“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
~Will Rogers
Tips
1. What Calendar Entries Populate with BlackBerry Activation?
2. No Simultaneous Talk & Tether on VZ
BlackBerry
3. Prevent Distracted Driving with ZoomSafer
iPhone
4. Apple’s iPhone Gains Wi-Fi Handset Share
5. iPod Touch-Based EasyPay Checkout
Windows Mobile
6. Microsoft Promoting Speech as the Next Touch
Android
7. Verizon Sets 2010 Date for Droid Tether
8. Droid Exchange Sync Costs Extra
Other News
9. Cancer from Cell Phone Concerns Renewed
10. WinXP Smartphone-like Laptop
11. Verizon LTE in 25-30 Markets Next Year
12. T-Mobile Loses 77,000 Customers in Q3
13. Chicago Gets WiMax
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.”
~Honoré de Balzac
Tips
1. What Calendar Entries Populate with BlackBerry Activation?
When performing wireless enterprise activation the BlackBerry Enterprise Server populates the calendar information as follows:
– Single instance appointments for the past 30 days are synchronized to the BlackBerry smartphone.
– All future single instance meetings are synchronized to the BlackBerry smartphone.
– All recurring meeting series, past and future, are synchronized to the BlackBerry smartphone.
2. No Simultaneous Talk & Tether on VZ
On the AT&T 3G Bold (and newer), EDGE allow you to take a phone call while using your BlackBerry as a cellular modem for your laptop, but not with Verizon. CDMA has a single threaded radio operation. Hence voice and data cannot share the radio.
BlackBerry
3. Prevent Distracted Driving with ZoomSafer
ZoomSafer uses GPS to detect if you’re traveling over 10mph, then automates an out of office message, letting people know you’ll get back to them. It also can read your messages aloud and send voice notes from you to your contacts. ZoomSafer
iPhone
4. Apple’s iPhone Gains Wi-Fi Handset Share
Nokia’s share of the Wi-Fi phone market took a plunge in the second quarter, from 50% a year earlier to 35% as Apple jumped into second place with a six-fold leap from 3% to 20%.CNET
5. iPod Touch-Based EasyPay Checkout
Apple stores will begin retiring their current Windows CE-based portable computers and start using a custom-designed and crafted iPod touch to check out customers. Those who have seen the system for processing credit card, debit card and cash purchases, dubbed “EasyPay touch,” said it combines iPod touch features with a magnetic stripe reader, advanced barcode scanner and Apple-written software to speed plastic and cash transactions. Apple Insider
Windows Mobile
6. Microsoft Promoting Speech as the Next Touch
Although Microsoft integrated touch-screen capabilities into Windows 7, at least one Microsoft executive suggests that the next stage in user interaction is speech-recognition technology as applied to various everyday applications. eWeek
Android
7. Verizon Sets 2010 Date for Droid Tether
Verizon subscribers will be to tether the new Motorola Droid smartphone next year, which will give them the ability to connect laptops to Verizon Wireless’ 3G network via the Android-based Droid. CNET
8. Droid Exchange Sync Costs Extra
Users who buy the device and expect to use its built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support (to get corporate e-mail from Exchange servers) will have to pay an additional $15 per month for the privilege, Verizon confirms. InfoWorld
Other News
9. Cancer from Cell Phone Concerns Renewed
A World Health Organization study due out by the end of 2009 finds significantly increased risk of some brain tumors among those who have used mobile phones for 10 years or more. Mobile Enterprise Mag
10. WinXP Smartphone-like Laptop
A Chinese company has begun taking pre-orders for a device that aims to blend PC features with those of a smartphone. In Technology Group has developed the pocket-size XPPhone, which runs on Windows XP and also operates like a smartphone and a mobile Internet device. Some analysts termed the handset intriguing, but wondered if Windows XP was too powerful an operating system to run smartphone features. PC World
11. Verizon LTE in 25-30 Markets Next Year
Verizon Wireless is on track to launch LTE in 25 to 30 markets next year, said Tony Melone at a keynote address before the LTE Americas 2009 Conference. WirelessWeek
12. T-Mobile Loses 77,000 Customers in Q3
T-Mobile USA is building up its 3G coverage, but it’s feeling the effects of intense competition. WirelessWeek
Clearwire brings WiMax to Chicago this week, giving residents access to a technology that promises superfast Internet speeds from any location. Chicago Tribune
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