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Clearwire recently announced eight Texas communities will receive Mobile WiMAX service by September, in addition to Boise, Idaho and Bellingham, Washington.

But three Texas towns — Abeline (pop: 115,930), Lubbock (pop: 212,169), and Wichita Falls (pop: 107,000), already have Mobile WiMAX service. They get theirs from Xanadoo, reports Information Week.

Xanadoo has offered WiMax service in Texas for over two years. Xanadoo also offers WiMax in communities in Oklahoma and Illinois.

“We are not working with Xanadoo,” said a Clearwire spokesman. “We offer service to more cities than they do in Texas but in the three markets where we overlap, we would be competing.”

Xanadoo uses infrastructure provided by Navini Networks, a Texas company that was acquired by Cisco in late 2007. Cisco also works with Clearwire, which already has WiMax service in the major urban areas of Atlanta, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Portland, Oregon. Cisco’s beamforming basestations are said to improve range and reduce interference.

Xanadoo is also a licensee of 700 MHz spectrum covering almost 156 million people in major markets, such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, Tampa, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. Xanadoo expects that 4G will be deployed in the 700 MHz frequency band.

Philadelphia’s WiFi Network may also be a target for Clear. The Network Acquisition Company, largely funded by Tropos founder Dave Hanna, bought the WiFi system from Earthlink. Wireless Philadelphia (now called The Digital Impact Group), is the nonprofit organization with the primary mission of bridging the City’s vast digital divide.

Clearwire recently announced eight Texas communities will receive Mobile WiMAX service by September, in addition to Boise, Idaho and Bellingham, Washington.

But three Texas towns — Abeline (pop: 115,930), Lubbock (pop: 212,169), and Wichita Falls (pop: 107,000), already have Mobile WiMAX service. They get theirs from Xanadoo, reports Information Week.

Xanadoo has offered WiMax service in Texas for over two years. Xanadoo also offers WiMax in communities in Oklahoma and Illinois.

“We are not working with Xanadoo,” said a Clearwire spokesman. “We offer service to more cities than they do in Texas but in the three markets where we overlap, we would be competing.”

Xanadoo uses infrastructure provided by Navini Networks, a Texas company that was acquired by Cisco in late 2007. Cisco also works with Clearwire, which already has WiMax service in the major urban areas of Atlanta, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Portland, Oregon. Cisco’s beamforming basestations are said to improve range and reduce interference.

Xanadoo is also a licensee of 700 MHz spectrum covering almost 156 million people in major markets, such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, Tampa, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. Xanadoo expects that 4G will be deployed in the 700 MHz frequency band.

Philadelphia’s WiFi Network may also be a target for Clear. The Network Acquisition Company, largely funded by Tropos founder Dave Hanna, bought the WiFi system from Earthlink. Wireless Philadelphia (now called The Digital Impact Group), is the nonprofit organization with the primary mission of bridging the City’s vast digital divide.

Clearwire recently announced eight Texas communities will receive Mobile WiMAX service by September, in addition to Boise, Idaho and Bellingham, Washington.

But three Texas towns — Abeline (pop: 115,930), Lubbock (pop: 212,169), and Wichita Falls (pop: 107,000), already have Mobile WiMAX service. They get theirs from Xanadoo, reports Information Week.

Xanadoo has offered WiMax service in Texas for over two years. Xanadoo also offers WiMax in communities in Oklahoma and Illinois.

“We are not working with Xanadoo,” said a Clearwire spokesman. “We offer service to more cities than they do in Texas but in the three markets where we overlap, we would be competing.”

Xanadoo uses infrastructure provided by Navini Networks, a Texas company that was acquired by Cisco in late 2007. Cisco also works with Clearwire, which already has WiMax service in the major urban areas of Atlanta, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Portland, Oregon. Cisco’s beamforming basestations are said to improve range and reduce interference.

Xanadoo is also a licensee of 700 MHz spectrum covering almost 156 million people in major markets, such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, Tampa, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. Xanadoo expects that 4G will be deployed in the 700 MHz frequency band.

Philadelphia’s WiFi Network may also be a target for Clear. The Network Acquisition Company, largely funded by Tropos founder Dave Hanna, bought the WiFi system from Earthlink. Wireless Philadelphia (now called The Digital Impact Group), is the nonprofit organization with the primary mission of bridging the City’s vast digital divide.

Coffee shops are pulling the plug on laptop users, reports the Wall Street Journal today.

In a growing number of small coffee shops, firm restrictions on laptop use have been imposed and electric outlets have been locked. The laptop backlash may predate the recession, but the recession clearly has accelerated it.

In New York, the trend is accelerating among independents. At Cocoa Bar locations in Brooklyn and on the Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a five-month-old rule forbids laptops after 8 on Friday and Saturday nights. At Espresso 77 in Jackson Heights, Queens, owners covered three of five electric outlets six months ago after its loosely enforced laptop-use restrictions failed to encourage turnover. At two of three Café Grumpy locations — one in Brooklyn and the other in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood — laptops are never welcome.

Glenn Fleishman of WiFiNetNews noticed the trend 4 years ago.

