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| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
From: parvez_kalva@yahoo.co.in
Subject: paging machinery help
Date: April 6, 2006 2:08:32 AM CDT
To: brad@braddye.com
Dear Mr. Brad,
How r u sir? We visit your website for paging and wireless technologies. There are good knowledge document on your web pages.
We have some paging machines in good conduction for sell. We have not knowledge about its market so we need your help. We hope that you will guide us. List of items are as follow.
Please send us this product resell price and market. If you have any requirement then gives our reference. Thanks.
Regards
-Mr. Parvez Kalva (India)
Cell: - +91 – 9825 469094
parvez_kalva@yahoo.co.in
From: hmce@bellsouth.net To: brad@braddye.com Brad, I have GLT-8500s with C-2000 control some are new. Glenayre GLT-8500 900 MHz 250 W. C-2000 control - no receiver. Thanks and Blessed Day, hmce@bellsouth.net |  |
From: mtorf@mnsny.com
Subject: Inquiry
Date: April 5, 2006 9:23:05 PM CDT
To: brad@braddye.com
Hi Brad:
Have a new fire/police notification paging group trying to get off the ground in the Providence area. They are in need of a programmer/cables/cradle to program Motorola Elites. Any suggestions as they are no longer listed on the Motorola web-site, where I bought mine years ago and surprisingly none on Ebay.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Regards,
Morris J Torf
Metro Notification Service
mtorf@mnsny.com
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It's a RAZR World
04.04.06
There's nothing quite like a Motorola RAZR in American consumers' eyes, two research firms told PC Magazine as the year's big cell-phone trade show, CTIA Wireless, opens in Las Vegas.
"Bafflingly enough, the hottest, most popular phone of 2005 is a phone from 2004, the RAZR V3," said Miro Kazakoff, senior associate at Compete, a firm which tracks shoppers' browsing habits. "The big thing we saw [in 2005] was this triumph of form over features."
Both Compete, which tracks "mind share" for phones, and Telephia, another research firm that tracks retail sales, have followed the RAZR's popularity. The RAZR grabbed 6.2% of U.S. phone sales in the fourth quarter of 2005, almost double the share of the next-most-popular handset, according to Telephia's Maria Baumatay.
We've also seen the RAZR phenomenon in action: The RAZR V3 keeps on cropping up on PCMag.com's list of most popular reviews, more than a year after its release. The RAZR's enduring popularity has probably been helped by its staggered release on several carriers: first on Cingular, then on T-Mobile, and most recently on Verizon.
Beyond the RAZR, Kazakoff says other good-looking, feature-laden phones like the slender, bar-style Motorola SLVR L7 and Samsung's slim clamshell MM-A900 have been grabbing consumers' eyes, though not quite to the RAZR's extent.
"The SLVR has been very successful … [but] there is a mystique that the RAZR has captured that no other phone has been able to," he said.
Sales figures tell a sad story for fans of high-tech phones in the United States: Beyond the RAZR, U.S. consumers are walking away with inexpensive, midrange clamshells, Telephia's Baumatay says.
Following the RAZR in Telephia's figures are the Nokia 6102/6101, at 3.3%; the Samsung SGH-X495/497, at 2.9%, and the LG VX5200, at 2.7% of sales. All of those phones are clamshell camera phones, offered at prices ranging from free with service to around $100.
About 75% of consumers that Compete surveyed this January who bought handsets in the previous six months paid less than $100 for their phones, Kazakoff said. More than 25% picked up free phones. He pointed out the Motorola V180, LG VX6100, and Samsung VI660 as popular phones in 2005. "For all the hype, consumers keep coming back to basic clamshell phones," he said.
"People were willing to pay a premium for cool form factors. There was less excitement around new features and new things the device can do," he said.
Telephia's numbers also showed a key difference between U.S. and European consumers. While the RAZR also led sales in Europe, the powerful Samsung SGH-D600, Sony Ericsson K750, Nokia N70, Nokia 6630, and Nokia 6680 all showed up on Telephia's European list of most popular phones. The first two are 2-megapixel camera phones; the other three are smartphones running the Symbian operating system, which is popular in Europe but not in the U.S.
