Succumbing to a swirling dust storm and the cold of an encroaching Martian winter, the Phoenix Mars lander fell quiet for a day, before coming back to life Thursday evening, albeit weakly, says the NY Times. The lander successfully communicated with the Mars Odyssey orbiter Thursday evening. The Phoenix Lander landed in May, during spring [...]
Laptop-makers including Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba are recalling 100,000 Sony-made batteries due to fears they may overheat or catch fire. The recall affects around 74,000 HP laptops, 14,400 from Toshiba, and small numbers from Dell, Acer and Lenovo. Sony said the recall came after 40 instances of overheating, including four cases where users had minor burns. [...]
Unstrung reports that AT&T is following Verizon Wireless down the femtocell path with a home base station trial planned for later this year. Femtocells are tiny cellular radios that plug into a user’s existing DSL or cable modem service and improve wireless coverage in the home. AT&T is the last of the big three cellular [...]
Phone company FairPoint Communications says Vermonters will get statewide fixed WiMAX, in what appears to be the largest planned U.S. deployment of “fixed wireless” technology yet. FairPoint has 300,000 phone customers in Vermont, most of whom it acquired from Verizon Communications this year. Three-quarters of them will have access to broadband by the end of [...]
According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, worldwide PC shipments were up 15.8% year over year, which was slightly less than projected. Strong results in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) helped offset tepid growth in other emerging regions, while the U.S. and Japan held steady. “The proliferation of low-cost portable PCs coincided perfectly with market [...]
Intel has signed an agreement with the Taiwan ministry of economic affairs to jointly establish a centre for open-source software and applications. It’s intended to stimulate development of WiMax client devices based on Moblin, the open-source development environment for the Intel Atom processor. Announcing the deal on Thursday in Taiwan, Intel president and chief executive [...]
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