Cell phone giants work on wired-wireless bridge

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FreeHeadset.org launches program to
promote wireless phone safety by giving
away free cell phone headsets.

FreeHeadset.org launches program to
promote wireless phone safety by giving
away free cell phone headsets. 07/26/2004 02:22 AM
New laws that mandate the use of cell phone headsets have recently passed in several states. In response, FreeHeadset.org has developed a program to provide wireless phone users with a free cell phone headset. [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

Mobile & Wireless World: Combo Wi-FI
cell phone due out by fall

Mobile & Wireless World: Combo Wi-FI
cell phone due out by fall 05/28/2004 04:55 PM
Avaya, Proxim and Motorola have teamed up and plan to introduce a dual-mode Wi-FI and cellular phone this year that will require the use of an 802.11a WLAN.

Drop cell in cradle, and wireless calls
ring on your home phone

Drop cell in cradle, and wireless calls
ring on your home phone 11/05/2003 09:24 PM
SiliconValley.com Nov 5 2003 8:36PM ET

Grand opening of SOexcessories Wholesale
Wireless. Out fit your cell phone with a
fashionable faceplate.

Grand opening of SOexcessories Wholesale
Wireless. Out fit your cell phone with a
fashionable faceplate. 09/21/2004 11:11 AM
Cellular Accessories at 50-80% off retail. Flat rate shipping $5.95. [PRWEB Sep 20, 2004]

Pride Communication Services, #1
Reseller of Krusell Leather Cell Phone
Cases, to Begin Selling Identity-Theft
Conscious Horizontic Plus Cell Phone
Case in April

Pride Communication Services, #1
Reseller of Krusell Leather Cell Phone
Cases, to Begin Selling Identity-Theft
Conscious Horizontic Plus Cell Phone
Case in April 03/29/2005 04:34 AM
To Better Accommodate the Needs of Today’s Identity Theft Conscious Cell Phone Users, Pride Communication Services (PCS), a Subsidiary Franchise of KaseIT and the Largest Reseller of KRUSELL Leather Cases, Announced Today that it Would Begin Selling the Horizontic Plus Cell Phone Case, KRUSELL’s Newest Offering, In its Online Store in April. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

Mobile Media Sprints Ahead, Wireless
Giant Launches Cell Phone-Based TV

Mobile Media Sprints Ahead, Wireless
Giant Launches Cell Phone-Based TV 11/14/2003 08:06 AM
Media Post Nov 14 2003 7:51AM ET

Reviews: Portable MP3 player with FM and
voice recorder; wireless headset; cell
phone info syncing

Reviews: Portable MP3 player with FM and
voice recorder; wireless headset; cell
phone info syncing 12/11/2003 06:07 PM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 11 2003 5:46PM ET

Wired News: Giants Take Lead in
Technology

Wired News: Giants Take Lead in
Technology 04/29/2004 07:47 AM
Giants Take Lead in Technology .. interview with Bill Schlough .. total WiFi coverage

wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63237,00.html
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Iowa phone company tries to block
incoming cell phone calls

Iowa phone company tries to block
incoming cell phone calls 08/16/2004 05:48 PM
Iowa phone company plans to block cell phone call in a dispute with wireless carriers. The Iowa Utilities Board has prevented the plan for now.

Quick-'n-Dirty methods to determine
which competing label is better: "Cell
Phone" or "Mobile Phone"?

Quick-'n-Dirty methods to determine
which competing label is better: "Cell
Phone" or "Mobile Phone"? 04/28/2004 11:39 AM

On the SIGIA-L mailing list, Stephanie Berger recently asked: "My cohorts are not sure whether to use "cell phone" or "mobile phone". Any evidence that one is better than the other, or one is used more often than the other?"

This is a good example of the kind of labeling questions information architects face all the time. The answer to these labeling questions will depend on the target audience (a better label for whom?), on business requirements (maybe the business want to promote one term over the other) and on the context in which the label will be used.

I'll discuss the conversation that followed here and afterwards point to some useful tools for if you have a labeling question yourself.

Andres Sulleiro: "Without any empirical data I will go with my own opinion. [...] A quick survey of the phone carriers seems to suggest that "wireless" (as in "wireless phone", "wireless customer") is most common among US carriers, though you see some references to "mobile" as well. T-mobile, a European company, uses "mobile" which is more common in Europe as well as being the name of the carrier."

Method: check what other websites call it.

