Japan’s Masayoshi Son lost more money than anyone in history. But he may earn some of it back by solving the last-mile problem, according to Forbes. Thanks to Yahoo BB Japan, his 18-month-old broadband service is on the verge of passing the U.S. in the fraction of households with a high-speed Internet connection. Yahoo BB [...]
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China’s No. 2 telecom provider, the State-owned China Unicom will use Microsoft’s software to develop new, data-focused services for its 207 million subscribers and use Qualcomm’s CDMA 1x technology. China is the world’s largest cell phone market. China United is upgrading its existing CDMA network to include CDMA 1x. Microsoft will supply “support and services” [...]
Intel is providing Wi-Fi to about 400 Marriott hotels in the United States, Canada and several countries in Europe. The venture will help Intel drive awareness of hot spots and wireless technologies and also verify wireless compatibility with their new Centrino family of chips and related products. Marriott is partnering with STSN, based in Salt [...]
Fonix Corporation, a leading provider of natural-user interface technology for wireless and mobile devices, Internet and telephony systems, and vehicle telematics — today announced the release of iSpeak 3.0 for Windows, the latest version of Fonix’s popular speech interface software. The $49.95 PC application reads any text file aloud in a natural-sounding male or female [...]
Trimble and Rosum today announced that they have signed a technology development and licensing agreement to combine Trimble’s Global Positioning System technology and Rosum’s television-based positioning technology (RPT). The combination is expected to provide a universal solution for indoor and outdoor positioning Rosum technology uses high-power, high-bandwidth signals broadcast by analog or digital television stations [...]
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