http://www.wirevolution.com Mobile Unified Communications Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:26:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a previous posting I wished for an iPhone voice memo recorder, and I was disappointed to find that the 2.0 software load still lacked one. I now conclude that this was an intentional omission, yielding the opportunity to the new iPhone third party software community. Last week I downloaded Jott, ... http://www.wirevolution.com/2008/07/23/jott-for-iphone-and-other-asr-products/ Rethink Research has published an interesting article relating the new Wi-Fi voice certification to the outlook for femtocells. The idea of the article is that voice over Wi-Fi for cell phones is competing with femtocells, and that femtocells may win out. The article distinguishes between business voice and consumer voice, ... http://www.wirevolution.com/2008/07/17/femtocell-versus-wi-fi/ A while back I wrote about Ozmo, a company that plans to replace Bluetooth with Wi-Fi in certain applications. Ozmo's pitch is that their special version of Wi-Fi is faster, less prone to interference, cheaper and more power efficient than Bluetooth. Though slow for Wi-Fi, Ozmo's data rate of 9 ... http://www.wirevolution.com/2008/07/16/more-on-ozmo/ In news that is huge for VoWi-Fi, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced on June 30th a new certification program, "Voice-Personal." Eight devices have already been certified under this program, including enterprise access points from Cisco and Meru, a residential access point from Broadcom, and client adapters from Intel and Redpine ... http://www.wirevolution.com/2008/07/03/wi-fi-certification-for-voice-devices/ Phybridge is a Canadian startup (founded May 2007) aiming to solve some of the problems of VoIP implementation. Its premise is that in many cases, an organization seeking to move from a traditional TDM phone network to a VoIP network does not have an Ethernet LAN capable of supporting ... http://www.wirevolution.com/2008/07/03/making-lemons-into-lemonade/ Most 802.11n access points draw more power than Power over Ethernet (PoE) can supply, while 802.11a/b/g access points work comfortably with PoE. So 802.11n must be more power consumptive than 11g, right? The answer is yes, but when you delve into the reasons why you may discover that an 802.11n ... http://www.wirevolution.com/2008/06/23/is-80211n-too-power-hungry-for-handsets/ I already wrote about how Bluetooth is specifying Wi-Fi for its high bandwidth transport in a future version. Now there's another interesting Bluetooth/Wi-Fi juxtaposition. You may remember that last year Bluetooth subsumed WiBree as an ultra low power consumption variant. Now something analogous is happening in Wi-Fi, where a ... http://www.wirevolution.com/2008/06/12/wi-fi-bluetooth-collision/ Agito Networks was in the news recently as a part of Cisco’s Motion announcement. I have mentioned Agito a couple of times before in this blog. Like DiVitas it offers PBX-agnostic enterprise-based fixed-mobile convergence. One of Agito’s unique technical claims is that it employs location based technology as one of ... http://www.wirevolution.com/2008/06/09/agito-and-cisco-motion/ There's some FUD around 802.11n. If you go to the Buffalo Technology website you see a woebegone message about an injunction from CSIRO. A comment on this blog wonders how long it will be before it is ratified, and calls it a "pipe dream." So I was pleased ... http://www.wirevolution.com/2008/06/02/80211n-update/ The Intel Atom is aimed at Internet tablets, Mobile Internet Devices and Ultra-mobile PCs (or whatever the nom de jour is), but not at phones. I don't think Intel has formally announced its return to the phone processor business yet, but Paul Otellini has been talking about it for a ... http://www.wirevolution.com/2008/06/02/intel-returns-to-the-smartphone-business-in-late-2009/