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Catalonia may be renowned for its hospitality, but the mobile-phone industry could be excused if it were feeling a bit betrayed. Earlier this year, Barcelona, capital of the Spanish province, hosted the 3GSM World Congress, the world's biggest annual cellular conference. During his keynote address, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin implored his colleagues to improve cellular networks' ability to provide rapid and easy Internet access, otherwise a new wireless technology called WiMAX could take over. WiMAX doesn't require phone handsets or cellular networks. It can deliver fast Net connections over long distances directly to computers or handheld devices...
...It’s a whole package of how are we examining on a day-to-day basis our ability to communicate effectively with students in the event of an emergency.” Nelson added that much of the work, including a study of cellular connectivity across campus, that contributed to the original decision to remove the red phones had happened “prior to incidents that occurred last year,” including the Virginia Tech shooting. One of the safety advantages of the red phones, according to Nelson, is that Cambridge and Harvard University police...
...reasons, does not have access to a cell phone can get one to use as a replacement to the red phone.”Red phones will remain in proctor and tutor suites, and in Quad dorms, after what Nelson called “an exhaustive study of the cellular connectivity in the Houses and dorms this summer” revealed that the cellular service in the Quad was poor. Regular land-line phone service will be available to students willing to bring their own phones and pay the expense of the service, according to Nelson. —Staff...
...crazy," says Adam Levine, lead singer of Grammy-winning L.A. group Maroon 5, which gave a jumping 35-minute live performance at London's Ministry of Sound nightclub as part of Nokia's launch. According to Ovum analyst Jonathan Arber, Nokia is frustrated that operators' own cellular music download services, "have ramped up very slowly," he says. "They haven't been the killer application people thought they would be." A combination of high and confusing pricing, and services often criticized as clunky, have dampened users' enthusiasm. Perhaps Universal Music Group International chairman Lucian Grainge was jabbing at operators' services when...
...phone, most of them "sideload" it by transferring tunes over from a PC. According to research firm M:Metrics, 85% of the people who listened to music on their phones in Europe's big 5 countries and the U.S. from February to April did not get the songs through cellular downloads. Nokia's service supports both cellular and PC Internet downloads...