Wi-Fi, cellular move closer to convergence with new devices

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Bluetooth CTP and fixed-cellular
convergence

Bluetooth CTP and fixed-cellular
convergence 12/27/2003 05:20 PM
Telecoms.com Dec 27 2003 4:11PM ET

Research and Markets: Handheld Game
Platforms 2005: More Competitors With
Convergence Devices

Research and Markets: Handheld Game
Platforms 2005: More Competitors With
Convergence Devices 04/04/2005 02:20 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c14880) has announced the addition of Handheld Game Platforms 2005: More Competitors With Convergence Devices to their offering. [PRWEB Apr 4, 2005]

Fewer Cellular Phone Users Happy With
Devices (TechWeb)

Fewer Cellular Phone Users Happy With
Devices (TechWeb) 07/08/2004 03:51 AM
TechWeb - The number of cellular phone users happy with their mobile devices has declined significantly over the last three years, a survey released Wednesday showed.

Operators move closer to 3G services

Operators move closer to 3G services 02/18/2004 07:33 AM
Personal Computer World Feb 18 2004 11:46AM GMT

Networked homes move closer to reality

Networked homes move closer to reality 05/28/2004 11:02 AM

Spray-on electronics move closer to
reality

Spray-on electronics move closer to
reality 04/16/2004 02:25 PM
If recent research projects bear fruit, it won't be too many years before magazines play videos and semiconductors roll out of inkjet printers.

Radio Credit Cards Move Closer

Radio Credit Cards Move Closer 12/13/2003 07:36 PM

HomeNAS media servers move closer

HomeNAS media servers move closer 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
It sits in your closet, holds an array of cheap hard disks, has wireless and Gigabit Ethernet, and can do prioritized streaming of almost any kind of media to any room in the house.

Hutchison sees 3G break-even targets
move closer

Hutchison sees 3G break-even targets
move closer 06/28/2004 03:01 PM
stuff.co.nz Jun 28 2004 6:43PM GMT

Broader U.S. Picture Swaps Move Closer
to Reality (Reuters)

Broader U.S. Picture Swaps Move Closer
to Reality (Reuters) 05/06/2004 06:53 PM
Reuters - U.S. mobile camera phone users are a step closer to wirelessly swapping digital photographs with whomever they choose after two rival technology groups said on Thursday they agreed on guidelines for such services.

Audit Results Move Google a Step Closer
to Offering

Audit Results Move Google a Step Closer
to Offering 01/27/2004 02:29 AM
New York Times Jan 27 2004 6:49AM GMT

TCL Mobile, Analog Devices, and TTPCom
Cooperation Surpasses Ten Million Units
Shipped of Original Design GSM/GPRS
Cellular Phones

TCL Mobile, Analog Devices, and TTPCom
Cooperation Surpasses Ten Million Units
Shipped of Original Design GSM/GPRS
Cellular Phones 07/26/2004 03:47 AM
Popular mobiles leverage Analog Devices’ wireless chipsets and TTPCom software [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

DiVX to move 20 million CE devices by
Christmas

DiVX to move 20 million CE devices by
Christmas 07/31/2004 05:19 PM
Critical mass

Ori Amiga - Tour of mobile devices with
Visual Studio for Devices team

Ori Amiga - Tour of mobile devices with
Visual Studio for Devices team 09/25/2004 09:16 AM
Ori Amiga shows off all the devices that he has hanging out in his office (someone has to test Visual Studio and make sure it works great with all the devices).

U Move Free Retains the Info Group to
Move Up in Search Engine Rankings

U Move Free Retains the Info Group to
Move Up in Search Engine Rankings 06/09/2004 02:36 AM
Umovefree.com, a Dallas apartment and Houston apartment locator service offering the apartment rental community's first truly free move service has retained The Info Group to provide search engine optimization services. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]

Convergence, not so bad sometimes

Convergence, not so bad sometimes 01/04/2005 06:14 PM

My 5 year old cordless vtech phone has been cutting out my wifi lately, so I've been shopping around for 5.8 Ghz phones. I've also been considering giving Vonage another try, since I gave up on them in Fall of 2003 (due to unreliability).

I'm usually not a big fan of convergence devices -- it usually means you get a so-so product A squished into a so-so version of product B, and the sum of the parts is often worse than either device alone, but this new VTech/Vonage combo phone system is exactly what I was looking for. I doubt very many people share my position, in that they need both a new phone system and something for Vonage, but I can't wait to see this show up in stores.

Convergence? Who Needs It?

