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• China Telecom Gets iPhone February 21, 2012
  China Telecom on Monday said it would begin selling the iPhone 4S on March 9. The company will start taking online reservations on March 2. iPhone 4S will be available on select contracts in China Telecom’s authorized stores and online, reports GigaOm. China Telecom, a GSM-based network, currently has around 130 million subscribers. China Telecom […]
  Sam Churchill
• Ericsson Buying BelAir February 21, 2012
  Carrier infrastructure giant Ericsson is buying privately held BelAir Networks, a Canadian Wi-Fi company. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ericsson’s acquisition of BelAir has been rumored for sometime. The BelAir Networks’ indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi systems enable service providers like cable providers to build strand-mounted or tower-mounted […]
  Sam Churchill
• Qualcomm: LTE Powerhouse February 21, 2012
  Qualcomm this morning took the wraps off its latest 4G LTE wireless baseband modems. Based on Qualcomm’s Gobi, the MDM9615 and MDM9215 chipsets, delivers LTE connectivity on FDD and TDD networks worldwide, with backwards compatibility to both HSPA+ and EV-DO networks. The latest family of ARM-based Snapdragon processors will integrate a quad-combo of connect […]
  Sam Churchill
• New Nook: $199 February 21, 2012
  The rumors were true. Barnes & Noble today expanded its portfolio of NOOK devices with the introduction of NOOK Tablet – with 8GB of memory for $199, making it directly competitive with the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire which also has 8GB of memory. In addition, the company’s earlier NOOK Color, which was $199 was lowered […]
  Sam Churchill
• US Celebrates 50 Years in Space February 20, 2012
  The Soviet Union shocked the world when it successfully launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite on October 4, 1957. The Russians followed that triumph by launching Yuri Gagarin into orbit on April 12, 1961, the first human to fly in space. Under enormous pressure to catch up with the Russians on the high frontier, […]
  Sam Churchill
• Cheaper Nook Tablet? February 20, 2012
  The Verge says a 8GB Nook Tablet is expected to launch by Barnes and Noble on February 22nd. The Nook Tablet costs $50 more than Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire. The new Nook looks the same as Barnes & Noble’s current $249 Android Tablet, but with less onboard storage (matching the Fire’s 8GB) with a correspondingly […]
  Sam Churchill
• Vinod Khosla on “Unhyped Opportunities” February 20, 2012
  Legendary investor Vinod Khosla founder of Khosla Ventures, lists “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile in TechCrunch. They include: Data Reduction or Filters (Siri, Donna, Recorded Future, and many others): “Reducing, filtering and processing data streams to deliver the information or action that is relevant to you.” Big data or Analytics (Ness, Billgu […]
  Sam Churchill
• Smartphones: 1 Billion by 2015 February 20, 2012
  Overall U.S. smartphone penetration stood at 48 percent in January, reports Nielsen today. Those in the 24-34 age group showed the greatest proportion of smartphone ownership, with 66 percent saying they had a smartphone. Among those who chose a device in the last three months, more than half of those under 65 had chosen a […]
  Sam Churchill
• Mobile World Congress Preview February 20, 2012
  Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile trade show, starts next week in Barcelona, Spain. Android Community has a preview of some of the mobile phones. Android 4.0, and dual-core LTE-enabled phones and tablets are likely to be in abundance. HTC One X, a Tegra 3 quadcore phone with 1GB of RAM and at least […]
  Sam Churchill
• Lightsquared Late with Inmarsat Payment February 20, 2012
  Inmarsat said today that its partner LightSquared, has failed to pay a $56.25 million instalment. Inmarsat was scheduled to receive the payment from LightSquared after the completion of the first phase of their agreement. However, LightSquared said final payment was not yet due until Inmarsat replies to several issues that it had raised. Last week, […]
  Sam Churchill