Mossberg Kvells Over Verizon Wireless's 1xEvDO

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Verizon Wireless's BroadbandAccess Gets
Software Support

Verizon Wireless's BroadbandAccess Gets
Software Support 07/16/2004 11:52 AM
TechWeb Jul 16 2004 3:31PM GMT

PCTEST Purchases 1xEvDO 3G Conformance
Test System

PCTEST Purchases 1xEvDO 3G Conformance
Test System 08/10/2004 05:17 AM
3G Aug 10 2004 8:48AM GMT

"Daily Wireless's"

"Daily Wireless's" 04/12/2004 03:24 PM

AT&T Wireless's Ogo Appears

AT&T Wireless's Ogo Appears 09/14/2004 07:24 AM

Engadget snagged pics of the new AT&T Wireless OGO messenger from the FCC and it looks a lot like what we've been expecting - sort of a cut-rate Sidekick 2, minus all the cellphone parts of the phone. They're reporting that the Instant Messaging clamshell will be available to AT&T Wireless customers for only $15 a month, and an inside source of ours is reporting that the price should around $100 when it hits the streets before the end of September (treat that as rumor, of course, until we can double up on sources).

Looks like a fun device, and with AIM, MSN, and Yahoo messaging built-in, as well as email and SMS, it could be a very useful little gadget for anybody - not just the kids they are marketing it to. Hopefully the interface is as polished as the Sidekick II, as well.

Read - AT&T Wireless’ ogo is a go go [Engadget]

Broadband Wireless's Resurgence

Broadband Wireless's Resurgence 11/18/2003 12:48 PM
Om Malik writes about how low costs and high bandwidth are bringing back broadband wireless: You'll probably see a lot of articles in the next 12 months that lack the back story to broadband wireless, which Malik's piece contains. Broadband wireless isn't new: in fact, I was corresponding yesterday with Brett Glass, a founder of Lariat.org in Wyoming, which was operating 2 Mbps WaveLAN gear in 1993. In the late 90s, several major telcos invested heavily in licensed-spectrum wireless broadband, buying up licenses in the educational/institutional MMDS/ITU band (2.5 GHz). Congress had authorized holders of geographic licenses in these bands -- holders that included hospitals, schools, etc. -- to sublicense these broadcasting/distance learning/misc. services frequencies to commercial users. Sprint and Worldcom bought up practically all of the MMDS licenses -- Sprint spent a billion on them -- and AT&T used a much higher but licensed band above 10 GHz. None of these operations succeeded because they were using proprietary technology on frequencies that only they could use! Manufacturers were pumping out ever cheaper, lower-powered Wi-Fi and other spread-spectrum gear while the licensed broadband folks saw their costs stay the same. If you're the only customer (or maybe there's two), there's no much competition. Ultimately, broadband wireless by the big boys died, and Om Malik's article traces the resurgence. There are several hundred broadband wireless ISPs in the U.S. -- one source says 1,800, but I think that's a count of cities in which the service is offered, not unique firms. And that's mostly the mom and pops. Malik documents both the growth in firms offering to-the-curb/final-mile service, and also the T-1 and higher replacement companies that can bring in tens of megabytes per second of quality service in a few days. One of the key benefits to broadband wireless is that it can be instantaneous. Once you have the tower secured and fiber or high-speed lines running to it, the line of sight is your oyster as an operator....

AT&T Wireless's First UMTS 3G
Handsets

AT&T Wireless's First UMTS 3G
Handsets 07/21/2004 11:29 AM

The first two handsets for AT&T Wireless's new UMTS high-speed 3G wireless service could be nicer, especially for $300 a pop, but it's a new service so we'll give them a break for the moment. The Motorola A845 looks like the one to get compared to the Nokia 6651, if only for the camera alone. If you're going to have high-speed uploads and downloads (between 220-320 kbps, or about eight times as fast as GPRS), sending video clips to friends would be one of the best new ways to utilize all that bandwidth. That and watching television at 7 frames a second (which sounds bad, but it's a lot better than the frame every second or two GRPS and PCS television services provide now).
Read - What is UMTS? [ATTWireless]

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AT&T Wireless 3G Launch Conference Call Highlights [Gizmodo]

