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Clever iPhone tricks 08/08/2008 09:18:27
Did you know you can dictate e-mail messages to your iPhone? That's just one of the tricks up our sleeves.I'm now the owner of an Apple iPhone 3G, after waiting out the first-generation model. - +
iPhone hackers go too far, get shut down by Apple 07/08/2008 10:51:17
I was all set to give this week's column over to a new register-direct implementation of a JavaScript interpreter that's many times faster than all currently available implementations. It's not exactly growing hair on a billiard ball, but a nitro-boosted JavaScript will put a shine on AJAX and keep my most beloved language on track to becoming the gold standard for dynamic languages. - +
Jobs shakes up Apple management over MobileMe debacle 07/08/2008 08:29:09
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has given MobileMe to the executive who heads iTunes, part of a shake-up over the sync service's public problems since its launch last month, according to a memo sent to company employees earlier this week.
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Australia's 20 biggest cities could be covered by a $500 million commercial-grade mobile WiMAX network within two years.
The network will be modeled on the Sprint Nextel WiMAX initiative in the US, in which Xohm, Intel, Samsung, and Nokia Siemens will deploy mobile Internet access to some 100 million people by year's end at a cost of $5 billion over three years.
Intel global general manager of WiMAX business development, Joe Nardone, told Computerworld that Unwired has mapped out plans for a national mobile WiMAX network, including cost estimates, technology roadmaps and potential customers and partners. Intel is an investor in Unwired.
Unwired's current wireless technology does not allow it to deliver mobile access -- in other words, users cannot sit in a moving train or car and receive a constant signal. However, this will change when it migrates over to WiMAX, where mobility is inherent in the technology.
The WiMAX network will help the Seven Network's plan to reinvent itself as a digital company by providing a medium for the delivery of broadband, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and television. Seven purchased Unwired outright for $127 million last year.
Seven could provide funds for the required network infrastructure in a deal that Nardone describes as a "leap of faith".
Telecommunications analyst Paul Budde said the Seven Network's plan to become a "digital company" through its engin, Unwired and TiVO businesses, will result in a failed overbuild of technology.
"I have looked at this from 15,000 angles and the idea simply can't work," Budde said.
"Both engin and Unwired are in trouble and are under performing, so if [Seven] can bring these together they deserve a Nobel Prize for innovation."
The mobile WiMAX network will not be able to compete with Telstra's established 3G network, according to Budde.
He said Telstra's established customer base will have no reason to migrate to the six-year old technology which Budde believes is inferior to 3G's High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), platform.
Unwired will have a tough time recouping ROI as competition from Optus and Vodafone's 3G networks drives down access prices, Budde said.
Unwired refused to comment for the story.
(Matt Hamblen contributed to this report.)
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