http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/08/squawk-box-april-8/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:11:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/08/squawk-box-april-8/#comment-692614 Aswath Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:44:26 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/08/squawk-box-april-8/#comment-692614 A couple of comments on the points discussed in today's episode: 1. Many of the mobile devices may be full browser, but :mouse gestures" may not be the same. For example, iPhone does not allow for drag and drop and right mouse click. It is worse because the client information does not indicate this information. So from a page viewing point of view it may be full browser, but from an web application developer point of view, the problem is more. 2. I think the way to accommodate Andy's need for supporting multiple SIMs pointing to the same phone number and also take the service provider's concern is as Ken suggested, the user should indicate the active SIM, either via an explicit action or otherwise. 3. I feel that signaling is not cheap in the mobile environment. Usually the signaling uses different radio channel and the first message uses the so called paging channel which is rather limited. I feel that the carriers should offer access to the paging channel as a service and tariff it accordingly. This will facilitate many of the push services, independent of the carriers. A couple of comments on the points discussed in today’s episode:
1. Many of the mobile devices may be full browser, but :mouse gestures” may not be the same. For example, iPhone does not allow for drag and drop and right mouse click. It is worse because the client information does not indicate this information. So from a page viewing point of view it may be full browser, but from an web application developer point of view, the problem is more.
2. I think the way to accommodate Andy’s need for supporting multiple SIMs pointing to the same phone number and also take the service provider’s concern is as Ken suggested, the user should indicate the active SIM, either via an explicit action or otherwise.
3. I feel that signaling is not cheap in the mobile environment. Usually the signaling uses different radio channel and the first message uses the so called paging channel which is rather limited. I feel that the carriers should offer access to the paging channel as a service and tariff it accordingly. This will facilitate many of the push services, independent of the carriers.

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