The Red C Blog

More mobile internet kit coming soon

2007-12-31T19:50:00.001Z

These days I’m getting more and more excited about the growing range of kit available giving people access to the mobile internet. In the last week two new devices have been announced. One is an Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) from Asus, called the R3. The other is a device called EB, or Elecktrobit, which is being called a ‘MIMD’ – that’s a Mobile Internet Multimedia Device.Tech-heads among you might be more familiar with MIMD standing for Multiple Instruction stream, Multiple Data stream - so I’m not too convinced about the name and it doesn’t even roll off the tongue! Nevertheless, the point is there is a now a vast amount of investment underway on getting these kinds of devices out to market - like the Medion UMPC, the WiBrain B1 UMPC and the Packard Bell EasyNote XS which are all being launched in 2007.At the same time, CPU makers are at work to create new processors that will use up to 10 times less power than today’s average laptop. All of which will make the mobile internet much more accessible for everyone.

MySpace moves into the mobile internet

2007-12-31T19:48:00.000Z

The social networking site MySpace has this week announced it’s launching a mobile web service. I looked in up, and according to Wikipedia, MySpace is the 6th most popular website in the world. As an incentive to use it, the mobile MySpace will give users a significant amount of free content and tools that have only been available to paying subscribers up to now. Users will, for free, be able to send and receive MySpace messages and requests from friends. They can comment on profiles and images, put up bulletins, update blogs, and look for friends.The owners of MySpace, Fox Interactive Media, expect above 80 million visitors a month in the US market alone. They want users to be able to access their profiles on-the-go and are predicting that accessing the Internet from mobile phones will soon be done as easily and frequently as we all currently makes phone calls and text. I can’t disagree with that. It seems to me that a service like this from MySpace is going to exert a huge push towards making the mobile internet something we’ll all use every day.

Motorola unveils new mobile internet technology

2007-12-09T07:47:00.000Z

Motorola, one of the big names in handset manufacture, has this week unveiled a new WiMAX Chipset modem solution which they are claiming gives ultra-high-speed functionality to its phones.This technology is part of what Motorola is calling ‘application centric’ modem architecture. It supports ultra-high-speed functionality for 3G and 4G thin mobile devices and is optimized for low power use and small devices. The developers claim it will outperform any other existing 3G technology. As a result it is being billed as powering “the true wireless internet to a consumer’s hand.”This new modem solution is due to be launched with a range of new Motorola mobile devices at the beginning of next year. It reflects how the whole telecoms industry is adapting to the possibilities of WiMAX technology to achieve what people want, which is the ability to connect and interact with information and entertainment wherever they are. The promise is that WiMAX technology will continue to deliver data networks that work faster, are more convenient and offer much enhanced multimedia quality. It looks like it’s an exciting time to be involved in mobile internet technology.