Convergence? Who Needs It? 12/17/2003 07:17 PM
When it comes to the convergence of PDAs and mobile phones most people are saying they're perfect ly fine with two devices for now. They say people are just willing to carry multiple devices. I'm not sure that's true. I'd say it has a lot more to do with the fact that most converged devices make you sacrifice important things that lessen the value of having a converged device. People buy the device for very specific things (as the article points out), and if the device can't do those things well, then it's not worth getting. As converged devices get better, then, it's likely that people will be more willing to adopt them. That is, it appears that functionality trumps carry-ability at this point - but if you can do both, people would be thrilled. That's part of the reason why the new Treo 600 has been so hot lately. It's the first device that comes close to still being a good converged device. I'm sure the next generation devices will go even further.

Convergence: nntp//rss

Convergence: nntp//rss 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Having had a presence on Usenet for 2998 days leaves it's marks. One of them is that I prefer reading...

Big Bang of Convergence

Big Bang of Convergence 06/15/2004 03:01 PM

When TVs Crash: Convergence Gone Bad

When TVs Crash: Convergence Gone Bad 01/04/2005 10:51 PM
PC World's Editor in Chief arrived in Las Vegas for CES and tried to check his email. When he found out he had to first get authorization via his TV (convergence!) he went through the process only to get an Internet Explorer error message on his TV. So, while we've been hearing plenty of stories about convergence leading up to CES, it pays to remember that it doesn't always work that well.

Information Convergence?

Information Convergence? 02/05/2005 09:21 PM
A few thoughts in response to the response on my response from yesterday. On convergence of content, and RSS in particular.

Avalon isn't about Web/GUI convergence

Avalon isn't about Web/GUI convergence 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Edwin Khodabakchian echoes what seems to be a common -- but I think incorrect -- perception that XAML, the XUL-like layout language revealed this week to be a building block of Longhorn's Avalon presentation subsystem, heralds some kind of Web/GUI convergence: ...

Convergence Kills

Convergence Kills 08/02/2004 07:06 PM
By DrunkenBlog (via MyAppleMenu)

Illegal convergence

Illegal convergence 12/15/2003 10:29 AM
Blah, blah, blah, by now we're totally bored with this whole convergence thing -- we get it, you can stream movies and MP3s from your...

Convergence -- where is it taking the
CIO?

Convergence -- where is it taking the
CIO? 04/14/2005 01:20 PM
However it's defined, convergence is an important trend to CIOs who attended a recent UCLA conference.

The Resurgence Of Convergence

The Resurgence Of Convergence 01/03/2005 02:58 PM
For a while, it seemed like the idea of "convergence" was going out of style. It would come and go as people talk about various devices and services picking up more features. However, convergence means more than adding a camera to your phone or an internet connection to your TV -- but in figuring out what entirely new opportunities these combinations open up. Om Malik is pointing to a piece by Ramesh Jain suggesting that the future of convergence is about combining content, communication and computing -- but that too many are only focusing on two of the three aspects (or really just understand one of the three). True convergence occurs when a company clearly understands all three, and what the implications are of that convergence beyond feature creep. We've already mentioned that one of the "unexpected" side effects of convergence is that it's also convergi ng business models -- leaving some companies out in the cold when they discover their business model no longer makes sense. Witness Cablevision's ability to give away phone service. Of course, telcos are looking at convergence on their own, and this can be seen in SBC's announcement today that they're workin g on a set-top box that goes beyond what most current set-top boxes do. Basically, they're yet another company trying to create the ultimate "digital entertainment hub" with a DVR, internet access, photo/video/music storage and more. Of course, it's likely they're attacking this from a broadcast (content) perspective, rather than a communication one, but it's pretty clear that these battles are heating up, and companies who aren't figuring out the interplay between content, communication and computing aren't going to be around very long.

Convergence Bridge

Convergence Bridge 04/01/2005 08:53 AM

(posted from Montreal) As many of you know, I have recently become enamoured of complexity theory, and this has caused me to re-think many of the ideas presented here on How to Save the World. I am blogging today from Montreal, where I have been attending the First Annual Global Colloquium on Complexity and Chaos. The event has catalyzed or emerged some new conceptions about the nature of communications, and specifically blogging, and I have decided, starting tomorrow, to incorporate these thoughts into this online journal. So get ready for some big changes here. Beginning tomorrow: The red, blue, and green system charts and process charts you have become accustomed to on this blog will be discontinued. In their place you will see graphics such as the one above. The lack of borders on these charts indicates the omnipresence of intellectual miasma, and the lack of connections on these charts represents universal uncertainty. All that we can presume to know is that ideas and conceptions have the apparent quality of co-existence and that understanding of their relationship will, with time and contemplative study, gradually emerge. No arrows will appear in any graphics from now on. Such presumptions of causality are, at best, oversimplifications and, at worst, dangerous misinformation. The words question, answer, problem and solution will be scrubbed from posts on this blog. In our world, as a complex system, these concepts are meaningless. There are no answers or solutions, just learnings about ideation, being and nothingness, consciousness and unconsciousness. You will no longer read the words 'how' or 'why' on this blog. In the absence of causality on the edge of chaos such terms are pretentious. Effective tomorrow the name of this weblog will be Convergence Bridge. The categories feature of this weblog will be discontinued. Since everything is related and the true relationship between the conceptions discussed uncertain, it no longer 'makes sense' to have artificial categories. And instead of arguing, as I have in past, in favour of personal taxonomies and ontologies, I will argue, in the first article tomorrow, that there are no taxonomies or ontologies, and that such arbitrary categorizations are fraudulent. I will also eschew the use of the question mark in all posts, since questions imply the existence with reasonable certainty of answers. Instead, I will begin using the 'degree' symbol (º), the circle representing the endless pursuit of perfect understanding at points in my discourse where a 'pause' for considered thought is called for. Likewise, periods, with their naive implication of order and finality, will be replaced by commas, the perfect symbol of tentativeness and uncertainty, And finally, the absurd words 'know', 'knowledge' and 'information' will no longer appear in my posts. Again, a symbol, the colon, with its gentle suggestion of possible relationship, will be used in place of such anachronisms,º It is my sincere belief that these changes will allow a higher level of intellectual discourse on these pages: I look forward to our continued journey together:º

