Today the Wi-Fi Alliance is announcing that more than 10,000 products have received the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED designation. Worldwide demand for interoperable, security-protected Wi-Fi products has grown since the program’s introduction in March 2000. While it took eight years to reach the 5,000-certification milestone, more than 2,000 certifications were given in 2010 alone. ABI Research has [...]
The SETI Institute has pulled the plug on the renowned Allen Telescope Array, a field of radio dishes that scan the skies for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. In an April 22 letter to donors (pdf), SETI Institute CEO Tom Pierson said that last week the array was put into “hibernation,” safe but nonfunctioning, because of [...]
Sprint today announced the Nexus S 4G, its forth WiMAX phone, which features WiMAX connectivity and a NFC chip. The Samsung Nexus S is the first smartphone to use the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system, and the first Android device to support NFC in both hardware and software. It launches on May 8 for $199 [...]
Hello Mr. Yukkamoto and welcome back to the GAP. – Minority Report According to The Nielsen Company’s monthly survey last year, one third (33%) of U.S. mobile consumers wanted an Apple iPhone, with slightly more than a quarter (26%) said they wanted an Android phone. Some 13 percent said they wanted a RIM Blackberry. But [...]
Half a billion people worldwide will use their mobile devices as travel tickets on metros, subways and buses by 2015, according to new forecasts from Juniper Research. This is over five times the number generated last year but Juniper is expecting usage to spread widely from the current concentration in Japan and several European countries. [...]
Mobile Portland is hosting Mobile Demolicious tonight in Portland. Demolicious is Portland Web Innovators’ showcase of member’s work. Mapbox. Demoed by Justin Miller of Development Seed. MapBox for iPad is part of a stack of largely web-based tools for creating your own highly-custom maps. Development Seed makes open source tools for creating and serving map [...]
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