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BlackBerry: Smartphones Sans AntennaGate

by Jim Courtney on Sat, Jul 17, 2010 8:07 am

When I first saw the antenna band completely surrounding the iPhone 4 during Steve Jobs’ initial presentation, I recalled a comment made to me by RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaradis after a RIM Annual General meeting a few years ago. And I should also mention that I personally have a history of dealing with rf [...]

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Categories Communications News, Communications Technology, Mobile Devices

The past Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday I attended my first Canadian Telecom Summit – where Canadian telecom carrier and vendor executives have an opportunity to provide an overview of their goals and directions encompassing both recent accomplishments and future plans. Overall many of the speakers succeeded; however, there are still a few telecom executives who want to [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices, Service Providers, Wireless Carriers

With both VoiceCon and Under The Radar events in the Bay Area last week, there were lots of announcements in the Voice 2.0 communications space; I wrote up some GigaOm and Web Worker Daily Posts to cover a few of them:
On Tuesday Voxbone announced the launch of their iNum Service. Basically it provides a means [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices, Service Providers

Over the past five weeks I have had the opportunity to work with the Blackberry Bold on the Rogers network, including a week in California where I used it on AT&T’s network. While it has provided significant performance improvements over my previous 8820 and has several applications that just are not available for the iPhone, [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Mobile Devices

Catching Up: Skype CxO’s Speak Out

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Jul 22, 2008 1:07 pm

Over the past couple of weeks, during which I have taken a vacation and then dealt with an internal network issue at my home office, there has been no holiday on news related to the IP Communications space. So this week I will offer a series of posts talking about communications from Skype’s new executive [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Operations

I’ll be iBold enough to say that, applying physics terminology so much appreciated by RIM’s co-CEO, Blackberry Bold will reduce the half-life of the iPhone in the business and prosumer market by an order of magnitude.
Tuesday evening I attended RIM’s annual shareholders meeting in Waterloo at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, initially funded by [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Devices

Or maybe this should be called: Steve Jobs Does Not Tolerate even the Contemplation of Failure.
Last week I reported on Rogers’ announcement of new data plans for both the forthcoming iPhone (available in two days) and RIM’s Blackberry. In fact, I had immediately changed my Blackberry plan to a new one where the price per [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Devices, Wireless Carriers

A New Era Coming for Blackberry

by Jim Courtney on Tue, May 13, 2008 8:05 am

With RIM’s annual WES event starting later today we started to see announcements Monday about a new Blackberry and a new VC fund for mobile applications.
Blackberry Bold is definitely a major smartphone enhancement from the current Pearl, Curve and, most notably, 88×0 lines. Reading through the new specs, the Blackberry Bold addresses several issues that [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Devices, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype on Mobile

Why Skype Needs a Symbian Client

by Jim Courtney on Fri, Mar 2, 2007 10:03 am

Over the past couple of years, there have been lots of requests, rumors, speculation, etc. about why Skype needs a client for the Symbian platform, for which Nokia is the primary device vendor. Through Andy Abramson’s Nokia Blogger Program I have been able to evaluate several Nokia N Series phones including the Nokia N80i which [...]

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Categories Mobile Applications, Skype Software, Skype on Mobile, Wireless Carriers