Turn iPod touch Into a Mobile Phone

freedompop (Photo credit: sam_churchill) Data MVNO FreedomPop, the carrier that rides on top of Clearwire's mobile WiMax network has released their $99 sleeve that works the iPod touch 4th Generation.  Basically, the sleeve lets you turn the iPod touch into an iPhone, so calls can be made over the FreedomPop network using softphones like CounterPath's … Read more

Drug Dealing Model Comes to Wireless Data

CLEARWIRE LOGO.png (Photo credit: Wikipedia) NetZero (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Image via CrunchBase Some in marketing call it the razor blade strategy, where you give away the razor and make the customers buy the blades. On a more urban level, the idea is cruder, but every bit as effective. It's called the drug dealer strategy where … Read more

Video For E911-Not Anytime Soon

The FCC wants text messaging and video to be part of E911 as a way to aid dispatchers and provide emergency respoders like police, fire and paramedics with a better idea of what they are up against. For many companies developing those tools that make the information richer and provide the delivery this will be … Read more

I Can See Clear-ly Now

Over the past few months I've been privately sharing my thoughts on how the wireless landscape changes with the looming AT&T/T-Mobile merger coming upon us. With the news today about the cable guys and Sprint working to take over Clearwire (a part of the scenario I've already been talking about) I figured it's time to … Read more

Commentary-So What Happens to Clearwire

Image via CrunchBase Late yesterday (Wednesday August 3) Om Malik at GigaOm wrote a post entitled "So What Happens to ClearWire's WiMax Network?" Well over a lovely pasta dinner tonight (see my Nosh of it on my page over on Google Voice founder Craig Walker's new venture Nosh.me) i got to chomp on Om's post as … Read more