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by jeff goldman on February 29, 2008
Apple's terabyte hard drive and wireless router combo, the Time Capsule, has finally started shipping - FedEx reports that mine, coming direct from Shanghai, China (!?!), should arrive next...
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by jeff goldman on February 28, 2008
More bad news for Sprint: Qwest is reportedly planning to stop reselling Sprint's wireless services to its customers, and may start offering service through Verizon Wireless instead. "qwest...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on February 27, 2008
In a report entitled Market Trends: Radio Frequency Identification, Worldwide, 2007-2012, research firm Gartner this week predicted that worldwide RFID revenue will total $1.2 billion in 2008, a 30.9...
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by jeff goldman on February 26, 2008
Verizon Wireless today announced that it would be publishing Version 1.0 of its Any Device, Any App networks specs at its Open Development Device Conference in New York City on March 19....
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by jeff goldman on February 26, 2008
Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge today introduced Morph, a prototype for a flexible mobile phone that makes use of nanotechnology, at the Museum of Modern Art's Design and...
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National Information Computer Technology Australia (NICTA) yesterday announced the development of a new 60GHz CMOS single-chip solution that can transfer wireless data at up to 5 Gbps. According to...
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by jeff goldman on February 21, 2008
The Wall Street Journal's Amol Sharma today broke the news that Google is considering deploying wireless Internet via balloon, through a possible partnership with (or even an outright purchase...
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by jeff goldman on February 20, 2008
Verizon Wireless yesterday announced a new $100-a-month plan with unlimited calling - and in doing so, the company appears to have set off a pricing war among U.S. carriers. AT&T and T-Mobile...
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by jeff goldman on February 19, 2008
A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology reports that Israeli mobile phone users "who had used the phone against one side of the head for several hours a day were 50% more...
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TheStreet's Scott Moritz broke the news on Friday that Sprint and Clearwire "are close to announcing the formation of a WiMax joint venture funded in part by a $2 billion injection from...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on February 15, 2008
BAA and Emirates this week announced a six-month, £150,000 trial of a new RFID-based luggage tracking system at London's Heathrow Airport. The trial will use Motorola XR480 Fixed RFID Readers....
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Ultrawideband has apparently been taking too long: the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) this week announced plans to support Bluetooth over Wi-Fi within a year or so. The SIG is still...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on February 12, 2008
Microsoft this week announced an agreement to acquire Danger Inc., the designer of the popular Sidekick mobile handsets. "The acquisition, whose terms were not disclosed, derails an initial...
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by jeff goldman on February 11, 2008
Starbucks and AT&T today announced a new agreement under which they'll offer a mix of free and paid Wi-Fi access at Starbucks stores. If you've got a Starbucks Card, you can get up to two...
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by jeff goldman on February 08, 2008
Digital security company Gemalto this week announced plans to work with handset manufacturer LG to develop Smart Card Web Server (SCWS)-compatible mobile phones. "The Smart Card web server is a...
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by jeff goldman on February 07, 2008
AT&T this week announced plans to deploy 3G wireless broadband service in more than 80 additional U.S. cities by the end of the year, bringing AT&T 3G services to a total of just under 350...
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by jeff goldman on February 06, 2008
Premium MVNO Voce appears to have died quietly as of February 1st, with no warning to subscribers - and, so far, without any change to the company's Web site. The LA Times' David Colker...
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by jeff goldman on February 05, 2008
Hot on the heels of the recent Skyfire launch at DEMO 08, Opera Software today introduced Opera Mobile 9.5, the latest version of its mobile browser. The software will be demonstrated next week at...
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by jeff goldman on February 04, 2008
The LiMo Foundation today announced that it will be delivering the Linux-based LiMo Platform for mobile handsets next month. It'll be showcasing the tech next week at the Mobile World Congress in...
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by jeff goldman on February 01, 2008
Garmin today announced the nüvifone (why the pretentious umlaut, Garmin, why, why, oh why...), a swanky touchscreen handset that combines a phone, Web browser and GPS navigator in a single device....
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