Show Notes:
1. The Macbook Air! - Features, Technologies, Innovations, Controversy Apple
2. AT&T allows new subscribers to buy a plan and SIM card, without having to buy (or get for free) a new phone. AT&T
3. The Samsung Z400 - the first phone to support Qualcomm’s QChat protocol for use on Sprint Nextel’s CDMA network Engadget
4. FCC orders US cell carriers to outfit all their cell sites with battery backup systems Wireless Week
Show Notes:
In Brief: Lots of news from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas - the XO laptop - NNR partnership
1. XO laptop! - software, importance of open source, GUI innovations, hardware description and achievements. One Laptop Per Child
2. How the iphone is the first device to make the mobile internet useful. Wireless Week - Are Browsers Dead
3. The “openness” of a mobile carrier’s network is often talked about, what does it really mean to be open. To hear more about this story, listen to the latest episode of Nerd News Radio. Wireless Week - Open Access Networks
4. The hot swappable GSM Radio - looks similar to an SD card, allows compatible devices to easily become wireless using the same settings and SIM card. Engadget
5. OQO version 2 with XOHM WiMax - one of the first UMPC’s with access to Sprint’s new high speed data network. Press Release
6. HTC Shift - HTC’s first full Windows device (UMPC) - one of the most amazing UMPC’s ever made. Official Site
8. Technological breakthrough brings palm sized WVGA projector, capable of projecting a 100 Inch image. Press Release