The good news for Clearwire was the display of a chart that showed smaller footprint cell sites that would include base station cards for a multiplicity of services including: LTE (yes, long term evolution), WIMAX, some successor concept that would continue to use the IDEN spectrum in the low bands to keep the push to talk business users happy, and CDMA as well.
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Much of the growth can be credited to Nextel's push-to-talk service, the walkie-talkie-like function that allows users to page and call friends instantly with a single button.
If that takes you back just a bit, then perhaps you're ready for "push-to-talk, " which appears to be the craze of the moment among wireless service providers eager to attract business users and increase the amount of airtime they use each month.
At a recent business conference, I listened to Barbara Pantuso, who is the co-founder and CEO of Hey Neighbor, talk about how her site allows users to create a social network from only those in their neighborhood.
Google Talk requires users to register with a username from Gmail, the company's e-mail service, and uses that mail address as the user's IM log in.
Google Talk Chatback enabled web masters to allow users to chat with them from the site but Google recently acquired Meebo which provides this functionality though Meebo Bar.
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Users can text instead of talk if they want to keep the phone away from their faces.
The keyboard also simplifies communication with Social Hub allowing users to talk to whoever they want, however they want, all from their contact list.
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At the same time, Microsoft made it possible for Messenger users to talk to and swap messages with contacts via Skype.
The GALAXY Win also allows users to enjoy extended multimedia use and longer talk time with 8GB of internal storage and a 2, 000mAh battery.
Results were based on patients' average talk time ranging from 120 minutes to 150 minutes a month -- some U.S. users talk that much on the phone in a single week, Davis said.
In the offbeat ads, Apple Macintosh users, including the famous cellist, talk about why they switched from a PC to a Mac.
From the way Intel bears talk, PC users are disappearing from polite company faster than smokers, forced to type on their physical keyboards in alleys behind buildings or in doorways.
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