Smartphone Chip Can Only Do So Much, It’s up to Your Carrier

The phone show (CTIA) may have been in Vegas this week but those things are nothing without a really powerful chip and an ingenious network. We’ve gone so far beyond the 3-minute phone call in the 40 year history of mobile phones. Our kids don’t know any better than having a computer in the palm of their hand and tapping into the world around them. The huge tower build-out of the network is very expensive so Qualcomm has some better answers to help us stay in touch. Continue reading Smartphone Chip Can Only Do So Much, It’s up to Your Carrier

CES …The Greatest Show on Earth

Everyone – except people who have a clown or big crowd phobia – loves the circus. CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is one of the world’s biggest circuses on the globe with acts of all shapes, sizes and quality; each hungering for the cheers of the crowd. It isn’t often you see a lawyer as the ringmaster, but Shapiro (Gary, head of CEA – Consumer Electronics Association) does a pretty good job of handling the tempermental acts. The main acts (those in the center ring) are the big boys who pay bigger fees to put on their keynote speaker acts. Just … Continue reading CES …The Greatest Show on Earth