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Archive for February, 2010

Facial Recognition: Reality?

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 24th, 2010

Swedish mobile software firm The Astonishing Tribe has created an app that allows you to gather information on a person and their social networking life simply by pointing your camera phone at their face. Dubbed Recognizr, the app combines face recognition technology, cloud computing, and augmented reality. Face recognition software creates a 3-D model of [...]

Clearwire: Year End Results

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 24th, 2010

Clearwire reported their Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results today. Key 2009 Highlights: CLEAR says it is now in 27 markets across the U.S., covering 34 million people (POPs), including: Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Seattle and Honolulu Total Fourth Quarter Subscribers of 688,000, including 642,000 Retail Subscribers and 46,000 Wholesale Subscribers from [...]

White Spaces Tested in Wilmington NC

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 24th, 2010

Spectrum Bridge announced today that the City of Wilmington N.C. has launched the nation’s first “Smart City” wireless network trial utilizing TV white spaces (pdf). The Wilmington/New Hanover County area was selected because it was the first major TV market in the nation, to convert from analog to DTV broadcasting. TV white spaces are the [...]

Mobile Olympics: Better Than Anything

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 23rd, 2010

Better than rides on the midway Better than seals blowing horns Better than men shot from cannons Better than fresh ears of corn – Better Than Anything By the time the Opening Ceremony broadcast started at 7:30 p.m. on Feb 12, NBCs Olympics Mobile had already generated more page views than the entire 2006 Winter [...]

Dubai WiMAXes Metro Train

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 22nd, 2010

Cairo-based Mobiserve just announced that Dubai’s WiMax network has been completed and delivering internet access to Wi-Fi enabled devices on the Dubai Metro, the longest fully automated (driverless) rail transport system in the world. The network, installed on behalf of Du, and serving Dubai Metro, is said to be the first mobile WiMAX network deployed [...]

App Stores Compared

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 22nd, 2010

Distimo, a Dutch analytics firm, presented their findings on the six largest mobile application stores at Mobile World Congress last week. The apps stores Distimo compared are the iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Distimo’s presentation is embedded in their blog. [...]