The FCC’s 700 MHz spectrum auction finished Round 15 this morning, breaking the pre-auction forecasts of between $10 billion and $15 billion in total winning bids. Bidding topped $11.57 billion at the end of the fifth day. The bidding on the eight C-Block licenses ground to a halt in round 16 — just short of [...]
David Pogue explains “Free Public Wi-Fi” in yesterday’s NY Times. Surprisingly, I hadn’t heard of this particular problem before. Almost everywhere I go, in every city, I see, in my list of available networks, a wireless network called “Free Public Wi-Fi.” And it never, ever works. What is it? A hoax? A conspiracy? A nationwide [...]
Eye-Fi, which makes the combined 2Gig SD memory card and WiFi adapter, today announced that it collaborated with Nikon on firmware in Nikon’s new D60, digital SLR. Eye-Fi will also add Nikon’s “my Picturetown” online site as a destination for photosharing. Nikon’s D60 digital SLR will make it easier for photographers to wirelessly upload images [...]
Along with taking part in the FCC’s 700 MHz auction, Google has also been trying to get into the so-called “white space”– the slivers of unlicensed, unused spectrum that lie between television channels, reports Forbes. At the recent World Economic Conference in Davos, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said that mobile devices with location-based advertising could [...]
We ought to be careful about further encouraging NSA to expand its mission on the domestic Internet front, writes Loring Wirbel, Communications Editor of EE Times. Even as George Bush in his State of the Union speech gave Congress until Friday (Feb. 1) to pass the type of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act update he wanted [...]
Google Street View, the Beta version, is demoed in this video.
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