Google’s Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world, CNET has confirmed. The cars were supposed to collect the locations of Wi-Fi access points. But Google also recorded the street addresses and unique identifiers of computers and other devices using those wireless networks and [...]
Sprint today announced its next-generation, push-to-talk phones it plans to deploy in the fourth quarter. The new Sprint Direct Connect service will deliver higher bandwidth and extend the company’s push-to-talk CDMA coverage. Sprint’s Nextel unit pioneered Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDen) for push to talk service, but the technology is incompatible with other cellular technology [...]
Amazon’s cloud computing unit may be its next billion-dollar business and analysts will be watching for clues on how fast this secretive unit is growing, reports Reuters, when the Internet retailer reports results next week. Amazon doesn’t disclose results of Amazon Web Services. However, a spokeswoman said the business has hundreds of thousands of customers [...]
The O’Reilly Open Source Convention – OSCON – runs Monday through Friday at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Tracks are available on Business, Citizen Science, Cloud Computing, Community, Education, Emerging Languages, Geek Lifestyle, Government, Healthcare, Javascript and HTML5, Mobile Platforms, Open Data, Open Hardware, Operations System Administration, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Tools and [...]
Southeast Asia’s first 4G operator, Packet One Networks, launched its WiMAX service in Malaysia in August 2008 and is now preparing to transition to LTE. Packet One, a wireless ISP, expects to begin a transition to a full LTE network in 2013. Packet One, a subsidiary of Greenpacket, and a leading developer of 4G systems, [...]
China is on track to hit 1 billion wireless subscribers in May 2012 – but their LTE network faces delay, says Wireless Intelligence. By the time the 1 billion milestone is reached they estimate that Chinese mobile penetration will stand at 74 percent, up from 67 percent in Q2 2011, suggesting that the market will [...]
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