Wireless Data News Blog - August 18th, 2006

Aug. 18th, 2006

Global revenues from mobile data services surpassed US$ 100 billion last year. That is about $5/month/subscriber globally -meaning wireless data access is seriously financially important now.
Sprint chooses WiMAX for its' next generation network.
Motorola charges ahead and introduces a comprehensive line-up of new phones. Analysts seem to be right in predicting as quite probable that Motorola will soon move to the first place ahead of Nokia.
Sony adds to PSP a messaging (with Skype support) communicator with WiFi.
A lot of advanced reference design platforms for Linux-based handsets are announced.
Skype is now providing SMS messaging.
TynTec offers secure guaranteed SMS delivery with QoS.
Connexion by Boeing is closing doors - it seems that the need to access the Net while flying is not that urgent.
Nokia is to acquire Loudeye and start its own music distribution platform.
An open source project is launched that promises somehow "allows all voice calls to become data calls". It does not say though how it is possible or why exactly it should be useful. No details (or sourcecode) at the web site yet.