On August 14 I had the opportunity to sit in a small room with a handful of local journalists and staff at Seattle Children’s Hospital, also present, was the chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski. We were gathered to see a demonstration of the hospital’s telemedicine network that serves a number of hospitals and rural clinics throughout […]
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Research In Motion, Death of a Thousand Cuts
By Garrett Cobarr | August 11, 2010 | Cultural Interface
After loud and strident statements by both RIM and their founder, Mike Lazaridis, that they would not allow the penetration of their network and the monitoring requested by many authorities of countries they provide the Blackberry service, they now appear to have capitulated to some degree in Saudi Arabia. Research In Motion is not talking […]
Partitioning the Internet: Google and Verizon Hold Forth
By Garrett Cobarr | August 9, 2010 | Mobile Nature, Raw Economics
Despite numerous rumors and repeated questions, Google and Verizon denied they were in any kind of discussions. When specificaly asked if they were engaged in conversations about the prioritization of Internet traffic, they continued to deny any such talks had taken place. Today, Google and Verizon issued a joint statement that they have not only been […]
Saudi Arabian Blackberry Ban is About Social Control
By Garrett Cobarr | August 8, 2010 | Cultural Interface
Research in Motion’s Blackberry service was granted a reprieve on Friday, when the scheduled shutdown was to take place, they have agreed to wait until Monday, August 9th to finish testing on servers in Saudi Arabia. Yes that is correct, RIM has agreed to route messages through servers in Saudi Arabia before they are whisked […]
Nokia Siemens Networks Lands LightSquared Deal
By Garrett Cobarr | August 8, 2010 | Raw Economics, Visible Future
In one of the largest telecom gambles in United States history, LightSquared, backed by New York hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, has put pen to paper and contracted Nokia Siemens Networks to build their wireless broadband network. I first wrote of the LightSquared plan about two weeks ago in, “New Broadband Service Coming to United States, […]
Finally, WiFi Coming with New Apple iPhones in China
By Garrett Cobarr | August 7, 2010 | Mobile Nature
It has been a Long March to put WiFi on the Apple iPhones released in China, but starting next Monday, August 9, all new iPhones will be equipped with WiFi. Chinese regulators prevented WiFi abilities on mobile devices while authorities attempted to get their own WAPI standard adopted. A combination of Western patience and Chinese pragmatism […]
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