If you’re looking for an all-in-one music and camera phone that lets you talk, listen to music and capture life’s moment using an easy-to-use interface, you might want to wait for the release of the MOTO W403 which Motorola has just launched. The W403 is a simple and stylish mobile phone featuring advanced mobile phone features which consumers are looking for in a mobile phone today.

The MOTO W403 lets you listen to your favorite MP3 or FM radio station, take pictures and share it as well as tones and music to another mobile phone or other Bluetooth-enabled devices.

The MOTO W403 sports a youthful “metallic look” and given its basic features, Motorola is obviously aiming to capture the young mobile phone users. It also features a slim clamshell form factor which emits elegance despite its simplicity. The phone also lets you view the clock, music name and radio station currently playing even if you don’t open phone’s flip cover.

Additionally, the MOTO W403 also features CrystalTalk technology which enhances phone conversation and reduces background noise.

Other features of the MOTO W403 incude a 1.8” 128×160 65k TFT monochromatic display, EMS/MMS/SMS messaging, video capture and playback, 128MB internal memory, 500 mins talk time, 300 hours standby time, GSM 850/1900 or GSM 900/1800, GPRS Class 10 version 2.0 and expandable memory.

The MOTO W403 will be available in the Latin America sometime in Q4. No words on pricing and international release date is available yet.

*Note – Motorola may have been too excited to announce this phone that the official press release did not include an official photo of the MOTO W403. We will update this post as soon as official photo of the phone is available.

RIM and T-Mobile has just announced the release of the new BlackBerry Curve 8520, a slim smartphone which is scheduled to be released on August 5. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 like all other BlackBerry smartphones provides easy mobile access to email, IM, SMS, MMS and social networking features. It boasts of a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard and multimedia capabilities in addition to access to music, games and other mobile apps.The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is Wi-Fi enabled and provides users with unlimited Wi-Fi access through T-Mobile’s HotSpot Calling and T-Mobile myFaves service. It also features a touch-sensitive optical trackpad for menu scrolling and navigation, and dedicated media keys at the top of the handset.

Othey noteable features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 include responsive typing and navigation, 256MB flash memory, 512 MHz mobile processor, voice activated dialing, Bluetooth, 2MP digital camera with zoom and video capture, media player for music, pictures, videos, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, access to BlackBerry apps including games, entertainment, social networking and sharing, news, weather, productivity and more.

The BlackBerry Curve provides access to 10 suported email accounts including web email such as Yahoo, Windows live, Gmail and BlackBerry’s own Enterprise Server support. It also supports microSD/SDHC memory cards.

The BlackBerry Curve is an EDGE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900 quad-bacd world phone.

Want something different from your regular cellphone? Something that performs the function of a traditional mobile phone and yet is packed some non-traditional phone features? How about the Garmin-Asus collaborative product called the nuvifone G60 which is scheduled to be released on July 27 in Singapore and perhaps in the U.S. soon – this new mobile boast of three main functions dubbed – call, search and view map.

The Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 integrates navigation and location based services, and is being touted as an all-in-one, LBS-centric touchscreen phone, mobile web browser and personal navigator. The phone’s main screen is highlighted by three primary icons namely, “call”, “search”, and “view map.” It allows users to scroll through the other icons just by swiping their fingers across the displays. It also has a built-in accelerometer that lets every screen to be viewed in either portrait or landscape navigation.

The view map feature lets users receive turn-by-turn voice-prompted directions to millions of destinations powered by preloaded maps of North America, Eastern and Western Europe some specific regions in Asia and the Pacific. The phone has a real GPS receiver with hotfix. This is in addition to the A-GPS (assisted GPS) that the phone has. Making the phone even more useful is the fact that it is preloaded with millions of points of interest or POIs which is useful for navigation purposes.

Other features of the Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 include – “where am I” for location exact latitude and longitude coordinates of the user’s location.

For its mobile phone features, the Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 has 3.5G data connectivity, SMS text messagin functionality, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3MP Camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3.55″ anti-glare displa and provides up tp 4hours talktime.

via BusinessWire

Off to St Petersburg and Moscow. Back on Saturday August 8th.

The National Symphony Orchestra is trying an experiment. It’s tweeting Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony, Thursday night at Wolf Trap. The Washington Post reports.

The orchestra will use the micro-blogging site Twitter to send text messages of 140 characters or fewer from conductor Emil de Cou during the performance. (Example: “In my score Beethoven has printed Nightingale = flute Quail = oboe Cuckoo = clarinet — a mini concerto for woodwind/birds.”)

The idea is that those interested will sit in a designated area on the Wolf Trap lawn with their BlackBerrys, iPhones or other mobile devices and, by following the Twitter user NSOatWolfTrap, gain a new perspective on the score. Of course, you can also follow along without actually being at Wolf Trap at all.

Read full article.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, eBay may have to shut down Skype due to a licensing dispute with the founders of the internet telephony service.

… eBay bought Skype from entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis for $US2.6 billion in 2005, but this did not include a core piece of peer-to-peer communications technology that powers the software.

eBay has since been licensing the technology from the founders’ new company, Joltid, but the pair recently decided to revoke the licensing agreement.