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AT&T to Launch MMS for iPhone September 25
AT&T has announced that on September 25, it will roll out a software update that finally adds support for MMS messages for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS customers.
One of the longstanding complaints from iPhone customers has been the lack of MMS support. For a revolutionary phone, you’d think such a standard would be readily supported. Although Apple added MMS support in its 3.0 software (see our guide) in June, the one caveat was “if your carrier supports it.”
AT&T cites projected data usage as part of the reason for the delay.
Here’s the company’s statement:
“We know many of our iPhone customers are eager for an update on our rollout schedule for Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). We`ve been working for the past several months to prepare our systems and network to ensure the best possible experience with MMS when it launches - and that launch date is: September 25 for iPhone 3G and 3GS customers. MMS will be enabled through a software update on that day.
We know that iPhone users will embrace MMS. The unique capabilities and high usage of the iPhone`s multimedia capabilities required us to work on our network MMS architecture to carry the expected record volumes of MMS traffic and ensure an excellent experience from Day One. We appreciate your patience as we work toward that end.
We`re riding the leading edge of smartphone growth that`s resulted in an explosion of traffic over the AT&T network. Wireless use on our network has grown an average of 350 percent year-over-year for the past two years, and is projected to continue at a rapid pace in 2009 and beyond. The volume of smartphone data traffic the AT&T network is handling is unmatched in the wireless industry. We want you to know that we`re working relentlessly to innovate and invest in our network to anticipate this growth in usage and to stay ahead of the anticipated growth in data demand, new devices and applications for years to come.”
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iPhone 3G and 3G S officially getting MMS on September 25
After months of speculation (and frustration) MMS for the iPhone 3G and 3G S is officially arriving on September 25, AT&T has confirmed. This is a full 3 days after summer officially ends (AT&T’s original deadline was “late summer”) as our own MG pointed out earlier today, but like a lot of things with Apple/AT&T, better late than never.
AT&T posted the following comments on its Facebook page:
An Update on iPhone MMS for our Mobility Customers
We know many of our iPhone customers are eager for an update on our rollout schedule for Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). We`ve been working for the past several months to prepare our systems and network to ensure the best possible experience with MMS when it launches - and that launch date is: September 25 for iPhone 3G and 3GS customers. MMS will be enabled through a software update on that day.
We know that iPhone users will embrace MMS. The unique capabilities and high usage of the iPhone`s multimedia capabilities required us to work on our network MMS architecture to carry the expected record volumes of MMS traffic and ensure an excellent experience from Day One. We appreciate your patience as we work toward that end.
We`re riding the leading edge of smartphone growth that`s resulted in an explosion of traffic over the AT&T network. Wireless use on our network has grown an average of 350 percent year-over-year for the past two years, and is projected to continue at a rapid pace in 2009 and beyond. The volume of smartphone data traffic the AT&T network is handling is unmatched in the wireless industry. We want you to know that we`re working relentlessly to innovate and invest in our network to anticipate this growth in usage and to stay ahead of the anticipated growth in data demand, new devices and applications for years to come.
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Why TechCrunch Is Not Coming to Brazil After All
Right about now I should be leaving for the airport. In some 24 hours I`d be landing in Sao Paulo, picked up by my driver for the next two weeks and embarking on a jam-packed agenda, meeting with scores of South American startups and entrepreneurs.
This was to be the latest in my series of travels for my book-in-progress about entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Brazil was the one place that no one in the Valley was pushing me to visit. In fact, it was the one place my husband had asked me not to visit, having heard many reports of kidnapping and violence. But I was resolutely convinced there was a world of exciting companies and stories and had been looking forward to the trip for months. In fact, I`d spent about four months studying Portuguese.
I`m not on getting on that plane today though. Entrepreneurs who`d hoped to be written up on TechCrunch: Blame your government.
American citizens have to have visas to get into Brazil, and my visa was "guaranteed" to get to me by last Friday, the day before my original flight was supposed to leave. That didn`t happen and I was frustrated, but travel in emerging markets is never easy. So I agreed to push the trip back a week and absorb nearly $1,000 in extra costs associated with that, not to mention huge disruption to my schedule. (Bear in mind, this isn`t TechCrunch money. I am self-funding research for this book and have to closely watch every dime.) All I asked was when I would absolutely get the visa by so I wouldn`t have to reschedule things again. I was told yesterday, September 2. Guess what? No visa.
I`m now told that it is definitely getting here Friday. Unfortunately, I have no reason to actually believe that`s true at this point. I can`t push my schedule back any more and comply with existing trips in September, October and November and frankly, having now spent thousands of dollars on a trip that`s not happening, I wasn`t interested in throwing more good money after bad. As a result, my trip to Brazil is canceled. I have paid the fees to switch the plane ticket to one to China in October.
