Big brother is tracking your every move.

By Robert Lett

    Big brother is tracking you. Not tracking you, but tracking your cell phone. Each time your phone authenticates at a cell tower, this  information is stored at the Cell  Office for billing purposes. From this record  it is possible to place a cell user in a general area, using one main tower and two other weaker towers your position can be located down to about 50 feet, and this is without GPS assistance. Mobile carriers usually only release  this data with a court order. In San Diego, prosecutors used this method  to track the whereabouts of David Westerfield and to convict him of the  murder of seven year old daughter Danielle Van Dam. His cell records revealed his  movements in the days after Danielle’s disappeared. Another way to track cellular users  is through technology that calculates the time difference in arrival of a cellular signal among multiple towers, or the angle of arrival. These  techniques can help locate a cellular customer within a much smaller area  than by using Cell Office records  alone. This technology is used to locate  people calling the 911 service from  mobile phones, but it could just as easily be  used in a criminal prosecution. GPS units are already being installed in newer handset units. These units, of course, will give an exact  location of the cell phone in use, (give or take a few feet).

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Bio of the handheld.

   Do you carry 35 to 40 pounds of laptop and equipment just to stay productive while on the go? I use to do that also!
   How many day planners do you juggle? One paper version, one on your work computer, one on your laptop, and one on your home computer? WOW! How do you keep up with all that? How many appointments have you missed by not checking that last date-book? Wouldn’t it be nice to have just ONE? And what if it could update all the other computer based date-books you have, automatically! We can help you with that!

   Life is GREAT now! I have more time to do the things I want to do! I had time to find a wonderful wife and partner, even while running more than one business! I’m currently running three businesses now, all from the beach, pool side, or backyard! Even at the beach while watching my 3 year old play in the sand! You can do it too!

   But there was a time when it wasn’t so. I was always frustrated – I never had access to the files when I needed them. I always seemed and felt stupid when clients called while I was on the road and I couldn’t answer their questions and usually lost deals because of this. My notes where so disorganized that I would usually not find what I needed until two weeks after an event had taken place. (A little too late)!

   When I did leave the office I would have to check four voice mails, three emails, and three seperate calendars at least four to five times per day! And that didn’t include having to call into the office to see if I had received any faxes. Which required droping everything I was doing to go into the office to pickup all my faxes. Talk about getting upset when I would find out that most of the faxes I was receiving were junk faxes!

   I lost more business from not being prepared in certain situations. And it seemed to my clients that I wasn’t on top of things when I was out of the office. Usually, I was stuck at my desk in front of my computer 10 hours a day, 6 to 7 days a week. Even with these hours, I came very close to bankruptcy more than once. Not to mention lost relationships because of it!

   I found the ultimate secret! The ability to be anywhere you want and still be productive. I’ve made more deals sitting on the beach, staring at ocean and listening to the waves!

   And now I’m just so excited that others are benefiting from this system and it’s working for them, that I just had to share it with everyone else!

   I now wear my entire computer system and all my important files I need in a 12 oz handheld computer which hangs on my belt 24/7.

   I can now do business anywhere, anytime, in any country, even in the middle of the night. All my files are right there with me. No booting up, no looking for a power outlet for the laptop, just pick it up and start being productive.

   I tried this on one of my clients, and it worked! Then I tried this system on another and another, and it has worked every time! My clients have been using this system with success for over five years! And I’ve been running and operating an Information Brokerage service, real estate investment business, and an Health Wellness business for large corporations for 8 and a half years with a handheld computer phone!
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Document Recovery

By Robert Lett

   I very seldom use my laptop for anything but converting documents to Adobe PDF format, sending the newsletter, and site maintenance with FTP. A while back a virus took my laptop out. Most everything was backed up, but I wasn’t sure if the backups were infected or not. Then I realised something I’ve been telling people about for long time; All my important files were on my Smartphone. So after doing without a laptop for about three months, I really didn’t miss the thing, accept when I needed to send the
newsletter. When I finally got around to replacing it, I was afraid to backup the old files, even after running a virus scan on them. So I just loaded my Palm Desktop, QuickOffice, and my backup software and performed a HotSync. (Which took all of 30 minutes)! I was totally back in business after that. I’m really a believer in keeping all the files you need in the palm of your hand! And now, besides being productive everywhere, I have a secondary reason for it!
   I don’t recommend using this as your sole backup system, but it’s nice to know your files are safe regardless of what may happen to your main system.

