On the morning of Sept. 11, I flew over the World Trade Center, on my way to a mobile-phone convention in Los Angeles; I got only to Cincinnati.
Nextel, the official mobile provider to both conventions, is deploying its iDEN network with encryption codes used by the National Security Agency to make sure no one eavesdrops on all the deal making.
Microsoft made the announcement on the opening day of Mobile World Congress, the mobile industry's largest convention.
At the mobile industry's annual convention in Barcelona, a group of the world's biggest operators endorsed an industry effort to develop the new standard, called Voice over L.T.E., or VoLTE, by March 2011.
The United States uses a billing convention under which mobile operators share the cost of each interconnection, which effectively eliminates the charge and had led to flat-rate mobile calling plans to all networks.
The OS X nomenclature had reached OS X 10.11 with El Capitan, but Apple's next version will be simply named macOS Sierra, bringing it in line with the naming convention for its mobile and tablet operating system iOS.
What a difference from four years ago, when Elizabeth Dole, roaming among the delegates at the Republican convention with a mobile microphone and an Oprahesque panache, was not simply singing the praises of her husband, Bob Dole, the party's presidential nominee, but also strutting her own political stuff.
Mobile World Congress — that big convention in Barcelona where a mountain of new phones get announced each year — is still over a week away, but the details are already starting to trickle out.
Instead, he plans to throw a Friday night reception at the Mobile, Ala., hotel where the convention is being held.
And to ensure its sustainability beyond the emir's beneficence, the foundation will operate several commercial interests, including a convention centre and a mobile phone licence.