More on AT&T Wireless's Bungled
System Upgrade

More on AT&T Wireless's Bungled
System Upgrade 04/17/2004 07:13 PM

CSI Wireless's first-quarter profit
rises to $725,517 from $103,950

CSI Wireless's first-quarter profit
rises to $725,517 from $103,950 04/27/2004 02:40 PM
National Post Apr 27 2004 6:16PM GMT

Confirmation of AT&T Wireless's $6.1
Billion 3G Commitment

Confirmation of AT&T Wireless's $6.1
Billion 3G Commitment 02/19/2004 02:39 AM
Internetnews.com confirms the $6.1 billion trigger that AT&T Wireless would have to pay DoCoMo: Internetnews.com confirms something the major media seems to have missed in the Cingular/AT&T Wireless deal: that DoCoMo would have to be paid $6.1 billion if AT&T Wireless didn't deploy 3G in four cities by 2005. This requirement will certainly push 3G rollout faster during 2004 with more alternatives--Verizon Wireless won't be the only speed demon in town. [link via TechDirt]...

Option Wireless's Quad-band
GPRS/EDGE/WiFi PC card

Option Wireless's Quad-band
GPRS/EDGE/WiFi PC card 12/27/2004 01:20 PM
Engadget Dec 27 2004 3:31PM GMT

" Walt Mossberg: Get a Mac"

" Walt Mossberg: Get a Mac" 09/18/2004 08:51 AM

Mossberg: Seggin' With the Oldies

Mossberg: Seggin' With the Oldies 05/04/2004 03:12 PM
I wonder who Walter Mossberg had to metaphorically, orally copulate with to get this glistening, oral copulation metaphor of a piece in the latest Wired Magazine. Did you know that Mossberg once dined with Kings and Presidents, but gave it all up to review dork watches and TurboTax? Did you...

Mac Night Owl interviews Mossberg

Mac Night Owl interviews Mossberg 09/24/2004 02:05 PM
The Wall Street Journal's Personal Technology columnist Walter S. Mossberg often muses on the Macintosh, iPod and Apple's latest doings -- recently he declared the iMac G5 "the most elegant desktop computer I've ever used." This week, The Mac Night Owl radio show will interview Mossberg. Also scheduled are Mac critic David Biedny and XM Satellite Radio VP Chance Patterson. The show is Webcast from 6:00PM to 8:00PM Pacific Time, 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM Eastern.

Mossberg: To avoid viruses, get a Mac

Mossberg: To avoid viruses, get a Mac 09/16/2004 07:27 AM
Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal has written a column for Windows users today explaining how to protect themselves against the plethora of computer viruses going around these days...

Mossberg on Wireless Audio

Mossberg on Wireless Audio 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg reviews the Creative Technology Sound Blaster Wireless music system: Mossberg is very up on the device, which avoids some of the weaknesses of similar Wi-Fi-to-audio adapters by having its display built right into the remote control. (Mossberg complains about having to enter a hexadecimal encryption key into the Sound Blaster software to attach it to his protected network. He speaks for all home users when he writes, No normal consumer knows what "Hex" is, and companies should stop expecting them to use it. On the other hand, when he says that the key is rendered in an arcane and obscure kind of techie code called "Hexadecimal" he's just being crotchety. Hexadecimal is just base 16: 0 to 9 and the letters A to F. Fortunately, WPA will replace the hex-interfaced WEP system eventually.) I saw a similar device, Slim Devices's Squeezebox, at Macworld Expo last week. The Squeezebox has wired and wireless interfaces, a nice remote control, and a two-line bright LED display. It plays MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and WMA (among other formats) with the jukebox running on a Linux, Windows, or Mac system....

Walt Mossberg is down on the new
Smartphones

Walt Mossberg is down on the new
Smartphones 12/12/2003 11:34 AM
There have plenty of positive reviews of these elsewhere, but the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg doesn't have many good things to say about Samsung's...

Walt Mossberg like the iPod Mini

Walt Mossberg like the iPod Mini 02/11/2004 12:07 PM
Walt Mossbertg, the technology columnist at a little paper called the Wall Street Journal reviews the new iPo mini, and over all he likes it. Of course, he would like it a lot more if it were $50 cheaper, a common complaint and one I am sure Apple will address as for price of those cute Mini harddrives goes down. Of particular note is this little tidbit:

In fact, the latest version of iTunes even senses if you have a Mini, and if your song collection exceeds its capacity, the software can optionally auto-choose a selection of songs that will fit. It builds this selection, in part, based on which songs you've played most often or most recently, and which you've rated highest in iTunes.