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Bluetooth Possibilities

By Robert Lett

  Bluetooth:   Bluetooth is a wireless personal area  network, (WPAN). It operates on 2.4 GHz band, same as WiFi wireless network. It was named for  the Danish King Harald Blatand  (Bluetooth) who unified Denmark and Norway in the tenth century. Like King Bluetooth,  the Blutooth standard means to  unity computers and a telecom network, I  guess.   Bluetooth is much shorter in range  and its thoughput speed is much  slower than 802.11x WiFi network.  Blutetooth devices can coexist  peacefully and in some cases interoperate with a WiFi  network.   Bluetooth is a  Technology within 15-25 feet of the transmitter. You can  connect keyboards, optical mice,  printers, digital cameras, and PDAs that are  Bluetooth ready. They will connect to each other when they get in range of each  other. All of these devices can communicate and operate without  user intervention, the devices do it all by themselves.   If a Bluetooth device listens for  other Bluetooth devices  broadcasting and configures itself as a router (master) and broadcasts, it will tell other devices how to connect.  If another device comes into range, a  PDA for example, and it hears the  master device and connects to the master, it will identify itself. As other devices come into  range, they identify themselves to  the master and share information about  their capabilities and services. If a device with an active Internet  connection were to join a piconet, the other devices might take advantage of this  capability and check or send email, if that device was configured to do so.

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   A Bluetooth device can be a member  of multiple piconets at one time, but can only be a master in one. When piconets share one or more devices,  they become a Scatternet. A maximum of  ten fully loaded piconets can be part of a Scatternet at any one time.
   These devices can connect and  disconnect without the user having to  lift a finger, or even knowing that it has occurred. You wonder about your PDA talking to every strange  Bluetooth device it meets; Bluetooth  is safe and devices employ a number of security layers, including an authentification process called  pairing, and adequate encryption.   Marketing gurus have been testing  the marketing opportunities of Bluetooth for a few years. They tested grocery stores where when  you got within 10 feet of a product, your  Bluetooth enabled PDA would beep,  and a coupon would appear on the PDA  screen. When you would get to the checkout counter, you would just show your  PDA to the assistant checking you  out, and they would scan the bar code off of your PDA screen. If there was more than  one coupon, they would just page down  for the next bar code and so on.  Movie theaters have tested Bluetooth also.  While driving by a theater, the  marquee sign would transmit to your PDA and  give you an amount off a certain  movie. All these tests were done with people  who had opt-in for the service. Another words, you have to subscribe to receive the coupons and discounts. You don’t get these messages unless you subscribe to their services and set your PDA/Smartphone up to receive them. You can disable this feature at anytime to stop receiving the messages by going into your PDA setup.

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TDMA vs CDMA

By Robert Lett

        TDMA vs CDMA.
   TDMA – Time division multiple access  TDMA is a digital encoding technology that divides an allotted radio channel  into time slots, with each time slot handling one call. TDMA more than  tripled the call capacity over earlier analog systems. There are several  technologies in the TDMA family;  these include GSM, general packet radio  service (GPRS), and integrated digital enhanced network (iDEN). All of these use different frequencies and  channel sizes.
   CDMA – Code division multiple access  transmits multiple digital signals in the same channel. This means that  multiple calls can take place simultaneously on the same channel.  Qualcomm developed CDMA, and  Qualcomm digital handsets remain the chief  users of this 2G technology. CDMA  has better quality, is more efficient and  is less costly to implement than other technologies. It is also far more  secure, with calls being harder to  detect or jam. The military has adopted  CDMA for some applications because  of this increased security.   Allowing multiple calls to take place  on the same channel may seem to defy logic. Imagine every CDMA  phone on a channel is speaking a  different language. Even though all of these  conversations are taking place at the same time, your phone hears  another phone speaking its language  and ignores all the rest. Each phone recognizes  the digital transmission tagged with  its identity code and ignores the rest,  allowing multiple phones to share the channel.
   A decibel is a relative measurement  between a reference input signal level and the output signal level. A bel  is equal to 10 times the input signal level, and 1 decibel is 1/10th of  a bel. One bel is the minimum level of change in sound level that a human ear can discern.
   A high frequency signal requires  more power to cover the same  distance than a low frequency signal.
   As signal strength grows weaker, the throughput of the connection decreases, and the latency increases.

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Verizon resurrects Mobile ESPN, but for content

Verizon Wireless VCast monthly subscribers will soon have access to a broad swatch of sports content that was previously exclusive to the short lived Mobile ESPN MVNO. Verizon Wireless and ESPN announced the deal for the exclusive content in early February, but now the content, called ESPN MVP is live to VCast monthly subscribers at no additional cost. The only potential additional costs from ESPN MVP would come from optional sports alert services, which would carry fees as per usual. ESPN MVP allows VCast monthly subscribers to customize their mobile sport content experience by synching content related to their favorite teams, players and columnists right to their mobile handsets. ESPN MVP is initially available on selected handsets: LG Chocolate, LG VX8300, LG VX8600, Motorola RAZR V3c/m and MOTOKRZR K1m.

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Kids want “cool” phones, not baby devices

As cell phone penetration rises among the tween market, the age for first-time cell phone users is dropping. A new study from research firm iGR says that 50 percent to 70 percent of 12- to 14-year-olds have their own cell phone and a significant number of 5- to 9-year-olds have their own phones. This latest report is a follow-up to a report the firm did two years ago in which it predicted that 4 million tweens would own cell phones by 2009.

iGR now believes that the battleground for handset manufacturers and mobile operators is among children age 10 and under. “This study shows that although there are still significant opportunities with the tween and teen segments, the target age groups are getting younger and younger,” says Iain Gillott, founder and president of iGR.

