Daily Wireless on the Line

• $139 Kindle Wi-Fi July 29, 2010
  Today Amazon is introducing two new Kindles. A WiFi-only version costs $139, and a $189 3G version (utilizing AT&T’s network, just like the last model) now includes WiFi. Amazon will begin taking orders Thursday and the new models will begin shipping Aug. 27 to customers in 140 countries. The units are 21 percent smaller and […]
  Sam Churchill
• Microsoft’s Street Slide July 28, 2010
  Microsoft’s Street Slide is a new 360 immersive viewer similar to Google’s Street View and Microsoft’s Streetside. But Microsoft’s Street Slide enable users to navigate between immersive 360° panoramas, or “bubbles”. You can move from bubble to bubble with a coherent visual sense of the whole city block by sliding along the strip view of […]
  Sam Churchill
• Top 10 Cell Phones July 28, 2010
  PC Magazine picked their top 10 smartphones in America. We’ve lifted it pretty much verbatim, with links back to the magazine’s original content. 1. iPhone 4 (AT&T)   Our top smartphone is more smart than phone, but its reception problems don’t outweigh its excellent OS, sharp camera, fast processor, great app ecosystem and amazing screen. […]
  Sam Churchill
• HomePlug AV2 July 28, 2010
  The HomePlug Powerline Alliance today announced the HomePlug AV2 specification, designed to meet the expanding requirements of the connected digital home. The AV2 specification claims to deliver a 5x increase in performance over current HomePlug AV solutions and offer significant improvements in whole home coverage. The new spec enables reliable delivery of […]
  Sam Churchill
• iPad Subscription Model Rejected? July 28, 2010
  Peter Kafka in All Things D, says Time Inc. has been unable to get Apple to let it sell and manage subscriptions for its iPad apps — much to Time Inc.’s surprise. Last month, the publisher was set to launch a subscription version of its Sports Illustrated iPad app, where consumers would download the magazines […]
  Sam Churchill
• 4G Auction in UK by 2011 July 28, 2010
  The UK government has [finally] given the green light for regulators to auction “4g” frequencies. UK regulator Ofcom said it aimed to hold the auction at the end of 2011 and will conduct a combined auction of 2.6GHz and 800MHz spectrum, reports the Financial Times. The bandwidth becoming available in the new frequency bands (800MHz […]
  Sam Churchill
• Sprint Numbers Up July 28, 2010
  For the first time in three years, Sprint is showing net subscriber growth. Sprint said in a statement that it expects to continue to add net subscribers for the rest of 2010 and cut postpaid subscriber losses in the second half. By the numbers: Sprint had 48.2 million customers in the second quarter, a sum […]
  Sam Churchill
• Jailbreaking Legal July 27, 2010
  Today, the Library of Congress ruled in favor of both jailbreaking and unlocking phones according to the Washington Post. Jailbreaking the iPhone allows you to shop for apps anywhere on the internet, not just the iTunes App Store, where all of the apps must be approved by Apple to go on sale. Bypassing a manufacturer’s […]
  Sam Churchill
• Intel: Terabit & Beyond July 27, 2010
  Lasers will replace copper connections in everything from supercomputers to servers to PCs, according to Intel researchers who demonstrated 50-Gb/s optical transmitter and receiver chips that the company plans to scale up to terabit-per-second speeds prior to commercialization, reports EE Times. “This is the first completed photonic link with integrated lase […]
  Sam Churchill
• Location Ad Market Too Small? July 27, 2010
  Forrester Research says location-based start-ups are still too small for major marketers. The research firm finds location-aware apps currently make sense mainly for brands seeking male influencers. Forrester says only 4% of U.S. online adults have ever used location-based mobile apps such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt. Only 1% update these services more […]
  Sam Churchill