Heavyweights make LTE announcement
Some of the world's largest technology companies made a fairly significant step in where the future of the mobile world is going with the announcement of a licensing framework for their Long Term Evolution (LTE) patents, says Nationalpost.com.
LTE is being touted as the next-generation of mobile technology that will make cellphones able to do things like watching high-quality TV and seamless video calling.
Having this licensing framework in place will hopefully make it faster to implement, even if pundits are calling for the technology to deploy in about two years.
Mobile exceeds fixed broadband
The number of mobile broadband connections in Indonesia has surpassed the number of fixed broadband connections, says SDA Asia.
At the end of 2007, 315 000 Indonesians were accessing the Internet via this high-speed mobile technology, while fixed-broadband connections were approximately 300 000.
"Indonesia leads South East Asia in adopting mobile broadband services. To consolidate this leadership, it is essential that additional spectrum is released to mobile operators at a reasonable cost," said Ricardo Tavares, senior VP for Public Policy at the GSM Association.
iPhone gets VOIP
A London-based start-up this week pre-released an application that it says can bring mobile VOIP over WiFi to the popular Apple iPhone, integrating low-cost VOIP calls from Skype, says ChannelWeb.
According to an announcement from Fring, a maker of a VOIP client that can integrate several VOIP networks such as Skype, the client is now available for the iPhone.
The mobile VOIP application has been made publicly available and will let users talk, chat and interact with other Fring users; a community the software maker has dubbed "Fringsters", and all other online communities using the iPhone's WiFi connection.
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