June 9th, 2008 — Lawsuit
T-Mobile, threatened over AT&T’s new free wi-fi at Starbucks, sues Starbucks for unfair competition.
I agree that this is unfair competition and AT&T is basically trying to monopolize the mobile hotspot market.
I’ve never liked AT&T that much due to the fact that they charge so much. Well, I don’t really like any telecommunication company, I think most of them are dirty as bank robbers.
T-Mobile should win this case and get lots of money so they can spend it back on their horrible over-priced hotspot technology.
Am I taking sides here?
No, I hate both T-Mobile and AT&T, now I am on Sprint, at least Sprint is fast.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile USA is suing Starbucks, saying the coffee shop chain secretly colluded with AT&T to offer free WiFi Internet access in its cafes despite an exclusive agreement with T-Mobile.
In the lawsuit, filed late on Thursday in New York state court, T-Mobile alleges that AT&T and Starbucks Corp are not living up to an agreement the three companies reached over how Starbucks should transfer from its T-Mobile partnership to a new partnership with AT&T announced earlier this year.
via gadgetell - reuters
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May 18th, 2008 — Blogging, Launched
Snackr, is a desktop app based on the Adobe Flex technology that let’s you browse RSS with ease.
Although not too big fan of desktop apps, this one might have potential to go very big.
What’s Snackr? It’s an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window.
How do I get it? If you’re running Windows or Mac OS X, just click the “Install Now” button over there on the right. If that doesn’t work, download and install the Adobe AIR runtime, then download and run the Snackr installer manually.
What about Linux? Snackr does run on the Linux AIR alpha we just released, but it doesn’t look right (animations are glitchy, transparency doesn’t work). It should be functional, though. You’ll need to download the runtime manually for now, since auto-install doesn’t work for Linux in the current alpha, then download and run the Snackr installer.
What’s this AIR thing? Snackr was built using Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. AIR makes it really easy to build cross-platform desktop apps using web technologies like AJAX, Flash and Flex. The Adobe AIR runtime will be installed when you install Snackr. Go ahead. It’s pretty small. It won’t bite you.
via readwriteweb
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May 12th, 2008 — Launched, Search Engine
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Powerset launches its supposedly “human lauguage” search engine. Basically it’s only searching Wikipedia at this point but the search experience is very AJAXed out and good.
I looked up “zedomax” and only thing I could find was Zedomax.com linked to the Hacker article at Wikipedia, which I inserted long time ago.
Powerset looks like great for searching Wikipedia, as Wikipedia’s default search engine sucks.
It may explode onto the mass once Powerset gets more into mainstream search engine market.
Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They’ve launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web crawl. For now, Powerset queries only Wikipedia and augments results with data from Freebase. The product launch comes just a day after reports that the company is being shopped to potential buyers by investment bank Allen & Co.
via techcrunch
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May 11th, 2008 — web2.0
According to recent rumors, Apple’s iPhone, will offer a “premium” 3G service, supposedly a lot faster.
Will consumers jump on the bandwagon?
I’d say hell no as a previous users of AT&T’s “premium” service (when it was Cingular), the premium 3G service is still slower than Sprint’s CDMA network.
Heck, I did a lot of testing over at our dot com blog when 3G was out about a year ago.
What iPhone needs is WiMax, a proven technology that seems to take years to get in the hands of U.S. consumers including me.
iPhone + 3G Premium = Still really slow browsing, still really slow twitts, still really slow whatever.
What Apple should have done is partner with Sprint in the beginning and they would have a lot faster speeds by now and 5 to 10 times faster once Sprint rolls out their WiMax.
Clearwire + Sprint = bad
AT&T + Apple = bad
Sprint + Apple = good
Clearwire + AT&T = good (let the bad companies work together so we don’t have to face them…)
According to a discovery by Chronic Productions, published earlier this weekend, and relayed by MacRumors, Engadget Mobile, et al., prospective users of the next iteration of Apple’s most ambitious mobile device will be given the option to browse the Internet via 3G broadband or by way of the now-standard 2.5G/EDGE connection. All you’ll have to do is flip a software-based switch, similar to how iPhone users currently transfer between EDGE and Wi-Fi connectivity.
via mashable
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May 8th, 2008 — celebrities, web2.0
Here’s a cool interview with rap star, Chamillionaire by Pete from Mashable. Very interesting as he is very keen on the digital world too. Looks like the rap star does understand a lot about making money online.
Chamillionaire’s favorite website?
AllHipHop.com
In 2006, rap artist Chamillionaire’s track “Ridin” became iconic in American pop culture, being infamously parodied by Weird Al Yankovic (”White and Nerdy”), becoming the most downloaded ringtone of all-time, and ultimately winning a Grammy for Best Rap Song. However, none of that was coincidence or pure luck.
At this week’s Digital Hollywood conference in Los Angeles, Pete got an opportunity to talk with the artist about how he uses social media to better connect with his fans and ultimately sell more music. Chamillionaire also talks about how the music industry needs new metrics to determine what’s popular, since album sales are meaningless in the world of a la carte purchases via iTunes.
via Mashable
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May 7th, 2008 — Zedomax Network News, google, web2.0
In a recent article by BusinessWeek, the writer claims that real threat to Google could be mobile phones. Due to the smaller sized screens, Google possibly be facing a lot less advertising space.
This is true if everyone started Googling on their cellphones but I see that is unlikely within the next 5 to 10 years.
Although mobile devices have proven to be more efficient and pretty much everywhere in Asia, the U.S. still has a long way to go because the telecommunication companies don’t want to sell new technology. The biggest scandal in the U.S. is that Sprint, AT&T, and all the other cellular providers are still behind in speed compared to the rest of the world.
In Korea, they’ve had Wi-Max, broadband internet about the speed of Cable DSL here for last 2 years or so. In the U.S., Sprint expects to roll out Wi-Max maybe end of this year, and that’s still a “maybe”.
For U.S. telecommunication companies, they make far more money by selling consumers outdated 3G phones. Why sell new tech when you got $500 million inventory of outdated phones?
So, in final words, no. Google will never have to face any real threat from mobile phones. Instead, they will probably get bigger with viral spread of their new open-source Linux-based mobile operating system, the Android.
With capabilities similar or better than the iPhone, Google’s Anroid will be able to convince the world to use their phone. As for ads? Maybe they will give out free Google phones that have ads on them.
Thanks to Josh for tipping me on this article.
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