This is being blogged on an HSDPA laptop – a Sony TZ31WN to be precise. Ever since Sony added HSDPA modems to their über lightweight laptop range I just had to have one. Not just because of the small size, meaning that in an aeroplane when the fat guy in front of you leans riiiight back [...]
Head over to msearchgroove for my next guest post on location – with a roundup of some emerging location based applications that have started to hit the market. A summary of the post – titled “Location-Based Social Network Apps Are The Crowd-Pleaser; Is Presence Ready For Prime Time?” is below. In-Brief: MSG’s favourite LBS pundit Andrew [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 16, 2008
in location
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Tagged advertising, bright kite, cell-ID, fire eagle, google, gypsii, locatik, location, location applications, locr, msearchgroove, nokia maps, rummble, ShoZu, skyhook wireless, sniffu, WiFi, yahoo
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With the increase in the launch of mobile versions of social networking sites such as m.facebook.com m.linkedin.com m.twitter.com m.youtube.com m.myspace.com (ps notice a pattern here – no .mobi extension for these major sites – does this point to the fact that consumers will decree dot m is the winner) ..it got me thinking about the [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 23, 2008
in advertising, applications, gps, location, media, mobile, social networking
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Tagged cellID, facebook, gps, lbs, location, Loki, mobile, networking, social, WiFi
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A few weeks ago I read about the new Yahoo! location initiative called Fire Eagle. Being a former practitioner in the Location industry, I rushed to the site, only to find I needed an invitation. Luckily David Recordon from sixapart (movable type) was kind enough to send me one. For those of you trying to [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 16, 2008
in advertising, applications, gps, location, mobile, social networking
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Tagged aware, dopplr, eagle, fire, fireeagle, gps, lbs, location, skyhook, sms, WiFi, wireless, yahoo
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Posted from Barcelona Airport – on the way back from Mobile World Congress. Logged onto the Kubi WiFi access point in the airport. Before connecing via my BT OpenZone roaming account, I thought I’d check the roaming charges – on Kubi access is 12.7p per minute! That’s £7.62 per hour! In contrast, my Vodafone data card [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 15, 2008
in mobile world congress
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Tagged 3G broadband, 3gsm, airport wifi, arun, arun sarin, barcalona, mobile, mobile world congress, roaming, vodafone, WiFi
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Since my recent post on USB dongles vs Coffee shop WIFi Will the 3G mobile broadband “dongle” kill the WiFi hotspot market?, I received a number of follow up posts following the post being published on Carnival of the Mobilists. Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis had a similar theme to his post on Joining the [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 20, 2008
in mobile
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Tagged 3G, 3G stick, broadband, carnival, coffee, dongle, hsdpa, hspa, mobile, mobilists, starbucks, USB, vodafone, WiFi
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Carnival of the Mobilists #106 is up at http://www.xellular.net/2008/01/carnival-106-is.html, hosted by Xen Mendelsohn of Xellular Identity. where you will read a number of interesting articles from thought leaders in the mobile space including… Ajit Jaokar of Open Gardens asks us will P2P IMS applications take off or will there be only Web applications? Very interesting [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 14, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged broadband, carnival, coffee, dongle, identity, IMS, market, mobile, mobilists, p2p, point, starbucks, view, WiFi, wireless, xellular
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The picture on the left (taken late December 2007) shows a more common sight than a few years ago. I have been using WiFi in Starbucks and other coffee shops for nearly 8 years now, and for I think the last 6 years I was predictably the only person on a laptop (connected to WiFi) [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 9, 2008
in mobile broadband
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Tagged 3, 3G, 3G broadband, bbc, bill thompson, coffee shop, dongle, high speed packet access, hsdpa, london, mobile, starbucks, vodafone, WiFi, WiFi hotspots, WiFi vs 3G
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France Télécom’s mobile arm Orange France has launched a new telephone which combines fixed line and mobile services along with the convenience of a low cost internet connection. Dubbed Unik, the converged service handset – similar to models already launched by FT rivals Iliad and neuf Cegetel – allows the user to make free local [...]
UK carrier will introduce a corporate service that links the fixed and mobile networks. September 14, 2006 Source: http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18558&hed=BT+Dials+Phone+Convergence British Telecom, the United Kingdom’s largest telecommunications company, said Thursday it will introduce BT Corporate Fusion, a fixed-mobile convergence service targeted at large corporations. The telecom company, which is in the process of a $17-billion upgrade [...]
I’ve been using WiFi for nearly 4 years – when my Dlink access point cost me $1100! Now you can pick up a WiFi bundle for under $300. Even printers now like the HP 2510 “multi-function” unit come with WiFi built in, meaning your home network can share the same resources. The Netgear DG834G is [...]
