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Archive for October, 2009

WiMAX Roaming Expands

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 26th, 2009

Clearwire International, and Taiwan’s Tatung InfoComm and VMAX have for the first time demonstrated mobile WiMax global roaming, the WiMax Forum said on Monday. The demonstration was done at the WiMax Forum Member Conference in Taipei. It used a USB (Universal Serial Bus) modem, a username and password from Clearwire to gain access to both [...]

T-Mobile’s New Plans

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 26th, 2009

T-Mobile has unveiled new pricing plans that include Pre-paid Plans and plans with a 2-year contract. Their “Even More” plans require a two-year contract, and offer unlimited talk for $59.99. T-Mobile’s web2go services delivers the Web optimized for your T-Mobile Smartphone. It costs $40/month. Combining the unlimited talk and web services would cost about $99/month [...]

Symbian Execs: Android Tracking

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 26th, 2009

Om Malik interviewed Lee Williams, executive director at Symbian. He talked about SEE09, their developer conference in London next week and shared his unfiltered views of Google’s Android. He stated the obvious, but often overlooked truth, that Google’s revenues comes from targeted advertising and Android is being used to track user behavior (via cookies) — [...]

Space Exploration: There’s An App for That

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 23rd, 2009

NASA’s new iPhone app lets space geeks access all kinds of information about their favorite missions, explains C/Net. It’s free and available now on the App Store. The application aggregates and delivers a range of dynamically updated information, including all current and scheduled NASA missions, Twitter updates from @NASA, images and video links. Users can [...]

WiMAX SmartGrid Coming to 700K Australians

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 23rd, 2009

Motorola, General Electric and Grid Net are part of a group of companies installing smart meters in almost 700,000 households and businesses in Australia by 2013. Officials with the companies say the initiative will be the first smart grid based on the WiMax wireless platform. The plan (pdf), developed by SP AusNet, one of Australia’s [...]

AT&T Reports Huge WiFi Growth

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 23rd, 2009

AT&T has reported its highest-ever number of Wi-Fi connections in a single quarter. AT&T says customers made 25.4 million Wi-Fi connections in the third quarter — exceeding the 20 million connections made in all of 2008 and nearly equaling the 25.6 million connections made in the first half of 2009. Wi-Fi usage has been increasing [...]