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Archive for October, 2009
Friday, October 16th, 2009
The wisdom of business professors, once only available to MBAs and business students, can now be accessed by anybody with an Internet connection.
Hundreds of universities, and a growing number of business schools, are making recordings of lectures, seminars and conferences available to the general public via Web sites such as iTunes and YouTube.
 Dr. Cell Phone Can Fix iPhone/iTunes Software Problems Leading business schools including University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Fuqua School of Business, and Yale School of Management make course content available for download through iTunes University (iTunes U), part of the of the iTunes online store.
That means those whose budget won’t stretch to a two-year MBA can simulate the experience at home — or at work, in the gym or anywhere else they choose. And even better for money-conscious learners, the iTunes U content can all be downloaded free of charge.
French business school HEC Paris is due to launch its iTunes U content in the next few months, but it has been running an ambitious podcast program since 2006.
Begun as an experiment in partnership with Apple, all new MBAs at HEC are provided with an iPod Touch. Around half of the MBA lectures are filmed using an automatic camera system and the footage is made available for students to download and view on their iPhones.
Vanessa Klein, HEC’s project manager for iTunes U, told CNN that the iPod scheme has proved a hit with students. As well watching lectures, she said the students’ own presentations are recorded and made available for download, so they can review their performance.
She says one teacher noticed that each year his MBA students would ask the same questions after his end-of-course summary, so he made a podcast of recurring questions and answers. After encouraging students to come up with new questions, he is now recording responses to those in an effort to compile a video archive of questions and answers.
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Klein says that by making lectures available via iTunes U, HEC wants to be at the forefront of providing content for the rest of the world, but she acknowledges that the technology is also a great way to promote the business school.
“It’s a good marketing tool, not as publicity but to really show people what we are providing,” she told CNN.
“You can watch a lecture, learn a lot and think ‘I wish I could be there.’ The idea is to show what you could learn if you were at this place.”
YouTube EDU was launched in March this year and hosts the YouTube channels of hundreds of universities. Earlier this month it added content from 45 universities in Europe and Israel and now holds videos of lectures and discussions provided by business schools including INSEAD, ESCP Europe and University of California Haas School of Business.
Launched at the same time as YouTube EDU, Academic Earth hosts videos from U.S. universities including Harvard, Yale and Princeton, although the business content is provided almost exclusively by Stanford University.
Offering less audio/visual content, but still full of business school information, MIT’s Open Course Ware site gives free access to almost all MIT course content, including extensive lecture notes, assignments and exams from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Interested in the “Advanced Topics in Real Estate Finance?” You can download the complete lecture notes from Sloan’s 2007 course on the subject at MIT’s Open Course Ware site.
Other universities have their own Open Course Ware sites and the Open Course Ware Consortium has been set up as an agglomerator site, providing content from more over 200 higher education institutions.
But it’s iTunes U that’s generating the most interest. The University of Oxford says there have been more than one million downloads from its iTunes U site, while Stanford University says its course on creating iPhone applications was downloaded more than one million times in just seven weeks.
This week’s most popular business download on iTunes U is a University of Oxford lecture called “Entrepreneurship and the Ideal Business Plan.”
It may not get as many downloads as Michael Jackson’s posthumous single, but it should prove more useful when it comes to getting a business off the ground.
source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/10/16/online.university/
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Apple is allegedly building a new app for its iPhone and iPod Touch that will bring FM radio to the devices, according to a report on 9 to 5 Mac.
 Remember Dr. Cell Phone for all iPhone Repairs Citing anonymous sources, the Apple news site says the functionality of the application will be similar to what Apple built into the iPod Nano. That includes the ability to pause live FM transmissions and fast-forward when you resume playing.
According to 9 to 5 Mac, the delay in getting the app to market is Apple’s decision to integrate it with the iTunes Store, which is built into the devices. With this integration, people will be able to tap on a song they hear on the radio and buy it through iTunes.
Of course, Apple wouldn’t be the first company to offer some type of FM functionality on the iPhone. Applications likeWunder Radio have been around for over a year and enable people to stream Internet radio to their iPhone and iPod Touch.
The big advantage Apple would have is linking its application to the iTunes Store, which creates the potential for more revenue.