Among the relatively few U.S. consumers who went for smartphones, Windows Mobile kicked ahead of the pack during February of 2006, Kazakoff said. But that's not because of any preference for the OS, necessarily, he said; rather, it's because of the flood of attractive Windows Mobile handsets that have been hitting the market. Even with the T-Mobile MDA and SDA, Cingular 2125 and 8125, and Palm Treo 700 all appearing on shelves, Windows Mobile only managed to grab slightly more than 4% of consumers' interest, according to Compete's numbers.
"We still don't see shoppers expressing much preference for a specific brand of operating system. Consumers respond much more to who made the phone and how it looks and feels," Kazakoff said.
Source: PC Magazine
Samsung to sell thinnest cell phone in U.S.
By Reuters
Published: April 5, 2006, 5:09 AM PDT
LAS VEGAS—South Korea's Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it will sell the slimmest cell phone in the United States, aiming to compete with U.S. market leader Motorola's popular Razr line.
Equipped with a color screen for playing videos and an external memory slot, the silver, candy-bar-shaped t509 phone is 9.8 millimeters thick, which makes it thinner than the 11.5-millimeter Slvr, a sibling of the clamshell Razr.
Samsung will unveil the new phone and other models at the annual CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas this week in a bid to boost its market share in the United States, where it competes with Nokia and LG Electronics for second place, according to the Gartner research group.
The South Korean company, which ranks third behind Nokia and Motorola in the global handset market, hopes to cash in on the popularity of slim phones following the hit Razr.
"I don't know of anybody else that's doing anything this slim this year," said Peter Skarzynski, a senior vice president for Samsung.
The new phone, which is too thin to squeeze in components for photo-taking found in most advanced cell phones, will hit store shelves in the second quarter, along with the d807, another skinny phone with a sliding lid, Samsung said.
Skarzynski would not say which U.S. cellular service providers would carry the phones.
At Las Vegas, Samsung will also unveil the first cell phone in the United States based on HSDPA, a network technology with fast data speeds suitable for delivering video and music to mobiles.
The phone, the zx20, will likely work on Cingular Wireless, owned by AT&T and BellSouth, as it is the only U.S. operator using HSDPA technology.
Samsung hopes to win over some consumers by offering e-mail on another cell phone, the t719, which operates software based on Research In Motion's popular BlackBerry.
The t719 will use a keypad similar to standard cell phones, unlike Blackberry's miniature computer-like QWERTY keyboard system.
"You will probably find two types of users: heavy users who like the full QWERTY and others who like a smaller phone with BlackBerry capabilities," the Samsung executive said.
Samsung also is unveiling the t709, which it says can transfer a call from a cellular network to a home Wi-Fi network without interrupting the conversation.
Cingular and Sprint Nextel, have long talked about using short-range wireless networks, such as Wi-Fi, to improve mobile reception indoors, where cellular signals sometimes fade.
Samsung expects these new phones to cost consumers between $99 and $250, but noted that retail prices are set by service providers, which often subsidize phones in return for lengthy service contracts.
Source: c|net News.com
T-Mobile Talks Exclusive Hot Handsets
04.05.06
By Sascha Segan
LAS VEGAS—The nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier, T-Mobile told PC Magazine at the CTIA Wireless trade show that their handset plans include innovative, fun fashion and luxury phones.
The carrier will be the first to get Motorola's new colored PEBLs which come in orange, blue, and green, according to spokesman Graham Crow. The colored PEBLs have the same functions as the existing PEBL U6, a midrange camera phone, and will cost about the same when they're released in mid-May. T-Mobile will also offer Motorola Bluetooth headsets in matching colors.
Where PEBLs go, there must be SLVRs—sort of. T-Mobile will introduce the Samsung SGH-T509 in May, the carrier said. The slender T509 looks a lot like the slim Motorola SLVR L7 and has a similar feature set, though it's even thinner than the L7 and has a more conventional keypad.
The Nokia 8801 will mark T-Mobile's high end in June. This luxury phone has a stainless-steel case, stereo Bluetooth audio, and a glass screen cover. It will be the carrier's most expensive phone, but will be priced under $500 when it's introduced, representatives said.
E-mailers will enjoy the Blackberry 8700g, a T-Mobile version of Cingular's 8700c. This next-generation Blackberry has a bright, sharp, high-res color screen and uses T-Mobile's EDGE network, their fastest cellular network at 100-160 kbps speed. The 8700g is coming out on April 17; look for a review later this month.