This is the first I have heard of this feature, and I must say it is pretty cool.

Mossberg on Apple's iPod Mini

Mossberg on Apple's iPod Mini 02/11/2004 09:37 AM
Walt Mossberg, columnist for The Wall Street Journal, has written an article today largely praising Apple's new iPod Mini...

Mossberg On iPod Imitators: Cheaper?
Yes. Better? No.

Mossberg On iPod Imitators: Cheaper?
Yes. Better? No. 02/12/2004 12:45 PM

Walt Mossberg: Gadget kingmaker

Walt Mossberg: Gadget kingmaker 05/04/2004 05:14 AM
Great Wired Mag profile of the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, the granddaddy of gadget reviewers, who can snap your company's neck like a twig with one twitch of his mighty keyboard.

...when it debuted on October 17, 1991, "Personal Technology" was an immediate hit. Mossberg's voice, amplified by the power of the Journal, resonated like no other. In 1992, he recommended America Online, an also-ran with only 200,000 subscribers, over Prodigy, the leader with 1.8 million subscribers and powerful backers, including Sears and IBM. "Prodigy tried to get me fired," he recalls. Mossberg's endorsement "really helped put AOL on the map," admits founder Steve Case. "It turbocharged our growth."

Mossberg's proudest moment came in 2001, when he objected to Smart Tags, a feature he tested in a beta version of Windows XP. Smart Tags could turn any word on a Web page into a link to a Microsoft property or sponsor's site without consent from the site's author.

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Mossberg weighs in on iPod clones

Mossberg weighs in on iPod clones 10/29/2003 10:17 AM
Popular technology columnist Walt Mossberg has written an interesting article today about the overwhelming success of Apple's iPod, and how some recently released "clones" stack up against the most popular portable music player on the market...

Mossberg: AirPort Express 'falls far
short'

Mossberg: AirPort Express 'falls far
short' 07/22/2004 10:01 AM
In his latest column for The Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg says that Apple's AirPort Express works as promised, but the device "falls far short" of being an ideal solution for listening to computer-based music in a distant room...

Mossberg praises Safari's tabbed
browsing

Mossberg praises Safari's tabbed
browsing 01/08/2004 07:17 PM
In his Personal Technology column for The Wall Street Journal today, Walt Mossberg discusses "tabbed" browsing on both the Mac and Windows platforms...

Mossberg: MSN Music service 'no match
for iTunes'

Mossberg: MSN Music service 'no match
for iTunes' 09/02/2004 03:44 PM
Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal says that Microsoft's new MSN Music service falls short of matching Apple's iTunes Music Store...

Walt Mossberg Reviews Mozilla Firefox

Walt Mossberg Reviews Mozilla Firefox 12/31/2004 08:48 AM

WSJ's Walt Mossberg raves about the new
iMac G5

WSJ's Walt Mossberg raves about the new
iMac G5 09/23/2004 06:58 AM
In his latest "Personal Technology" column for the Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg gives very high praise to Apple's new iMac G5...

Mossberg: New Sony player is no iPod
killer

Mossberg: New Sony player is no iPod
killer 07/28/2004 12:59 AM
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg says that Sony's 20GB Network Walkman NW-HD1 digital music player is no match for Apple's iPod [paid sub...

Mossberg: Clones give iPod 'a run for
its money'

Mossberg: Clones give iPod 'a run for
its money' 10/29/2003 10:20 AM
After two years of market dominance, Apple's iPod is finally getting "a run for its money," according to Wall Street Journal columnist Wall Mossberg. Mossberg's latest Personal Tech column, entitled Attack of the iPod Clones, discusses the burgeoning threat of Apple's MP3 player market competitors. Though mainly of interest to Windows users -- as two of the devices Mossberg mentions are, for now, for Windows only -- it's worth comparing how Apple's own offering shores up against some big names in the high-capacity MP3 player space.