Source:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10374854-37.html
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Device to cost $299 with $60/ month service plan
* Best Buy has retail exclusive for holidays
NEW YORK, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said on Tuesday that Best Buy (BBY.N) would sell its first netbook computer for $299 to customers who sign up for a $60-a-month mobile service plan with AT&T Inc (T.N).
 Dr. Cell Phone getting ready for Notebook and Netbook Repairs Best Buy, which will be the only U.S. retailer to sell the device for the upcoming holiday season, said that the mini laptop would cost $599 for consumers who do not opt for the AT&T wireless plan and instead connect to the Web using Wi-Fi, a short-range wireless technology. (Reporting by Sinead Carew;)
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
T-Mobile and Microsoft said on Saturday that personal information that had disappeared from some customers’ Sidekick mobile devices was almost certainly lost and apologized for the incident.
Affected data includes contacts, calendar entries, photos, notes, and saved e-mails.
 Dr. Cell Phone Repairs Sidekick Phones T-Mobile has partnered with Microsoft subsidiary Danger to manage data services for its Sidekick mobile devices. Danger began experiencing technical troubles last week that lead to the loss of some of the customer data stored on its servers.
For Sidekick users who ran out of battery power, removed their battery, or reset their devices during this period, data was lost both locally and remotely.
The company said that it plans to publish an incident update on Monday.
T-Mobile is warning users not to remove their Sidekick batteries or reset their devices because “the Microsoft/Danger network remains unstable and all content (including contacts, calendar, and notes) that you re-input into your device is not backed up on the network.”
T-Mobile said that it will credit affected customers the cost of their data plan for one month.
Those affected are not happy and have been complaining on T-Mobile’s online forum and elsewhere.
“I’ve been with T-Mobile for almost five years,” said a forum postattributed to “Lanisa.” “I want to leave them after this fiasco! All my important information is now lost.”
A widely circulated post on Sidekick news site Hiptop3.com claims that Microsoft hired Hitachi to upgrade its Storage Area Network (SAN) and that no backups were made before the upgrade process began. When problems arose during the upgrade, data was lost.
At the time this story was filed, Hiptop3.com was overloaded with traffic and non-responsive. An excerpt from Hiptop3.com’s report has been posted to T-Mobile’s forum.
Declining to comment on that report, a Microsoft spokesperson said, “Microsoft is working around the clockto understand the situation.”
John Pescatore, VP and research fellow in Gartner Research, said the incident was pretty unusual, noting that there have been plenty of cloud computing outages but nothing comparable in terms of data loss that he could recall. He said that while he had no confirmation about the report of the botched upgrade, it’s “Business 101 that you make a backup.”
To Pescatore, the incident represents a cautionary tale about risk that businesses face if they use consumer Internet services. “The consumer-grade services by definition are not business ready,” he said. “The issue is not that cloud computing can’t be done securely. It’s that consumer clouds don’t meet enterprise needs.”
Source:http://www.informationweek.com/news/
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
In the race for a bigger piece of the market for smartphone operating systems, all the momentum seems to be with Google Android.
A Gartner report that leaked out this week predicts that Google (NSDQ:GOOG)Android will hold a 14.5 percent share of the mobile OS market (522 million unit sales) by the fourth quarter of 2012. That will put it second behind the Symbian system and its projected 39.0 percent share and ahead of Apple(NSDQ:AAPL)’s iPhone OS, the current No. 2 mobile operating system.
 Dr.Cell Phone Repairs Android based Phones The projected sales growth of Google Android is a reasonably safe guess given the increasing numbers of handset manufacturers and wireless service companies supporting the OS.
This week Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and Google struck a deal to develop and market two Android-powered mobile phones for the Verizon Wireless network. Those handsets are expected to be available in as little as a few weeks.
Also this week, Motorola (NYSE:MOT) was showing its upcoming Android-based Cliq handset at the CTIA show. Sprint (NYSE:S) will begin selling its second Android-based smartphone, the Samsung Moment, starting Nov. 1. And rumors persist that AT&T (NYSE:T) – despite its tight relationship with Apple and its iPhone — is preparing to debut an Android-based smartphone.
