It was the best of times and the worst of times at the Digital Book Conference at the BookExpo America in New York City this week. Hardcover and paperback sales were down while e-book sales had exponential growth. While tablet publishing is creating tectonic shockwaves thoughout the 500 year old publishing industry, both paper and [...]
DotGov, a Seattle startup, has launched YouTown, a mobile platform designed to boost communication between governments and citizens. YouTown is a free mobile platform for all cities, counties and govt agencies, making it easy to connect with your citizens on the go. The platform, which includes an iPhone app, allows cities and counties to publish [...]
YouTube has just announced some startling new figures: two days worth of video are uploaded every minute, and it’s now achieving 3 Billion views per day. The figures coincide with the Google-owned service’s sixth birthday. 48 hours of video uploaded every minute is a 37% increase over the last six months and 100% over one [...]
British Telecom (BT) and Everything Everywhere (EE) have announced a joint LTE trial for later this year, involving up to 100 mobile and 100 fixed line customers in Cornwall, covering 25 square kilometres. The trial will begin in September and it will continue into early 2012, using two 10MHz channels in the 800MHz spectrum. It [...]
According to Fierce Wireless, Cox Communications is disbanding its 3G network. Instead, Cox will use Sprint’s CMDA wireless service, and become a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), even though the company has already invested $550 million into wireless projects in the last few years. Cox also purchased their own AWS and 700 MHz spectrum for [...]
AT&T Chief Technology Officer, John Donovan, says their LTE will arrive this summer in five markets – Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio. Another 10 or more markets will be enabled in the second half of the year, covering some 70 million Americans with LTE by year-end. Verizon Wireless began in 2009 to convert [...]
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