Wireless / Mobile

iPhone hac

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:16:37 -0400

Oh poppycock, balderdash, fiddlestickw all this todo about iPhone hac. I use a geemarc neck loop and an adapter to the ipone to 3/5mm and guess what. I can hear on it just fine even music even talk even dial even ring??? So folks find a way to test it out w your neck loop. Mine is a GeeMark. Stop the rumors unless u know what the heck you are saying. I believed it all never ever even went o look at iPhone till just this wk .Pluagged adapter onto my neck loop plugged it in and poof instant connection. I wear analog hearing aids and I am profoundly hard of hearing.

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CCIE water cooler gossip: USA tops in October worldwide CCIE count

Brad Reese — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:35:41 -0400

What a difference a month can make. For example, just last month 100% of the world's CCIE growth occurred outside the USA. However this month the red, white and blue came out on top by capturing 21% of the growth with 51 CCIEs: 5,076 - 5,025 Comparing October 2008 vs. September 2008, the CCIE count increased 244: 18,084 - 17,840 Canada grew by 10 while Mexico added 3 CCIEs. Once more the regional champ, the Pacific Rim grew the most, 48% with 118 CCIEs: 7,042 - 6,924 India grew by 30 CCIEs claiming 12% of total growth: 472 - 442 Showing strong results, China plus Hong Kong grew by 35 CCIEs claiming 14% of total growth: 3,041 - 3,008 Adding 28 CCIEs for 11%, Korea will soon pass Japan (only 2 new CCIEs) in total number of CCIEs. While the Middle East grew by 10 CCIEs for 4% of the total: 453 - 443 Furthermore, Europe grew by 30 CCIEs for 12% of the total: 4,052 - 4,022 Net new CCIEs as a percent of new CCIEs:

	Router/Switch	68%
	Security	26%
	Service Provider	18%
	Voice	8%
	Storage	2%

Percent of new CCIEs by region:

	Pacific Rim	48%
	Americas	32%
	EMEA	18%

Ranking of new CCIEs month over month by country:

1.	USA	51
2.	PR China + HK	35
3.	India	30
4.	Korea	28
5.	Russia	14
6.	Australia	12
7.	Brazil	12
8.	Canada	10

Comparison of the September 2008 vs. October 2008 Worldwide CCIE Counts: View more:

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Why do you think the USA grew its CCIE count?

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so close

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:52:59 -0400

harrisburg just out of range of baltimore. spread north!!! I am all for this when it becomes avail. Not so much for the speed but the 2.5 spectrum that hopefully will help with the problems i am having with 3G

Here comes Mobile Firefox, sort of

Jeff Caruso — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:37:00 -0400

The alpha version of Mobile Firefox will be released next week to Mozilla community members, though this is really a pretty limited test. Those who want to give the mobile browser a spin will need to do it on Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. But before long the software will work on more devices. A Windows Mobile version is said to be in the works.

coverage

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:11:49 -0400

if I am enterprise user, what happens when I leave baltimore area?

To market, to market: Android's app store options

Mark Murphy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:58:11 -0400

One of the areas of concern surrounding the iPhone is its reliance on its single App Store. The only way for developers to readily distribute applications is via the App Store, and the only way consumers can get applications is via the App Store. This has led to many charges against Apple, particularly in its approach towards determining what is and is not allowed to be listed in the App Store.

Android's calling card is being open, so it comes as no surprise that there are many more options for installing applications on Android.

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What else is new(s)?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:43:14 -0400

Builds of Fennec have long been available for Nokia's N810 Internet Tablet. This isn't news, and you just earned a click to your site for non-new news. Good going you amateur.

Economies of Virtualization

Martha Young — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:54:05 -0400

As the global economy tanks we have to wonder just how far away we are from seeing signs of a turnaround. Everyone is scrutinizing their personal situation, evaluating job security, debt load, and savings. If we keep in mind that market chaos is an opportunity for massive changes in the business, the net result can be extremely positive.

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Cisco CEO John Chambers and Presidential Candidate John McCain: Connecting the dots...

