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Suck sez WAP Sucks

Yet another publication chimes in with a strong Anti-WAP message: WAP sucks. Of course, the fact that WAP sucks is old news on FOIB, but this article is really funny. At the root of the problem are the Wireless Service Providers, now shifting like sand dunes to avoid...

L&H is Toast

I almost missed this one. L&H makes THE speech recognition tools used by everybody from TellMe to BeVocal to AT&T. They were poised to benefit from the emergence of the Voice Web better than most. Apparently they blew it. More articles below.. —–...

Net2Phone Sues Dialpad For Hiring…

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/cn/20001026/tc/net2phone_sues_rival_for_hiring_its_employees_2.html Thursday October 26 02:00 PM EDT Net2Phone sues rival for hiring its employees By Wylie Wong, CNET News.com Net2Phone has sued rival start-up Dialpad.com for hiring two...

RE: RE: AT&T Slammed on Wireless Data

GSM uses two main techniques, TDMA AND Frequency-Hopping. This, combined with a third feature that doesn’t transmit “quiet times” — points where there is no speech, combines to produce between a 15x-20x increase in utilization. TDMA combined...

Re: RE: AT&T Slammed on Wireless Data

Oops. Let me clarify: CDM = 20x, TDM = 3x. AT&T and Rogers/Cantel use TDMA. Sprint, Telus, and most others use CDMA. -Ian. At 11:04 AM 18/05/00 -0700, Ian Andrew Bell wrote: >Oh. Sorry. > >TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access 3x Frequency Re-use >CDMA: Code...