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MacBook Air: Bye bye ethernet port?

Jayvee Fernandez — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:01:33 +0000

WIRED has released a mock up image of the rumored MacBook Air, a sub notebook that seems to rely on pure wireless connectivity. This doesn’t just mean WiFi, but maybe even 3G or HSDPA if we’re feeling lucky. Think of it as a really huge iPhone and you may get the drift of where the company may be headed towards in 2008. Implementing SIM cards onto notebooks isn’t a new concept. Maybe Apple wants to exhaust this technology to create something innovative. Who knows, really. We’ll find out in a few hours

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Free with ads or subscription?

Jayvee Fernandez — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:15:09 +0000

Would you rather have to pay for a monthly subscription for phone services or would you rather grab a free service that is supported by advertising? The IDC released findings that more than 1 in every 3 cellphones released in the future of 2011 will be a smartphone – more capable of surfing the web, doing multimedia, and thus having access to more types of content than your typical cellphone.

Currently operators make money through subscriptions to their services. For instance, some companies charge for e-mail service, ringtone downloads or voting on television game shows.

But to get a slice of the mobile Internet age, companies will have to rely on advertising to get their products to consumers, analysts say.

“You have $110 billion spent on TV [advertising]. By 2008 you’ll see big shifts, to mobile and social networks,” said W2 Group chief executive Larry Weber.

According to the firm eMarketer, $16 billion will be spent on advertising on cellphones in 2011, 10 times more than today.[Inquirer]

But would I really want my mobile phone to display advertising all the time? First off, free services, though FREE don’t look too classy. Imagine I’m a business executive trying to show my phone to other people and ads of “single women want to play” start popping up? Doesn’t that make it a tad too scary?

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4G networks and not WiFi is the solution to VoIP

Jayvee Fernandez — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:31:25 +0000

“I’m a huge disbeliever in metro Wi-Fi for VoIP simply because the external Wi-Fi doesn’t penetrate into building, so it’s pretty much useless for the majority of calls.”
- Dean Bubley, founder of Disruptive Analysis

The dispute over which wireless network should shoulder a massive scale of VoIP can only be settled by figuring out which one penetrates a concrete wall. But more than this, it seems that Dean Bubley has also identified something that’s actually very apparent: VoIP on a 4G network is more plausible because of the current types of phones we’re seeing today. As HSDPA is getting more and more accessible as a bundled feature, the trend is truly unanimous.

Cellphones for VoIP. Laptops for WiFi.

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