Today, the Library of Congress ruled in favor of both jailbreaking and unlocking phones according to the Washington Post. Jailbreaking the iPhone allows you to shop for apps anywhere on the internet, not just the iTunes App Store, where all of the apps must be approved by Apple to go on sale. Bypassing a manufacturer’s [...]
Lasers will replace copper connections in everything from supercomputers to servers to PCs, according to Intel researchers who demonstrated 50-Gb/s optical transmitter and receiver chips that the company plans to scale up to terabit-per-second speeds prior to commercialization, reports EE Times. “This is the first completed photonic link with integrated lasers,” said Justin Rattner, Intel’s [...]
Forrester Research says location-based start-ups are still too small for major marketers. The research firm finds location-aware apps currently make sense mainly for brands seeking male influencers. Forrester says only 4% of U.S. online adults have ever used location-based mobile apps such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt. Only 1% update these services more than once [...]
The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications companies committed to building an open applications platform, today announced its formation as a corporate entity and said it will join forces with the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL), accelerating the commercial launch of application stores that compete with the Android Market and Apple’s App Store. WAC [...]
Blue Jamb Media has launched the White Rock Bluezone, a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth network enabling visitors to the city’s promenade to surf the net on their laptops, receive video content about local events and happenings on their Bluetooth-enabled cell phones for free. The innovative advertising concept provide visitors with the information they want, when they [...]
A spectrum database solution now enables access to 5GHz spectrum previously unavailable due to interference. Spectrum Bridge, in partnership with the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) today announced the release of the U-NII Device Interference Advisor — an online database that reduces potential interference issues between unlicensed wireless devices operating in a frequency band [...]
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