7. October 2009 by admin.

In an email … someone writes and asks:

I have visited your website. Is there anyway to network unlock these
units? Ericsson W25.

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* My replies:

They are unlocked already. That’s the way they come. It’s not an Apple iPhone. By the way Ericsson W35 replaced the W25. W25 not currently available. Read blog.marinetelecom.net and or the W25 and W35 web sites below for the details.

Thanks.

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Alan Spicer

You probably already know … It’s a WCDMA/UMTS/GSM product. So that means it works worldwide on any cell carrier that follows that technology line.

I’m attaching a brochure for W35 as it replaces the W25 1-for-1 drop in replacement. Smaller sleeker look. Adds the HS Upload capability which the W25 didn’t have. So now it’s the full HSPA. Backward compatible to GSM with Edge and GPRS for use in areas that haven’t upgraded yet.

UMTS often called 3GSM. HSPA often called 3G+.

* Makes it’s own Hotspot where ever it travels. 10-28vDC and comes with 110vAC to 12vDC adaptor. Built-in Antenna for in coverage use. MCX jack for external antennas (which we do on marine/yachts a lot.) Wired CAT5 (Fast Ethernet) 4 port Switch-hub built-in. Makes it’s own network… Full NAT/Router capability. Plugs quite easily into an existing network infrastructure (assuming you know the ramifications of doing so…)

* A simple Sim Card change changes cellular carriers. No “Jail Breaking” needed such as you need to do with an iPhone. Provides Internet via WiFi for iPhone, iPod Touch, Laptops, Game Machines with WiFi. Anything WiFi can be transported portable or mobile.

* Dial-Tone and Cellular Voice Service (with compatible plan) to standard home or office RJ11 phone equipment, and provides a Cellular Voice Line to most PBX Systems (we do this a lot o marine/yachts as well.)

* USB Storage device sharing using standard Windows Networking (SMB) for USB sticks and external hard drives. Printer sharing as well.

* Fax but that only currently works in Australia as it needs a Fax-Over-IP (T.38) Provider. We recommend for mobile fax to use: Efax.com over the 3G+ Internet Services wherever you may roam.

P.S. If you need other carriers covered such as Sprint, Verizon. I’m also an Authorized Partner for Cradlepoint (shown on http://www.marinetelecom.net.)

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P.S. If GSM/UMTS/HSPA (e.g. AT&T, T-Mobile in the U.S.; WCDMA/GSM/UMTS Worldwide) + Voice to Analog Telephone or PBX is important - Ericsson W35 is your choice. If you want to be totally U.S. Cell Carrier Independent - using Express Card or USB Laptop-type Cards - and Voice over IP (e.g. Vonage) if you need Voice, then Cradlepoint is a very good choice there. For external antennas on those cards you have to make sure that you get a card with an external antenna jack, and figure out the plumbing for your external antenna. Many on land, automobile - users won’t need an external antenna at all. Ericsson W35 quite readily accepts and external antenna. And we do them on a regular basis.

Note: The Ericsson W35 is already an “unlocked” cellular mobile broadband router. If you use Laptop Cards in Cradlepoint … those Laptop Cards can still be “locked” to the carrier that sold them. *BUT* Cradlepoint allows you to use any compatible Laptop Card. That’s the unlocked part. I can’t help you with locked Laptop Cards or Cellular Devices beyond what I’ve just stated.

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Alan Spicer

DBA Alan Spicer Telcom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom
Computer Services, Wired/Wireless Networking,
Cell/Sat/Landline Communications, General Consulting…
Marine, Business, Small Office and Home Office (SOHO)

* Cost Savings and Integration of Multiple Internet Technologies
on board Sail and Motor Yachts * Documentation, Operating
Instructions, and Support after the Sale *

* http://www.marinetelecom.net/
* http://www.internetforyachts.net/
* http://www.wifiyacht.net/
* 954-683-3426

Mobile Internet! Step up to the HSPA 3G Fast Internet!

Ericsson W35 released in the USA. This you’ve gotta SEE!!
Better looking presentation than W25 (you might not want to
hide this one in the Doghouse!) + High Speed Upload which
the W25 did not have.
http://www.marinetelecom.net/Ericsson_W35/

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7. October 2009 by admin.

