TechAddress http://www.techaddress.com Providing the Latest User-Generated and Aggregate Technology News Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:22:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en Google’s Android Hits Snags With Mobile Carriers http://www.techaddress.com/2008/06/23/google%e2%80%99s-android-hits-snags-with-mobile-carriers/ http://www.techaddress.com/2008/06/23/google%e2%80%99s-android-hits-snags-with-mobile-carriers/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:31:39 +0000 google Company & Product Profiles Sprint Nextel t mobile Android china mobile http://www.techaddress.com/2008/06/23/google%e2%80%99s-android-hits-snags-with-mobile-carriers/ Source:TechCrunch
Chictopia, a social network focused on fashion, has launched a new online publishing network dubbed “Everybody is Ugly” that aims to take on Sugar Inc’s empire. The network features a number of online magazines directed towards various demographics, including Male Ugly (for men), Coed Ugly (college students), and Brit Ugly (for Europeans).
The company says […]Source:TechCrunch
Google is finding that launching an entirely new cell phone platform is taking longer than expected. When it first announced its Android mobile operating system, Google said the first Android phones would be available during the second half of this year. Now the mobile carriers that signed up as Android partners are pushing […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2008/06/23/google%e2%80%99s-android-hits-snags-with-mobile-carriers/feed/ Why the WiMax Deal Is A Disaster, Part II (Or, How Craig McCaw Snookered Eric Schmidt) http://www.techaddress.com/2008/05/09/why-the-wimax-deal-is-a-disaster-part-ii-or-how-craig-mccaw-snookered-eric-schmidt/ http://www.techaddress.com/2008/05/09/why-the-wimax-deal-is-a-disaster-part-ii-or-how-craig-mccaw-snookered-eric-schmidt/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 22:36:32 +0000 google intel Company & Product Profiles Comcast Time Warner Cable clearwire Sprint Nextel http://www.techaddress.com/2008/05/09/why-the-wimax-deal-is-a-disaster-part-ii-or-how-craig-mccaw-snookered-eric-schmidt/ Source:TechCrunch
San Francisco based Zivity, a self described “community-powered showcase of female beauty,” will add a high profile technologist to their executive team next week. Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter, who was subsequently the CTO of Cloudmark and Columbia Music Entertainment (and a man who enjoys wearing sunglasses indoors), will join Zivity as chief technology officer.
Zivity continues […]Source:TechCrunch
TimeTube is a new mashup from Dipity, the interactive timeline site, that takes the mostly unsorted mess of videos that is YouTube and arranges them by date, offering a useful (and often unexpected) perspective on recent events.
Links to each video are situated across a horizontal timeline, with emphasis placed on the most popular videos (they […]Source:TechCrunch
The more I learn about the $3.2 billion deal announced earlier this week to salvage Clearwire’s and Sprint’s WiMax businesses by merging them together, the more I am convinced that someone got snookered. And that someone was Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Maybe he just can’t say “No” to visionary billionaires like Clearwire chairman […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2008/05/09/why-the-wimax-deal-is-a-disaster-part-ii-or-how-craig-mccaw-snookered-eric-schmidt/feed/ $3.2 Billion WiMax Deal Goes Through. Take Cover. http://www.techaddress.com/2008/05/07/32-billion-wimax-deal-goes-through-take-cover/ http://www.techaddress.com/2008/05/07/32-billion-wimax-deal-goes-through-take-cover/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 06:30:03 +0000 google intel Company & Product Profiles Comcast Time Warner clearwire Sprint Nextel http://www.techaddress.com/2008/05/07/32-billion-wimax-deal-goes-through-take-cover/ Source:TechCrunch
The deal to combine Sprint Nextel’s and Clearwire’s fledgling WiMax businesses that was rumored last March is finally expected to go through. Comcast and Intel are supposed to put in $1 billion each; Time Warner, $550 million; Google, $500 million; and regional cable provider Bright House Networks, $100 million. The new company, which […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2008/05/07/32-billion-wimax-deal-goes-through-take-cover/feed/ Why Cable And WiMax Shouldn’t Mix http://www.techaddress.com/2008/03/26/why-cable-and-wimax-shouldn%e2%80%99t-mix/ http://www.techaddress.com/2008/03/26/why-cable-and-wimax-shouldn%e2%80%99t-mix/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:30:03 +0000 google intel Company & Product Profiles clearwire Sprint Nextel xohm http://www.techaddress.com/2008/03/26/why-cable-and-wimax-shouldn%e2%80%99t-mix/ Source:TechCrunch
WiMax is going nowhere fast but that is not stopping a consortium of cable and tech companies from considering a plan to invest $3 billion more into a proposed bailout-through-merger of Sprint Nextel’s WiMax business (known as Xohm) and Craig McCaw’s Clearwire. The consortium that is reportedly being put together would include Comcast ($1 […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2008/03/26/why-cable-and-wimax-shouldn%e2%80%99t-mix/feed/ Drive-By WiMAX at CES http://www.techaddress.com/2008/01/10/drive-by-wimax-at-ces/ http://www.techaddress.com/2008/01/10/drive-by-wimax-at-ces/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:32:27 +0000 yahoo ebay mobile broadband skype intel wimax MOT clearwire YHOO S INTC Sprint Nextel Motorola CLWR Ces CES 2008 http://www.techaddress.com/2008/01/10/drive-by-wimax-at-ces/ Source:GigaOM
In 2001, just 1.8 percent of households had an Internet-attached handheld device, according to a report issued that year by the NTIA. By the time Ipsos conducted its 2005 Face of the Web survey, 26 percent of Americans had surfed the web on a wireless device. Fast-forward to 2007, when it could be done using […]Source:GigaOM
After talking earlier this week about the speed bumps that U.S. WiMAX deployment faces, it only seemed proper to take a ride in the WiMAX-equipped vehicles that Motorola and Intel revved up at CES.

I will geek out a bit after the jump, but the bottom line is that Wednesday’s brief broadband cruise provided public proof […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2008/01/10/drive-by-wimax-at-ces/feed/ Gary Forsee-Ya Later http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/09/gary-forsee-ya-later/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/09/gary-forsee-ya-later/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:30:06 +0000 mobile wimax T VZ S gary forsee Sprint Nextel http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/09/gary-forsee-ya-later/ Source:GigaOM
In the third quarter of 2007, Reston, VA-based Sprint Nextel (S) announced that it will lose approximately 337,000 subscribers. Make that 337,001, the last minute addition being Gary Forsee, the CEO was has taken the fall for all that has been plaguing the third largest US mobile company. Of course when you get paid […]

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