AT&T’s current (reasonable) voice and smartphone data plans offer 900 minutes for $60 and unlimited data for an additional $20, but previous reports about the iPhone suggested that consumers should expect to pay $60/month for service, so we’re left to wonder what’s up.
Meanwhile, I’ve been asking AT&T users about their signal coverage. I’m on Verizon [...]

Posted June 25, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: at&t, coverage, iphone, mobile network, rate plans, service plan, verizon. One Comment.

Vonage has been saying Verizon’s patent claims are overly broad for some time, but now people have dug up some prior art.
One of the patents Verizon is complaining about is #6,104,711, what they call an “enhanced internet domain name server.”
In short, it’s all about linking phone numbers to IP numbers, and Jeff Pulver says he [...]

Posted April 23, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: chilling effect, copyfight, court case, free world dialup, fwd, h.323, innovation, intellectual property, jeff pulver, lawsuit, legal battle, patent, patent infringement, patent law, patents, prior art, underdog, verizon, vonage. Be the first one.

Vonage will be in court again tomorrow defending itself against Verizon’s claims of patent infringement. The innovative VoIP company had lost the trial and was ordered to pay $58 Million in damages in early March, when a jury found them to have violated thee of seven related patents held by Verizon. Vonage appealed of course, [...]

Posted April 23, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: chilling effect, copyfight, court case, innovation, intellectual property, lawsuit, legal battle, patent infringement, patent law, underdog, verizon, vonage. One Comment.

After vacillating for a while (and waiting for it to become available), I finally purchased one of the Verizon / Novatel V640 Express Card EVDO adapters that everybody’s talking about for my MacBook Pro.

Posted September 28, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: CDMA, evdo, express card, mobile carrier wireless networking, mobile office, mobile wireless, networking, novatel v640, Novatel Wireless, v640, verizon, verizon evdo, verizon v640, verizon wireless, wireless, wireless network, wireless wide area networking, WWAN, wwan adapter, WWAN card. One Comment.

Sometime ago I started work on figuring out how to get dial up networking (DUN) access via my Treo 650. Now I’m getting serious about mobile internet access and looking at this again.
The plan is that you should be able to make a Bluetooth connection between your laptop and the phone and then get piped [...]

Posted August 23, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: bluetooth, dial up networking, dun, mobile carrier wireless networking, treo, treo 650, treo 650 dun, verizon, verizon wireless, vzw. 5 Comments.

The much anticipated Novatel V640 Express Card EVDO adapter is out. Verizon is pimping them for $180 with 2 year contract and GearLog says it’s “almost too easy” to use these goodies with the MacBook Pros.
Then GearLog reader Brad commented: “If you had to install a driver, I wouldn’t say it was the true Mac [...]

Posted August 20, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: evdo, express card, mobile carrier wireless networking, mobile office, mobile wireless, novatel v640, v640, verizon, verizon evdo, verizon v640. 2 Comments.