U.S. mobile users unplugging landlines (IT World) More than one-quarter of mobile-phone users in the U.S. have effectively stopped using their fixed-line phones for voice calls, according to a survey by research company J.D. Power and Associates. Source: www.itworld.com
T-Mobile Sees Huge Demand For G1 (InformationWeek) The wireless carrier said it sold out of preorder Android-powered […]
Mobile broadband: perhaps you ve heard of it (telecomasia.net) You know by now about the move by the GSM Association to create a service brand that s more or less the equivalent of the Wi-Fi logo created by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Source: www.telecomasia.net
GSMA’s mobile broadband sticker (telecomasia.net) Despite Microsoft’s repeated denials […]
Senate Adopts Broadband Data Improvement Act (Broadcasting and Cable) FCC required to report on broadband deployment annually rather than periodically. Source: www.broadcastingcable.com
Fairpoint announces broadband expansion (The Burlington Free Press) 51 Vermont cities and towns to have 100 percent coverage by end of 2010 Source: www.burlingtonfreepress.com
House bill standardizing broadband nears approval (MacNN) A bill pertaining to […]
Horizon Gateway for home offices (CIOL) The Horizon gateway will be on display in booth # 118 at the Broadband World Forum in Brussels, Belgium, September 30-October 1, 2008. The Horizon Home Office Gateway is a single device that enables service providers to drive new revenues by delivering a range of combined IP telephony and […]
Running for tech geek in chief (Austin American-Statesman) Does America need a tech-savvy, Web-surfing, thumb-typing commander in chief? Source: www.statesman.com
Europe aims for universal broadband by 2010 (MacNN) The European Commission today outlined a goal for all European Union member states to have access to high-speed Internet access by 2010. Calling broadband an “essential condition” for […]
Quick tricks for boosting your broadband speed (The New Zealand Herald) If, like most of us, you’re going online using broadband, chances are that you’ve still got a burning need for even more speed. I live within coee of my local phone exchange, yet several months ago a quick check on Xnet’s speed test site […]
Quick tricks for boosting your broadband speed (The New Zealand Herald) If, like most of us, you’re going online using broadband, chances are that you’ve still got a burning need for even more speed. I live within coee of my local phone exchange, yet several months ago a quick check on site told me I […]
Open Kernel Labs Delivers OKL4 Embedded Hypervisor and Virtualization Technology to the Symbian Community (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) Open Kernel Labs, the leading global provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband internet devices, announced today that it has joined the Symbian Partner Network to support the growing demand for mobile devices […]
In the data stream (St. Joseph News-Press) Talking on your cell phone? That is so last year. Since 84 percent of the U.S. population now uses cell phones, wireless companies are getting more creative in their offerings. Source: www.stjoenews.net
WiMAX Lab puts mobile broadband to the test (Network World) While Sprint officially launches commercial WiMAX services […]
RUMOUR: Post Office to launch mobile network? (Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Ahh the Post Office. A British Institution, but increasingly outdated these days? I haven’t heard the phrase “snail mail” in a good long time. In an effort to stave off the dinosaur accusations, the Guardian reckons that the Post Office […]