Telegent Systems announced that it has been selected by SHENZHEN ZTE MOBILE TELECOM CO. LTD. to provide its free-to-air mobile TV solution for selected ZTE mobile handsets sold worldwide. Under the agreement, Telegent will be the exclusive supplier for the free-to-air mobile TV feature for a period of two years.
“Operators worldwide view free-to-air mobile TV […]

Airvana, Inc. and Alcatel-Lucent announced that the two companies will develop an integrated solution – incorporating IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and CDMA/EV-DO femtocell technology — to support more effective delivery of mobile voice and multimedia services inside homes and offices. This initiative will ensure that CDMA/EV-DO network operators are able to make use […]

Wireless broadband services will create significant opportunities for revenue growth, and cellular technologies will take the largest share, according to a report from Analysys Mason.
Globally, 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers will generate USD784 billion in service revenue by 2015. This revenue increase of about 2400% will be underpinned by continued developments in wireless technologies, improvements […]

I met Susan Crawford when I spoke at Supernova 2008 and was impressed by her talk and passion for the idea of the One Web day. So, I have decided to support the idea of One Web day through our blog. If you are also interested in doing the same, please contact Susan as per her blog

OneWebDay is an annual global celebration of the collaborative, participatory nature of the web, scheduled for Sept. 22 each year. Sept. 22, 2008 is the third annual OneWebDay.

OneWebDay is an Earth Day for the internet. The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet…

Celeno Communications, a startup designing a variant of Wi-Fi chips geared for video, has closed a $16 million funding round led by Cisco Systems, reports EE Times.
Celeno is currently sampling a 5 GHz chip set for carrying video at distances up to 120 feet, according to the company. The new funding will help the company […]

I am in Hong Kong conducting a workshop and this blog is based on a discussion with one of the attendees. Like most of my blogs – this blog also comes from discussion with some pretty clued on people I meet online and offline globally. Although this took a long time to write, I think it adds value to my workshop participants and also to the community as a whole. I seek your feedback on this blog

Oddly enough, there are many organizations who claim to enforce their outdated views(such as the RIAA ) and others who claim to protect our freedoms such as EFF - but I dont find much information about what should content creators do taking a pragmatic perspective

The question is: When content spans formats – what constitutes ‘value’?

This is of course a well known question underlying the DRM arguments…

Comcast, which serves a total of 24.2 million cable customers, 14.7 million digital cable customers, and 12.9 million high-speed internet customers, is the largest cable television company in the United States and the second largest Internet service provider.
Comcast is now the fourth largest phone company with 5.6 million customers. Cable carriers own nearly 85% […]

Sprint has announced nationwide availability of its Airave femtocell. It boosts cellular service inside your home and works with up to three handsets using Sprint’s CDMA network (Nextel phones aren’t supported).
The Airave box is $99.99. To use it with a Sprint plan, the customer must add the “enhanced coverage charge,” which adds $4.99/month to […]

Some interesting thoughts from The imperatives of the link economy 1. All content must be transparent: open on the web with permanent links so it can receive links. It’s not content until it’s linked. 2. The recipient of links is…

AlcaLu Looks to China: The shrinking CDMA business continues to be an albatross for Alcatel-Lucent, but the vendor points to big opportunities for 3G sales in China later this year and more improvements in its WCDMA business. According to outgoing CEO Pat Russo on a call with analysts today, double-digit revenue growth in WCDMA, GSM, and WiMax did not compensate for the bigger-than-expected decline in CDMA revenues in the second quarter.

4G or Not 4G?: We’ve been tending to err on the side of caution and refer to mobile WiMax and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) as “so-called 4G”, “proto-4G,” or “mobile broadband.” The long and the short of it being that current technology doesn’t yet meet the capabilities required of 4G required by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) . Which just leaves us with a debate about what your favorite flavor of OFDM radio technology is — LTE or 802.16e — and perhaps misses the point slightly.

Whether or not PCs come with 3G modems embedded (see the debate here) there seems to be a general belief that the way forward is to offer “free laptops” as long as someone signs up for a contract for either fixed or mobile broadband.While I can see the…

This evening Dolby and LG have announced a partnership to develop LG phones with Dolby Mobile, a set of digital audio processing features designed to improve the audio performance and entertainment capabilities of multimedia phones.

With mobile entertainment, people want great phones, but they also want their favorite media files to look and sound as good as possible. Dolby and LG are well-positioned to deliver on the growing expectations of the market. LG plans to include Dolby Mobile in phones bound for the global market this year.

Some of the Dolby Mobile features that LG plans to incorporate into its phones include:

Mobile Surround, which delivers a realistic surround sound experience using headphones
Sound Space Expander, which creates a wide, rich, and spacious soundstage suited to music
Natural Bass, which adds powerful boost and bass extension
High-Frequency Enhancer, which enhances music and other content by restoring high-frequency effects
Graphic EQ, which helps tune the audio experience for different content types
Sound Level Control, which helps level out audio for a more consistent playback volume
Mono-to-Stereo Converter, which improves the playback experience of user-generated content

Picture Phoning [via Engadget] says Walkers have swallowed RFID pills for science:
Researchers at Radboud University in The Netherlands were able to monitor the body temperature of participants at the world’s largest marching event using RFID technology. Volunteer participants in the annual Four Days Marches of Nijmegen swallowed an RFID-based temperature sensor that measured their […]

Got this note yesterday from a Temple University student:

Please help me with my dissertation research!
My research focuses on the role wireless signal sharing, or mesh networking, can play in efforts to shrink the digital divide. I am exploring the issue from the perspectives of multiple stakeholders, including regulatory agencies, telecommunication companies, and community wireless […]