I paid an expediting service hundreds of dollars to ensure I`d be getting this visa, and clearly they`ve been getting an earful from me over the last week. If not for a phone call from the owner this morning finally agreeing to waive the fees I paid them, this post would largely be skewering them. But she assures me no one is getting into Brazil and her week has been even worse than mine. Apparently, the Brazilian government decided to switch to a new computer system for all of its consulate offices and only sent two computers to each office, and not the adequate software to process everything. So everyone has been in a holding pattern. Some consulates aren`t promising any visas before 25 days; others won`t even take an appointment with prospective travelers unless they show documents showing travel in the next 15 days. In fact my visa is the first one the processing firm will get back-that is, if they actually do get it today as promised. They`ve not only been screamed at by me, but loads of business travelers-and even a coach for a national soccer team who can`t get in the country.
It`s particularly ironic given that the Brazilian government has recently hired the PR firm Fleishman Hillard to go around talking up its commitment to IT and entrepreneurship. You want foreign investment and attention, Brazil? Here`s an idea: LET PEOPLE ENTER THE DAMN COUNTRY. You want to show your IT prowess? How about outfitting your consulates with computer systems that work? Or maybe rolling it out slowly so other offices could handle the overflow. Or training people on it first.
The country should be embarrassed, and its businesses should be furious. I’m going to aim to try this whole Brazil thing again in December or January. It’s not the entrepreneurs’ or our readers’ fault this happened, and I still believe there are great stories in Brazil that I want to report. But when you’re harder to get into than China, it doesn’t bode well for foreign investment, Brazil.
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inDegree: A LinkedIn for Grad Students
When we first heard about inDegree, pitched to us as a LinkedIn for graduate students, our initial response was, "Yes, but don't graduate students already have LinkedIn?"
This startup's CEO, Alexander Miningham, responded that while many grad students do indeed see some job hunting success via the behemoth site, many others have not yet built the professional networks to find a great deal of value there. As LinkedIn grows ever larger, more of us are relying on our networks for word-of-mouth, referrals, and recommendations. Miningham's point stands; so what does inDegree propose to offer as a substitute for a large professional network?
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New users of the site are placed in what Miningham called "education networks," which allow users to find and connect with classmates or alumni - who are arguably more useful in a job-search scenario. Users can share documents and work collaboratively through the site. Job listings on the site are for advanced degree-holders only, which creates a welcome bottleneck for jobseekers.
"Through research," wrote Miningham, "we've found that graduate students are looking for a more dedicated site that fits their specific needs. Coupled with the services we plan to offer in 2010, we are confident that graduate students and alumni will rapidly adopt the website. inDegree is also the first website that connects these 4 user groups in one centralized location (graduate students, alumni holding graduate degrees, employers, and universities)."
InDegree launched in beta in May to Florida State University business students and launched publicly August 31. Currently, all accounts and postings are free of charge for all users, including universities and companies.
In early 2010, inDegree plans to roll out matching services similar to the models established by eHarmony.com and Match.com. InDegree proposes to match grad students and alumni to open positions with consideration for job types, experience required, location, salary, specializations, licenses, and other criteria. At that point, the site will charge employers and universities for matches, although job-seeking grad students will still be able to use the site and find matches free.
It's an interesting concept, and one that will require plenty of user adoption to work effectively. And we get the impression that effective pitching to universities will be one of the most important ways to increase user adoption. The interface on the site needs work; it doesn't have a professional look and feel, and the site's features and benefits are not compellingly highlighted.
Although these aspects need work, we can see the "matching" concept working well for grad students in the future. What do you think? Grad students and alums are especially encouraged to weigh in.
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Blogged Morphs Into a Social News Service
Blogged started out as a straightforward blog directory in early 2008. Today, Blogged announced a major redesign of its product that puts the service's focus on facilitating conversations around blog posts. Blogged now presents users with a Facebook-like feed of blog posts, with the ability to comment on posts and share them on Facebook and Twitter. In addition, Blogged also rolled out support for Facebook Connect and a widget that allows bloggers to bring comments made on their posts on Blogged back to their own blogs.
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Blogged slowly rolled out the new commenting features - as well as a FriendFeed-inspired option to 'like' posts - over the last few weeks. Some posts on the site are already getting hundreds of comments (a lot of them from Blogged's Facebook application), so users are obviously quite enthusiastic about these new features. Allowing users to share the stories they like to Facebook directly from the site will only bring more user participation to the service.
