The FCC has a new interactive map showing areas without wireless coverage and announced a reverse auction to award $300 million in one-time Mobility Fund Phase to cover unserved areas. FCC Chairman Genachowski said, “As our new map demonstrates, millions of Americans still live, work, and travel in areas where advanced mobile networks have not [...]
The protests that led to the Egyptian revolution last year were organized in part by an anonymous Facebook page administrator. When the police found out who he was, they arrested and interrogated him. After his release, Wael Ghonim became the public face of the Egyptian revolution. In Revolution 2.0, Ghonim traces the planning that took [...]
TELUS, Canada’s third largest wireless carrier, today announced that its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless service will be available on Friday, February 10. It will operate in 14 urban centres across Canada, including Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. The LTE Ovation MC679 dongle supports LTE AWS/700, HSPA/HSPA+ 850/1900/2100 and quad-band GPRS/EDGE. Also this [...]
Internet access through mobile devices (not including laptops) doubled over the last year, from 4.3% in January 2011 to 8.5% in January 2012. In January 2010, the share was just 1.7%, according to data released this week by StatCounter, a Web analytics company. This year shipments of smartphones, will overtake PCs and laptops, says market [...]
“Between Page and Screen” is a digital pop-up book that contains nothing but elegantly rendered QR codes on its printed pages says C/Net. Readers go to the book’s Web site, hold a page in front of their Webcam, and watch onscreen as a poem pops out of the quick- response code (and moves along as [...]
Apple may launch its next iPad in the first week in March, says All Things D. The event will be held in San Francisco, presumably at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple’s preferred location for big announcements like these. Retail availability for the iPad 3 (assuming that’s what it’s called), could follow roughly [...]
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