The Gartner report, which is expected to be released at the market research company’s Symposium ITxpo the week of Oct. 18, predicts Android will gain 12.9 points of market share by the end of 2012, up from its current tiny 1.6 percent share. Android’s rise will put it ahead of the iPhone’s projected 13.7 percent market share (up from 10.8 percent today), according to a report on AppleInsider, which obtained a copy of the Gartner report.
This week Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1.2, an update to the popular iPhone’s operating system that fixed several bugs, including one that occasionally kept the iPhone from waking up from sleep mode.
While the Symbian mobile operating system is expected to remain the dominant mobile OS with its 39.0 percent market share, that’s down from its current 49.3 percent share.
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)’s Windows Mobile OS is expected to hold onto fourth place with 12.8 percent market share, up 2.5 points from today. This week Microsoft formally launched Windows Mobile 6.5, as well as a new online marketplace for applications that run with the operating system.
The big loser by 2012 will be the Research In Motion (NSDQ:RIMM) OS, which is expected to drop 7.4 points of market share to close 2012 with 12.5 percent of the market.
Source:http://www.crn.com/mobile/220600091
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Dell Inc plans to launch a smartphone with Google’s Android mobile software on carrier AT&T’s network, a source said, marking the PC maker’s first foray into a cut-throat U.S. cellphone arena.
Dell will become the latest tech manufacturer to try and establish a footprint in a fast-growing market dominated by Apple and Research in Motion. Its planned phone would also give a boost to Google’s fledgling mobile platform, which vies with Apple’s and Microsoft’s platforms.
 Dell Plans to launch Android Phone A source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters Dell plans to introduce a U.S. version of its “oPhone” for China — which runs on Android — and that the device had been certified by AT&T for its domestic network.
The Wall Street Journal, which broke the news on Wednesday, cited people briefed on the matter as saying Dell’s phone could be launched as soon as early 2010.
Smartphones — or cellphones that come with an array of complex functions from email to multimedia — have exploded onto the corporate and consumer market as users increasingly access information and entertainment on the go.
Worldwide factory shipments of smart phones are expected to rise to 235.6 million units in 2010, up 27.9 percent from 184.2 million in 2009, according to iSuppli. That is a far cry from a 12.3 percent decline projected for cellphones overall in 2009.
But analysts warn that the world’s No. 2 PC maker would face a tough challenge in a market already crowded with competition. On Wednesday, South Korea’s Samsung said it would also begin selling an Android phone through Sprint Nextel’s network.
Others including Taiwanese rivals Acer and Asustek Computer are moving into smartphones, which tend to offer higher margins than PCs.
Dell spokesman Andrew Bowins declined comment on the AT&T tie-up but said: “We are deeply engaged with our operator partners around the world to deliver mobile broadband enabled computing devices.”
He added: “We haven’t announced anything around voice or Android although we continue to explore opportunities in those areas with operators around the world.”
Google declined comment, as did AT&T. But a spokesman for the telecoms giant, Michael Coe, declined comment on the tie-up: “We expect to sell Android phones in the future.”
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
AT&T on Tuesday opened its 3G network to VoIP calls on the iPhone, reversing its previous position, as federal regulators consider applying proposed net neutrality rules to mobile phones.
Remember Dr. Cell Phone for all iPhone Repairs AT&T’s decision applies only to Apple’s smartphone. The wireless carrier does not allow the use of voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, over its 3G network on other mobile phones. Before the reversal, VoIP applications from Skype and other companies could make calls on the iPhone only over a Wi-Ficonnection.
AT&T said it notified Apple and the Federal CommunicationsCommission of its decision Tuesday. “Today’s decision was make after evaluating our customers’ expectations and use of the device compared to dozens of others we offer,” Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive of AT&T mobility and consumer markets, said in a statement.
The FCC is considering a proposal to formalize network neutrality principles, which will direct which competing services Internet providers must allow. The commission is also looking at whether to apply those principles to wireless networks.
Wireless providers and their supporters in Congress will likely fight having network neutrality principles applied to them. In general, their services haven’t been affected by established rules governing wired networks.
AT&T has been among the most outspoken against applying net neutrality to wireless networks. AT&T argues that the nation’s wireless landscape is very competitive without additional government involvement.
