Monday, April 16, 2007

Verizon introduces unlimited messaging

by alec on April 16, 2007

Hot on the heals of all the talk over the weekend about how Rational Pricing strategies are keeping cellular costs high in Canada comes this announcement from Verizon — Verizon Wireless Introduces Unlimited Text, Picture, Video And Instant Messaging To Anyone In The U.S. Yup, for a paltry $20 monthly premium, you can send as many pictures to your friends as your heart desires.

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Nokia BetaLabs goes live

by alec on April 16, 2007

Nokia BetaLabs, the new Nokia beta software site, went live this morning.  Says London based Nokia employee Stephen Johnson, "it's further evidence of our gradual move from products ("Here you go, it works ok") to services ("How we can get this to be even better?")".

Cool!

There are four applications up currently including widsets, mobile wellness tracker, sports tracker, and mobile codes (presumably taking advantage of the enigmatic barcode reader application I just found on the N95).

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VoIP is hard… who'd a thunk it?

April 16, 2007

Does anyone remember when it was hard to set up the internet on a PC?  The bad old days of installing a TCP/IP stack, configuring IP addresses for gateways, and DNS servers, and then using gopher to browse to your favorite sites? That's where we are with VoIP.  And Forrester, bless their hearts, have just published [...]

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April in Ottawa

April 16, 2007

It’s April 16th in Ottawa.  The annual Ottawa Tulip Festival begins May 4th, which is just a little over 3 weeks away. You’d never know it this morning.  Here’s the view outside my front door from just a few minutes ago.

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Incremental business models vs. disruptive

April 16, 2007

The crows have come home to roost for Vonage.  The company has admitted that it has no workaround to navigate past Verizon's patents, and that such a workaround may not even be feasible.  Interim CEO Jeffrey Citron has declared that one of the first belt-tightening moves will be to axe former CEO Mike Snyder's dot-com [...]

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Silverlight vs. Flash: the battle for the platform

April 16, 2007

The big news out of Microsoft this morning is Silverlight, their technology to compete with Adobe's Flash.  Fast, cross platform, client and server agnostic, and just 1 megabyte to download, according to Tim Sneath.  And with Adobe Flash 9 video on 84.3% of the net's desktops, it's no wonder Microsoft has taken an interest.  Not [...]

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Wireline telco equipment market to expand just 1.4%

April 16, 2007

A good news / bad news story if you're in business of supplying wireline telecom equipment.  iSuppli says that this year will be even bigger than last year… but growth as slowed to just 1.4 percent. Access routers and core networks will be areas of focus, with core showing growth as carriers upgrade equipment to [...]

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