Parents are making the purchase decision for these children and paying for the service and the device, however these 5- to 9-year-olds still have opinions about what they want and how they use a cell phone. Most use it to stay in touch with their friends and their parents. Like their older counterparts, iGR found that the “cool” factor and peer pressure ranked high in handset design and kids shy away from handset designs that they perceive as being “baby-ish” or geared toward young children.

iGR recommends that handset makers leverage the parents’ brand familiarity into same-brand handset sales for the teen/tween and younger children. In addition, iGR suggests that handset makers and carriers leverage parental control functionality and location-based services because these features ranked high with parents.

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Amp’d files for Chapter 11 protection

Mobile virtual network operator Amp’d Mobile quietly filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Friday night, announcing the move on its website. The Chapter 11 filing follows weeks of rumors concerning the fate of founder and CEO Peter Adderton, who reportedly exited the company following a rift with directors; Amp’d said in a statement issued over the weekend that its “senior management team remains largely intact.”

Despite more than $360 million in venture capital financing and subscriber totals closing in on the 200,000 mark, Amp’d is over $100 million in debt, owing $33 million to Verizon Wireless for network operations and $16.4 million to Motorola for handsets. The Chapter 11 petition, filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, is likely to erase that debt, but will also wipe out ownership stakes and preferred stock held by investors and content partners like MTV and Universal Music.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Amp’d president Bill Stone said the filing was forced by the MVNO’s inability to keep up with its growth over the past six to eight months: “We are pretty confident we’ll come out stronger,” he added. But the filing nevertheless follows in the wake of growing concern over the continued viability of the MVNO market–in the fall of 2006, parent company Walt Disney shuttered its much-hyped Mobile ESPN service, and other MVNOs are struggling as well. According to Korean carrier SK Telecom, Helio–the U.S. service it launched in partnership with Internet service provider EarthLink–is expected to report losses between $330 million and $360 million in 2007, despite a subscriber base anticipated to grow to 250,000 by year’s end.

According to a statement posted on its website, Amp’d expects to continue normal business operations throughout the reorganization process. “It’s going to be very challenging–with eight different VCs backing them up, all of whom are now creditors, I don’t see much hope for them coming back,” said Alex Besen, founder and managing consultant with mobile data consulting practice The Besen Group, in an interview with FierceMobileContent. “We’ve seen examples from Europe proving that MVNOs are a good business model, but it’s never an easy proposition. What Amp’d tried to do is very hard–trying to sell content in the current marketplace is very hard.”

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Nokia, carriers join mobile wallet plan

Nokia, the world’s biggest handset maker, and wireless-service operators have solidified a global initiative to turn mobile phones into wallets, a wireless telecommunications-interest group said on Wednesday.

Consumers will be able to use a phone as a wallet or as an access card simply by waving it over a wireless reader–and in some cases punching a personal-identification number, or PIN, into the phone–similar to how travelers in Tokyo and London access public transport.

Large European and Asian carriers KPN, Maxis Communications, Mobilkom Austria, O2, Orange, SFR, SingTel, SKT, and Wind joined 14 mobile operators which initiated the project several months ago.

Nokia, alongside two other major mobile phone makers, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, will embed a wireless chip into its phones.

The world’s biggest payment card company, MasterCard, is also involved in the initiative, which is cheaper and much faster than other wireless payment experiments, like those using SMS text messages.

Trials with the new standard are set to start in October.

“After several fragmented initiatives, the mobile phone industry is now uniting around a single approach to enabling the mobile phone to be used, instead of cash or plastic credit card, at point of sale,” said Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association, the global trade association for mobile phone operators.

China Mobile, Vodafone, Cingular–owned by AT&T–and Telefonica already support the common wireless chip format on the mobile phones they distribute for their networks.

Together with chip makers NXP and Sony, which pioneered the contactless chip called Near Field Communication (NFC), companies plan a global standard for electronic wallets in mobile phones.

Mobile phones are already widely used as electronic wallets in Japan, where more than 12.6 million consumers already have their credit cards embedded in a chip in mobile phones.

Mifare–developed by NXP, which was formerly known as Philips Semiconductors–and Felica, developed by Sony, are two of the most widely used formats used for access cards for buildings and public transport as well as mobile phones which double as electronic wallets.

“By combining this secure chip with an NFC chip, a universal contactless IC (integrated circuit) platform can be created for mobile phones,” Mifare and Felica said in a statement.

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FCC pulls back plans for mobiles on planes

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said that the commission is against allowing mobile phones on planes because the networks on the ground probably can’t handle the calls. The FCC has reportedly received thousands of emails asking for it to make this ruling because allowing flyers to use mobile phones would be annoying, but Martin’s reasoning comes from the wireless industry. Wireless networks are designed to allow phones to connect to one cell tower at a time, but users on airplanes will connect to multiple towers simultaneous, possibly causing too much traffic for the networks.

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