Though don’t count on wireless speeds that fast right away, definitely not until well after launch sometime in 2009 or 2010. Verizon will be trialing the platform throughout 2008.

Verizon says it seeks to open up the kinds of devices used on its network beyond mobile phones.

"With a host of new devices and applications, and a particular focus on embedded wireless in virtually every piece of electronics you buy in any store, we believe LTE is the best technology with global scale to deliver on the promise,” said Richard Lynch, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Verizon Communications.

Because Verizon is switching to the same technology as AT&T, it also means that subscribers will be able to move between networks thanks to Verizon’s new open devices policy, announced at the beginning of this week.

At the time of that earlier announcement, it was unclear the impact an open devices policy would have because of the incompatibility between Verizon’s CDMA network and the rest of the world’s (save for Sprint) use of GSM.  

Understanding Top Level Domain Searches

Google Tutor & Advisor covers this and more in the Adding Advanced Operators chapter of the Google Search Manual.

The site: operator is most often used to limit the search to a specific site, like this example which limits the search to qualcomm.com:

[CDMA site:qualcomm.com]

But you can also use it to search just with the top level domain by using the top level domain (without a period in front) as the operator value. For example, the following searches all educational site pages for the term “CDMA”:

[CDMA site:edu]

Here, the site excludes all .com top level domains from the search:

[CDMA -site:com]

Of course the Top Level Domains include all the country domains. For example, the following searches within Italy domains only:

[CDMA site:it]

Don’t forget that you can also use Google Advanced Search to specify the domain or top level domain, without having to remember how to use operator.

Using the site operator with a top level domain name is very useful for doing things like finding official information in government sites and finding research papers in educational sites. By the way, note that the site Search operator is the magic behind the Google University Search, nothing more.

So, why did the Google Blog bring this up today? It turns out that Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given preliminary approval to some new top level domains (.cat, .jobs, .mobi, .post, .travel, and .xxx). With so many domains in our future, it could come in handy to limit the search to specific top level domains.

By the way, I’ve always been a proponent of the .xxx domain. It could be such a simple solution to the porn accessibility problem. I’d propose that any porn site MUST have an .xxx domain. If porn is placed on any other domain, the domain name is taken away. Then, browsers could simply have an option to ignore or not ignore the .xxx sites.

Instant porn filter for the kids. In beginning this, I’d offer the .xxx domain to any .com domain holder of a domain name first, so that they don’t lose a valuable domain prefix. For example, if someone owned naughtyblondes.com, give them first priority to purchase naughtyblondes.xxx. It seems all to logical to me. (My idea is certainly better than the stupid and failed idea of the “kids only” domain!)

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The 2004 CDMA Americas Congress, co-organized by the Institute for International Research (IIR) and the CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced a pre-Congress workshop titled “Driving Mobile Data Services Adoption With Java(TM)” on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004, in Miami. The workshop is hosted by Sun Microsystems, which joins the event’s leading line-up of sponsors as an associate sponsor.

“CDMA carriers are finding that leveraging the 4 million Java developers and a massive Java ecosystem is the fastest, most cost-effective way to bring innovative, revenue-generating mobile data services to customers,” said Juan Dewar, senior director, Consumer and Mobile Systems Group of Sun Microsystems. “Sun Microsystems is happy to respond to carriers and developers by hosting a workshop in conjunction with the CDMA Americas Congress to connect people and identify opportunities where mobile Java can drive significant new revenue.”

Taking place prior to the official opening of the CDMA Americas Congress, the “Driving Mobile Data Services Adoption With Java” workshop will feature a panel of CDMA operators discussing their experiences in deploying Java-based services. Attendees will also hear about the evolution of Java, an in-depth analysis of how to deploy Java services, and the current and future opportunities for Java users. The workshop will be led by:

– Juan Dewar, Senior Director, Consumer and Mobile Systems Group, Sun Microsystems

– Amit Khanduja, Business Development, Consumer and Mobile Systems Group, Sun Microsystems

– Carl Pichotta, Business Development, Consumer and Mobile Systems Group, Sun Microsystems

Sponsors of the 2004 CDMA Americas Congress include Comverse, Dyaptive Systems, Ericsson, Kyocera Wireless Corp., Lucent Technologies, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Qualcomm, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments and UTStarcom. Exhibitors at the event include Aeroflex, Agilent Technologies, Airvana, Anritsu, Audiovox, Comarco, ISCO, MultiTech Systems, NAVTEQ, NMS Communications, Racal Instruments, Rohde & Schwarz, Spirent Communications, STMicroelectronics, Sun Microsystems, Tektronix, and TestQuest.

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