The Evolution of Motorola?s Wireless Technology

1930 First Motorola brand car radio (reproduction), model 5T71

With this week's announcement of Google's plan to buy Motorola Mobility, we took a look at the significant technology milestones in the company?s history. Motorola, founded in 1928 as the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, was pivotal in advancing communications from business to space and government. Achievements included everything from releasing the world?s first commercial handheld cellular phone to introducing one of the first commercially successful car radios in 1930, reproduced above.

This radio was the first product to carry the Motorola brand. It was designed to be mass-produced, affordable, and easily installed. The components, as shown in this reproduction, included (left to right) radio receiver, tuning control, and speaker.

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Sprint mulling Clearwire buyout?

Sprint is reportedly looking to cable providers for an investment that would help Clearwire build an LTE-based wireless network. The struggling WiMAX company has suffered substantial losses this year and it is unlikely they could erect the planned network without financial backing. 

Sprint, the third largest wireless carrier in the US, owns a majority share in Clearwire and could be looking at a few different options as they move forward, Bloomberg reports.

If Sprint can gather enough support from cable companies, those funds could go directly towards the LTE network rollout and nothing would change as far as ownership. But what?s in it for the cable providers?

In addition to Sprint ownership, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks all lay claim to shares of Clearwire, meaning an initial investment in a speedy wireless infrastructure could pay dividends in the long run. It wouldn?t be surprising to see cable providers offering wireless service alongside television and Internet packages should this deal pan out.

Another option could see Sprint buy the remaining shares of Clearwire outright and funding the project themselves. This would give them substantial leverage against rival AT&T, especially in light of the planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA. We have no idea how much this would cost, but it wouldn?t be cheap to buy the remaining shares of the company and fund the network alone.

Clearwire needs about $600 million to complete their LTE network. Talks are still in early stages and a deal is not imminent.

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Sprint mulling Clearwire buyout?

Sprint is reportedly looking to cable providers for an investment that would help Clearwire build an LTE-based wireless network. The struggling WiMAX company has suffered substantial losses this year and it is unlikely they could erect the planned network without financial backing. 

Sprint, the third largest wireless carrier in the US, owns a majority share in Clearwire and could be looking at a few different options as they move forward, Bloomberg reports.

If Sprint can gather enough support from cable companies, those funds could go directly towards the LTE network rollout and nothing would change as far as ownership. But what?s in it for the cable providers?

In addition to Sprint ownership, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks all lay claim to shares of Clearwire, meaning an initial investment in a speedy wireless infrastructure could pay dividends in the long run. It wouldn?t be surprising to see cable providers offering wireless service alongside television and Internet packages should this deal pan out.

Another option could see Sprint buy the remaining shares of Clearwire outright and funding the project themselves. This would give them substantial leverage against rival AT&T, especially in light of the planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA. We have no idea how much this would cost, but it wouldn?t be cheap to buy the remaining shares of the company and fund the network alone.

Clearwire needs about $600 million to complete their LTE network. Talks are still in early stages and a deal is not imminent.

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This week at Microsoft: Mozilla, Windows 8, and Office 365

It is Friday, dear readers, and that means that it?s time to sit down and take a look at the last seven days. This post, which is written every week, is also up for tweaking, so please do send in your comments. We read all of them.

As always, we are going to restrict ourselves to a mere four stories, so if you want to get a better look at the larger scope of everything that occurred over the last week, be sure and check out the archives.

Now, follow TNW Microsoft on Twitter and Facebook, and let?s get into the news.

Microsoft Sends Mozilla A Cupcake

The funniest, and funnest, story of the week was Microsoft?s gift to Mozilla. As always, when Mozilla ships a new version of Firefox, Microsoft sends the firm a cake.

However, Microsoft decided to take a swipe at Mozilla, in a playful way. What did the company do? It sent Mozilla not a cake, as usual, but a tiny cupcake. Why? Microsoft decided that the Firefox release was too small to warrant a larger desert.

While that was worthy of a laugh, how Mozilla handled the entire escapade was perhaps even better:

Perhaps ironically, Mozilla agrees. In their posting of a picture of the cupcake, the photographer said: ?Every time Mozilla releases a version of Firefox, the IE team sends us a cake. They?re cool like that. As the releases have gotten faster and leaner? so have the cakes.?

Mozilla is on a new schedule that should have the company sending out releases on an accelerated timeframe. Yes, that means we?ll get to see more hijinks. Get happy.

Windows 8: More Shakes Free

There has been a goodly number of Windows 8 news tidbits that have come out in recent days, mostly in relation to a new, public build of the future OS that is likely to be given to the world at the forthcoming BUILD conference.

