March 24, 2008 | 15 Comments
We’ve been writing about the cell phone market at the Skydeck blog for almost a year without ever saying what Skydeck plans to do. That’s been pretty frustrating, since what we’re working on has implications for many of the problems that we’ve talked about here.
Skydeck still hasn’t launched — you need an invitation to join our beta test — but as of today we’re no longer a secret.
Skydeck is building an online service that will help people to take control of their cell phones and their cell phone bills.
First, we’re unlocking the valuable information hidden in your cell phone bill. (more…)
Posted by: Jason
Categories: Announcements, Featured
March 23, 2008 | Be the first to comment
If you thought that the debate about open access was over, it’s really just begun.
Last week the FCC announced that Verizon and AT&T were the big winners in the 700 MHz auction, as expected. In particular Verizon won the ‘C’ block, the nationwide license to which open access conditions apply.
Now the regulators have to decide what the open access provisions really mean, and how they’re going to be enforced.
For most of us, open access means ‘any application on any device’: you can attach any compatible device to the network and run any application that the device is capable of running. Verizon used similar language last year when the company announced that it was going to open up its existing network to ‘any application, any device.’ (more…)
Posted by: Jason
Categories: Mobile Market, Public Policy, Featured
March 7, 2008 | Be the first to comment
The next BayFP meeting is Wednesday, March 12th. Something a little different this time (although with some connections to Burak Emir’s talk last month about pattern matching in Scala); I’ll be speaking about Twelf.
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Posted by: Jake
Categories: Technology, Programming
