Sprint Roadmap

Leaked Sprint roadmap reveals Touch Pro, Touch Diamond dates and pricing

by Joshua Topolsky, posted Aug 31st 2008 at 1:31PM

From the looks of it, Sprint has gone and gotten a decent chunk of its playbook leaked all over the interblogs, and it's chock-full of titillating information. Thanks to slippery fingers and loose lips, we already knew that the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro were headed to the carrier, but now we have some solid dates (mid-September for the Diamond, October 19th for the Pro), and pricing ($549.99 and $579.99 unsubsidized, $249.99 and $320 with contract). Of course, this is all according to the above document, which admittedly could be the work of an extremely bored Photoshopper -- but this jibes pretty tightly with a lot of other chatter we've been hearing.

source : engadget.com

Illuminati get the Whitehouse

It's OFFICIAL! Illuminati get WhiteHouse AGAIN!

-- Voted in favor of the Iraq War
-- Voted for the Patriot Act as well as the Patriot Act Reauthorization
-- Voted for the Real ID Act
-- Voted "yes" on both immigration blanket amnesty bills, in 2006 and 2007

ON TOP OF THAT, he's a high-level CFR member and good friends with Leslie Gelb, who sits on the CFR's Board of Directors and a regular Bilderberg Group attendee.
BIDEN at CFR

The CFR was formed by the same bankers who created the private bank known as the federal reserve. JFL, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, and many others tried to stop the takeover but failed. Read 'Tragedy and Hope' by Bill Clinton's mentor, Carol Quigley, for the full story of how the CFR controls the USA from behind the veil. It's a lot like that movie, 'The Wizard of Oz', and WE, THE PEOPLE are the ignorant Munchkins. They've been laughing at us all the way to the bank for decades.
BIDEN tells Cheif Justice "You will RULE on MicroChipping the Population!"

source : ekbtv.blogspot.com

Police State

Police State Protests at DNC Convention

Protesters face-off with police near the DNC in Denver, CO Monday August 25, 2008. Police in riot gear used tear gas, batons, and other means to subdue the protesters in downtown Denver shutting down city blocks for hours.

DNC Protest Day One - Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan speaks at Recreate 68 protests in Denver, Sunday morning, Aug. 24.
DNC Protest Day One

Cops surround blockaders near State Capitol, give warning, but ultimately decide against using tear gas, Denver, Democratic National Convention
DNC Protest: Standoff on Broadway

DNC Funk the War Protest
Contingents from Code Pink, IVAW, the Green Party and Anarchists snake marched through downtown Denver without a permit. Anarchists took the streets and played cat an mouse with the cops all afternoon.

source : ekbtv.blogspot.com

Dubai

Carbon-neutral Ziggurat pyramid could house 1.1 million in Dubai

by Darren Murph, posted Aug 25th 2008 at 2:38PM

As we learned from Wall-E, people with half a mind for themselves probably won't be kosher with living with 1.1 million or so other inhabitants within a pyramid. That being said, there's always the brainwash approach to getting 'em in there, and if hordes of people were ever filed into the conceptual Ziggurat, Mother Earth would surely appreciate it. The 2.3-square kilometer building would be able to house over 1 million people and be "almost totally self-sufficient energy-wise." By tapping into the planet's renewable resources, designers assert that it could practically be carbon-neutral, and given that transport within the machine would be connected by an "integrated 360-degree network," fuel-burning cars would be pointless. As with most things in Dubai, this one seems larger than life, but if the Burj Al Arab is any indication, there's at least a minuscule chance this thing comes to fruition.

source : engadget.com

Projector Phone

Epoq EGP-PP01 KIRF projector phone now shipping

by Nilay Patel, posted Aug 25th 2008 at 7:12PM

Sigh. We're still stoked about phones with built-in projectors, but we're not at all okay with the first commercially-available unit being the nasty Epoq EGP-PP01 iPhone clone -- yet we've got to hand it to China King for being the first out the gate with a handset that'll beam a 30-inch VGA image on the wall for two hours off the built-in battery. Of course, that doesn't mean we think anyone should actually drop $550 on this uninspired piece, but if you've absolutely got to show off your witty texting banter to the entire bar, this is your only option.

source : engadget.com

NY State Public Service

NY State’s Public Service Net: Back to the Drawing Board?

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 22nd, 2008

New York State should ditch a $2 billion plan for a statewide wireless network for emergency workers, unless the already delayed system can be fixed, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said on Thursday.

“After three rounds of failed testing, it is apparent that this system is not ready to move forward. M/A-COM has not met its contractual obligations and New York can’t afford to spend $2 billion on a system that doesn’t work right,” he said. “M/A-COM has to deliver what it promised,” DiNapoli added.

The state-wide network would enable emergency first responders, such as police and firefighters, to talk to each other. It would use Project 25 radios, an interoperable, 2-way radio standard that allows different voice users to communicate. It also enables slow (9.6 Kbps), data transmission.

