New SpeedInfo solar-powered Doppler radar sensors along 25 miles of busy Highway 101 around Ventura County, will extends Real-Time Traveler Information from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. Caltrans says this latest installment of sensors adds to the existing Ventura County network that provides coverage for over 150 miles of roadways in the region. Real-time traffic [...]
Open access for wireless is inevitable, and everybody wins, says Martin Cooper, co-founder, ArrayComm and father of the cell phone, in a commentary on RCR Wireless News. The concept of open wireless networks is not new. In fact, an obligation to support “reselling” was embedded in the original FCC rules that created the cellular industry. [...]
When I look over my shoulder, what do you think I see? – Season of the Witch Sprint Nextel announced today plans to cut 8,000 jobs in the first quarter of this year. Sprint said the job cuts would reduce its annual internal and external labor costs by about $1.2 billion, with most of the [...]
Three of the top 5 handset vendors grew at negative rates in the last quarter, the industry’s weakest growth rate since 2001, according to Strategy Analytics. Only 295 million cellphones were shipped worldwide during the holiday period, falling 10 percent from 329 million units in the year-ago period. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola continued to [...]
The Senate appeared close to agreement yesterday on a bill to delay the analog to digital switch from February 17th to June 12 — setting the stage for a vote early next week, reports the AP. Senate Republicans last week blocked Democratic efforts to push back the Feb. 17 deadline. The Democrats cited mounting concerns [...]
The number of people on the Internet surpassed one billion in December, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Internet World Stats counted nearly 1.5 billion Web surfers worldwide as of June 30, 2008 (chart below). Somewhere between 15 and 22 percent of the world’s population is on the Internet. Comscore’s Top 15 countries, by Internet population, December, [...]
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