Summer’s here!
So are outdoor music concerts, like my city’s Water Front Blues Festival. It’s the main fund raiser for the Oregon Food Bank.
The 6 day concert, which attracts more than 100,000 people, is held in Portland. Last year, blues fans donated $545,000 and 103,500 pounds of food to fight hunger and its root causes.
But [...]
Crib Ornament says everyday a new article claims to have the crystal ball on the future of the mobile industry:
Take a look at the ones I found in about 2 minutes:
Mobile worth $10 billion by 2010
Mobile worth $3 billion by 2008
Mobile worth $14 billion in 4yrs (2011)
Mobile apps worth $66 billion over [...]
C/Net says Internet radio may go silent on June 26. In protest of the elevated royalty fees Webcasters are poised to begin owing to the record industry next month, Internet radio operators are planning to stage a “day of silence.” Larger operators such as Yahoo, RealNetworks’ Rhapsody service and Pandora, may also sign on.
The U.S. [...]
USA Today has a nice profile on GigOm and TechCrunch:
“Om (Malik) and I love scotch,” Michael Arrington says. “But we never drink anymore.”
The two friends no longer have the time or energy, in part because they’re too busy competing with each other.
Both run influential technology blogs that are helping drive the current Internet boom [...]
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, a Democrat, said he supports the idea of imposing an “open-access” condition on companies bidding to acquire 700 MHz spectrum. Adelstein is one of the two Democrats on the five member Federal Communications Commission. “Open-Access” would require an auction winner to offer access to rivals.
“We need to identify meaningful [...]
Motorola and Vietnam Datacommunications Company (VDC), a company within the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) today signed an agreement to commence a technical and commercial WiMAX trial in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the nation’s two largest cities.
It is anticipated that the deployment of Motorola’s wi4 WiMAX will allow VDC to reach [...]
Satellite operator Intelsat will acquired by BC Partners, a private equity firm, who will have a majority stake, reports Space Today. The deal values the company at just over $5 billion.
BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest private-equity firms, will purchase 76 percent of the company from its current owners, another group of private equity [...]
Aviation Week reports that Northrop Grumman and L-3 Communications are turning electronically scanned array (AESA) radars into flying hotspots.
An F-22 Raptor, using their AN/APG-77 radar was linked to an L-3 Communications modem. The modem is software-programmable, which means it can be adapted to send and receive using various protocols.
For the test, they used a [...]
Benjamin Wolff, chief executive of Clearwire, talked with Forbes Magazine about their EchoStar/DirecTV deal and the upcoming 700 MHz auctions:
Forbes.com: Clearwire now provides wireless service covering 10.1 million people in the U.S. but has only 258,000 subscribers. While service is new in many of these areas, what do you have to do to get new [...]
Speaking at the NXTcomm Trade Show in Chicago on Tuesday, AT&T’s New CEO and Chairman, Randall Stephenson, introduced what he claims is the first service allowing callers to share live video during a phone call. It’s the first AT&T service to be delivered on the company’s new IMS platform.
The service will be called Video Share. [...]
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