The New York State Office for Technology (OFT) is expected to decide whether to accept or reject the first phase of the network build-out in two counties by August 29th. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart (right), has taken over as the director of the Office of Technology and said that the Aug. 29 deadline, for thumbs up or down on the contract, is firm.

M/A-COM doesn’t get a dime if it’s thumbs down. Plus, a $50 million letter of credit filed by M/A-COM with the state may be tapped for what the state has spent already in anticipation.

When the administration of Gov. George E. Pataki awarded the contract in 2005, some lawmakers questioned whether the company was the best choice. M/A-COM was represented by former Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato, a close ally of the governor. Some of those lawmakers thought that Motorola’s proposal would have been a better choice. A spokesman for Motorola said on Thursday that the company had completed or was working on similar systems in 28 states.

New York’s statewide wireless emergency communications system would not include any construction in the protected wilderness areas of the Adirondacks and Catskills. Tyco International subsidiary, M/A-Com, bid roughly $1 billion for the 20-year contract. They planned to use as few as four towers in the Adirondacks and the Catskills, and none in protected areas.

That was sharply fewer than the bid from Motorola which proposed 400 towers for the project. Motorola’s bid was roughly $3 billion. New York officials said the different approach to building new towers was the major reason for the vast difference in the bids.

In the Tyco proposal, repeaters are an essential element in avoiding the construction of towers. Repeaters are used throughout the country as a standard way of giving greater amplification to the transmissions of hand-held radios.

Tyco Electronics’ M/A-COM business won the contract in 2005, the biggest New York state technology contract ever awarded.

The statewide network was expected to be completed and fully operational by July 2010. M/A-COM said in March it successfully completed coverage testing in the two New York counties that comprise the first region of the network to be built.

But more recent testing, carried out by the state, is more critical. The system is a year and a half behind schedule and has suffered from technology problems, according to Jennifer Freeman a spokeswoman for the comptroller. “It’s very likely this contract is not going to go ahead unless the issues are fixed,” said Freeman. The state will spend $60 million less on the project over the next two years, as the result of a special legislative session that ended this week.

Tyco Electronics said in a statement e-mailed to Reuters that the audit “includes a number of inaccuracies” and said it would “correct any remaining outstanding issues related to the first phase of this program.”

In rural Chautauqua, it worked. But in populated Erie County, with tall buildings and crammed cellphone towers, there were numerous gaps in coverage and the system was deemed not successful. In May, more tests found roughly the same problems, only fewer of them.

Officials from M/A-Com expressed confidence the issues could be addressed, and said problems in Buffalo had been caused by interference from other radio transmissions. The system has been tested in neighboring Chatauqua County, which is mainly rural, and officials there had no complaints, said Victoria Dillon, an M/A-Com spokeswoman.

The gaps were “localized in a few sites, like cell carriers, a TV station in Canada,” Ms. Dillon said. Michael R. Mittleman, the state official overseeing the project for the Office of Technology, agreed.

Comptroller DiNapoli advised New York should go back to the drawing board unless M/A-COM can fix problems.

If M/A-COM fails the final evaluation in Erie and Chautauqua counties, it is uncertain what direction the state could take next. It could seek to still improve the M/A-COM solution, rebid the project that could add further delays or just scrap the whole idea of a statewide wireless network.

The Oregon Telecommunications Coordinating Council (ORTCC) got together with the Oregon State Interoperability Executive Council — as many states have done — to develop a similar $500 million state-wide public service network (which later grew to $650 million). It would be a voice-oriented network, used exclusively by first responders. Federal Engineering, which is advising the New York Network, was awarded Oregon’s contract to create a presentation (Real Video) and review the scope, goals and costs of the Oregon Wireless Interoperability Network project. Like many such projects, the choice came down to two dominant Project 25 providers, Motorola and M/A-Com. A two-slot TDMA doubles system capacity and meets the FCC’s requirement for 6.25 kHz channel equivalency by creating two voice paths within a 12.5 kHz channel with a half rate IMBE vocoder.

Finding the money to build a state-wide, interoperable (and narrow-band) radio network exclusively for first responders, is a problem for virtually every state. The state-wide infrastructure can cost billions, while thousands of Project 25, 2-way voice radios, costing $3,500 each, can cost additional hundreds of millions of dollars — billions in the case of New York. Where is the money coming from?

Nobody seems to know.

Some believe the solution lies in the nationwide, broadband 700 Mhz channels, which the FCC unsuccessfully tried to auction recently. That would provide 20 Mhz of broadband spectrum that could be shared by both public service agencies and ordinary mortals. In the FCC’s plan, the winning bidder would build a nationwide network at no cost to state or federal governments. The FCC will likely try auctioning the frequencies again next year.

source : dailywireless.org

Mobile Users in the Olympics

Mobile Users Becoming A Force

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 8th, 2008

New research from The Nielsen Company shows that a substantial number of mobile users across the globe will be following the Olympics on their cell phones this summer, making the Games a watershed moment for mobile media.

