majikTib
07-27-2007, 12:53 PM
I copy/pasted most of the article below.
Summary: Google and Sprint hooked up. Sprint phones will probably have GTalk, GMail, Google Earth, iGoogle, and google babies. They're working on a new "WiMax" network that's supposed to be 5x faster than the current 3G network. (just tested my Sprint Treo, came in at 96kbps, better than 56k at least!)
What do you hope to see in the future, as far as mobile communications, mobile networking with home computers/electronics/appliances, or real-time sporting events broadcast to your cell while you're at work?
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While Sprint has chosen Google's apps as the basis for the portal of its upcoming WiMax network, Google is not the only possible application provider for Sprint's new WiMax platform. Sprint will provide APIs for the creation of custom WiMax services, which Sprint said will be available through a wide array of WiMax-capable devices.
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12300003YV80
http://images.newsfactor.com/share/images/site/double-arrows-1.gif Like team members before a big game, the players in the race for high-speed mobile networks are lining up. On Thursday, Sprint Nextel announced that it had chosen Google to provide search, interactive communications, and social networking (http://www.cio-today.com/accuserve/accuserve-go.php?c=6465) http://images.cio-today.com/images/new/icon-inline-shop.gif (http://www.cio-today.com/accuserve/accuserve-go.php?c=6465) for the portal on its upcoming mobile WiMax network. And last week, Sprint announced that it would partner with rival Clearwire to jointly create the first U.S.-wide mobile broadband WiMax network.
Sprint and Google said that their collaboration will include new forms of location-centric services, which will be tied into the applications in the Google Apps suite, such as Gmail, Calendar, and Talk. Sprint executives said that the Google services will be offered free and supported by ads.
With this deal, Google is gaining another foothold in the wireless world. Recently, the company has been a very visible leader in the open-access discussion surrounding the upcoming U.S. government auction of spectrum in the 700-MHz band. Google has said it is ready to commit at least $4.6 billion to participate in the bidding.
He said that high-speed mobile WiMax, expected to offer speeds up to five times as fast as 3G, will expand the Web's presence in handsets and other mobile devices and will facilitate "any high-bandwidth service such as video." This could lead to a variety of new kinds of applications, he noted, such as local TV stations being available from any location. Ward pointed out that Sprint is already in a joint venture with Comcast, Time Warner, and others.
He also said the WiMax initiatives could lead to new forms of machine-to-machine monitoring, so that a household or workplace appliance could be continuously diagnosed by other machines or, at times, monitored from anyplace by their owners.
Summary: Google and Sprint hooked up. Sprint phones will probably have GTalk, GMail, Google Earth, iGoogle, and google babies. They're working on a new "WiMax" network that's supposed to be 5x faster than the current 3G network. (just tested my Sprint Treo, came in at 96kbps, better than 56k at least!)
What do you hope to see in the future, as far as mobile communications, mobile networking with home computers/electronics/appliances, or real-time sporting events broadcast to your cell while you're at work?
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While Sprint has chosen Google's apps as the basis for the portal of its upcoming WiMax network, Google is not the only possible application provider for Sprint's new WiMax platform. Sprint will provide APIs for the creation of custom WiMax services, which Sprint said will be available through a wide array of WiMax-capable devices.
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12300003YV80
http://images.newsfactor.com/share/images/site/double-arrows-1.gif Like team members before a big game, the players in the race for high-speed mobile networks are lining up. On Thursday, Sprint Nextel announced that it had chosen Google to provide search, interactive communications, and social networking (http://www.cio-today.com/accuserve/accuserve-go.php?c=6465) http://images.cio-today.com/images/new/icon-inline-shop.gif (http://www.cio-today.com/accuserve/accuserve-go.php?c=6465) for the portal on its upcoming mobile WiMax network. And last week, Sprint announced that it would partner with rival Clearwire to jointly create the first U.S.-wide mobile broadband WiMax network.
Sprint and Google said that their collaboration will include new forms of location-centric services, which will be tied into the applications in the Google Apps suite, such as Gmail, Calendar, and Talk. Sprint executives said that the Google services will be offered free and supported by ads.
With this deal, Google is gaining another foothold in the wireless world. Recently, the company has been a very visible leader in the open-access discussion surrounding the upcoming U.S. government auction of spectrum in the 700-MHz band. Google has said it is ready to commit at least $4.6 billion to participate in the bidding.
He said that high-speed mobile WiMax, expected to offer speeds up to five times as fast as 3G, will expand the Web's presence in handsets and other mobile devices and will facilitate "any high-bandwidth service such as video." This could lead to a variety of new kinds of applications, he noted, such as local TV stations being available from any location. Ward pointed out that Sprint is already in a joint venture with Comcast, Time Warner, and others.
He also said the WiMax initiatives could lead to new forms of machine-to-machine monitoring, so that a household or workplace appliance could be continuously diagnosed by other machines or, at times, monitored from anyplace by their owners.