T-Mobile wouldn't discuss it, but they're also probably going to be the carrier for Samsung's hotly awaited SGH-T719, the first clamshell Blackberry phone. There's no word on pricing or availability for that phone, though.
T-Mobile reps didn't have much to say about two hotly awaited technologies, though. The ultra-popular Sidekick e-mail device has been waiting for a refresh for more than a year; there's still no official word on a Sidekick III. And while Samsung has been out trumpeting their T709 Wi-Fi/voice phone, T-Mobile had no official word on UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access), the technology that would let subscribers make voice calls over Wi-Fi networks.
Source: PC Magazine
| OTHER TECHNICAL NEWS |
Apple v. Apple Ruling Unlikely Before Easter
Apr 06, 2006
Edward Mann, the London High Court justice presiding over the highly publicized legal battle between Apple Computer and Apple Corps, said on Wednesday that he’s unlikely to issue a ruling before Easter Sunday, April 16, the Associated Press reports via the New York Post.
Attorneys for both companies met in London’s High Court on Wednesday to hear closing arguments in the case over the companies’ usage of similar apple logos.
At issue in the trial is a 15-year-old settlement under which both companies agreed to stay away from each other’s respective industries, putting an end to a long-running legal battle between the firms over the apple logos, according to the AP. Apple Corps’ logo is a bright green apple, while Apple Computer’s is an animated-looking apple with a bite-shaped chunk taken out of it.
Apple Corps filed the recent suit because it says Apple Computer violated their agreement by entering the music business with its iPod and iTunes Music Store, the AP reports. The company is looking to retrieve damages and halt the computer company’s usage of the logo to promote its music business, according to the AP.
Apple Computer says it’s in the clear, because the company claims it does not have ownership rights to the music itself, only the digital technology to purvey it, the AP reports.
Source: CIO Magazine
The Lessons of the $100 Laptop
By John G. Spooner
April 4, 2006
BOSTON—The $100 laptop is coming together, its founder says, but without the famous crank.
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop Per Child, said in a keynote at LinuxWorld here that OLPC is preparing to deliver its first 5 million to 10 million machines late this year or early in 2007. The machines will come with 7-inch screens and a 500MHz processor from Advanced Micro Devices, will use flash memory in lieu of a hard drive, and will run a Linux operating system. The hand crank, which was criticized by Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, will be moved to the machine's power supply brick, however.
Despite the groundswell of interest and some criticism it has created, the $100 laptop, Negroponte said, is primarily an educational tool designed to be owned and maintained by schoolchildren. Its job, in part, is to educate by granting students access to the Internet and its vast store of information—Negroponte joked that many students' first word in English is "Google"—as well as by allowing them to write computer programs. But it is likely to teach the computer industry, famous for its grandiose projects that inevitably face setbacks, something of a lesson as well: Think small.
"I have come to a conclusion that every new release of software is distinctly worse than the other. Why? It's because the fat lady can't sing. There's a natural tendency to add stuff," Negroponte said. "Suddenly it [becomes] like a very fat person—uses most of their energy to move the fat. We've gotten to the point where we have to completely rethink."
The $100 laptop, on the other hand, takes away a lot of things. It does away with markups for sales and marketing, a large display and Windows XP—three of the costliest components of building and selling a machine. But it still gets the job done, Negroponte said, by offering a small but readable screen, which is designed to be viewable both indoors and out, as well as the ability to connect to the Internet and to serve as a router for other computers.
As it's difficult to build more schools and add more teachers quickly, giving children laptops would allow them greater freedom to learn, he argued, citing multiple examples, including Maine's one-laptop-per-child program.
The program, which began in 2002, has cut down on discipline problems and truancy, increased attendance of parent-teacher meetings, and generally got students more engaged, Negroponte said.
"You have to leverage the children. Children have to be bigger part of their education," he said. "The kids have to own them. Ownership is very important."
The $100 laptop has a lot of parallels with the mainstream computer industry. Coincidentally, its 7-inch screen is the same size as the first wave of ultramobile PCs, driven by Microsoft and Intel.
"It's the same as the Origami," Negroponte said. "I don't know exactly what Bill was talking about."
Gates criticized the machine during a speech in Washington, D.C., by saying, "The last thing you want to do for a shared-use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen," Reuters reported on March 15.
