Droid Life reports that Verizon will offer plans ranging from $30 a month for 2 GBytes of data to $80 a month for 10 GBytes of data, with tethering to other devices available for an additional $20, including an extra 2 GBytes of data.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Verizon Moving to Tiered Data Plans in July 2011
Verizon Wireless says new tiered mobile data plans will be standard, beginning about July 7, 2011.
Droid Life reports that Verizon will offer plans ranging from $30 a month for 2 GBytes of data to $80 a month for 10 GBytes of data, with tethering to other devices available for an additional $20, including an extra 2 GBytes of data.
Droid Life reports that Verizon will offer plans ranging from $30 a month for 2 GBytes of data to $80 a month for 10 GBytes of data, with tethering to other devices available for an additional $20, including an extra 2 GBytes of data.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Executive Summary: Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda
"Becoming a next-generation digital enterprise means generating a greater percentage of enterprise revenue via information and Internet technologies," say analysts at Gartner. It might be hard to find anybody who would disagree with the general formulation. This contrasts with the first wave of the digital revolution, which measured how digital an enterprise was based on its Web presence, Gartner says.
By the new definition, most enterprises have to become digital from the front office to the back office, which gives them the opportunity to reimagine IT as the center of the next digital revolution.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
XConnect Launches Video Interconnection Exchange
XConnect has launched a global "Video Interconnection Exchange" (VIE) said to be the world's first neutral federation for exchanging video calls across networks, operators, service providers, B2B exchanges and vendors.
Video calling is a service where network effects are key, meaning that unless it is easy to make a video call with just about anyone, there are big barriers to adoption. Today, video calling is fragmented among many communities, exchanges, networks and devices, and XConnect believes VIE will help.
VIE hopes to make video calling as easy as making a voice call, whether using a laptop, desktop, tablet or mobile phone, from anywhere in the world. VIE launches with five operators, based in the United States and EMEA. Members include telepresence providers, as well as fixed, mobile and Web 2.0 video service providers."
Video calling is a service where network effects are key, meaning that unless it is easy to make a video call with just about anyone, there are big barriers to adoption. Today, video calling is fragmented among many communities, exchanges, networks and devices, and XConnect believes VIE will help.
VIE hopes to make video calling as easy as making a voice call, whether using a laptop, desktop, tablet or mobile phone, from anywhere in the world. VIE launches with five operators, based in the United States and EMEA. Members include telepresence providers, as well as fixed, mobile and Web 2.0 video service providers."
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Monday, June 20, 2011
LightSquared Says it Can Fix GPS Interference Problem
LightSquared says it has a solution to the problem of interference with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers that will allow LightSquared to proceed with its business plan. LightSquared says 99.5 percent of U.S. GPS receivers will be interference-free, while there are technical solutions for the other 0.5 percent Of GPS receivers.
One of LightSquared’s 10-MHz blocks of frequencies poses interference to many GPS receivers, and happens to be the spectrum LightSquared originally hoped to use to launch it service initially.
LightSquared says it can use another 10-MHz block of the spectrum lower on the spectrum band and located further away from the GPS frequencies, greatly reducing the risk for interference. That move requires negotiations with Inmarsat, the satellite company that controls the alternative block of spectrum in the L Band, but LIghtSquared says it has such agreeement. If I understand correctly, that means shifting to the left hand red frequencies, rather than the right hand red frequencies, as illustrated in the first chart.
See http://www.lightsquared.com/press-room/press-releases/.
The generic problem is that radio signals, even when carrying digital information, are analog sine waves. As the second chart shows, a signal on a center frequency also emits lesser amounts of energy off frequency. If LightSquared shifts its frequencies away from any of the GPS center frequencies, it will reduce the amount of potential interference.
LightSquared also says it will modify its Federal Communications Commission license to reduce the maximum authorized power of its base-station transmitters by over 50 percent. This move will provide additional protection to GPS receivers.
LightSquared believes it still will have enough spectrum to serve its customer base for the next several years.
See also http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/20/lightsquared-announces-solution-for-gps-issue-says-lte-networ/.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
One Billion Tweets Every 6 Days
It took three years to send the first billion tweets; today, one billion tweets are sent every six days.
Read more here
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
HTC Tries on Google Goggles
HTC is taking a step beyond quick response codes with its new ad campaign for the "Sensation 4G." Consumers can interact with the ads using Google Goggles.People who view the outdoor, print and TV ad can use the Google app to capture an image and get extra content.
For instance, if you scan a scene from the TV spot, you can download a video of YouTube star Maria Aragon
HTC Tries on Google Goggles for New Ad Campaign
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Facebook Display Revenues to Nearly Double in 2011
Facebook will grow its net U.S. display revenues in 2011 by another 81 percent to $2.19 billion, eMarketer estimates. If the prediction proves correct, Facebook will pass Yahoo! to become the top seller of display ads in the U.S. market.
This near-doubling of display ad revenues is a slowdown in growth for Facebook, which posted triple-digit display ad revenue growth in 2009 and 2010 when its display revenues were at relatively low levels. Next year, growth will slow further to just 31.3 percent.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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