Microsoft also made it plain that Windows 8 will contain an app store:

The truth came out in an entry that Microsoft posted on its new blog that focuses on Windows 8. While it has been generally known in the market for some time that such an app store was being built, today?s revelation is the first completely ironclad mention of the product?s existence.

In a list of the teams that are working on the coming operating system, Microsoft listed ?App Store? as one of the groups. The post promises that each group will eventually make itself better known through the blog.

Of course, this is only a slice of this week?s Windows 8 news. Check here for the rest.

Office 365 Takes A Dive

Office 365 suffered from some very embarrassing downtime this week. Unlike a free consumer service, whose users might tolerate such interruptions, the business customers that suffered during the outage have little patience.

Such downtime is bad for more than just Office 365, as it harms all cloud services that are attempting to court business customers. Early this morning, Microsoft released a statement on the cause of the outage:

Preliminary investigation indicates that a networking interruption in one of our North America data centers caused Office 365 Exchange Online to be inaccessible by some customers. This incident lasted from approximately 11:30 AM PDT to 2:40 PM PDT, during which time customers were not able to access the Outlook Web App or send and receive email through Exchange Online. The Service Health Dashboard was updated regularly during the event to notify customers of the problem, though there was a brief period of intermittent access issues to that dashboard.

Office 365 is such a new product that its customers may chalk up the mistake to growing pains, but Microsoft needs to ensure that for at least the next year the sky is cloudy, but clear.

Xbox 360?s Coming Dashboard

Microsoft is working on a refreshed dashboard for the Xbox 360 that briefly made an appearance on YouTube. The videos have subsequently been pulled.

Also in the world of Xbox this week a string of LIVE titles that were popular on the WP7 platform were pulled. Why? The game?s licenses had expired. But what about people who had already purchased the games? They could have issues later if they change phones or reset their current handset. That is a problematic scenario.

That is all for this week, folks. We will be back before you start to miss us.

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Political Memo: Twang and Job Title Might Be the Same, but Perry and Bush Keep Their Distance

The observation is made frequently, and with remarkable consistency: Mr. Perry sure reminds people of another governor from that state.

?You close your eyes and you say, ?Wow, I?ve heard this movie before,? ? said Matthew Dowd, a former strategist to Mr. Bush.

As Mr. Perry worked the room at the Bedford Village Inn after speaking Wednesday at a Politics and Eggs breakfast in New Hampshire, Andrew Smith, an associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, said, ?You close your eyes and you can just hear George W. Bush.?

Mr. Bush and Mr. Perry have more than a few surface-level similarities: the cowboy boots, the swagger, the same way of hunching up their necks when they give a ?heh-heh? chuckle. They share an I?m-the-Decider confidence and a down-home way of speakin? that?s heavy on the dropped g?s. (On the campaign trail last week, Mr. Perry frequently warned against "over-taxin?, over-regulatin? and over-litigatin.? ?).

Mr. Perry, however, is hardly a natural heir to the Texas Bush legacy or the much-maligned reputation that Mr. Bush left among both Republicans and Democrats. The blue-blooded Bush clan?s dislike of the gun-slinging, coyote-shooting son of tenant farmers runs deep ? from the first President George Bush on down to the family?s political Svengali, Karl Rove, to state-level operatives ? and Mr. Perry further offended Bush-world when, in recent years, he publicly criticized President George W. Bush on a number of issues, and questioned his fiscal conservatism.

Yet the Texas likenesses could still be an issue for Mr. Perry, particularly to the degree he tries to appeal to the more moderate electorate found in some Northern battleground states like New Hampshire, which gave Senator John McCain a victory in the 2000 Republican presidential primary.

To the degree that conservatives make a psychic or political link between Mr. Perry and Mr. Bush, could also undercut Mr. Perry?s otherwise solid appeal to members of the Tea Party movement, many of whom feel that Mr. Bush betrayed their principles by becoming a big-government conservative.

?I don?t think it?s a problem he?s a Texas governor,? said Mr. Dowd, who broke with Mr. Bush over the war in Iraq. ?I think the concern is that he sounds and has similar ways that he talks and gestures that remind you quickly of George W. Bush. I think his people know that that?s probably the biggest hurdle they?re going to have to overcome.?

For better or worse, Mr. Smith said, the way Mr. Perry almost effortlessly channels Mr. Bush is uncanny.

?The one person you?re going to recognize when you watch Rick Perry talk is George W. Bush,? he said. ?I think for people who remember George Bush very well and his speeches, Rick Perry will sound very familiar to them ? not what he says necessarily, but how he says it.?

