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Alcatel-Lucent and NEC Announce a Long Term Evolution (LTE) Joint Venture as the First Step in a Broader Collaboration

2008-07-21T00:45:43Z

Alcatel-Lucent and NEC today announced the start of a broad
collaboration to market advanced end-to-end communications solutions.
As an important first step in this collaboration, Alcatel-Lucent and
NEC have decided to form a joint venture that will focus on the
development of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband access

Alcatel-Lucent and NEC Announce a Long Term Evolution (LTE) Joint Venture as the First Step in a Broader Collaboration

2008-07-21T00:37:28Z

Nokia to buy Symbian

2008-06-24T14:21:43Z

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Business week: Mozilla's mobile initiative

2008-06-16T13:55:12Z

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Business Week: The iPhone's Impact on Rivals

2008-06-16T13:43:27Z

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Regards
Lee

First 2008 video now up! "What Will Drive Wireless Innovation?"

2008-04-27T15:29:58Z

Cross post from the eComm 2008 Facebook group:

The first eComm 2008 video has now been uploaded. It's the "What Will
Drive Wireless Innovation?" panel. Please find it here:

[link]

Moderator- Brough Turner (NMS Communications)
Panelists- Martin Geddes (STL Partners), Stanley Chia (Vodafone),

RE: [eComm.General] 19200.00USD data roaming bill to update PC game

2008-04-24T16:42:38Z

It's not so long ago that travelers had to worry about highwaymen
<[link]> . As the Wikipedia entry notes,
they were done in by the railroads. In the US the owners became the robber
barons. Today the Telcos are simply respecting traditional in preying upon
all who pass.

19200.00USD data roaming bill to update PC game

2008-04-24T14:30:55Z

On the pre-conference interview with Brough Turner back at the start
of last February we spoke somewhat about mobile Internet data roaming
costs in Europe. There is not much point repeating what I had said as
the transcript is here [link]

ZDNet: "Mobile Web: Over before it began?"

2008-04-17T20:30:45Z

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Virgin Media could charge content providers to carry material

2008-04-15T07:47:44Z

Again more material pointing towards the validity of the double sided
business model that Martin Geddes keynoted on at eComm 2008:

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Danah Boyd's post: "Palestinian girls, dating, and the mobile phone"

2008-04-15T07:27:44Z

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Nice bit of ethnography there.

" BBC and ISPs clash over iPlayer"

2008-04-09T20:20:10Z

This strongly seems to support the keynote Martin Geddes gave on the
Friday morning regarding two sided business models:

[link]

Regards

Lee

MultiModal Video

2008-03-28T21:50:28Z

MIR3 had some great PR this week, including a very detailed use case
on FOX News....

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I think it is a great example of multi-modal communications. It is
also an example of why this space is so important, both on a 'one-to-

RE: [eComm.General] Re: BBC: "E-mail is ruining my life!"

2008-03-10T14:50:38Z

I wasn't planning to add more to this thread but faux-life keeps coming
after me. While everyone is complaining about too much email and all that
stuff there is the trend that goes far beyond just email - the attempt to
generate email from you whether you like it or not. Perhaps it's a bot meet
bot world?

Re: [eComm.General] BBC: "E-mail is ruining my life!"

2008-03-10T13:10:27Z

The number of ways of communicating and staying in touch is clearly
accelerating. I wonder if we work on ways to standardize a lot of the basic
stuff (i.e. some kind of 'social protocol' to run on top of Web 2.0 that
understands basic modes of human connectivity in a technology-agnostic
fashion). In other words, I don't care where your social networks are