According to Nielsen Mobile, nearly 45% of US and 31% of UK mobile video users will be part of the mobile audience for the 2008 Olympic Games.

The research also suggests that the mobile internet will play a critical role, as 23% of US and 17% of UK mobile internet users will be tracking the Games through their phone browsers, with event results and medal counts the most desired pieces of information.

Google has effectively leveraged its front-runner status as it expands to wireless, according to Nielsen Mobile. Google accounted for 61% of all mobile searches in the first quarter of 2008, Nielsen found, more than tripling Yahoo’s output. MSN was last among the three providers with a mere 5%; lesser players such as AOL, go2 and Ask.com went unranked.

Top 3 Mobile Internet Search Providers for Q1 2008:

1. Google (61%)
2. Yahoo! (18%)
3. MSN (5%)

But, says RCR News, a closer look shows a wide-open space for anybody. Only 44% of Google users rated their satisfaction with mobile search at eight or higher on a 10-point scale, and only 40% of Yahoo users were similarly impressed.

Yahoo’s mobile site for e-mail drew the most U.S. traffic of any wireless destination in May, according to Nielsen Mobile, drawing 14.2 million unique visitors and outpacing Google’s search page by 64%. While Google finished a distant second with 9.1 million uniques, a gaggle of sites finished just behind including The Weather Channel (8.6 million), MSN Hotmail (7.9 million), Gmail (7.5 million) and ESPN (6.5 million).

Yahoo has made strides with downloadable applications and Internet sites that effectively serve as a branded deck, taking consumers by the hand as they surf on their phones. Smaller players such as The Weather Channel and ESPN have leveraged on-deck placement to lure users.

But Apple’s iPhone is ushering in a wave of multimedia-centric devices. The Web-friendly phones may spur the branded deck. But branded portals remain firmly atop the charts when it comes to drawing traffic. And traditional Internet destinations are effectively bringing their weight to bear in wireless, says RCR News.

“Portals, with brands such as Yahoo and Google, were the most popular category of mobile Web sites as of May 2008,” Nielsen Mobile’s Nic Covey wrote. “Thirty-six million unique mobile Internet users (89% of the mobile Internet audience) accessed portals over the mobile Internet. E-mail is the next most-visited category with 26 million unique users,” or 65% of the total audience.

source : dailywireless.org

T- Mobile Plans

T-Mobile Plans Ap Store

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 8th, 2008

Moco News says, starting this fall, T-Mobile USA will ditch its traditional deck on the phone and replacing it with a platform that’s open to almost any developer, not unlike Apple’s App store.

As one developer, who was briefed on the matter, said: “The App store was a big deal, but that’s one phone. This is an entire carrier.”

In other words, we are talking about T-Mobile’s 31.5 million subscribers today vs. the 10 million iPhones Apple expects to sell by year-end. The impact of this move by T-Mobile could set off a wave of changes in the industry, as other carriers feel pressure to offer new applications on their networks. We are waiting for a statement from T-Mobile and will update when we have it.

Here’s the details: Developers will submit their applications online; the revenue-share agreement will be based on how much the application uses the network; and the applications will be presented to the user in order of popularity, not according to T-Mobile’s preferences.

It’s all pretty straightforward, but the more interesting aspect is that this will apply to all the carrier’s platforms from upcoming Android to Java to Sidekick and Windows Mobile.

source : dailywireless.org

Karmazin radios

Karmazin promises interoperable Sirius / XM radios in less than 9 months

by Donald Melanson, posted Aug 8th 2008 at 2:37PM

While the newly formed Sirius XM Radio has already promised the FCC that it'll deliver interoperable radios within nine months, CEO Mel Karmazin has now told investors that they can "assume" that the radios will actually be available "a number of months sooner" than that. Karmazin added, however, that we shouldn't expect them quite as soon as this holiday season, which nicely lines up for a debut at CES in January and an actual release shortly thereafter in the first quarter of the year. Unfortunately, Karmazin didn't spill any details on said radios, with him only going so far as to describe them as "very cool."

source : engadget.copm

HTC X7510

How would you change HTC's Advantage X7510?

by Darren Murph, posted Aug 8th 2008 at 7:20PM

There's no denying that HTC's Advantage X7510 fills a narrowing niche -- after all, how many of these things have you seen out and about in the subway / underground? Still, there's just something very enticing about a 5-inch VGA display, built-in GPS, HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth and a full-blown QWERTY keyboard, is there not? For you folks who plunked down quite a few bills in order to bring this home, how has your experience been? For you folks in America who have just recently decided to bite the bullet and jump in, was it worth it? How would you tweak this do-it-all conglomerate (besides making it way more affordable)? Here's your shot to get it out, don't let it pass you by!

source : engadget.com

mico chipping

Friday, August 8, 2008

MIcrochipping the Troops!!

source : ekbtv.blogspot.com