Bloggers have always been somewhat nervous about 'comment fragmentation' when it comes to services like Blogged, but there can be no doubt that these services also bring new readers to these blogs. The new widget that Blogged introduced today should help to alleviate some of these fears, as it will allow bloggers to showcase the discussions about their posts on Blogged back to their blogs.
After this redesign, Blogged definitely feels like a mix between Google News and the Facebook news feed, which is not a bad thing. The blog directory, which once formed the basis of Blogged, has now been relegated to the back pages of the site, though it still provides a valuable service in its own right.
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Bing and Ping: Share Search Results on Facebook and Twitter
Microsoft let everyone know about a forthcoming feature of their new search engine today. Bing and Ping, as they’ve lovingly dubbed it, will let you easily share search results with your friends on Facebook and Twitter as well as by email.
At least at first, the sharing tools will only be available for searches that invoke “Instant Answers.” The examples given were football scores and airline flights, with other time-sensitive data and scenarios like stock prices, movie times, weather results and more also invoking that type of search.
Underneath the Instant Answer results from your query will be a horizontal “sharing” bar with icons to send those results to friends on Facebook, Twitter, or via email.
The new feature isn’t live yet, but will reportedly be going into an invitation-only beta mode soon. To get in on the beta, become a fan of Bing on Facebook for a chance at an invite.
Since search has for so long been a primarily solitary activity, it’s almost hard to imagine how and under what circumstances you’d need to share the results quickly with people. Still, having the option would be nice and once available, we can see it becoming one of those features you’d quickly take for granted.
What do you think: would you use the option to share your search results? Will Google have to copy the idea if it takes off? Or will search remain primarily a solo activity after all?
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EtherPad's Real-time Editor Gets Real-time Playback
Back in June the developers behind AppJet closed up shop to focus on EtherPad, the real-time collaborative editor we called "dead simple" in our initial review. Since then they've worked at a breakneck pace to improve EtherPad, trying to attract paying customers for hosted and on-premise installations. Today the company announced a fantastic new addition to EtherPad's core capabilities: to go along with the real-time editor, they've added a real-time playback of edits they call the "Time Slider."
The previous history system of EtherPad was fairly clunky. Users had to stop and save revisions in order to view them later, which disrupted the fast pace of collaborative editing that makes EtherPad such a joy to use. The new Time Slider solves the problems of the old system by letting you play back all the edits to a page. It works something like an online video player, letting you star particular spots of interest and go back and forth in time at will.
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EtherPad works on a freemium pricing model, letting anyone create a public EtherPad to share for free. For teams needing a more secure SaaS version, it'll cost you $8/user/month and a self-hosted version for the enterprise is $99/user.
In order to draw in repeat customers, EtherPad knows it has to have something a little more feature rich than a simple editing app. They need integration with other apps, such as the alliance with group video conferencing tool TokBox they recently announced.
Real-time Revision History
EtherPad also needed a more robust audit trail of editing in order to make enterprises comfortable. They could have gone the more wiki-like route, by saving all revisions automatically. But those systems tend to have a certain amount of overhead when it comes to learning them, and they aren't generally a good fit for real-time editors. Google Docs is a primary competitor of EtherPad, and the weakness of its revision system is definitely an example of this problem.
In trying it out I found the Time Slider to be very easy to use, and it gave a clearer picture of the entire stream of changes to an EtherPad document. The best way to understand it is simply to see it for yourself, so be sure to watch the video below.
iPhone Users Are Data Whores
For US customers, the biggest complaint about Apple’s spectacularly successful iPhone — in many cases the only complaint — is the quality of AT&T’s wireless network. This has led to rampant speculation that the iPhone will be moving beyond AT&T in 2010 or whenever its exclusivity agreement ends.
However, yesterday’s New York Times addresses the strain iPhone users place on AT&T’s network and questions if any US wireless carrier would fare better.
When it comes to data usage, iPhone users are in a league of their own. According to the Times, not only do iPhone customers use the web and stream video, music, and download applications more than the average smartphone users, they also use more than ten times the network capacity.
This aligns with JiWire’s recent WiFi usage study (which matched a previous study released by Boingo), that showed that nearly 98% of all mobile devices connecting to public WiFi networks were either iPhones or iPod touch devices. Nielsen also issued a report looking at iPhone users and how they use data back in June.
Although AT&T is receiving a lot of criticism now — and it should, situations like this year’s SXSW conference, where AT&T’s network became so overloaded they had to send in trucks to temporarily amplify service are just embarrassing and unacceptable — the problems it is facing could portend what other wireless carriers in the US could face once smartphone usage and the ease of accessing the web and and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter become more common. In other words, this won’t always be a problem relegated to iPhone users.
