Last week Dish Networks applied for terrestrial TD-LTE service to the FCC. They want to consolidate their two 20 MHz spectrum chunks, currently dedicated to TerreStar and DBSD/ICO satellite phones. Dish wants to provide terrestrial TD-LTE phone service nationwide using that spectrum. Dish asked the FCC for a waiver to use the combined spectrum to [...]
Minutes after the Tuesday 5.8 magnitude quake hit, cell phone service across New York, but especially in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, failed briefly as millions of users tried to place calls or fire off text messages. Lacking cell service after Tuesday’s quake, many people turned to social media to communicate. Twitter reported more than [...]
Text-to-speech company iSpeech has released a pair of smartphone apps that tap the actual voices of President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush to allow you to convert any text into audio. They used voice samples from actual speeches of Obama and Bush. The free iSpeech Obama and iSpeech Bush apps were released [...]
Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer from Apple today, in a formal press release. Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, is expected to take Job’s place as CEO. Here’s the resignation letter from Steve Jobs. Jobs has been dogged by a string of health problems, notes C/Net, and forced him to take [...]
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell said criticisms aimed the San Francisco’s BART subway system have raised “very valid points,” reports C/Net. Bay Area Rapid Transit, said in an open letter to its customers on August 20 that: “BART’s temporary interruption of cell phone service was not intended to and did not affect any First Amendment rights [...]
Work is under way for Hawaii to be the first state in the nation with 1 gigabit per second broadband connectivity at all public schools, libraries and universities by using a $33.6 million federal stimulus grant. Governor Neil Abercrombie announced the state’s Broadband Initiative yesterday. The Hawaii Broadband Initiative (pdf) plans to increase the use [...]
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