“We would thus be very disappointed if (the FCC) has already drawn a conclusion to regulate wireless services despite the absence of any compelling evidence of problems or abuse that would warrant government intervention,” AT&T said in a recent statement.
AT&T’s latest decision has no affect on Apple’s denial of the Google Voice application for the iPhone. The application makes it possible to use one number to manage and receive calls from multiple numbers. AT&T has said it played no role in Apple’s decision not to offer GoogleVoice. Apple’s stand is under review by the FCC.
Source:http://www.informationweek.com/news/
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
HTC and Samsung are at the head of the line of U.S. handset vendors offering Windows Mobile 6.5 phones, the first smartphones based on Microsoft’s new OS that are meant to finally give Microsoft-powered phones features that are on par with those available in Apple’s iPhone.
At an event in New York Tuesday Microsoft also launched its Windows Marketplace for Mobile with 246 applications now available in the mobile apps online store, a small number in comparison to the tens of thousands of applications available on Apple’s App Store for the iPhone.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is the first OS to allow people to download apps for the devices, and Microsoft said that more than 753 software developers worldwide are continuing to build out the catalog.
 Samsung and HTC Repairs at Dr. Cell Phone Microsoft showcased the new phones at an “open house” event in New York that also highlighted other products Microsoft will have on sale for the Christmas holiday shopping season, the ZuneHD and XBox 360 among them. The company also quietly rebranded its new mobile devices “Windows phones,” appearing to distance them from the “Windows Mobile” moniker.
Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach said Microsoft’s aim with all of its new entertainment and mobile devices is to provide innovation to change the way people live their lives. “The technology we are working on today is about changing lifestyles and changing industries,” he said at the event.
Bach said that while in the past, Microsoft’s Windows phones were more suitable for business users, with features geared toward that demographic, the new Windows phones are more consumer-oriented. “We’re adding to that integration with your lifestyle,” he said.
While Microsoft has been touting Windows Mobile 6.5 as an innovative technology that also will help the company compete better with Apple in the smartphone market, analysts have reacted coolly. Some have suggested Microsoft altogether abandon the OS, which has been losing market share and is more than two years behind Apple in terms of features.
For example, the new Windows phones My Phone feature — which allows Windows Mobile users to synchronize information between their phone and the Web — is akin to the MobileMe service from Apple launched last year for iPhone.
In North America, customers can now purchase Windows Mobile 6.5 on the HTC Pure from AT&T and the HTC Imagio from Verizon Wireless. The Samsung Intrepid from Sprint will be available on Oct. 11, and the HTC Tilt 2 from AT&T will be available in the coming weeks.
In Europe, HTC and Samsung also will offer phones, alongside handset providers MDA, Toshiba, LG and TMN.
Bach said that Microsoft plans to ship 30 Windows phones in 20 countries by the end of the year, featuring a range of form factors that will provide choice to customers.
Source:http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173193/
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
 Dr. Cell Phone Provides all kinds of iPhone Repairs Adobe delighted on Monday the smartphone world, when it announced that Flash Player 10.1 will be available by the end of the year on BlackBerry, WinMo, Palm WebOS, Google Android, and Symbian phones.
But the millions of iPhone users out there are left fuming over the announcement because their beloved gadget isn’t showing any signs of Adobe Flash adoption.
Research In Motion, Microsoft, Palm, Google and Nokiawill all embed the Flash Player 10.1 into their handsets by the end of this year or in early 2010, but Apple is ignoring the wishes of the masses of iPhone owners across the world and did not announce any plans to integrate Adobe Flash support onto its line of smartphones.
It has been more than a year now since the industry was speculating the appearance of Adobe Flash on the iPhone, and since October 2008 we’ve seen Apple introducing a more powerful iPhone (the iPhone 3GS) and an improved operating system (iPhone OS 3.X), but still, no Adobe Flash — so here’s why I don’t think it will happen any time soon either:
3. Apple Doesn’t Want Flash on the iPhone
Let’s face it: when Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan said in February that Adobe Flash on the iPhone is “a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” we all thought that the iPhone’s hardware wasn’t powerful enough to support this technology.
