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AskCALEA NewsWeekly March 12, 2010

• FCC Given Four Years to Inventory Spectrum
  It looks like broadcasters could get more breathing room from the specter of government spectrum band-clearing for mobile broadband.
• Skype bows to Verizon, steers clear of Nokia’s US Ovi Store
  Alliances in the mobile world are sometimes fleeting, but they can also be strong enough to break other partnerships. Take Skype’s recent partnership to bring VoIP calling to Verizon Wireless customers, for example. Verizon and Skype announced that they had joined forces to create a Skype mobile app that would allow free Skype-to-Skype calls and VoIP calls over Verizon’s 3G network.
• Application for Using VoIP on the iPhone Through SIP
  VoIP services for the iPhone are not rare, but for certain reasons, one might want to not be tied to one particular service provider, which is often the case when you have installed one provider's softphone on your iPhone.
• Verizon LTE Blazing Trails for Wireless Broadband
  Verizon, the largest wireless provider in the United States based on total subscribers, announced plans to expand its next-generation wireless broadband beyond the initial test sites of Boston and Seattle. The LTE pilot has been an overwhelming success and soon another 25 to 30 markets will get to enjoy the blazing 4G speeds as well.
• Better, faster, stronger: 4G's impact on app development
  With 4G networks due to hit the mass market over the next two years, some application developers are looking at ways to exploit the new high-speed connections to improve the performance and capabilities of their apps.
• The metamorphosis of wireless voice
  Change is afoot in the way voice calls are delivered over mobile WANs. What's not quite clear yet is how your monthly cellular bill will be affected -- and in which direction.
• Envisioning an FCC for the Internet Age
  The Federal Communications Commission hasn't always been known as a paragon of transparency and technical prowess, but there is a reform movement brewing within the agency that is charged with overseeing much of the Internet industry.
• Five observations and two predictions about the National Broadband Plan
  Over the last few weeks, the FCC has pre-announced more and more details about the National Broadband Plan, due in mid-March. Here are a few observations and predictions based on information that has emerged so far:
• T-Mobile: M2M connections to outnumber humans 4-to-1
  T-Mobile national director of M2M John Horn believes that machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will not only be huge factor in T-Mobile’s future growth, but that it will become the dominant form of connection on T-Mobile’s GSM network.
• Titanium 1.0: The App for Building Apps?
  For over a decade, mobile developers have toiled in the trenches — largely unseen and at times feeling somewhat misunderstood as we wrestled with new tools and technologies, trying to determine which ones are going to make it and which ones to avoid.
• Secret agents: Make SNMP work for you
  Out there, working for you, are agents. Feed them a little port UDP/161,162 and they’ll deliver a dossier on many network devices, in the form of a Management Information Base (MIB).

AskCALEA NewsWeekly March 5, 2010

• The Wired Interview: FCC Chair Julius Genachowski on Broadband, Google and His iPhone
  Julius Genachowski wants to be the Federal Communications Commission chairman who brings cheap and fast broadband to a technologically backward nation - the United States.
• FCC's broadband plan critiqued as overly broad, unfeasible
  Seybold said the upcoming National Broadband Plan needs to focus on only a few top priorities instead of being so broad.
• RSA: Google, PayPal, Equifax, Others Form Open Identity Exchange
  Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA, and Booz Allen Hamilton on Wednesday at the RSA Conference announced that they have formed a non-profit organization to oversee the exchange of online identity credentials on public and private sector Web sites.
• 21 apps Apple doesn't want on your 3.0 iPhone
  Not every worthwhile iPhone app can be found at the App Store
• U.K. may outlaw public Wi-Fi spots
  The U.K.'s new Digital Economy Bill might outlaw Internet cafes, warns some legal experts who point to an official advisory issued last week that exceptions on the proposal's copyright-infringement provisions - that are aimed at individuals - have not been carved out for universities, libraries and small businesses offering open Wi-Fi service
• Skype lands in Nokia's Ovi Store
  Yesterday, the only good way to get Skype for Symbian on a Nokia Series 60 smartphone was to download it from Skype's Web site or a site like CNET Download.com.
• America's Most Wired Cities
  Raleigh is the kind of tech-forward city that, innovative as it is, often gets overlooked in favor of San Francisco, San Jose or Seattle. But this year the North Carolina capital passed its flashier rivals to grab the No. 1 spot on Forbes' Most Wired Cities list.
• The Three Giants of Linux
  In the land of Linux, there are three giants. Three distributions which have stood the test of time and from which most others have come. What makes these three unique and how have they shaped Linux as we know it today?