Over the last few weeks, there have been some interesting news on various wireless industry issues so I thought I’d highlight some of them for you. I also included links to two op-eds I recently wrote and were published.   mHealth: The New York Times, A Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory, 3/8   GigaOM, Smartphones Are the New Stethoscope, 2/26   Misc: U...

Clearwire's mobile WiMAX subscribers are burning through around 7 GB of data per month, according to a company executive, and the company's business plan seems to be predicated on keeping up with that demand. Mike Sievert, Clearwire's chief commercial officer, disclosed the statistic in an interview with GigaOM. Sievert said the company's deep spectrum position--it owns up to 1...

San Francisco - Thing Labs, a developer of Web-based software that includes social media content aggregator Brizzly, has acquired Twitter iPhone application Birdfeed, and Wikirank, a tool for visualizing Wikipedia data, GigaOM reports.read more

GigaOm is reporting that, contrary to speculation that Steve Jobs wanted to return us to a more analog time when we bought new albums and sank back for ours drinking in every liner note and detail, iTunes LP was actually the record labels idea: I’m told by an industry source who preferred to remain ...

Over six months after it was first unveiled, iTunes LP is a total bust. Apple launched its interactive album format with a library of six iTunes LPs: since, only 23 more have been added to iTunes. What the heck happened? According to Paul Bonanos writing over at GigaOm, it all comes down to two things:

Lots of people have been sending over the blog post by the CEO of book publisher Macmillian, John Sargent, trying to explain the company's ebook plans, following all the hubbub over its fight with Amazon. I was going to write up a long blog post about how backwards-facing Sargent's viewpoint is, but frankly, Mathew Ingram, over at GigaOm, already wrote up the post I would have written (e...

Happy March! The super hip and trendy South-by-Southwest music and tech festival is coming up this month, and like many tech conventions these days, AT&T is working on a plan to keep their network up and running as thousands of iPhones descend on Austin, Texas to send around voice, texts, and data. GigaOM has a little insight into how they're planning to do it this year, and if you�...

We kick off the new decade with some great news for Boston. Andy, Eswar, and the rest of the team have been great friends of Mobile Monday over the years and were very happy about their success. Heres some of the news on Quattros acquisition by Apple. Official announcement from Quattro Techcrunch WSJ Silicon Valley Mercury News Boston.com New York Times Newsweek GigaOm

Skype will not give you free Wi-Fi  or 3G calls when it comes to Verizon smartphones including BlackBerry and Droid..  The upcoming Skype service uses Verizon's circuit switched voice network not 3G and doesn't work on Wi-Fi reports DSL Reports. GigaOm, reported that the Skype deal is exclusive and won't be offered by other U.S. carriers. The deal, my sources tell me, is an exclusive par...

It's no secret that tons of people are pretty damn upset with NBC's decisions to tape delay pretty much everything at the Olympics, in an era when everyone is used to real-time info. On top of that, most people recognize that it's not hard to simply go online to unauthorized sources to watch streams of the Olympics live. GigaOm's NewTeeVee put up a post over the weekend that ex...