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According to recent rumors, Facebook may be secretly building a software platform for smartphones of the future. Could the rumors be true? In this episode, Chris and Jonathan break down the possible motivations for this move. Tune in to learn more.
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – “Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider [...]
Wow. Rupert Neate and Jonathan Russell at the Telegraph are reporting that Deutsche Telekom, the German telecommunications giant that owns T-Mobile in the United States, is apparently considering an acquisition of Sprint Nextel. Keep an eye out for the bid within the next few weeks — Deutsche Telekom has called in advisors from Deutsche Bank to help prepare a bid, Neate and Russell wrote.
This is all part of a plan to boost T-Mobile’s market share in the United States and the United Kingdom. Just last week T-Mobile announced a partnership with U.K. provider Orange, which will push the pair to the top of the cell phone food chain. Apparently, as Russell and Neate said in their article, Deutsche Telekom feels that the United States and United Kingdom represent the biggest opportunities for improvement, as they pushed the German phone giant to a 1.1-billion Euro ($1.6 billion) loss in the first quarter.
It must be a week for new tech announcements. CNET’s Tom Krazit’s been liveblogging Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha’s press conference at Mobilize ’09 today, and reports that the company’s coming out with some new handsets that might be very interesting if you’re a fan of the company’s products, and especially if you like social networking services.
The new CLIQ is a slider phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. It runs on Google’s Android operating system, which gives it access to lots of applications through the Android Market. It’ll have a 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and it can record video. In addition, when it becomes available in the fourth quarter of this year, the CLIQ will be the first Motorola phone to offer the MOTOBLUR social networking software.
Motorola’s press release said that MOTOBLUR has widgets that help you manage your social networking accounts while on the go. It’ll support Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, multiple e-mail accounts and Last.fm Internet radio accounts.
Things are about to get a lot more interesting in the mobile phone business, and I don’t think the carriers are going to like how this one turns out. I was just reading an article in BusinessWeek by Olga Kharif, who said that in a hearing yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski called for comments from smartphone developers. The question is this: Are mobile phone carriers inhibiting smartphone application development?
That may seem frivolous to you. Why should the FCC get involved with smartphone applications? For years people have been complaining about wanting this or that cool phone that’s only available at another carrier. The ability to switch carriers and port your number over was one concession, but it’s very difficult for anyone to prove that just because the, oh, I don’t know, let’s say iPhone for example, is only available through AT&T, that the exclusive contract is anticompetitive.
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