Jason Cho: "I think "cell" is more widespread in the US as Andrés noted. "Call my mobile" can sound pretentious to Yankee ears. But I would think everyone understands the term "mobile" on a business card."

Method: personal experience.

Peter Van Dijck (and others): "Google for "cell phone" (including quotes): 6,230,000, Google for "mobile phone": 6,360,000. Looks like a tie, assuming your audience is similar. Just pick one and make sure your search engine knows both terms."
Christina Wodtke: "Y ahoo for cell phone : 16,800,000, yahoo for mobile phone: 21,200,000. What does this really tell you? you'd have to know who each engine indexes, how much of the web, etc.. better to use a magic 8 ball. ;-)"

Method: check popularity of the terms on the web.

Peter Van Dijck: "My next step would be to find out what people search for on your site,
or if not available, on the web (assuming that's more or less your audience). Google adwords can help."

Method: Find out what people (preferably your target audience) search for.

Dave: "I like "mobile" for the reason that Christina stated (forward compatibility); USers and non-USers will equally understand it. Also, it is more interoperable w/ most of the vCard based addressbook programs out there. I don't know any that are using "cell" or "cellphone" ... I also like the clear and easy two word approach of "mobile phone" ... I'm always wanting to say "cellphone" where "cell phone" is really the more correct version. "cell" though just doesn't feel like a real word b/c the "cell" doesn't fit a meaning to me. I know what it means if I am forced to think about it, but it really doesn't mean anything to me at all."

Method: personal experience, check what software programs use.

Christina Wodtke: "> As can Ove rture's keyword tool (couldn't find URL straight away).

You also might consider some adaptation of the freelisting technique on a subset of your target. E.G., a write in survey: what portable electronics do you own, then analyze for use of "cell phone" and mobile phone".

Method: freelisting technique.

Eric Reiss: "Having worked closely with several telecommunications companies, including Tellabs (US), Nortel (Canada), ADVA (Germany), and NetTest (Denmark), this discussion is one I've heard before. Europeans generally don't recognize the term "cell phone." North Americans seem to accept both "cell" and "mobile." ATT insists on promoting the term "wireless." In most instances, we've agreed on the word "mobile" since it is understood by the widest audience. Nortel, for instance, used "cell" almost exclusively until the late 90s, but now leans toward "mobile." I think there is a trend here."

Method: ask the subject matter experts.

Pabini Gabriel-Petit: "There's also Wordtracker.
[...]
In this vein, you might try just walking up to people, holding up your cell/mobile phone, and asking them what they call it."

Method: Analyze what people search for.

Method: Find out what labels your users use.

Quick-'n-Dirty methods to determine which competing label is better.

So, as a review, here are some of the methods used to determine which label is better.

1. What do you think?
Method: personal experience/insights.

2. What do your users think?
Method: freelisting technique.
Method: Find out what labels your users use: show them the item you're trying to label and ask them what it is. (You could build an online tool for this).
Method: Find out what people (preferably your target audience) search for / check popularity of the terms on the web. Ove rture's keyword tool. Google adwords. Wordtracker. Google and Yahoo both list how often a term is used on the web (use quotes around your terms!).

3. What do the experts think?
Method: ask the subject matter experts.
Method: check what other websites/software call it.

Gotcha's: be careful when using these techniques. You are looking for a label that works for your audience and your business requirements. Most of these techniques use audiences that may be very different from yours, and most are indicative only (ie: they're not hard science). Use your judgement.

Phone giants dial up Wi-Fi mobile

Phone giants dial up Wi-Fi mobile 07/15/2004 05:28 AM
ZDNet UK Jul 15 2004 9:39AM GMT

Frontiers Change for Phone Giants

Frontiers Change for Phone Giants 02/07/2005 01:58 AM
A frenzy of new merger activity could propel the telecommunications giants into a new level of direct geographic competition.

Mobile Phone Bridge To VoIP System?

