Today’s Federal Communications Commission meeting has been delayed as the five commissioners sought to finalize conditions for Verizon Wireless’s acquisition of Alltel.
The FCC meeting was scheduled to begin at 1100 ET (1600 GMT) but had not yet begun at 1430 ET (1930 GMT). FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told reporters that the other four commissioners were [...]
WiQuest Communications officially closed its doors on Oct 31, the first of perhaps several casualties to fall among ultrawideband chip designers, says EE Times. The Allen, Texas, company employed about 120 people focused on the wireless USB protocol.
At least a dozen mainly venture-backed companies have been pursuing UWB for uses such as wireless USB links [...]
Motorola today announced it has completed the industry’s first over-the-air Long-Term Evolution (LTE) data sessions in the 700MHz spectrum using its LTE platform with a prototype LTE device. Motorola says it will bring its LTE solutions to market in 2009.
“This field test shows the progress we’ve made in preparing to deliver a commercial [...]
Laptop Magazine tested Windows 7 Ultimate (Pre-Beta) on an ASUS Eee PC 1000H. And just as Microsoft said: it works.
The Eee PC running a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor and 1GB of RAM handles the new operating system pretty well, just as it ran Vista pretty well when we loaded Vista Basic [...]
Sprint Nextel is targeting parents of trick-or-treaters by halving the price of its GPS-based child-locating service. Starting today, parents can now use Sprint Family Locator, including recent enhancements, for just $5 per month.
Sprint Family Locator allows parents to view the location of their children from a Web-enabled phone or computer. Sprint has [...]
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday gave the green light on the merger of Alltel with Verizon Wireless. Alltel, the 5th largest wireless provider in the United States, would then become a part of Verizon Wireless, the 2nd largest (after AT&T). The merger should then make Verizon the largest U.S. cellular carrier with some 80 [...]
After failing to find a buyer for its Nextel cellphone unit, Sprint Nextel Corp. said Thursday it will hold on to the Nextel and renew their long-term partnership with Motorola, reports the WS Journal.
“The iDEN network is a key differentiator for Sprint, as it allows us to offer products and services no other [...]
Laptop-makers including Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba are recalling 100,000 Sony-made batteries due to fears they may overheat or catch fire.
The recall affects around 74,000 HP laptops, 14,400 from Toshiba, and small numbers from Dell, Acer and Lenovo. Sony said the recall came after 40 instances of overheating, including four cases where users had minor burns.
Sony said [...]
According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, worldwide PC shipments were up 15.8% year over year, which was slightly less than projected. Strong results in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) helped offset tepid growth in other emerging regions, while the U.S. and Japan held steady.
“The proliferation of low-cost portable PCs coincided perfectly with market conditions,” [...]
AT&T’s new website says FREE AT&T Wi-Fi access is now available for Apple iPhone at thousands of hotspots nationwide, including Starbucks. More than 17,000 locations, including most Starbucks are now available to the Wi-Fi equipped iPhone.
To get started with AT&T Wi-Fi on an iPhone:
Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone
Select “attwifi” from the [...]
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