Twitter has partnered with experimental news network Current TV on its election coverage. Selected live “tweets” will be displayed on-screen during its coverage of the presidential debates.
Those are slated to start on Friday night, but Republican candidate John McCain’s participation is still up in the air.
John McCain said that he wanted to delay Friday’s [...]
Google co-founder Larry Page turned up on Capitol Hill today to boost the company’s “Free the Airwaves” campaign, reports the Washington Post.
Companies such as Google that are part of the Wireless Innovation Alliance are asking for the white spaces to be unlicensed and open to all. They have started an on-line petition to support unlicensed [...]
When Taiwanese telecoms regulator the National Communications Commission (NCC) issued six 2.5GHz WiMAX licenses in July 2007, it looked likely that WiMAX would play a significant role in the country’s broadband market. But the landscape has changed drastically in the intervening 14 months, says Tony Brown in Telecoms.com.
One WiMAX licensee, First International Telecom (Fitel), has [...]
Reuters says newcomers to Canada’s wireless market could be delayed in launching services to compete with the country’s Big Three carriers because of the crisis in the financial markets.
Privately held Globalive Communications, as well as publishing and media group Quebecor and other potential new entrants, won wireless spectrum in this summer’s C$4.25 billion ($4.10 billion) [...]
Mark Gorton, founder of the Open Planning Project says city congestion can be solved relatively easily with web-enabled phones. His Internet-based transit networking system groups riders together based on starting locations and destinations. It’s an idea Gorton calls “Smart Para-Transit”.
“Currently you have lots of people making very similar trips in private automobiles. Now, [...]
We are drawn by desire - a chance at good living, yet we are consciously or unconsciously aware that the world is suffering for our success. — Edward Burtynsky
The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container [...]
Depending on who you believe, Alaska’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) installation is designed to learn more about the electrically-conductive layer of the atmosphere. Or HAARP is designed to spy on unwitting foes, control the weather, and spew out death rays, explains Wired.
But HAARP wasn’t the first installation of its kind. The Soviets [...]
As of this past April, more than 35,000 Washington State motorists have signed up for RFID-embedded driver’s licenses, reports Scientific American, and other border states, including Arizona, Michigan and Vermont, have agreed to participate in the program. New York State will begin making the new licenses available to its residents after Labor Day.
The Washington State [...]
Meraki, the company that packs municipal WiFi in a box, has some interesting iPhone stats on its San Francisco-based Free The Net network program.
Today on Meraki’s blog they show that in the last 5 months iPhone traffic on the San Francisco network has grown from 6% to 20%. Free The Net has served [...]
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones asks What’s the best way of using new media tools to cover a news event?
I decided to try out various options at Apple’s music event on Tuesday evening - not a major story, so a good venue for a bit of experimentation.
I took a laptop with a 3g dongle for instant [...]
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