CTIA Day 2 - a look back

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Most interesting discoveries of CTIA Wireless 2008

As I wait in the Las Vegas airport for my flight home, here are the most interesting discoveries I made at this year's show.

Chargebox - they sell a neat vending machine to recharge cellphones.

Wildwave - a Canadian company that creates and distributes mobile digital content.

Jygy - an SMS-based social network tool (disclosure: I know some of the leadership of Jygy, though this week was my first look at the system)

dial2do - one of several voice-to-text companies at the show, their software is focused on processing oral commands, such as composing and posting Twitter updates completely by voice.

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CTIA Day 1 - It's Vegas, baby

As Dan Meyer pointed out in RCR today, CTIA is just more fun this year. Is it the Vegas factor?



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EV-DO is a bit of a miracle

I'm in Las Vegas for CTIA, and so it's appropriate that I'm connecting on the web via Verizon's EV-DO service. (WiFi coverage in the hotels is lousy, plus it costs $12.99 per day.)

My first CTIA was New Orleans in 1992, and if I recall correctly, McCaw Cellular began developing the CDPD (cellular digital packet data) service around that time. That service didn't do much of anything, but now, sixteen years later, mobile broadband is a fixture.

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Wireless 2008