A $3.5 million, year-long Video Consumer Mapping study, conducted on behalf of AC Nielsen, found that younger baby boomers (age 45-54) consume the most video media while confirming that traditional “live” television remains the proverbial “800-pound gorilla” in the video media arena. Consumers in the 45-54 age group average the most daily screen time (just [...]
Under President Obama’s stimulus bill that Congress approved in February, the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utility Services, the NTIA at the Department of Commerce, and the Federal Communications Commission, will start signing checks. But before broadband builders can get the money, the agencies must determine which areas qualify, and exactly how to define broadband, explains [...]
Mednet, a leading provider of cardiac monitoring products and surveillance services, is helping doctors and patients remotely monitor heart arrhythmia through personal mobile devices. Under a new contract with AT&T, Mednet’s HEARTRAK External Cardiac Ambulatory Telemetry (ECAT) solution will facilitate wireless monitoring of patient devices via Bluetooth-enabled cell phones across AT&T’s 3G and EDGE wireless [...]
Amid all the hand-wringing about the end of journalism due to the collapse of the newspaper business, National Public Radio is more popular than ever. The audience for NPR’s daily news programs reached a record high last year, reports the Washington Post. Washington-based NPR released new figures to its stations today, showing that the cumulative [...]
Huawei is a finalist for a major WiMAX infrastructure contract with Clearwire, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report, citing an unnamed person familiar with the matter, said that Huawei is competing for the contract along with Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks and Samsung Electronics. Clearwire is likely to choose more than one vendor for [...]
Opera said it will be launching Opera Mobile 9.7, a browser for smartphones and other devices that makes loading full Internet sites faster and easier. It provides full support for dynamic Web technologies such as Ajax and Flash, for accessing popular sites like Facebook and YouTube. The company said it will announce a partnership with [...]
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