Mr. Perry is well aware of the potential pitfalls of being seen as Bush Redux, and he has already worked hard ? to the point of alienating the Bush contingent ? to differentiate himself.

He previously distanced himself from Mr. Bush on education, government spending and immigration, and the longstanding animosity between the two camps tumbled into public view yet again this week, when members of the Bush crowd offered an almost unified critique of Mr. Perry?s controversial statements about the Federal Reserve. Earlier, when Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison ran against Mr. Perry in the Republican primary for governor in 2010, many in the Bush camp ? the first President Bush and his wife, Barbara, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Karen P. Hughes, a trusted Bush adviser ? backed her failed bid.

Ray Sullivan, a spokesman for the Perry campaign, said Mr. Perry and Mr. Bush had ?spoken in recent weeks and months,? but he did not think the two had talked since Mr. Perry?s announcement last Saturday.

Mr. Bush was a Republican governor with a Democratic legislature, and he was forced to compromise and work across the aisle. When he ran for president, he liked to call himself a uniter and not a divider, and a compassionate conservative. Mr. Perry has not needed to work much across partisan lines, and appears to relish being provocative and confrontational.

There are class differences, as well. Mr. Bush battled the perception that he was a country club Republican who was riding his father?s coattails and name recognition into politics, with his cowboy boots and Texas accent, offset by years away at elite Northern schools, viewed as an act.

Mr. Perry?s supporters suggest that he represents a more authentic version of the down-home Texan Mr. Bush only claimed to be.

?I am Rick Perry, he?s George Bush,? Mr. Perry told reporters at the Iowa State Fair. ?Our records are quite different.?

Coyly contrasting their backgrounds, he added: ?I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.?

But there is a side of Mr. Bush that Mr. Perry very much resembles. At his Politics and Eggs speech, Mr. Perry noted that the ?live free or die? state was sure ?remindful of a little place down in Texas called the Alamo,? using a real word ? ?remindful? ? that sounded an awful lot like one of the malapropisms that sometimes peppered Mr. Bush?s remarks.

It might be a political caricature, but it might also be here to stay.

?So it will get into the pop culture that Rick Perry might be the second coming of George W. Bush that way, and whether it?s fair or not doesn?t really matter,? Mr. Smith said. ?He?s going to have to do something to distinguish himself from Bush.?

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Political Memo: Twang and Job Title Might Be the Same, but Perry and Bush Keep Their Distance

The observation is made frequently, and with remarkable consistency: Mr. Perry sure reminds people of another governor from that state.

?You close your eyes and you say, ?Wow, I?ve heard this movie before,? ? said Matthew Dowd, a former strategist to Mr. Bush.

As Mr. Perry worked the room at the Bedford Village Inn after speaking Wednesday at a Politics and Eggs breakfast in New Hampshire, Andrew Smith, an associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, said, ?You close your eyes and you can just hear George W. Bush.?

Mr. Bush and Mr. Perry have more than a few surface-level similarities: the cowboy boots, the swagger, the same way of hunching up their necks when they give a ?heh-heh? chuckle. They share an I?m-the-Decider confidence and a down-home way of speakin? that?s heavy on the dropped g?s. (On the campaign trail last week, Mr. Perry frequently warned against "over-taxin?, over-regulatin? and over-litigatin.? ?).

Mr. Perry, however, is hardly a natural heir to the Texas Bush legacy or the much-maligned reputation that Mr. Bush left among both Republicans and Democrats. The blue-blooded Bush clan?s dislike of the gun-slinging, coyote-shooting son of tenant farmers runs deep ? from the first President George Bush on down to the family?s political Svengali, Karl Rove, to state-level operatives ? and Mr. Perry further offended Bush-world when, in recent years, he publicly criticized President George W. Bush on a number of issues, and questioned his fiscal conservatism.

Yet the Texas likenesses could still be an issue for Mr. Perry, particularly to the degree he tries to appeal to the more moderate electorate found in some Northern battleground states like New Hampshire, which gave Senator John McCain a victory in the 2000 Republican presidential primary.

To the degree that conservatives make a psychic or political link between Mr. Perry and Mr. Bush, could also undercut Mr. Perry?s otherwise solid appeal to members of the Tea Party movement, many of whom feel that Mr. Bush betrayed their principles by becoming a big-government conservative.

?I don?t think it?s a problem he?s a Texas governor,? said Mr. Dowd, who broke with Mr. Bush over the war in Iraq. ?I think the concern is that he sounds and has similar ways that he talks and gestures that remind you quickly of George W. Bush. I think his people know that that?s probably the biggest hurdle they?re going to have to overcome.?