Mobile Phone Bridge To VoIP System? 05/11/2004 04:32 PM
i2 Telecom is making some news today for releasing what appears to be some sort of bridge device to tie mobile phones to a VoIP network. The articles and the press release about this offering are a bit confusing. i2's website doesn't offer any more help. Looking over their site (which doesn't seem to have this product listed yet), it appears that i2 Telecom is really yet-another-Vonage-wannabe - though with fairly inexpensive prices. What's interesting is that they pitch it in a different manner, focusing much more on the box they give you - as if it's this magical box that lets you make VoIP calls - rather than the service, like most players in this market. This new offering is basically an update on that box with one additional feature: if you call into your home line with your mobile phone, the box will recognize your caller ID and let you then bounce another call out, using the VoIP network. Basically, it lets you use your mobile phone on your VoIP system. It's a neat idea, but it does involve a few extra steps (calling your home line first). I can see this being useful mainly for those who make a lot of international phone calls, since the rates are cheaper. However, with the amount of included minutes that most mobile phone plans offer, it seems like it would have limited use for most domestic calls. Also, it probably only makes sense for those who also need a mobile phone plans and a home VoIP plan. If the person doesn't already plan to use either separately, than the added cost of this probably doesn't make much sense.

Airport Express: a wireless bridge and
then some

Airport Express: a wireless bridge and
then some 06/07/2004 02:01 PM
Apple's new Airport Express allows you to not only extend your current wireless connection by doing no more than plugging it into a wall outlet. But it will also allow you to enjoy your iTunes music library in virtually any room of your house and share a single broadband Internet connection and USB printer or create an instant wireless network on the go.

Phone giants give birth to Super 3G

Phone giants give birth to Super 3G 01/04/2005 01:00 PM
silicon.com Jan 4 2005 2:49PM GMT

Cell Phone Users Interrupt Sex for Phone
Calls

Cell Phone Users Interrupt Sex for Phone
Calls 04/11/2005 08:07 PM
user survey reported

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New Chips Bridge Wireless Network Divide

New Chips Bridge Wireless Network Divide 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
National Semiconductor is testing a group of processors that promise to simplify the creation of linked networks and connected devices. Until these chips were developed, there was no easy, cost-effective way to connect different types of devices using wide-area, local-area or personal-area networks, according to the company.

Mobile phone giants strive for
pre-eminence in 3G market

Mobile phone giants strive for
pre-eminence in 3G market 01/05/2004 09:12 PM
Japan Times Jan 5 2004 7:33PM ET

Canada's Phone Giants Face Internet
Threat

Canada's Phone Giants Face Internet
Threat 05/04/2004 11:56 PM
New York Times May 5 2004 4:03AM GMT

Phone Giants Are Projected to Dominate
Internet Calls

Phone Giants Are Projected to Dominate
Internet Calls 06/14/2004 02:19 AM
New York Times Jun 14 2004 5:51AM GMT

Four Mobile Phone Giants Organize Sales
Business

Four Mobile Phone Giants Organize Sales
Business 12/31/2004 02:04 AM
ChinaTechNews.com Dec 31 2004 5:35AM GMT

Apple builds wireless hi-fi bridge with
pocket router

Apple builds wireless hi-fi bridge with
pocket router 06/07/2004 04:01 PM
Plug and stream

Cingular Wireless, the nations No. 2
mobile phone provider, has agreed to
acquire third-largest AT&T Wireless

Cingular Wireless, the nations No. 2
mobile phone provider, has agreed to
acquire third-largest AT&T Wireless 02/17/2004 09:58 AM
MSNBC Feb 17 2004 1:12PM GMT

Wired: Why Your Next Phone Call May Be
Online

Wired: Why Your Next Phone Call May Be
Online 01/04/2004 11:58 PM
A brief "how this stuff works" piece on VoIP I wrote for the current issue of Wired Magazine:

Regional and long-distance carriers, facing extinction, are lobbying government officials for protection. California, Minnesota, and at least nine other states are pushing for some sort of regulation, and the FCC is weighing its options. Meanwhile, big telecom is joining the party. International voice carrier Teleglobe is acquiring a VoIP wholesaler, and others are poised to follow suit. Cox, Comcast, Cablevision, Qwest, and Time Warner are also rolling out VoIP offerings. Their existing customer bases, fat pipe IP infrastructures, and coveted "last mile" connectivity create a powerful triple threat. And, as more telecommunications monopolies around the world open up for competition, the cost savings promised by VoIP seems destined to spark a market shift as dramatic as the one that followed US telecom deregulation decades ago.

