Time in a Bottle was a hit song by Jim Croce in the 70’s. Maybe his inspiration came from atomic clocks instead of his newborn son? Not likely.
I recently had an interview with Symmetricom and the topic was about time. Mobile carriers heavily advertise minute plans to feed our hunger to talk on the mobile [...]
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Mobile Time in a Box
July 10th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: billing · call detail record · CDR · logging · minutes · Mobile · NTP · roaming · Symmetricom · time · timestamps
Games on Mobile - Price Trajectory to Rival Console Games
June 21st, 2008 No Comments
The other day I was looking online at some mobile content and noticed that Guitar Hero 3 is available for my Windows Mobile device. But if you look at the price (click image on left), you’ll see that it’s $14.99! 15 tracks to keep you strumming away on the bus, subway, on airplane ride. [...]
Tags: EA · FIFA · Guitar Hero 3 · handsets · Mobile · mobile games · Sony PSP · video games · Xbox 360
$100 MM to Launch Sprint Samsung Instinct
June 18th, 2008 1 Comment
The Samsung Instinct launches this week on Sprint. Some people are calling it the iPhone killer on Sprint. The price is roughly the same or even less and the service plan is roughly comparable. I won’t bore you with the details, there are plenty of sites talking about it. Also, Sprint was clever to [...]
Tags: 3G · Apple · AT&T · data services · EVDO · iPhone · iphone killer · Samsung · Samsung Instinct · Simply Everything Plan · Sprint · streaming TV
Verizon Confined - Feeling is Mutual
June 1st, 2008 No Comments
When I saw this commercial on TV the other day, I certainly empathize with the actor. Although I might amplify this with also being caged to a power outlet at a coffee shop. I am still wrestling with the speed and convenience of WiFi (my AT&T DSL plan includes WiFi access at Starbucks and other [...]