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• 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
• NJ Transit to Be WiFied September 3, 2010
  NJ Transit trains and rail stations are adding WiFi, the transit agency said Wednesday. It is seeking a company to provide WiFi for its 12 rail lines and 165 train stations. An RFP is due by 4 p.m. on September 30, 2010, NJ Transit said it hoped to award a contract by the end of […]
  Sam Churchill
• Hurricane Earl September 3, 2010
  What would coverage of Hurricane Katrina have been like in the age of Twitter? Hurricane Earl was downgraded late Friday morning to a Category 1 storm, with top sustained winds near 85 mph. Coverage of the storm is on Twitter, Facebook and mobile phone applications. Hurricane Earl was instructive, in that federal agencies are relying […]
  Sam Churchill
• Germany Gets LTE September 3, 2010
  In May the German government raised EUR4.38 billion in spectrum auctions (final results). The country’s four operators – Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefonica O2 and KPN’s E-Plus – all bought spectrum. Now they’re beginning to roll out LTE service. Vodafone Germany has announced aggressive LTE rollout plans and tiered data bundles, according to an LTE World report. […]
  Sam Churchill
• Yota: Planetary LTE Swap September 2, 2010
  “Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.” – Yoda Yota, the Russian mobile broadband operator, has switched on its first LTE network in the Russian city of Kazan. It is thought to be the country’s first live LTE network. The firm said today that the trial network is up-and-running. Yota says it has invested […]
  Sam Churchill
• Samsung, Toshiba Tablets Announced September 2, 2010
  Today Samsung unveiled its new 7″ tablet, called the Galaxy Tab. It will be available in Europe in October, and later this year in the U.S. Currently it uses the GSM standard (used by AT&T and T-Mobile in the United States). No word yet on how much it’ll cost – that’s going to be set […]
  Sam Churchill
• Clearwire + T-Mobile? September 2, 2010
  Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA — the third and fourth largest U.S. mobile phone carriers, respectively — are discussing the possibility of T-Mobile investing in Sprint’s Clearwire operation, reports the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal says Sprint’s directors are debating allowing T-Mobile to invest in its Clearwire unit, which needs additional f […]
  Sam Churchill
• Touch Screen Transit September 1, 2010
  Amazon.com’s new headquarters in Seattle is equipped with an interactive, touch-screen transit kiosk that shows real-time public transit information and local amenities. It uses OneBusAway, a suite of tools to make using public transit easier for King County riders. People can view “real-time arrival times for Metro bus routes, find streetcar stops and arriv […]
  Sam Churchill
• Big Growth for Mobile Music & Video September 1, 2010
  Mobile phones have become a staple of daily life, so much so that most consumers can hardly imagine going through the day without one by their side, says eMarketer. eMarketer predicts mobile content revenues will rise from less than $1.15 billion in 2009 to more than $3.53 billion in 2014, a compound annual growth rate […]
  Sam Churchill
• FCC Kills M2Z’s Free Broadband Plan September 1, 2010
  Annie: Hey, what if the Voice calls while you’re gone? Ray: Take a message. – Field of Dreams The prospect of a national, free, but low-bandwidth wireless broadband network, promoted by M2Z Networks, has been killed by the FCC, reports Wireless Week. The main objection was that signals in the AWS-3 spectrum (2155-2175 MHz) that […]
  Sam Churchill