The $100 laptop's other components come from brand-name companies as well. They will include a 500MHz AMD processor—likely one of the company's Geode chips—along with 128MB of RAM; 512MB of flash memory, which serves as local storage; three or four Universal Serial Bus ports; and Wi-Fi mesh networking. The mesh capability, which will remain on when the computer is powered down, will foster impromptu networks and allow many machines to share one Internet connection.
Source: eWeek
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Motorola and Skype Make Beautiful Music with New Wireless Internet Calling Kit
New Kit Uses Bluetooth® Wireless Technology to Allow Skype® Users to Multi-Task and Rock on Without Missing an Important Phone Call
Las Vegas – 4 April 2006 – Combining the freedom of hands-free connectivity with mobile entertainment, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and Skype, the global Internet communications company, today unveiled the Motorola Talk & Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit with stereo – an unprecedented innovation in Bluetooth® technology that lets Skype users simultaneously and wirelessly listen to music and manage calls over the Internet from a PC**.
As a Skype-Certified device, the Talk & Tunes Kit will be put through rigorous tests with Skype software to ensure optimal performance. The kit works with Skype’s free unlimited Internet calling to other Skype users anywhere in the world and delivers the freedom of listening to music wirelessly from a PC without missing important phone calls.
The Talk & Tunes Kit includes the Motorola Bluetooth® Stereo Headphones HT820 for precision audio streaming and the Motorola Bluetooth® PC Adapter PC850. Together, these devices allow you to connect wirelessly to your PC – leaving you free to enjoy your favorite tracks and still be alerted to your voice calls. When a call comes in, the music will automatically pause.
“Little more than a year old, our alliance with Skype has already produced greater connectivity options for consumers,” said Bruce Hawver, vice president and general manager, Motorola, Inc., MobileME products. “And, we've just gotten started. We will continue to push the limits on innovative products and solutions that make day-to-day mobile communication and entertainment effortless and enjoyable.”
“Skype is committed to keeping Internet calling easy and fun,” said Saul Klein, vice president of global marketing, Skype. “We will continue to partner with technology leaders like Motorola to bring innovative Skype Certified products to market, ensuring the best possible experience for consumers.”
For true wireless independence, the adapter enables users to roam up to 30 feet away from their computer while controlling both music and voice calls at the touch of a button on the headset.
For calling other Skype users, the Talk & Tunes Kit with Skype software offers free unlimited Internet calling for uninhibited, stress-free conversations.
Motorola will be showcasing the new Motorola Talk & Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit as part of Motorola’s rapidly evolving vision of Seamless Mobility during CTIA Wireless 2006 in Booth 2606.
For additional information on the Motorola Talk & Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit, please visit www.hellomoto.com.
Pricing and Availability
The Motorola Talk & Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit with stereo is expected to be available in the first half of 2006. Specific details will be provided upon consumer availability. Currently, the first Skype-certified Motorola product – the Motorola Wireless Internet Calling Kit, featuring Motorola Bluetooth® Headset H500 and PC Adapter PC850 for hands-free and wire-free voice-over Internet calls, is available at select retail stores nationwide and online at skype.com/store.
Editors Note: For high-resolution images of Motorola’s consumer solutions, please visit: www.motorola.com/motoinfo.
About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of Seamless Mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $36.8 billion in 2005. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit .
About Skype
Skype is the world’s fastest-growing Internet communication offering, allowing people everywhere to make unlimited voice and video communication for free between the users of Skype software. Skype is available in 27 languages and is used in almost every country around the world. Skype generates revenue through its premium offerings such as making and receiving calls to and from landline and mobile phones, as well as voicemail and call forwarding. Skype also has relationships with a growing network of hardware and software providers. Skype is an eBay company (NASDAQ: EBAY). To learn more visit skype.com.
Skype is not a replacement for your ordinary telephone and cannot be used for emergency calling.
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Media Contacts:
Molly Sheehan
Motorola, Inc.
1-312-953-6006
W0485c@motorola.com
Syreeta Mussante
Sparkpr for Skype
1-415-321-1865
syreeta@sparkpr.com
Skype ID: syreetam
*To work with the Motorola Wireless Internet Calling Kit, the PC or laptop must have a USB port and either Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating systems.
** Skype service requires users to have broadband connection and subscription to an internet service.
MOTOROLA and the stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. The Bluetooth trademarks are owned by their proprietor and used by Motorola, Inc. under license. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. © Motorola, Inc. 2006. All rights reserved.
Source: Motorola
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