Eight months later though, the iPhone 3GS doubled the processing power and RAM memory over its predecessor, the iPhone 3G, and the hardware barriers are gone. But still no Adobe Flash. Meanwhile, HTC managed to graciously support fully Adobe Flash on the similarly-spec’d HTC Hero, so Apple is running out of reasons to dismiss Flash.
2. The iPhone is Created so it Won’t Support Flash
The virtual limitations imposed by the iPhone software, as in only one application open at all times (except for a couple of Apple’s own apps), means that an environment like Adobe Flash won’t be able to install or launch other executable code by any means, including the use of a plug-in architecture (iPhone SDK EULA clause 3.3.2).
For you and me, this translates that the ways Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight were designed to work are forbidden from running on the iPhone — unless Apple decides to make an exception (which sends us to point No. 1). In relation, this means that third-party browsers such as Firefox or Opera (besides being banned from the App Store because of duplicate functionality) won’t be able to use Safari’s built-in Java engine either.
1. Apple is Betting on a Different Standard
Although Adobe Flash powers most of the interactive Web applications for full-featured computers, Apple has set its eyes on HTML 5 with the introduction of theiPhone 3.0 OS. HTML 5 makes obsolete plug-in-based technologies such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, because it’s open source and has similar multimedia capabilities to Adobe’s and Microsoft’s solutions.
Apple is quite involved in the development of the HTML 5 standard as well, and the technology is already being implemented into browsers before the standard is final. Oh, and the editors of the HTML 5 standard are David Hyatt of Apple and Ian Hickinson of Google. As a side note, Flash is not supported on standard Google Android installations, but only custom ones, such as on the HTC Hero.
But there is hope: Apple could change its mind at any time regarding Adobe Flash support. As far as no one knows, Apple might be working on a solution right now, but as usual, the Cupertino Company is keeping mum on details. Just don’t bet your money on Adobe Flash on the iPhone yet.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/173092
Tags: iPhone 3G Flash Support, iPhone Flash, iPhone Flash Player
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
For the lovers of the iPhone, it’s like daddy and mommy are getting a divorce. If that wasn’t the case–if Apple and Google weren’t calling it quits–why would Apple buy a mapping company?
Remember Dr. Cell Phone for all iPhone Repairs Steve, tell us it isn’t so!
The tight integration between the iPhone and Google, especially its mapping products, is a big part of why people love their iPhones. Hearing the Apple has bought its own mapping company, Placebase, is unsettling.
The deal, which supposedly happened in July, added talent to a supposed “Geo” unit inside Apple. Nothing wrong with that, but before Apple starts messing with Google Maps on iPhones, it needs to think very seriously about the consequences.
If a new Apple mapping product is to replace Google Maps, it needs to be done by offering customers a choice of mapping providers. If Apple is good enough, people will switch and eventually the rest can be moved over by force, if necessary. But, only after Apple Maps does everything that Google Maps does–and then some.
There are reasons why this may be a much ado about very little. Apple can find plenty of location-based applications or features to add to iPhone and Mac OS that could run on top of Google Maps. New mapping apps might use new Apple technology while the existing ones could remain on Google Maps and be improved upon.
There doesn’t have to be a conflict here, but we’re sure Apple and Google aren’t as chummy as they once were. Apple’s penchant for secrecy makes matters worse and leads to speculation that perhaps exceeds reality.
As for Placebase, the Los Angeles startup was founded to sell a mapping system to businesses, which is hard to do when Google offers such a service free. GigaOm has a nice story that explains what founder Jaron Waldman hoped to accomplish. Here is an example of Placebase and its PushPin Java API in action at a site called PolicyMap.
Waldman’s LinkedIn profile says he now works at Apple, after four years at Placebase.
There is a strong possibility that Apple didn’t actually buy Placebase, just hired Waldman (and others?) when the company failed. That’s the rumor inside the mapping business and makes as much sense as anything else. Regardless, Waldman’s arrival at Apple demonstrates that the company is seriously interested in mapping.
There is much to be done in the mapping space and Google has brought tremendous value to the iPhone with its cool mapping application. Apple is rarely a stupid company, so I have to guess it will think long before dumping Google Maps for something created in-house.
While Apple may someday offer a mapping platform of its own, the company would be wise to remain tied to Google until it has something truly incredible to offer.
Google Maps will be much easier to add value to than for Apple to beat.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172951
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