An experimental program called Aspirnauts (aspire, seek, achieve) connects kids on a school bus to the Web through donated, Wi-Fi-enabled laptops.
It was started by Vanderbilt University medical scientist Billy Hudson, who was looking for a unique way to give back to his hometown. One day he tagged along for the bus ride - upwards [...]
A cell gets out and it will imitate everything! — The Thing
South Korea has ratified a voice-over-WiMAX standard, reports IntoMobile. The new protocol, approved by the Korea Communication Commission (KCC), is essentially a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology. South Korea’s WiBro has been a data-only system since going live in 2006.
Now Korea Telecom [...]
A new MacGyver-esque cellphone hack could bring cheap, on-the-spot disease detection to even the most remote villages on the planet, reports Wired. It could revolutionize disease detection in the field.
An off-the-shelf Sony Ericsson cellphone has been modded using only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires.
The bulge is the filtered light source that [...]
The NY Times says carriers are ripping off people with text messaging fees. The cost of delivering text messaging is virtually nothing. Text messages are tiny free riders, tucked into what’s called a “control channel“, space reserved for operation of the wireless network. It’s pure profit for cellular carriers because it doesn’t require a [...]
AdMob’s November 2008 Mobile Metrics Report says iPhone requests grew 52% month to month, reaching a total of 359 million. This in turn gave iPhone 6.3% of total requests or 9.9% of U.S.-based requests.
Apple had an astounding 78.5 percent of the Wi-Fi activity on mobile devices for November, reports AdMob. Some 42% of [...]
Android G2 Rumors Blaze, reports PC World.
The Boy Genius Report says the new smartphone running the Open Handset Alliance (Android) operating system was rumored to be available somewhere between late February and April.
The specs for the G2 are reportedly almost the same as the G1 with some notable exceptions.
The G2 will not have a [...]
Samsung will release its first Google phone in the second quarter of the next year via Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA, say industry insiders. The Google phone will feature the Google Map based location information service, messenger G-Talk, the G-mail application and Google Search.
Sprint organized a task force team a year ago to develop [...]
The SkyCrawler is a radio-controlled helicopter by Excalibur that will protect your backyard from threats foreign and domestic.
The $49 R/C helicopter features twin electric motors pushing a top speed of 20 kilometers per hour, a maximum flying height of 90 feet, and a wireless range of 160 feet. A built-in flight-stabilizer keeps it [...]
Seattle-based GridNetworks launched an update to their GridCast TV service today. It enables content owners get their Internet video onto TVs, via existing in-home UPnP devices, including the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3.
They’re financially backed by Comcast, Cisco, and Panorama Capital. The management team includes the co-founders of Internap (Tony Naughtin and Chris Wheeler), as [...]
Workers are still trying to restore power to more than half a million homes in the Northeastern U.S. after a powerful winter storm gripped the United States.
The week ahead could go into the record books as the longest stretch of freezing weather since the arctic blast of December 1990.
The US Department of Transportation [...]
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