On Nov 6, 8:33 pm, 4phun <vic.hea....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 8:20 pm, 4phun <vic.hea....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Wall street Journal announced this bit of business news today.
> > AT&T will buy WayPort. More good news for iPhone users!
>
> >http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122598801123705301.html
>
> > You can now drop into any McDonald's and have FREE wifi on your
> > iPhone!
>
> > The deal expands AT&T's hot spots -- areas where customers can tap
> > into Wi-Fi networks -- to 20,000 in the U.S. That includes the
> > networks Wayport operates at Wyndham, Marriott Vacation Club and Four
> > Seasons hotels as well as McDonald's Corp. restaurants.
>
> > Non AT&T prefered customers may also use these wifi hotspots for $20 a
> > month. All of them are free to iPhone users. There is the Easy WiFi
> > app at the iPhone store where you can get one click access at any AT&T
> > spot with out even using the browser and SMS method those with out the
> > Easy WiFi app must go through.
>
> > I already had checked Micky Dees yesterday and was able to instantly
> > connect with one click using Easy Wifi. I had been trying
> > unsuccessfully for months to get free acess at McDonald s.
>
> > Life is good and getting better every day if you have an iPhone.
>
> > Today ComputerWorld said the iPhone ranked the highest of all smart
> > phones in user satisfaction among business users.
>
> > Not bad, if you have an iPhone.
>
> MORE HEADLINES
>
> Apple's iPhone wins JD Power award
> CNET News, CA - 1 hour ago
>
> A survey conducted by JD Power and Associates found Apple's iPhone
> generated the highest amount of customer satisfaction among smartphone-
> using ...
>
> JD Powers: iPhone beats BlackBerry CNNMoney.com
> JD Power: iPhone tops in customer satisfaction Computerworld
> JD Power ranks Apple’s iPhone highest in new study Macworld
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AT&T exec confirms iPhone tethering on the way
from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Robert Palmer
Filed under: iPhone
How's this for a telephone game: Technologizer's Harry McCracken
reports that AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega told Michael Arrington
that the iPhone will be allowed to work as a tethered wireless modem
for notebooks. It will be available "soon."
That is the same event where AT&T brass disclosed they have remarkable
future extensions to the iPhone being developed by none other than the
world famous AT&T LABS.
AT&T plans to kick ass with the iPhone for some time to come.
--
De la Vega [just] let loose with a laundry list of future
applications and usage scenarios for the device, which included the
following:
http://en.oreilly.com/web2008/public/schedule/speaker/15102
http://www.pcworld.com/article/153435/atandt_brass_talks_big_on_future..._iphone
Before the iPhone wakes you up in the morning with its alarm clock, De
la Vega says, it will have already loaded all of your daily news feeds
onto the phone. It will also have already sent a wireless message to
your coffee maker to get the coffee ready. While you're sitting there
drinking your coffee, he says, you might decide that you'd rather read
your news on the TV screen; so with a wave of the device toward the
TV, de la Vega says, you'll send your news feeds wirelessly from the
phone to the TV for reading.
Now you leave the house, and use your iPhone to lock the door on the
way out. You get in the car. The iPhone starts your car. On the way to
work, the iPhone continues reading your news to you using its text-to-
speech function.
Later on, at your office, the iPhone initiates a conference call
between you and two potential customers in Japan. On the call, when
you speak English, the iPhone translates it to Japanese so that your
potential customers can understand you. When they answer in Japanese,
the iPhone converts their speech into English so you can understand
them.
De la Vega says there's a lot of experimentation and testing going on
in AT&T's labs to integrate the iPhone with AT&T's fiber optic-based
IPTV service, U-Verse. The iPhone will become a remote control for the
the service, a scenario in which you'll use the device (and its on-
screen keyboard) to search for programming in U-Verse (or presumably
from the open internet), playing it either on the TV itself or on the
iPhone. De la Vega didn't go too much further into this, but we're
assuming that once the iPhone is integrated with the U-Verse TV
service, the U-Verse DVR will become more and more like TiVo and the
iPhone will control it either from the couch, or from across the
country.
Some of this sounds pretty far-flung to me, and if this were some
start-up company talking about these "exciting new plans," I'd
probably take it with a grain of salt. But in my experience, AT&T
plays it pretty close to the vest on its future plans, and usually
does what it says it will do.
<snip>
During the Q&A, an audience member asked De la Vega what AT&T planned
to do about areas like New York City where the 3G network coverage is
spotty. Beyond it's normal network upgrade process, AT&T says it will
begin using a new swath of 850 MHz spectrum to deliver a clearer,
stronger signal in densely populated areas. De la Vega also says his
company will be market testing femtocell technology in some markets in
2009; femtocell devices connect to wireless broadband networks indoors
and help boost the connections of wireless devices like the iPhone.
--
One last note AT&T will give new AT&T BB users free nationwide wifi
too.
BB with any other cellular carrier - no free wifi for you!
You will have to pay AT&T $20 a month to play.
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