Hedgehogging

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.
If you want to be inspired about the wireless industry, the United States and the power of the people, go RIGHT NOW to CTIA.org (http://www.ctia.org/wireless2007/index.cfm?day=3) to watch the presidents’ keynotes from Day 3 of the show. We laughed, we cried, we clapped. The best keynote ever. And when the golfcart motorcade later sped through the aisle right next to the RCR Wireless News booth, we cried again that we didn’t have a camera ready.
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The unofficial winner of the RCR Wireless News Best Press Release from the CTIA Wireless 2007 show bore this headline: “Where is the nearest bar in Orlando? InfoSpace can Find It!” OK, we don’t really give awards for that, but we were impressed. As they say, timing is everything.
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The unofficial loser of the post-show headline contest came from Qualcomm: “Qualcomm would like to point you to documents regarding contradictory positions Nokia has taken on licensing of patents declared as essential for ETSI-developed standards, such as WCDMA, GSM and GPRS. These documents can be found within the Nokia section of our Legal Newsroom at: http://www.qualcomm.com/press/legalnewsroom/.” Who knew that Qualcomm has a Nokia section as part of its newsroom? Then-because this story changes daily if not hourly-Nokia agreed to pay Qualcomm $20 million, but the fight still isn’t over. Settle already! This is beginning to make the Ericsson-Qualcomm IPR battle look like a hugfest.
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Several months ago, in “Worst of the Week: Please Change the Channel,” Online Editor Mike Dano bemoaned the state of the mobile TV industry as being “pretty much crap.” Immediately after that column, Mike got an e-mail from MediaFLO President Gina Lombardi saying she couldn’t wait until Mike experienced MediaFLO. She was right. Verizon Wireless graciously loaned RCR Wireless News several of its MediaFLO phones, and after wrestling one of them away from Managing Editor Dan Meyer, Mike finally got a chance to play around with it-and now is a true believer in Vcast Mobile TV. Kudos to all involved!