Wireless Technology Archive

Patent Lawsuit Silly Season: TechCrunch Sued For Patent Infringement After Critical Blog Post

Posted on : Oct 09 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

There are different levels of ridiculousness when it comes to patent lawsuits, with the lowest of the low being patent lawsuits based more on spite than on any legitimate claim. For a while, it seemed like Ray Niro’s use of the infamous JPG patent, to sue a bunch companies he just didn’t like, was […]

Judge Lets iPhone Antitrust Trial Move Forward

Posted on : Oct 07 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

Last year, we wrote about an antitrust lawsuit filed against Apple for sending an update that disabled, or “bricked,” the iPhones of people who had changed the firmware to accept outside programs. While Apple tried to push for a dismissal of the lawsuit, a judge has denied the motion to dismiss and will let […]

WiMax Finally Available… In 2008… In Baltimore

Posted on : Sep 30 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

For years and years we used to make fun of the press and analysts for either saying that WiMax existed when it did not or for predicting huge uptake before the tech was even ready. Plenty of companies offered wireless broadband, but it was not WiMax, no matter what they (or the press) called […]

Is Bell Canada Going To Purposely Screw Up GPS Signals To Harm Competitors?

Posted on : Sep 25 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

It’s good to have market power, apparently. Remember how Bell Canada started throttle bandwidth to its reseller partners without telling them? And then told them to shut up and take it when they complained? Oh, right, and then tried launching its own video download store just as it was making it more […]

T-Mobile Says It Was Only Kidding About That 1GB Soft Cap On G1 Data Use

Posted on : Sep 25 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

So after a bunch of tech sites pointed out how ridiculous it was that T-Mobile was claiming “unlimited” data plans on the new G1 “Google Android” phone, T-Mobile quickly scrambled to say that they were ditching the 1 gig limit, though they may still replace it with something else (perhaps when tech bloggers aren’t paying […]

Apple Shuts Off Loophole For Podcaster App Developer; He Switches Over To Android

Posted on : Sep 23 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

We noted that Apple had recently started banning any kind of competitive app from the iPhone App Store, saying that various iPhone developers must be eagerly awaiting the launch of Google-powered Android phones. And, indeed, that seems to be the case for the developer of the Podcaster app, who has announced that he’ll now […]

T-Mobile Sends G1 Android Data Users To The Slow Lane: 50kbps Over 1 Gig

Posted on : Sep 23 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

There’s a ton of predictable press coverage and reviews of T-Mobile’s new G1 phone — the first commercially available phone that uses Google’s Android operating system — but Broadband Reports has dug through the fine print of the user agreement and noticed something rather interesting. While the marketing materials scream out about a $25 […]