Nobel Physics Winners Changed Our Lives

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173187/nobel_physics_winners_changed_our_lives.html?tk=nl_bdx_h_crawl

Like the Internet? Own a digital camera? If so, please take a moment to thank today’s three Nobel prizewinners (sic: prize winners) for their discoveries.

The three American scientists, honored today with the 2009 Physics prize, helped give us modern telecommunications–including the Internet–and digital photography. Fiber optic cable makes the high-speed communications possible, while charge-coupled devices (CCDs) are the cornerstone of digital photography.

Sad (sic: It’s sad, or Sadly) it took 40 years to honor these great men–their work was done during the 1960’s–but good health has smiled upon all three, now in their 70’s and 80’s. (Nobels are not awarded posthumously).

(more at the link above.)

 Other persons commented on there…

“Now we know who to blame for dinner time telemarketing calls, comprimising pictures of all kinds of things and the porn on the internet.”

“”The three American scientists, honored today …. ”

Correction: One Brit, one Canadian and one Yank. But let us not dwell on trivialities and share the honours fairly.

“in another 40 years we’ll be honoring a new generation of American scientists ….”

“Really? Only if they are “late learners”. The majority of current COLLEGE levers don’t know the difference between a double deck bus and an truck - unless they check on their iLemming dictionary!”

* Alan Spicer’s Note: Wow! People are so mean online. At least the college level persons are checking *somewhere*. They can’t be that dumb. And yes - many discoveries are international discoveries. In fact many famous ones are contested as having been discovered around the same time both in the U.S. and elsewhere.

God Created the Heavens and the Earth. The rest of us just knocked some pretty neat kits together out of stuff we found around….

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Alan Spicer Telecom / Marine Telecom

http://www.marinetelecom.net

+1 954-683-3426

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7. October 2009 by admin.

Google.com’s home page is now displaying a Bar Code instead of their usual logo. Frequent visitors to Google.com know that they often celebrate special days by changing their “G o o g le” logo to transform it to make it a theme for the event. For example recently they used Morse Code (being a Ham Radio Operator and Communications guy - as you can image - I loved it!)

It’s the aniversary of the invention of the bar code … and you can click on the bar code logo and it will take you to google.com search output explaining about the significance of the date.

It seems to be a valid Code 128 Bar Code according to my test on http://www.barcoding.com/upc/. While I was there I went ahead and made my company name in bar code as well. Who could resist? I love codes!

It’s a thumbnail here in this post, but click on it to see the full sized image.

Here’s Google’s Bar Code generated by Barcoding Inc. for comparison against what Google is displaying now.

This one’s full size, it will fit a bit better in the blog than mine would, so you don’t have to click on it.

Here is the one Google.com has up as it’s logo today:

It saves as a bit-map file … so I hope that’s ok.

The top result (search) from clicking Google.com’s bar code logo today is:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100700130.html

Which says…

Michael Arrington
TechCrunch.com
Tuesday, October 6, 2009; 9:43 PM

Google’s new logo is a  barcode which, as far as we can tell, says “Google.” Today is the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted, No. 2,612,994 (pdf), on October 7, 1952. The original patent was for a system that would encode data in circles (a bulls eye pattern), so that it could be scanned in any direction.

The barcode on the Google homepage is Code 128 encoded, which is a standard way of encoding ASCII character strings (ie. A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.) into a barcode. It would be safe to assume that Google used their own open source barcode project, ZXing, to generate the barcode. The same library is used in Android for barcode recognition.

Google regularly changes its logo for holidays and other special events. Here’s their 10th birthday logo from last year, for example. More recently they celebrated Gandhi’s birthday. Google hosts some of their holiday logos here, and fan created logos here.

We had to double check that the barcode in this instance was correct (some of the geeks here insist the barcode isn’t 100% correct), since Google have previously messed things up a little when they try and talk geek dirty.

(More at the link… Please visit www.washingtonpost.com and thank them for this article. It is rather interesting.)

* P.S. As you can see from my post here on my blog, I also couldn’t resist confirming that the barcode was correct - at least on some level. Not that I doubt google’s capabilities, but as they hinted to in the Washington Post article, it’s a geek thing!

Here’s a contest … Email me what this says and I’ve give you $25.00 off on the purchase of an Ericsson W35. Here goes:

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Alan Spicer

“Happy Bar Code Day”

Dih-Dah Dih-Dah-Dit (end of work *AR*)

G O O G L E

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