Broadband / Network Services

Despite the big incumbents passing the opportunity for stimulus project funding, other applications oversubsribe the bill by 7 times

EM Radiation Research: Cellphones cause brain tumours (although the conclusions seem very similar to existing accepted science).

Augmented apps seem all the rage this week with several coming to the iPhone.

DailyWireless on the much delayed 3G auction in India

Public WiFi

Researches say say they can crack WPA encryption in 60secs (TKIP on certain routers but still, time to use WPA2 only).

Mobile / FMC / VoIP

iPhone: the AppStore is estimated to be a $2.4B a year business with iPhone users twice as likely to buy apps than Android users. Apple finally closes the deal with China Unicom for a 3-year deal on a WiFi-less iPhone, more at ArsTechnica and Total Telecom. The motive is unclear but the new Apple OS-X release, Snow Leopard drops support for PalmOS sync; it should be noted that since the Pre was launched, PalmOS is officially deprecated although still used on some current models. As much of a success that the iPhone is for AT&T, the high data loading is a real problem for the network and demands investment with little apparent financial return

Nokia's new N900 phone builds nicely on their rather orphaned but much loved N800 and N810 handheld computers with a spec that pitches it into iPhone territory. The choice of Linux (as per 800 and 810) is natural but their marketing pitch has to work against their own Symbian OS.

Nokia readies Nokia Money and pre-announces 3G-enabled netbooks.

The Register on a British Femtocell manufacturer who is trying a direct to consumer approach