Tag archive: Ed

Palm just rolled out its Palm pre smartphone on Sprint, in a high-profile move designed to put the company back at the forefront of the mobile technology industry and give the Apple iPhone a serious run for its money. Now, Palm is making another high-profile play, appointing former iPod developer Jon Rubenstein to the CEO position. Rubenstein joined Palm from Apple in October 2007 as Executive Chairman; he'll take over the reins… Read More

Asia Pacific Systems (AP Systems, President Jung Ki-ro) held a commencement ceremony for its geostationary satellite mobile service on April 6, in their office building at Gasan-dong, Seoul. The service is the first commercial service in Korea using a geosynchronous high earth orbit satellite. An AP Systems’ satellite phone costs 924,000 won (US$701.30), and using 50 minutes in a month costs 80,000 won (US$60.50), which is the… Read More

Google co-founder Larry Page has gone to Washington in hopes of convincing members of Congress and officials at the Federal Communications Commission to allow a new class of unlicensed, low-power wireless devices that would operate in the "white space" between allotted bands in the spectrum space soon to be vacated by analog television broadcasts. Page argues the benefits of enabling low-power devices to operated in gaps between… Read More

If there's one thing generally true of students today, it's that they're glued to their cell phones. Whether talking with friends and family, sending and receiving messages, or checking their social networking profiles, today's youth rarely do anything without a mobile phone close at hand. However, comparatively few students are embracing what would seem to be a welcome and important mobile service: campus safety… Read More

A report in the New York Post (of all places) says the New York Times plans to stop charging Internet users $8/month to access TimesSelect, an area of its Web site which features Op-Ed pieces, columnists, and other selected content. Citing a source who claimed to have been briefed on the decision, the timin of the changeover depends largely on the technical issues involved in managing TimesSelect and transitioning that content out of its… Read More

The video game console wars certainly aren't dull this year, with all the soc-called next-generation consoles now available, Microsoft looking to woo players away from the expensive (and hard-to-find) PlayStation 3, and the holiday shopping season getting into full swing. And Nintendo's Wii is not being left out of the frenzy: according to the company, they've sold more than 600,000 Wii consoles in the Americas in just the… Read More

Tiger Electronics today announced content deals with the Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon to bring programming to their upcoming VUGO Multimedia System. This kid friendly portable video player is due out this month. The content deals, the three companies said, will bring Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Dexter's Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Codename: Kids Next Door, Ed, Edd n Eddy and The Grim Adventures of Billy &… Read More

Arriving at retail nationwide on Oct. 17, Juice Box, a personal media player from Mattel, Inc., will feature category exclusive, full-color video content from some of today's hottest music, television and action sports personalities; play MP3 music files; and enable viewing of digital photos. Juice Box is the first personal media player designed to meet the lifestyle and entertainment interests of today's tweens. One of the… Read More

Audiovox and AT&T Wireless today officially announced the rumoured PPC 4100, a WAN handheld powered by the lengthily-named Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC Phone Edition platform. To be available in June 2004 and showcased for the first time today at Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in San Diego, California, the GSM-based PPC 4100 will join Audiovox' second-generation CDMA WAN handheld, the Audiovox PPC 5050.… Read More

Audiovox Communications Corporation and AT&T Wireless announced today the PPC 4100, an integrated wireless PDA phone featuring Windows Mobile software, will be available in June 2004and showcased for the first time today at Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in San Diego, CA. The PPC 4100 will be available for $349 after a $50 instant rebate. The unmatched combination of power,function and form makes this competitively priced… Read More

From their press release: comScore Media Metrix today announced the Top 50 U.S. Internet Properties for the month of January 2004.  In January, the total U.S. Internet population totaled 152.4 million users who spent an average of 28.9 hours online, an increase of 5 percent versus December.  In January, tax, politics, diet and travel sites dominated the top-gaining properties and categories. "Consumer behavior followed… Read More

The veteran Microsoft executive who headed the company's push into console video game software and is credited with launching hits like the PC favorite “Flight Simulator” and “Halo” for the Xbox has resigned, Microsoft said on Tuesday. Ed Fries, who joined Microsoft in 1985 as an intern, had headed the company's game studio since 1995 and was responsible for cementing key relationships with game software… Read More