Aimed directly at sassy Spanish youth, the Alcatel One Touch Mini rolls out in Spain. The phones are quite affordable and feature packed as well. The phone sports a 2.4 inch touch screen that displays a really helpful widgets bar. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel camera, FM and Bluetooth. The attractive colors and the cool QWERTY keypad makes up the rest of the phone. As mentioned before, the...
There we go, lots of people have asked me in the past few days about my opinion on the publication of the IMS One Voice Profile to bring voice services to LTE. The spec, created by AT&T, Orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Samsung and Sony Ericsson is available here. There's a strong political and a technical side to this, so let's...
Via Mark, The LTE Connected Car is a platform for in-car entertainment, navigation, management and services. At MAX 2009 QNX won the mobile and devices award because of their excellence in working with the Flash Platform. Working with the geniuses at Alcatel Lucent QNX have enabled LTE connectivity (read: 4G) into the car to prep [...]
Austria based WiMAX Telecom has reportedly filed for insolvency after it was unable to meet payment demands from Alcatel-Lucent for network infrastructure.
The new multipurpose Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, purpose built for the FIFA 2010 World Cup, will have a voice, data, cabling, satellite master antenna television and computer network, as well as printing and server solutions.
Trials of remote health monitoring are underway in New Zealand based on hardware provided by Alcatel-Lucent. The three-month trial focuses on 20 heart disease patients selected by Auckland Hospital (ADHB), and is being carried out by Telecom New Zealand subsidiary, Gen-i.
Brain-child of a “multi-industry collaboration” among Toyota Motor Sales, Alcatel-Lucent, Atlantic Records, QNX Software Systems, chumby and Kabillion, this next-generation car concept makes you feel impatient for the future to come. Introduced recently by the ng Connect Program as “a sophisticated, next-generation “smart” device on wheels supported by the most advanced...
Though interested parties have been asked to participate before Jan. 29, 2010, the telecoms ministry is holding a pre-bid conference before selecting them.
AT&T*, Orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Sony Ericsson have defined the preferred way to ensure the smooth introduction and delivery of voice and SMS services on Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks worldwide. The above telecommunications industry leaders have jointly developed a technical...
The dash of the LTE Connected Prius Here’s a dashboard shot of the Alcatel-Lucent “LTE Connected Car,” perhaps the world’s most Internet-enabled, multimedia automobile. Included inside this 2010 Toyota Prius are four touchscreens – two in the dash and two behind the front seats – that access numerous car features, as well as the Internet, numerous multi-media [...]...
A large group of carriers and equipment makers yesterday came out in support of a standard called One Voice to provide voice over the next-generation Long Term Evolution mobile networks. For those adopting the standard, LTE mobile calls would become VoIP calls. The standard is necessary to ensure you can call people on 3G [...]
Yesterday I attended the Enterprise 2.0 conference, “the event that will make your company more agile.” First up was a Google presentation about Wave. Bare-bones Wave is a snooze; I haven’t been able to see many benefits. But customized Wave looks like a winner and that’s how I think Wave will be deployed. SAP demo’d a [...]
Toyota, Alcatel-Lucent and other companies banded together to create the LTE Connected Car, a concept vehicle that went on display in New York on Nov. 3. The vehicle combines an LTE broadband radio link with in-car Wi-Fi to bring the power of cloud computing to driver and passengers, giving them access to online content such as music, YouTube and games through four individual touch screens. It's not...