BT Dances Around Convergence

BT Dances Around Convergence 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
Peter Judge at TechWorld reports that BT may be introducing a combined Wi-Fi/cellular service, but it's not what you think: When customers make calls in their homes using a combined GSM/Wi-Fi phone, the call is carried over Wi-Fi between the phone and the access point. But the access point is backhauled over the GSM network. Instead of realizing the cost savings of carrying a call over IP over a broadband fixed connection, BT chooses to use the more expensive GSM network. The service becomes, in essence, a method for improving cell phone coverage in the home. The idea doesn't make sense in any context, but you might understand it if the offering was being made by a cell phone operator that stands to benefit by keeping calls on its network. But this is BT, which doesn't have a cell phone network and will supply the cellular link via resale agreements with a mobile operator. It would make so much more sense for BT to backhaul the access points using its own wired network, using voice over IP and charging customers slightly reduced rates than the cell phone networks for the calls that use the system. That sounds like it could be a profitable service and would allow BT to beat out cellular operators that don't own their own landline networks. This service is basically an update to the previously announced Bluephone initiative and shouldn't be available until 2006. Given the track record of the Bluephone plan, which was initially set to be introduced using Bluetooth instead of Wi-Fi in 2003, it might not be surprising if the whole plan changes again....

Other News: HP Digital Convergence

Other News: HP Digital Convergence 01/06/2005 11:49 AM
HP rolls out a roadmap for the "digital living room".

Convergence calls at college

Convergence calls at college 04/13/2005 08:07 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 13 2005 12:05PM GMT

The Meanings and Implications of
Convergence

The Meanings and Implications of
Convergence 11/14/2003 04:44 AM
what convergence means

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Carriers invest in convergence

Carriers invest in convergence 11/14/2003 05:45 AM
Out with the old, in with the new

Squandering the Convergence Bill

Squandering the Convergence Bill 01/24/2004 02:19 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Jan 24 2004 6:17AM GMT

More Unexpected Convergence: Printing
From Your TV

More Unexpected Convergence: Printing
From Your TV 08/03/2004 02:18 PM
The folks who think that it's weird to mix a camera and a phone will love this one. Epson is jumping on the convergence bandwagon with a plan to turn your TV into a printer. The idea is to have printable data sent with TV programming. For example, if you're watching a commercial and are interested in the product, you could immediately print out a catalog. Of course, I imagine that shows like The Daily Show might have a blast with the possibilities of this kind of technology.

Wireless Convergence by 2010

Wireless Convergence by 2010 06/23/2004 02:36 AM
Panel of 5 industry leading companies agree that wireless convergence will be deployed by 2010. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

BT's Bluephone must be convergence
without the con

BT's Bluephone must be convergence
without the con 04/06/2005 06:23 PM
ZDNet Apr 6 2005 9:15PM GMT

DoCoMo moves on convergence

DoCoMo moves on convergence 07/14/2004 03:22 PM
Telecoms.com Jul 14 2004 5:26PM GMT

Intel CEO Calls For More Convergence

Intel CEO Calls For More Convergence 02/18/2003 08:22 PM
Craig Barrett leads the charge for combining the micro world of the company's processors with the real world products like cell phones and optical networking.

Gates: Convergence is for real

Gates: Convergence is for real 01/08/2004 07:30 PM
Folks have been talking about the coming convergence between PCs and consumer electronics for years. But that was the easy part. The hard call was to figure out exactly how the pieces would fall into place. Although the debate goes on, one person who thinks that the technology industry is on the cusp of realizing one of its longest-sought grails is Bill Gates. Gates, who took the stage Wednesday night to deliver the opening key note at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is convinced that recent technology advances have paved the way toward real convergence. CNET News.com caught up with Microsoft's co-founder and chairman to find out what's behind his optimism.
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