Archive for the “Wire Less” category
Boston Taxis to Accept Phone Payments
by jpreardon on July 15, 2004
Boston (Watertown to be exact) taxis will start offering electronic payment options including MobileLime’s pay by phone feature. Pay by phone is intriguing, but how would you like to be in line behind someone following MobileLime’s payment instructions: Let the (…)
Empire State WiMAX
by jpreardon on May 26, 2004
TowerStream is aiming to turn New York City into one big hotspot. According to mobilepipeline, the wireless provider has installed an antenna atop the Empire State Building and will be able to provide wireless service anywhere within a 10 mile (…)
Dodgeball
by jpreardon on April 7, 2004
When I first heard about dodgeball, I thought it was a using location based services: “It’s like Friendster for your mobile phone.” We got bored with Friendster too. That’s why we built dodgeball.social. Tell us who your friends are, tell (…)
Vonage to Offer Wi-Fi Phones
by jpreardon on March 31, 2004
Vonage announced that they will begin offering portable Wi-Fi phones later this year. This is in response to AT & T’s CallVantage service that is currently available in some parts of the country. Vonage also announced that they will begin (…)
Verizons High Speed Wireless Network
by jpreardon on March 15, 2004
According to Rob Pegoraro of The Washington Post, Verizon Wireless’s EvDO service, BroadbandAccess, is quite impressive. His tests in the DC area yielded speeds that rival DSL, even from a moving Metro train. At $80 per month, the price for (…)
Sore Thumb Seeks Same
by jpreardon on January 29, 2004
New York bar goers will be having disjointed text conversations with other like minded singles soon. Time2flirt allows people to flirt, via SMS, with others in the same bar, without revealing their phone number. Time2flirt is all the rage in (…)
Sprint to Offer SMS, Finally
by jpreardon on November 24, 2003
Sprint PCS will start offering an SMS like service soon. It’s about time, I know of at least one customer who dropped their service due to Sprint’s poor SMS implementation, which requires logging into the Sprint website to compose messages. (…)
Suburban Swarms
by jpreardon on October 25, 2003
Killer bees? No. Apparently there have been several incidents where crowds of teenagers swarm suburban parties in Australia. Using SMS to communicate, the swarms can sometimes consist of over a hundred people. A teenager died as a result of one (…)
WiSIP Handset and Vonage
by jpreardon on September 29, 2003
According to Gizmodo, Jeff Pulver’s Free World Dialup is working with Vonage to make their Wi-Fi phone compatible with the Vonage network. This would allow Free World Dialup users to make calls to any phone number anywhere they can get (…)
LES Walking Tour by Cell Phone
by jpreardon on September 22, 2003
Talking Street offers a guided cell phone walking tour of the Lower East Side narrated by Jerry Stiller. Just download the map and call the toll free number. The tour, titled Birthplace of Dreams, is offered free of charge. This (…)