Microsoft WIndows 7 beta on my Mac OS X system through using VMware and while I don’t know of anyone else doing this, I have read on the Internet that it’s a viable combo. Problem is, when I actually try it, I find that there’s no Internet access and Windows 7 complains that there’s no “Ethernet driver” installed? How do I fix that? (more…)
A few random updates of interest from last week’s CTIA Wireless event… CTIA was as interesting and busy as ever, although I would guess that the numbers were likely way down this year for obvious reasons… on the up-side, Vegas is pretty much giving away hotel rooms due to high vacancy rates so if you need to go there for a business trip you’ll be able to do so on the cheap very easily (airfares are also very reasonable). I caught wind of some amazing technologies in the mobile space while there, many providing data sharing solutions using mobile technology that take advantage of the cloud so you can easily share documents with colleagues, interact with your docs via mobile and even communicate and access remote computers at home of office from your phone! If mobile media is important in your job you’ll be pleased to know that some great solutions are coming enabling you to do much more and likely wow your colleagues at the same time.
GPhone envy may be about to replace iPhone envy.
Today is the day that T-Mobile will officially announce the October availability of the first mobile phone powered by Google’s open source Android application. According 
to Venture Beat, the new phone will carry an Amazon created app that powers over the air downloads from the Amazon MP3 store as well as perhaps video rentals.
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