Broadband / Network Services
Digital Britain: broadband coverage maps show that UK is distinctly class divided with haves and have-nots and Ofcom's severe reluctance to respond to a FOIA request only further casts doubt on their supposed customer orientation.
SingTel has been working on an Enterprise cloud-computing (grid)
China's Internet population reaches 338m
Both Sony-Ericsson and Nokia post 2Q loss.
How to make mobile apps pay
Amazon denies access to its catalog from 3rd-party mobile apps despite having been thinking about it for 2 years.
Google Voice out of Beta with more features including iPhone integration.
FTTH
Tasmania: tenders for NGN due 2Q10
Public WiFi
Fon announce their new router with 'Web-2.0' adding 'Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, RapidShare, and other content — even while users’ PCs are off'. Very cool.
WiMAX
New backhaul licensed products from Proxim and Alvarion
Mobile / FMC / VoIP
MobileTV trials by seven Washington, D.C. TV stations plus 5 other cities following in August
iPhone: AppStore: 1.5b served. The case for a UMA-enabled business version. Apple's Push notifications don't work on 'unlocked' phones. Firmware 3.1beta stops the IPCC-edit trick to enable tethering and allows developers to work over WiFi as well as USB. Filed under 'that didn't take long', Apple blocks 3rd-party devices from masquerading as iPods. I'd say it was a mistake to further close the Apple ecosystem but there's perhaps a legal argument that if they didn't do it, they would have implicitly agreed to an open-platform strategy from now on. Runing emulated, Win95 on an iPhone
Android: tutorial on using sensors. Google Voice comes to Android and Blackberry.
Palm Pre: Mojo SDK developlment kit is now available,
ReadWriteWeb: 2009: The Year Of LBS
