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Google Voice

Sheuli — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:55:12 +0000

The conflict between Google, Apple and AT&T about Google Voice remains unresolved, the app for calling service from Google is still not available on the iPhone. However, as it was announced few weeks ago by Vic Gundotra, Google brings Google Voice to the iPhone “one way or the other!”

Mr. Paquet , senior product manager for Google Voice said that the mobile Web version of Google Voice for the iPhone (which works indeed for any other mobile Web browser that understands HTML5) was not meant as a slap to Apple and AT&T, but as “a way to make sure that people who have been asking to use Google Voice on the iPhone have a way to do so,” he said.

You can access a Web version of the Google Voice on your cell phone at m.google.com/voice.

iPhone 4 in June

Sheuli — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:02:27 +0000

AT&T confirms that the new iPhone will be available for purchase in late June.

Wireless-Only

Sheuli — Sat, 15 May 2010 09:49:37 +0000

According to the latest data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – one out of four households in the U.S. is now wireless-only. Only about 15% of households still have a landline, however those households report that they now receive almost all of their calls on their wireless phone.

Data shows that younger adults under 35 are more likely to have cut their landlines. Half of all adults aged between 25 and 29 now live in households that has only wireless, though only 5.2% of adults aged over 65 have cut their landlines.

You can read the report here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201005.pdf

Nokia in USA

Sheuli — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:49:31 +0000

Nokia do not sell mobile phones to Americans. Even if Nokia is the world’s largest mobile maker (2 of every 5 cell phones bought last year were Nokias), the brand is almost undetectable in the United States. According to the article about that issue from NYTimes, Nokia cut itself out of the American market through two bad decisions. First, Nokia doesn’t make phones that work on American wireless networks. Second, Nokia uses a sales strategy for America that failed. Also the company demanded too much from U.S. operators.

Source: NYTimes

Symbian Operating System

Sheuli — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:34:16 +0000

The source code of the ten-year old Symbian platform (which powers most of Nokia’s phones) will be open source.

Social Media

Sheuli — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:53:08 +0000

According to a report from Pew Internet & American Life Project: 74 percent of all U.S. adult population go online. The most commonly-used online social network website is Facebook. 73% of adults have a profile on Facebook, 48% have a profile on MySpace and 14% have a LinkedIn profile. 8% of people who use internet ages 12-17 use Twitter. 75% of teens and 93% of adults ages between 18 and 29 have a cell phone.

Text me

Sheuli — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:39 +0000

According to a report from CTIA (a communications industry group) the number of text messages sent in the US grew by more than 80% over the one year ended in June. Indeed I also text more and more. During a busy day it is easier to just text my client than keep him and me on the phone and decrease our productivity.