Brad Reese — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:53:06 -0400

Am intrigued that the highly successful CEO of Cisco - John Chambers, is such an ardent supporter of presidential candidate John McCain. So I've decided to try and connect the dots... between McCain and Chambers and hopefully understand why Chambers seeks to help elect John McCain as President of the United States. The following strictly represents the views and opinion of yours truly and does not represent those of Network World nor the Cisco Subnet: Chambers is a strong financial supporter of John McCain's presidential campaign as well as other Republican and even a few Democrat nominees, and over the years he has personally contributed $1,331,191 to political/special interest campaigns. Furthermore, Chambers holds the unique distinction of being both a National Campaign Co-Chair and a National Finance Committee Co-Chair of McCain's presidential campaign. And perhaps most interestingly, in a new McCain administration Chambers appears to be on the "short list" of possible Treasury Secretaries. Such an appointment would put Chambers in total control of the business world, with unprecedented power to spend $700 billion of U.S. Taxpayer money at his discretion. So lets try and connect the dots... First Dot The Senate Commerce Committee is in charge of all Senate matters related to Telecommunications as well as Broadband Policy: Telecommunications has become such an important issue that the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications was discontinued in favor of Full Senate Commerce Committee hearings. John McCain is a current member of the Senate Commerce Committee. Additionally, McCain has served as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee three times, between the years 1997-2001 as well as between 2003-2005. Since its debut in 2003, The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital Conference created by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, has been promoting informal but pointed conversations about how digital technology will impact us now and in the future. At the D5 Conference in May 2007, Senator John McCain was interviewed revealing:

6:58 p.m.: Sen. McCain suggests that there should be as little government regulation of broadband as possible. Walt notes that the telecom industry is re-aggregating back into "one unified AT&T."

It could be argued that AT&T is simultaneously both the largest user of Cisco equipment (i.e. a customer) as well as the largest reseller of Cisco equipment and services.

Sen. McCain says we should let the market and technology solve the Net-neutrality issue: "When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment."

Coincidentally, the following sums up the Cisco Net-neutrality Position: "Regulate Only if Problems Occur, Not Before" It dovetails quite nicely with Senator McCain's Net-neutrality position mentioned earlier above. Also auspiciously, former FCC Chairman Michael Powell was appointed to the Cisco Board of Directors.

7:10 p.m.: Whoa. Impromptu job interview. Sen. McCain says given the chance, he'd hire John Chambers for his cabinet.

Second Dot McCain Town Hall Meeting in Philadelphia, PA on June 11th, 2008: At approximately the "2:40 time mark" in the McCain Philadelphia Town Hall Meeting video below, McCain invoked the name of John Chambers as well as that of Cisco in order to advocate McCain's position that corporate taxes should be lowered substantially: In the above video, McCain used John Chambers and Cisco as his example in order to pontificate that American companies paid the second highest corporate tax rate in the world (behind Japan according to McCain) of 35%, and that America should reduce its corporate tax rate to 25% if Americans wanted to keep jobs in the U.S. from going overseas. Alarmingly, only 45 days later on July 26th, Cisco reported paying a corporate tax rate of only 21.5% for its entire 2008 fiscal year. Cisco paid $1.386 billion less in corporate taxes then what John McCain implied to American voters that Cisco would be paying! Cisco even paid less in corporate tax (21.5%) than what John McCain proposed as his reduced corporate tax rate target amount (25%). View corporate tax rates around the world. Third Dot H-1B Visa Question asked in Santa Ana, California back in March, 2008: At approximately the ":34 time mark" in the video below, Senator McCain confirmed that he supports increases in H-1B Visas.
In Spring 2008 John Chambers stated:

"I think we're still job-constrained in terms of IT talent, whether it's in this country or around the world. It's something I would like to see us be more aggressive on in terms of our immigration policy for people with college degrees, especially in high-tech that we expand the H-1B status capability, because each person that we bring to this country to put in engineering and high-tech generates two to three other jobs in my company, a good three to five jobs in the local economy ... Having said that, we're going to go wherever the talent is in the world, not as a labor arbitrage play but it is a focus on the war for talent and getting the best and the brightest around the world be a part of Cisco which we are clearly trying to do."

