American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights on Wednesday, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full in-flight broadband.
The world’s largest airline said its passengers on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can pay $12.95 for Internet access on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New [...]
Inmarsat-4 (F3) - one of the biggest commercial satellites ever built - was successfully launched by a Russian Proton Breeze M rocket today. The F3 satellite, operated by Inmarsat, will complete the firm’s globe-spanning, 3-satellite broadband network. Each I-4 satellite can generate 19 wide beams and more than 200 spot beams using its giant unfurlable [...]
Chrysler will become the first car maker to offer Internet capability Aug. 25, when its parts division begins selling a Mopar car cellular/Wi-Fi hot spot and EV-DO cellular connection.
Called Uconnect Web, it will be sold and installed through Chrysler dealers. It is compatible with 2009 Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles as well as earlier models. [...]
China Mobile, one of the Olympic sponsors, has built TD-SCDMA networks in six key Olympic host cites, notes Market Watch.
The Olympic handsets feature dual mode GSM/TD-SCDMA standards and come with chips for satellite TV, using China’s Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting. It’s similar to Europe’s DVB-SH standard for digital video broadcast. It uses both satellites and [...]
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad.
– Howard Beale
People are increasingly using their phones to surf the Web, says the NY Times. Of the 95 million mobile Internet subscribers in the United States, 40 million actively use their phones to go online, twice the number of two years [...]
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is developing a pilot project to broadcast CNN at Long Island Rail Road or subway stations. The service should be available as early as next year.
CNN has agreed to outfit six stations systemwide with the screens, and to foot the bill, over the next 12 to 18 months. It’s similar [...]
Qik has opened its beta program, letting anyone with a compatible cell phone broadcast their own videos on the Web. Qik (pronounced “quick”) opened its doors to all comers Monday, moving from the invitation-only alpha it began late last year to an open beta program.
The company also announced new features, distribution partners and supports [...]
AT&T, an Olympics sponsor and official telecommunications provider to the U.S team will have an exclusive MediaFLO mobile TV channel.
The new channel, NBC Olympics 2Go, is set to launch August 8 at the beginning of the games and marks the third channel for NBC on the permanent 10-channel deck in addition to the limited-time [...]
Aircell which delivers WiFi on airplanes, via its Gogo service, today announced its intention to base its airplane-to-ground link on Long Term Evolution (LTE).
Aircell uses an exclusive FCC frequency license to provide a cellular data channel to airplanes. It currently uses CDMA EVDO Rev A to deliver an effective data rate of more than [...]
TV Technology reports that the FCC has “tentatively concluded” that mobile satellite service (MSS) operators can begin offering their services to the nation’s 30 largest markets before all current tv broadcasters stop using their antiquated 2 GHz microwave links — even if there is a danger of interference.
The FCC proposed that this new rule [...]
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