For better or worse, Mr. Smith said, the way Mr. Perry almost effortlessly channels Mr. Bush is uncanny.

?The one person you?re going to recognize when you watch Rick Perry talk is George W. Bush,? he said. ?I think for people who remember George Bush very well and his speeches, Rick Perry will sound very familiar to them ? not what he says necessarily, but how he says it.?

Mr. Perry is well aware of the potential pitfalls of being seen as Bush Redux, and he has already worked hard ? to the point of alienating the Bush contingent ? to differentiate himself.

He previously distanced himself from Mr. Bush on education, government spending and immigration, and the longstanding animosity between the two camps tumbled into public view yet again this week, when members of the Bush crowd offered an almost unified critique of Mr. Perry?s controversial statements about the Federal Reserve. Earlier, when Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison ran against Mr. Perry in the Republican primary for governor in 2010, many in the Bush camp ? the first President Bush and his wife, Barbara, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Karen P. Hughes, a trusted Bush adviser ? backed her failed bid.

Ray Sullivan, a spokesman for the Perry campaign, said Mr. Perry and Mr. Bush had ?spoken in recent weeks and months,? but he did not think the two had talked since Mr. Perry?s announcement last Saturday.

Mr. Bush was a Republican governor with a Democratic legislature, and he was forced to compromise and work across the aisle. When he ran for president, he liked to call himself a uniter and not a divider, and a compassionate conservative. Mr. Perry has not needed to work much across partisan lines, and appears to relish being provocative and confrontational.

There are class differences, as well. Mr. Bush battled the perception that he was a country club Republican who was riding his father?s coattails and name recognition into politics, with his cowboy boots and Texas accent, offset by years away at elite Northern schools, viewed as an act.

Mr. Perry?s supporters suggest that he represents a more authentic version of the down-home Texan Mr. Bush only claimed to be.

?I am Rick Perry, he?s George Bush,? Mr. Perry told reporters at the Iowa State Fair. ?Our records are quite different.?

Coyly contrasting their backgrounds, he added: ?I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.?

But there is a side of Mr. Bush that Mr. Perry very much resembles. At his Politics and Eggs speech, Mr. Perry noted that the ?live free or die? state was sure ?remindful of a little place down in Texas called the Alamo,? using a real word ? ?remindful? ? that sounded an awful lot like one of the malapropisms that sometimes peppered Mr. Bush?s remarks.

It might be a political caricature, but it might also be here to stay.

?So it will get into the pop culture that Rick Perry might be the second coming of George W. Bush that way, and whether it?s fair or not doesn?t really matter,? Mr. Smith said. ?He?s going to have to do something to distinguish himself from Bush.?

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Plans for a Russian Space Hotel to launch by 2016

Castles in Portugal? Yachts in Greece? Tree-houses in Costa Rica? A bed and breakfast in Italy? Jacuzzi equipped hotel rooms in Miami? So, so passé.</p>

This week, Russian firm Orbital Technologies announced its plans for a hotel in orbit 217 miles outside of Earth, which will accomodate 7 guests in 4 cabins with massive windows for expansive, intergalactic views. Since this is a little bit outside of Google Earth?s navigation capabilities, we suggest two days aboard a Soyuz rocket.

The Daily Mail reports that a five-day stay in the space hotel will cost you £100,000, on top of £500,000 for your journey. The Commercial Space Station is scheduled to open by 2016 and, according to Russia?s Orbital Technologies, it will be ?far more comfortable? than the International Space Station presently used by astronauts and cosmonauts.

Instead of freeze-dried ?astronaut food?, guests will be served braised veal cheeks with wild mushrooms, white bean puree, potato soup and plum compote. Visitors can choose to have beds that are either vertical or horizontal.

Are we really going to let the Russians beat us to interstellar travel booking? The real question is, when will you be able to book a room in space on Airbnb?

Also read: NASA spots 6 planets around a new Sun-like star

The history and future of NASA?s social media strategy

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Plans for a Russian Space Hotel to launch by 2016

Castles in Portugal? Yachts in Greece? Tree-houses in Costa Rica? A bed and breakfast in Italy? Jacuzzi equipped hotel rooms in Miami? So, so passé.</p>

This week, Russian firm Orbital Technologies announced its plans for a hotel in orbit 217 miles outside of Earth, which will accomodate 7 guests in 4 cabins with massive windows for expansive, intergalactic views. Since this is a little bit outside of Google Earth?s navigation capabilities, we suggest two days aboard a Soyuz rocket.