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Samsung Gets Wired on Wireless

Samsung Gets Wired on Wireless 04/21/2004 02:02 AM
Business Week Apr 21 2004 6:00AM GMT

Dothan Goes Wireless - VeriQik Makes
Commitment to Put New Wireless
Technology to Work in Dothan, Alabama
(featureXpress)

Dothan Goes Wireless - VeriQik Makes
Commitment to Put New Wireless
Technology to Work in Dothan, Alabama
(featureXpress) 04/26/2004 11:52 AM
featureXpress - VeriQik and Tri-State Broadband build Dothan's first wireless Internet network. Dothan Civic Center one of first to benefit from new services.

Goodbye phone static; wireless speakers
aim to jazz up home theaters; secure
wireless gadgets can stop the sno

Goodbye phone static; wireless speakers
aim to jazz up home theaters; secure
wireless gadgets can stop the sno 09/18/2004 08:34 PM
US News Sep 18 2004 11:25PM GMT

Wired News: A Way Out of Automated Phone
Hell

Wired News: A Way Out of Automated Phone
Hell 02/11/2004 05:56 AM
detect the frustration and anger level of callers .. A Way Out of Automated Phone Hell .. WIRED News

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UK Town Chooses Wireless Over Wired

UK Town Chooses Wireless Over Wired 01/26/2004 03:03 PM
A UK village wanted high-speed access but couldn't round up enough customers to convince BT to build there: BT said the town would have to have 5,000 subscribers and as only 3,500 people live there, the requirement was a bit unrealistic. So villagers secured a grant and decided to pay a wireless service provider to build a network that uses Wi-Fi to offer Internet to residents. Surprisingly, the wireless network turns out to be more expensive to build then installing ADSL....

Wired News: Making Wireless Roaming Fun

Wired News: Making Wireless Roaming Fun 04/13/2004 12:45 AM
Wired News: Making Wireless Roaming Fun

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Easily move between wired and wireless
networks

Easily move between wired and wireless
networks 08/27/2004 01:38 PM
I thought I'd post my experiences here since I haven't found anything on this topic. I run a small LAN with networked home directories, Library and Apps (using a FreeBSD NFS server), and I wanted to be able to seamlessly m...

Wired News: Free Wireless on Newberry
Street

Wired News: Free Wireless on Newberry
Street 03/13/2003 03:35 PM
Newbury Street community network possibly only commercial/community freenet .. Wired News: Free Wireless on Newbury Street .. have a great story

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Wired News: Wartime Wireless Worries
Pentagon

Wired News: Wartime Wireless Worries
Pentagon 05/31/2004 04:06 AM
Wartime Wireless Worries Pentagon 5/29 .. Rumsfeld's sudden photophobia .. kick-ass round-up .. Wired

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A Cell Phone in Every Pot

A Cell Phone in Every Pot 12/09/2003 02:39 AM

Ce ll Phones Sales Skyrocket

"The worldwide market for cell phones is outstripping even the most enthusiastic predictions from the beginning of the year, as consumers continue to snap up handsets at a dizzying rate, according to research released Monday by Gartner.

Handset vendors sold 132.8 million units in the third quarter of this year, up 22 percent from last year's third-quarter shipments of 108.8 million units, says Ben Wood, an analyst with Gartner based in London. Gartner calculated the figures using the number of units sold to end users, rather than units shipped into the channel.

'The total market is on fire,' he says. 'We had predicted about 470 million units for the year, but it's going to be about 500 million this year.'

Mature cell phone markets such as western Europe and the U.S. are going through a replacement cycle, as consumers with older black-and-white phones are trading them in for new models with color screens and cameras , Wood says.

'We're getting to a point where a mobile phone is as much about fashion as anything,' he says." [PCWorld.com]

It won't be much longer before purchasing a mobile phone will be as much about utility (staying connected to the internet) as anything.

You could have a 3G cell phone already

You could have a 3G cell phone already 04/11/2005 03:55 AM
Jakarta Post Apr 11 2005 5:22AM GMT

Cell Phone Zen

Cell Phone Zen 08/16/2004 02:27 PM
My phone sucks ass! The voicemail has never worked properly since day 1. At least once a week I have...

The Souped-Up Cell Phone

The Souped-Up Cell Phone 06/15/2004 10:00 AM
Business Week Jun 15 2004 2:25PM GMT

You CAN take your cell-phone number with
you

You CAN take your cell-phone number with
you 11/11/2003 10:17 PM
ZDNet Nov 11 2003 9:18PM ET

Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You

Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You 12/21/2003 03:43 AM
PollGuy writes "I had never heard until this article in the New York Times (sacrifice of first born required) about services that let regular people track the ...
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