In the meantime, although AT&T is investing money in upgrading and enhancing its wireless infrastructure, the bad word of mouth regarding its service is starting to hurt its reputation. For a company like Apple, it also hurts iPhone sales.
So iPhone users or potential iPhone users, does the quality of AT&T’s network deter you from buying or considering renewing your existing contract?
Reviews: Facebook, Twitter
Tags: att, data usage, iphone, mobile data
While you were tweeting, RSS fund quietly died
Yesterday, Twitter announced the hiring of FeedBurner CEO Dick Costolo to be COO of Twitter. Costolo’s career path from one of the most prominent RSS companies to Twitter is being talked about as proof that “RSS is dead.”
peHub writer Dam Primack circled back to find out if there was any truth to the idea that Twitter’s replacing RSS by checking out what had become of RSS Investors, a company founded in 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts whose stated goals were to raise a $100 million fund and invest it in “news aggregation, blogs, new classes of search engines and data aggregation in the financial and medical industries.”
RSS Investors’ inaugural press release listed Jim Moore and John Palfrey from Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, plus GE Capital veterans Richard Fishman and Steve Smith, plus Tom Crowley from Ritchie Capital Management.
Ritchie put in $20 million, but the team was unable to collect enough investments to create the $100 million fund they’d announced. After investing in Edgeio, Attensa, and KnowHow, RSS investors had no more money to give to other startups.
Attensa, which makes a server for streaming data within companies, is still in business. But KnowHow shut down and Edgeio sold its assets in December 2007 to Looksmart and Vast.com.
After that, RSS Investors stalled. Palfrey told peHub, “We never officially dissolved the fund, but we stopped making investments and everyone`s moved on to other things.”
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Finding HIV`s Weak Spot, Scientists at Seattle`s Theraclone and San Diego`s Scripps See Opening for New Vaccine
Luke Timmerman wrote:
Scientists have been trying for years to solve the mystery of why a few rare individuals get infected with HIV, yet somehow retain immune defenses so they never get sick. Today, researchers at a small Seattle biotech company, Theraclone Sciences, and collaborators at San Diego’s Scripps Research Institute say they have found a new vulnerability in the virus that could lead the way to new treatments or possibly a vaccine.
By studying rare blood samples from HIV-resistant people in the lab, scientists have found two weak spots on the virus, and were able to genetically engineer two new antibodies that broadly neutralize many variations of the virus circulating around the world, according to research being published this week in Science. Besides Theraclone and Scripps researcher Dennis Burton, this effort included collaborators from South San Francisco-based Monogram Biosciences (NASDAQ: MGRM) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in New York.
This effort is still in its early days, and nobody knows yet for sure if these new antibodies will even work in lab animals. But this is the first time in more than a decade that scientists have discovered antibodies with broad neutralizing capability that can stand up to multiple strains of the wily virus in the lab. Plus, they were found in blood samples from donors in developing countries, where most of the new infections occur.
While HIV is largely considered a chronic disease in wealthy countries like the U.S. where there are 32 FDA-approved antiviral drugs, the discovery of neutralizing antibodies is potentially groundbreaking. The antibodies could be critical ingredients used to develop the first HIV vaccine, which would be most useful in poor countries. More than 30 million people around the world are thought to be living with HIV, and the disease is still thought to kill 2 million people a year.
“These new antibodies, which are more potent than other antibodies described to date while maintaining great breadth, attach to a novel, and potentially more accessible site on HIV to facilitate vaccine design,” said Burton, a professor of immunology and microbial science and scientific director of the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, in a statement. Burton is also a member of the newly-formed Ragon Institute, a collaboration of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard.
We first wrote about this HIV work in April based on an interview with Theraclone CEO David Fanning. I caught up with Fanning again by phone to talk about the business implications of getting such big recognition in one of the world’s top two scientific journals.
Theraclone CEO David Fanning
This publication—and all the global media attention it is bound to attract—is definitely going to attract the interest of prospective partners in Big Pharma and biotech, and funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health, that Theraclone needs to help pay the bills for its research program. When Fanning called me, it was 4 a.m. in Japan, where he has been meeting with potential partners. “I’m not here for vacation, you can put it that way,” he says.
“This really validates our technology in the eyes of people that we want to see start using it,” Fanning says. “Instead of us being a small private biotech that may or may not be doing something interesting, we’ve now made a mark very rapidly in one of the biggest challenges of all infectious disease.”
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