Perhaps more than ever before, the celphone makers have an opportunity to invade markets formerly inhabited by PDAs, cameras and mp3 players - by way of example, BW Online has a short piece today (press release here; photos here) on a new generation of Nokia devices that has these other devices squarely in its sights.
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Toronto Hydro has made the expected announcement of a wifi cloud over Toronto. The (by December 31) footprint is from Spadina to Jarvis and Front to Bloor, with the downtown core to be operational by the end of June, and the suggestion of further expansion later. Lots more info at Wireless Toronto’s blog.
Mark [...]

I’ve blogged here several times about the damage done to the consumer by Canadian cel operators’ resistance to wireless number portability (finally to be adopted in Canada, but at a snail’s pace). The NYT is running a story today that puts the issue in sharp relief. Gist:
From computer makers to credit card issuers [...]

A few days ago I posted on some new dual mode cellular and VOIP over wifi handsets that were announced at 3GSM. The news is also spreading now that Steve Ballmer announced at 3GSM that the new Office Communicator suite will have the ability to do VOIP over Wi-Fi from Windows Mobile enabled celphones. [...]

Nokia and Motorola have announced their cellular-VoIP phones - phones that are designed to handoff (even mid-call) to VoIP when within range of Wifi:

Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc., the world’s biggest branded handset makers, both unveiled phones this week that switch between cellular coverage outdoors and cheap wireless Internet calls inside — all on a [...]

On several occasions over the past few months, clients and others have mentioned how eager they were to move off the Blackberry onto a more sophisticated handheld platform, without losing the ‘berry’s excellent email capabilities - many of the people I work with have pretty sophisticated appetites for handheld technology. Indeed, just today I [...]

From Canadian Press:
Rogers Communications Inc. said Monday that it has awarded Ericsson AB the contract to supply a very high-speed wireless data network that will be faster than anything currently operating in this country.
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Rogers Wireless, Canada’s largest cellphone company since it acquired the Fido network in late 2004, said it will begin deploying the UMTS/HSDPA [...]

Shortly after the recent FON financing announcement, several A list bloggers who were also on FON’s advisory board blogged the news. It certainly helped spread the FON news to generally praiseworthy reaction, until folks started questioning how ISPs would react (the FON plan would put bandwidth-sharers offside most ISP’s TOS), and certainly only until [...]

RIM has announced some details of the workaround:

Once consumers download the workaround, RIM said, the software upgrade will be invisible to them. Functionality of the BlackBerry devices and servers will remain the same even when it’s working in U.S. mode.
The company didn’t detail the specifics about how the software differs from the NTP patents. But [...]

Tim Wu has a piece on Slate that digs into the archaeology of the RIM-NTP litigation and looks at software patents generally. It’s certainly opinionated (it is Slate, after all), and often more than a little inflammatory, but it’s also quite funny (”The company RIM is itself a special kind of tech outsider, known [...]