The Daily Mail reports that a five-day stay in the space hotel will cost you £100,000, on top of £500,000 for your journey. The Commercial Space Station is scheduled to open by 2016 and, according to Russia?s Orbital Technologies, it will be ?far more comfortable? than the International Space Station presently used by astronauts and cosmonauts.

Instead of freeze-dried ?astronaut food?, guests will be served braised veal cheeks with wild mushrooms, white bean puree, potato soup and plum compote. Visitors can choose to have beds that are either vertical or horizontal.

Are we really going to let the Russians beat us to interstellar travel booking? The real question is, when will you be able to book a room in space on Airbnb?

Also read: NASA spots 6 planets around a new Sun-like star

The history and future of NASA?s social media strategy

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Bright new ideas from Seedcamp

The Guardian brought SeedCamp to my attention the other day, which is like a European KickStarter for entrepreneurs. Lord Sir Alan Sugar would be proud.

The idea is that small startup companies with big ideas can pitch to SeedCamp and get the funding they need to develop or launch their product or service. Or, In SeedCamp?s own words, ?Seedcamp is an early-stage micro seed investment fund and mentoring programme? For the winning companies of any event where we choose to make an investment, Seedcamp?s standard investment is: ?50,000 for 8-10% per cent of the company.?

What caught my eye the most were some of the Guardian?s top 20 picks, which look genuinely fun, useful or some combination thereof. Here are my picks of their picks:

Crowd is in private beta, but is a photo sharing service where users can share images in real-time, allowing people to experience other locations via geo-tagged image taken there.

EnergyBob is just a placeholder URL for the company that aims to make energy metering smarter. The EnergyBob server ?talks to Google's Latitude's API to determine when you're on your way home, and when the heating needs to come on? for example. The appliance is set to cost ?99 for installation and ?9 a month thereafter.

CityMapper is a service that connects the various and many ways to travel around London into one map-driven interface. CityMapper integrates everything from the Tube and buses to the Boris bikes and just walking into one application; it also tells you how much you?ll pay for your journey, or how many calories you?ll burn off. You can use the service now.

Myows stands for ?My Original Works? and is a way to share and distribute your creative work while maintaining control over it. Users store their copyrighted material (which can be images, video, music, artwork or whatever) with Myows, which allows the copyright holder to prove ownership, manage their rights and chase copyright infringements. ?[i] Myows is already storing 18,000 registered works and has solved 72 infringement cases.[i]?

opensignalmaps is a simple idea: overlay the strength of mobile reception on a map. You can select your operator and what level of network you?re looking for (ie, just 3G reception). You can use the service now, and it might come in handy for holidays in remote locations.

Travelstormer might come in handy if you?re arranging a trip with friends, as it helps organise a bunch of people?s travel needs. Once you?ve ?brainstormed? the best plan, you crowdsource travel tips from other Travelstormer users before finalising your plans.

There are more interesting ideas in the Guardian's SeedCamp story and on the SeedCamp site itself.

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Was Skyrim ever going to use Games For Windows Live?

Was Skyrim ever going to use Games For Windows Live?

Posted on 18th Aug 2011 at 14:59 by Clive Webster with 29 comments

The news that Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will definitely use Steamworks rather than Games For Windows Live has shot around the Internet today, but (and with the greatest of respect to those reporting the story) it doesn?t appear as if Skyrim was ever going to use GFWL.

That hasn?t stopped the rumour of GFWL rubbishness afflicting the next Scrolls Elder Scrolls game (that is confusing, isn?t it?), resulting in the Elder Scrolls Twitter stating that ?We can confirm today that we're using Steamworks for Skyrim?

The confusion came from the promotion picture for Skyrim, where the PC version was placed behind the Xbox 360 and PS3 boxes. The Games For Windows logo was showing and many people worried that the word ?Live? might be on the end. However, the Games For Windows logo features on a lot of game boxes and merely means? actually, I?m not sure what it means, or guarantees and implies. That the game doesn?t run on Linux and Mac?


Anyway, the point is, this logo is harmless and does not mean you have to use GFWL. Moreover, the Games for Windows Live logo is larger, with the Live bit underneath the word Games. It?s easy to spot, and therefore avoid when possible, as these images show:


Quite why Microsoft insists on such stringent online authentication and activation procedures on the PC and is so much more relaxed on the Xbox 360 is beyond me ? piracy is as much of a problem on console as on PC and yet it?s PC gamers that have to suffer the counter-measures. Anyhoo, hope the above helps when you?re out shopping, or looking at future cross-platform release photography!

Check our GamesCom 2011 news hub for all the information from Cologne this year.

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