Wireless Providers Counting on Porn to Drive Business
A number of wireless providers worldwide are leveraging porn available over cellphones to drive revenue. In fact, they are spending nearly a billion dollars to bring all kinds of sexual content to their customers. For example, Orange (France) customers can download and view video clips on their cellphones from the company's wireless portal. Vivid Entertainment Group delivers erotic videogames to European operators, and plans a service that lets subscribers have live sex chats with women
Wireless Providers Counting on Porn to Drive Business
A number of wireless providers worldwide are leveraging porn available over cellphones to drive revenue. In fact, they are spending nearly a billion dollars to bring all kinds of sexual content to their customers. For example, Orange (France) customers can download and view video clips on their cellphones from the company’s wireless portal. Vivid Entertainment Group delivers erotic videogames to European operators, and plans a service that lets subscribers have live sex chats with women they can view simultaneously on video.
FatPort Tries Retailers
FatPort, which bills itself as Canada's largest Wi-Fi provider (a dubious claim given there are few rivals) is now selling pre-paid cards through retailers such as Best Buy, Future Shop, London Drugs and Wireless Wave. The cards can be used at more than 300 FatPort hotspots. While FatPort gets credit for trying something new, its long-term prospects are, at best, modest given Telus Mobility, Rogers Wireless and Bell Mobility have joined forces to push Wi-Fi service through a common branding campaign and expansion into 500 HotSpots. At the end of the day, I believe Wi-Fi will thrive as a low-price option offered by wireless service providers. Sure, there may be room for FatPort or a Boingo but they are likely destined to be marginal players.
Wireless Providers Gain Ground On Wireline Services: Report
A new report by Deloitte has found that wireline providers are becoming increasingly threatened by wireless services due to technology advances allowing for increased wireless bandwidth.
Best Buy to offer Clearwire wireless broadband
Best Buy, in an effort to provide customers with immediate Internet access once they arrive home with their new computers, will soon become one of the first retailers to offer pre-WiMax service in certain locations. The company has teamed up with Craig McCaws Clearwire (clear wire = no wire, get it?) to provide this nascent wireless broadband technology in what is being promoted as a true
Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router Wins 2005 Popular Science Best of What's New Award
Belkin's critically acclaimed Wireless Pre-N Router is recognized as a leading innovation in the Computing category (Compton, CA) - November 8, 2005 - Belkin Corporation, the global leader in connectivity solutions, today announced that its Wireless Pre-N Router has been honored with a Popular Science Best of What's New Award in the Computing category. To be honored, a Best of What's New winner must represent a significant step forward in its category. Powered by Airgo Networks' True MIMO technology, Belkin Pre-N dramatically improves wireless reliability and performance, and enables users to work with high-bandwidth applications, such as audio and video streaming. Guaranteeing eight-times-greater coverage and six-times-faster speed than standard 802.11g networking, Wireless Pre-N provides complete wireless coverage of your home.

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