In April 2008, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security invoked a highy unusual and rare ruling to assist Cisco with H-1B Visas. Additionally, a May 2008 study unmasked that Cisco was not using the H-1B visa program to hire the best and brightest. Finally last summer, Cisco's immigration law firm was audited for suspected improper behavior by the U.S. Department of Labor.

What dots... can you add to connect Chambers and McCain?

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Smartphone smackdown: RIM and Verizon vs. Apple and AT&T

Jeff Caruso — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:49:09 -0400

We take a side-by-side look at the new RIM Storm and the market favorite Apple iPhone in terms of call quality, network coverage, price and more. Of course, with the Storm not actually available yet, this is a little tricky to do...

Tell me which phone can do everything the iPhone can... and more

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:19:24 -0400

I would love to buy 1 of those BlackBerry phones... which ones have: Built-in wi-fi that runs faster than the iPhone's? Which phone opens Word, Excel and PDF file attachments? Weigh less than 5 ounces? Which of them are thinner than iPhone at 0.5"? Which can I install more than 3,000 different apps into? Which can I write my own code for? Which phone has more than 8-16 BILLION bytes of ram?

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Skype for Asterisk Yields Unparalled Innovation

Matthew Nickasch — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:11:44 -0400

Just last week, Digium announced a partnership with Skype yielding the new "Skype for Asterisk" beta. This exciting announcement came from the annual Digium Asterisk conference, Astricon 2008, in Phoenix Arizona.

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RE: Smartphone showdown: iPhone vs. BlackBerry Storm

Jason Meserve — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:23:13 -0400

The Storm looks nice, but I am sticking to my iPhone since it's my personal device that I use for work on occasion. I do wish the iPhone were on Verizon, mostly for the better coverage in the New England area.

Homemade Access Points

JimmyRay — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:21:06 -0400

Wireless is more fun then fishing for Bass while drinking a Bass. Open your home pantry and you have a wide range of homemade antenna options. What can you do with some of those older WLAN cards stuffed in a office drawer behind the "Must Read" stuff from Human Resources?

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5 Things Blackberry Storm Got Right The iPhone Didn't

Mitchell Ashley — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:57:26 -0400

Welcome Blackberry Storm - we've been waiting. It's no secret I think the Apple iPhone is mostly iCandy and benefits more from Apple "cool" rather than real substance as a fully useful SmartPhone. It's an iPod with a bad phone, a bad phone network, and poorly thought out email app slapped on it. I call it the iPlod (and sometimes the iNewton.) And it has Apple designing it, which means users get nice iCandy but fundamentals are lacking or are poorly implemented.

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Apple: just go for it

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:44:41 -0400

So, what we really want to know is when Apple are going to release Home Automation goods!

Sprint Needs to Increase the Speed

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:50:07 -0400

The smart thing is to deploy 802.16m. Sprint will really be a "winner" if they can give users over 100Mbits of upload and download before the other carriers siding with LTE corner the market. The one that makes broadband 100M wireless connections on a large scale in my opinion will win.

Verizon Network is not open to 3rd party Applications

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:34:22 -0400

Verizon is known to block all 3rd party applications and always charge expensive fees for every app and services. For other carriers, you can use LifeInPocket Navigation for free while Verizon user can only use Verizon’s own VZ Navigation for $9.99/month which is not as goods as LifeInPocket. Who would want to buy a phone that you have to pay big money for apps and services?. Most of my friends are using The popular LifeInPocket no matter they are with AT&T, Nextel, Sprint etc (but not Verizon). LifeInPocket is the best mobile phone GPS navigation I ever used.

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Sprint drags out WiMAX celebration

Jeff Caruso — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:57:40 -0400

Sprint launched its much-awaited Xohm WiMAX offering in Baltimore last week. This week, the party continues with a dog-and-pony show for the press and others. Don't worry about that iffy economy, Sprint execs say: People will buy into WiMAX.

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The BlackBerry "iPhone Killer"?

Jeff Caruso — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:48:25 -0400

The first touchscreen BlackBerry device, announced today, will be sold starting next month by Verizon Wireless in the U.S. and Vodafone in Europe and Australia. Some say RIM's Storm device could be an iPhone killer, but others say it'll need Wi-Fi and more to become all that.