Andy Patrizio

Reporter’s Notebook: LOS ANGELES — Wireless data use has arrived, or so says The Wireless Association. On the second day of the CTIA Wireless & Entertainment conference, the trade group said data service revenues for the first half of 2006 were $6.5 billion, a 70 percent increase over the first half of 2005. Overall, the […]

Reporter’s Notebook: LOS ANGELES – Wireless networks are booming, according to the Wireless Association trade group. On the second day of the CTIA Wireless & Entertainment conference here, the Wireless Association said data service revenues for the first half of 2006 were $6.5 billion, a 70 percent increase over the first half of 2005. Overall, […]

LOS ANGELES –- The CTIA Wireless & Entertainment conference and expo kicked off this week with a little touch of California’s “governator” and a panel discussion California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about the movies. Specifically, he discussed his 1990 film “Total Recall” and the fact that he and director James Cameron didn’t think the futuristic […]

LOS ANGELES – Ringtones are looking like a serious growth industry. The two biggest news events coming out of the CTIA Wireless & Entertainment conference here have been acquisitions of ringtones firms. The day started with the news that News Corp.  had doled out $188 million for a 51 percent controlling interest in Jamba, a […]

Rosum is putting the old TV transmission towers that dot high hills around major cities to a new use. The system is designed to use television towers as a form of GPS to broadcast a signal to a person’s cell phone to help locate them. It was designed to help emergency responders locate victims of […]

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. mobile phone market is very different from the rest of the world, from the networks to the hardware to our approach to mobile phones. The result? A slower adoption of smart phones than other parts of the world. That’s one of the main take-aways from several panel discussions at the […]

As part of the kick off of its new IM-based telephony service, AOL is sponsoring a contest to build new applications that take advantage of new AIM APIs . The Open AIM program already has 50,000 registered developers working on building custom plugins, communications clients and mashups that access AOL’s instant messaging network. At the […]

Never underestimate the power of an impressive demo at a trade conference. Three months after two Java consultants showed off their project at JavaOne, Sun has hired them to make their after-work project a full time effort. Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo had been developing JRuby in their spare time. Now the two are full […]

Microsoft’s Expression Web design tool is one step closer to the market, along with a new beta and a shorter name. The product formerly known as Microsoft  Expression Web Designer is now Expression Web and has entered its first public beta after several months in the Community Technology Preview program. Expression Web is Microsoft’s first […]

Microsoft has officially released IronPython, its first foray into the world of dynamic languages, and it won’t be the last, according to its developer. Python  is one of several dynamic languages that have come of age entirely on the Internet and is a popular language used by Web developers. Other dynamic languages include Perl, PHP, […]

Activity around Windows Vista has kicked up quite a bit, with the first Release Candidate (RC1) hitting the mass market later this week and Vista pricing being officially unveiled. Beta 2 was widely panned after its release last June, with many testers feeling there was no chance Microsoft  would meet its year-end deadline. Fast forward […]

Two years ago, the looming format war for the next-generation DVD was looking like a cakewalk. The DVD Forum, the trade group behind the original DVD specification, had thrown its backing behind the Toshiba/Warner Bros.-developed HD-DVD, but the Sony-backed Blu-ray DVD seemed to have all of the momentum. Since then, the fortunes of Toshiba, Warner […]