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• AT&T: Victim of Success? September 8, 2010
  Fred Devereux, president of the western region for AT&T, admits that the wireless carrier is “not the most revered” right now. But, in remarks today at the Mobile Future Forward conference in Seattle, Devereux pledged that things will get better, reports Seattle’s TechFlash. “We have a lot of work to do. I call it a […]
  Sam Churchill
• Morgan Stanley: Mobile Future Bright September 8, 2010
  Mary Meeker’s PowerPoint slide presentations, delivered for Morgan Stanley always cut to the chase with beauty and clarity. Zahid Ghadialy of the 3G/4G Wireless Blog has posted Meeker’s latest PowerPoint here on Slide Share. Meeker has 8 key themes: Wealth creation/desctuction is material in new computing cycles. We are in the 5th cycle. Mobile is […]
  Sam Churchill
• Australia Broadband Decides Election September 8, 2010
  Australia’s plan to run fiber-optic cable to 93 percent of the country’s homes and provide minimum 100Mbps speeds (the rest of the country will get 12Mbps, delivered by wireless and next-generation satellite) was always ambitious, says ArsTechnica. But even its most enthusiastic backers never expected that a national broadband plan would actually determine t […]
  Sam Churchill
• Google Instant September 8, 2010
  Google today announced Google Instant, a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. Google says people type slowly, but read quickly. This means that you can scan a results page while you type. Give it a try here. It only works with Firefox, IE Explorer 8 and Safari in the United States. The […]
  Sam Churchill
• Verizon Announces Prepaid Data Plan September 7, 2010
  Verizon Wireless announced today data packages for prepaid customers. Verizon’s prepaid plan costs $30 per month for an “unlimited” data package with its “3G Smartphones”. In addition, a 25 MB/month plan is available for “3G Multimedia phones” for $10 per month. That service is mostly for checking email and messaging. These plans are on top […]
  Sam Churchill
• Riot in D Block September 7, 2010
  Despite $7 billion in federal grants and other spending over the last seven years to improve the ability of public safety departments to talk to one another, most experts say that it will be years, if ever, before a single nationwide public safety radio system becomes a reality, reports the NY Times. “For a brief […]
  Sam Churchill
• Arctic Technology September 7, 2010
  Photographer Christian Houge’s Arctic Technology series offers a look at large-scale scientific installations on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, notes Gizmodo. According to Gizmodo, “the extraordinary emptiness of this landscape brings to mind a recent book called The Edge of Physics, by Anil Ananthaswamy, in which the author visits sites all of the planet […]
  Sam Churchill
• Nike+ GPS App September 7, 2010
  Nike’s new iPhone app has eliminated the sensor and special shoes of its original Nike+ exercise system and added GPS support, using the handset’s GPS and accelerometer to monitor your progress. As a result, iPhone and iPod touch users may now need only a $2 app versus a $30 kit, although iPod nano owners will […]
  Sam Churchill
• Dual Core Mobilizes September 7, 2010
  Samsung Electronics has introduced a dual-core 1 GHz Cortex A9-based CPU for tablets, netbooks and smartphones. Codenamed Orion, the chip features a pair of 1-GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores, each comes with a 32-kbyte data cache and a 32-kbyte instruction cache. It reportedly doubles the Hummingbird’s performance, while improving battery life, allowing 1080p video […]
  Sam Churchill
• Mobile Phone Winner: Android September 3, 2010
  Quantcast says the share of mobile Web consumption is moving towards the Android Quantcast says Android now has a 25 percent share of total mobile Web consumption in the US. Apple’s iOS, meanwhile, is seeing its share decline, from approximately 67 percent in May 2009 to 56 percent in August 2010. At current rates, Android’s […]
  Sam Churchill