SkyTerra, a satellite phone provider which plans to launch a geosynchronous satphone over the United States this year, has received approval from the FCC for the transfer of control of the company to Harbinger Capital and use their spectrum for terrestrial “4G” LTE phone service. “By 2015, the company expects to serve more than 40 [...]
Portland’s Urban Airship recently celebrated some big milestones for a company that was started less than a year ago, writes Jason Grigsby who organizes the Mobile Portland meetings. Urban Airship has delivered over 100 million push notifications Expanded support for push notifications to Android and Blackberry Secured $1.1 million in venture capital funding Released a [...]
CellBazaar, often called the “Mobile Craigslist of Bangladesh“, has provided a martketplace to buy and sell goods and service to Bangladeshis for nearly four years. CellBazaar just focuses on search (like Craig’s List). You can buy anything from goats to gas stations. The service is free, but GrameenPhone, the largest cellular operator in Bangladesh, with [...]
The World Economic Forum has issued their Global Information Technology Report, which provides an analysis of the network infrastructures of 133 countries. Here’s the Executive Summary. It ranks Sweden, Singapore, Denmark and Switzerland as the most networked countries in the world. The U.S. came in fifth place. For broadband adoption, the U.S. only ranks 22nd [...]
The W PhoneWatch, which looks like a digital wristwatch, is actually a phone. The full-function GSM phonewatch will be sold unlocked for $199. The 1.5-inch TFT LCD micro-touch touchscreen features a screen resolution of 128 x 128. Features include: phonebook, SMS, call history, MP3 player, video player, video recorder, camera, utilities, games, and a file [...]
The FCC wants comments on the Common Alerting Protocol for the Emergency Alert System before it’s adopted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. CAP is an interoperable data interchange format for collecting and distributing warnings to information networks, public safety alerting systems and personal communications devices. The CAP data structure is backward-compatible with existing alert [...]
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