Mossberg: Sony's new Walkman is no iPod
killer

Mossberg: Sony's new Walkman is no iPod
killer 07/28/2004 01:08 PM
The Wall Street Journal's technology columnist, Walter Mossberg, t akes a look at Sony's new 20GB Network Walkman NW-HD1, the first Walkman portable music device to feature a hard drive (subscription required to read the article). Already dubbed an "iPod killer" by some industry wags, the Walkman fails to impress Mossberg on several points, including "confusing" user interface, "tedious" song-loading process that took more than two hours to transfer 416 songs, and less robust companion music download service that also sports more restrictive rules than the iTunes Music store. "The iPod wins this round, and remains champion," said Mossberg.

Walt Mossberg interview with Steve Jobs
in the WSJ

Walt Mossberg interview with Steve Jobs
in the WSJ 06/17/2004 02:46 PM
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Mossberg: BMW iPod solution brilliant
but crude

Mossberg: BMW iPod solution brilliant
but crude 08/05/2004 12:24 PM
The Wall Street Journal's resident technology columnist Walter S. Mossberg calls Apple and BMW's iPod integration "a brilliant concept," but calls the current implementation "crude." His remarks appear in a new Personal Technology column.

Mossberg: BMW iPod Adapter works, but in
'crude' way

Mossberg: BMW iPod Adapter works, but in
'crude' way 08/05/2004 12:25 PM
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg says that the BMW iPod Adapter works, but in a "crude" way...

AirPort Express 'falls short' for WSJ's
Mossberg

AirPort Express 'falls short' for WSJ's
Mossberg 07/22/2004 03:04 PM
Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg turned his attention this week to Apple's new AirPort Express, a wireless networking hub that streams music to your home entertainment system. Mossberg concluded that the US$129 device does what Apple says it should, but still falls short of the ideal, since it has no remote control. Mossberg lauds the size and easy portability of the device, as well as the setup assistant software included with it, but is disappointed with one "fundamental" problem.

Mossberg Interviews Jobs About The
Future Of Apple & Digital Devices

Mossberg Interviews Jobs About The
Future Of Apple & Digital Devices 06/15/2004 02:59 PM

MCI OKs new Verizon bid

MCI OKs new Verizon bid 03/29/2005 04:43 PM
USA Today Mar 29 2005 8:11PM GMT

Verizon Ad

Verizon Ad 04/15/2005 04:31 PM

I don't know what's up with the Verizon ad sticking in Internet Explorer, but we're looking into it. Sorry for any annoyance.

Update: Okay, we killed it! Sorry about that. Apparently it was getting stuck on the page like a pop-up, although that's certainly not what it was intended to do. Thanks to the dozens of you who swore never to read the site again if we didn't fix it and the two of you who asked nicely. Ads are a necessary evil, but always feel free to let us know if they do anything obnoxious.

MCI Picks Verizon Again

MCI Picks Verizon Again 03/29/2005 02:05 PM
Qwest has been continually wooing MCI over the past few weeks, and yesterday made an offer in which they demanded an answer from MCI by next Tuesday. Apparently, MCI didn't need that much time (or, really, any time at all), as they almost immediately accepted Verizon's latest (slightly larger) offer and shunned Qwest's offer. It appears MCI stills sees much more synergy in working with a strong Verizon than a weak Qwest.

Verizon Says Don't Be Stupid

Verizon Says Don't Be Stupid 05/27/2004 09:35 AM
Sometimes you have to wonder why companies bother to put out press releases. We don't usually post press releases here, but some are just so odd, they deserve to be called out. Verizon Wireless put out a press release today that can best be described as telling people: don't be stupid while using your mobile phone. Basically, it's a list of things that you shouldn't do while driving and talking on your mobile phone ("Never take notes or write down phone numbers while driving!"). It's not as if someone is going to read this list, smack their head and say "Aha! No wonder I keep getting into accidents!" Then, at the end, they sneak in the real reason for this press release, first saying: "Dropped calls and dead zones can be frustrating for drivers," which may be true, but doesn't seem to have much to do with the rest of the press release. So, they quickly follow that up with the "oh, and by the way..." part of the press release reminding people that number portability is now in effect - so, if you must do stupid things on your mobile phone while driving, you might as well do them as a Verizon Wireless customer.

MCI accepts new Verizon bid?

MCI accepts new Verizon bid? 03/29/2005 11:25 AM
CNN Mar 29 2005 3:41PM GMT
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