Daily Wireless on the Line

• Canada to Get Apple’s iTV? February 7, 2012
  Canada’s Rogers Communications, one of Canada’s largest mobile, cable tv, and DSL providers and Bell Canada (BCE), the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL Internet services in much of Canada, are in talks with Apple to become Canadian launch partners for its much-hyped Apple iTV, reports the Globe and Mail. Apple’s television product […]
  Sam Churchill
• Chrome Browser for Android February 7, 2012
  Google has launched a public beta of the Google Chrome web browser for Android. It’s available from the Android Market for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 and up. Google says Chrome for Android Beta is focused on speed and simplicity, but it also features seamless sign-in and sync so you can take your personalized […]
  Sam Churchill
• Meru AP Goes to 1.3 Gbps February 7, 2012
  Meru Networks recently announced the availability of the a new outdoor Wi-Fi access point that is said to provide more than 10 times the data throughput of the company’s previous outdoor access points. The Meru OAP433e (pdf), a three-radio, three-stream 802.11n outdoor access point, reportedly delivers 1.3 GB/s throughput for about $2,000 a pop (less […]
  Sam Churchill
• StoryBundle: DRM-free E-book Bundle February 7, 2012
  Jason Chen has left Gawker Media to launch an e-bookstore of his own, StoryBundle, reports Paid Content. Chen will sell bundles of DRM-free e-books under a pay-what-you-want plan. He imagines the average price of a bundle will be around $5. Readers pay what they want for a bundle of e-books and decide which percentage of […]
  Sam Churchill
• Sound Triggered Mobile App February 7, 2012
  Fashion Week, held in February and September in New York City, is one of four major fashion weeks held around the world. This year, Made Fashion Week, one of two major Fashion Week venues in New York this week, is using a mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android designed to listen for specific sound […]
  Sam Churchill
• Rogers LTE Dongles: AWS + 2.6 GHz February 6, 2012
  Canada’s Rogers Wireless will soon get faster LTE speeds, with new versions of the LTE Rocket stick and mobile hotspot, reports The Verge. The Sierra Wireless AirCard 330U model of the LTE Rocket stick as well as the Sierra Wireless AirCard 763S mobile hotspot offer maximum theoretical LTE download speeds of up to 100 Mbps […]
  Sam Churchill
• Nextel Decommissioning Begins February 6, 2012
  Sprint’s Direct Connect is moving from their iDen-based push-to-talk service on Nextel to a CDMA push-to-talk service that will allow faster data speeds. Selected Nextel towers are expected to be taken off-air, in the next few months, and surrounding towers will be optimized at the same time to maximize coverage. Nextel says coverage on the […]
  Sam Churchill
• Superbowl: The Day After February 6, 2012
  U.S. viewers multi-tasked the Superbowl, says Google, watching the game on television and going online with their smartphones and tablets to look up players, halftime show performers and their favorite Super Bowl commercials. In fact, around 41% of searches related to Super Bowl ads that were made during the game came from mobile devices, up […]
  Sam Churchill
• Galaxy S III: Wait February 6, 2012
  Samsung’s next-generation Galaxy S III, their upcoming flagship superphone, is a no show at Mobile World Congress, later this month. But it could launch as soon as April, and hit store shelves in May, according to Electronic Times News. The Galaxy S III will reportedly sport a Super AMOLED Plus 720p display, LTE connectivity, 2GB […]
  Sam Churchill
• Super Streams for Super Bowl XLVI February 3, 2012
  When the New York Giants and New England Patriots take the field for Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium (WikiMapia) in Indianapolis, the eyes of over 100 million people around the world will be upon them. NBCSports.com and NFL.com will broadcast the entire game for free beginning at 2 p.m. ET […]
  Sam Churchill