The 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference, which determines international treaties governing the use of radio spectrum world-wide, is meeting this month in Geneva. The international conference is held every three to five years and is organized by the International Telecommunications Union. WRC-12 begins in Geneva, Switzerland, January 23, 2012. Some 160 of the 190 ITU member [...]
Ford will introduce five new apps compatible with SYNC AppLink at the 2012 International CES. Roximity was the winner of Ford’s SYNC App Developer Challenge, announced during the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in San Francisco last year. Called Roximity, the app provides real-time deals and specials relevant to a user’s location, based on personal preferences and [...]
U.S. safety investigators called on Tuesday for a nationwide ban on texting and cell phone use while driving, reports Reuters. The prohibition would include hands-free technology becoming more common in new cars. The National Transportation Safety Board recommendation covers portable devices only but still goes beyond measures proposed or imposed by regulators and states, most [...]
OnStar is notifying its six million account holders (pdf) that it will keep a complete accounting of the speed and location of OnStar-equipped vehicles, even for drivers who discontinue monthly service, reports Wired. OnStar began e-mailing customers Monday about its update to the privacy policy, which grants OnStar the right to sell that GPS-derived data [...]
Stratos Global, offers packaged marine satellite services using Inmarsat, Iridium, Globalstar, HughesNet, MSAT, and VSAT to more than 20,000 customers. Today the Canada-based telecommunications company is introducing FleetBroadband for single-vessel operators. Stratos introduced ‘bundled’ pricing, just like the mobile phone companies, so that customers can get a fixed number of minutes or megabytes for a [...]
NASA sent two Nexus S phones up in the last space shuttle as part of the STS-135 mission on space shuttle Atlantis. The goal is to use Nexus S on the Space Station to explore how robots can help humans. NASA is using Nexus S phones on a trio of volleyball-sized SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, [...]
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