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Nov 2008 |
The growing popularity of smartphones is increasing demand for mobile data, which in turn, spells a growth in revenue for operators, according to In-Stat.
The latest survey results released by the research firm showed more than 95 percent of smartphone users polled consumed mobile data through applications or services in the last year.
Smartphones are generally defined as phones that can run more advanced mobile applications and access the Internet.
Jill Meyers, industry analyst at In-Stat, said in... |
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Nov 2008 |
One Laptop Per Child Association Inc. (OLPC) launched its "Give 1 Get 1" program for a second time, allowing people to buy one of its iconic green minilaptops and donate one to a child in the developing world at the same time for just $399.
This year, OLPC teamed up with Amazon.com Inc. for smoother ordering and distribution.
Amazon will begin taking orders for the XO laptops on Monday. The devices will be shipped within 30-days in the U.S. or longer for people ordering from the U.K. or other parts of... |
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Nov 2008 |
After a $100 million upgrade, Cray Inc.'s XT Jaguar supercomputer this week may displace IBM's Roadrunner as the fastest computer in the world.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced last week that the XT Jaguar, housed at its Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., has hit a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops, or more than a quadrillion mathematical calculations per second.
Roadrunner had moved to the head of the Top500 list last summer after hitting a sustained speed of 1.026 petaflops l... |
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Nov 2008 |
It took 'em long enough, but Netgear has at long last decided to ship the two powerline adapters it announced way back at CES in January. The Powerline AV Ethernet Adapter Kit (XAVB101), which is based on the HomePlug AV standard, and the UPA-based HDXB111 Powerline HD Plus Ethernet Adapter Kit (which is obviously capable of transmitting HD footage) can both be snapped up in time for the holidays. Each set is designed for plug 'n play action and for those who'd rather network their wares via installed cabli... |
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Nov 2008 |
T-Mobile USA recently announced that it is to skip evolution of HSPA and go straight to LTE, bypassing HSPA+. The announcement is a further sign of the growing operator momentum behind LTE, and increasing marginalisation of mobile WiMAX. However, we believe that opportunities for mobile WiMAX and HSPA+ should not be overlooked.
LTE looks like winning the latest standards war
T-Mobile USA's announcement is not a surprise in itself. As a GSM-based operator it was always likely that it would migra... |
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Nov 2008 |
A new study details how spammers – the bane of our email inboxes – still make pots of money, despite only receiving a response to one in every 12,500,000 emails they spam out.
The study, by a team of seven computer scientists from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD) infiltrated the Storm network, which uses hijacked home PCs to relay much of the junk email you spend your days wading through while wondering 'who the hell responds to this stuff?'
Well. Now you know. One gullible ... |
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Nov 2008 |
Unveiled on Monday by the USB Implementers Forum, the USB 3.0 spec can theoretically support data-transfer speeds of up to 4.8Gbps--10 times the speed provided by USB 2.0.
The new standard, also known as SuperSpeed USB, is also expected to be more power-efficient than its predecessor.
"SuperSpeed USB is the next advancement in ubiquitous technology," Jeff Ravencraft, the president of the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the industry group that promotes USB technology, said in a statement on Monday. "T... |
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Nov 2008 |
Handset makers will sell fewer mobile phones in 2009 than this year, and sales for 2008 will be lower than previously expected, Nokia Corp. warned today.
However, Nokia doesn't expect smart phone sales to be particularly hard hit.
The world's largest cell phone maker said that it now expects total mobile phone sales across the market for 2008 will be 1.24 billion, instead of its earlier estimate of 1.26 billion. The total is still better than 2007, when 1.14 billion phones were sold. While Nokia didn... |
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Nov 2008 |
HTC is arguably the most innovative company when it comes to mobile phones, in particular those running the Windows Mobile operating system. Today, they announced the HTC MAX 4G device that is the world’s first GSM/WiMAX headset. The device will be available in Russia on the Yota Mobile WiMAX network. The device appears similar to the super high-end HTC Touch HD that was recently revealed with a large 3.8 inch 800×480 display and touch screen interface. The HTC MAX 4G will support the Yota Video network and... |
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Nov 2008 |
IBM Corp. is throwing its considerable weight behind an idea that seemed to have faded: broadband Internet access delivered over ordinary power lines.
The technology has been around for decades, but most efforts to implement the idea on a broad scale have failed to live up to expectations.
Now, with somewhat scaled-back goals, improved technology, and a dose of low-interest federal loans, IBM is partnering with a small newcomer called International Broadband Electric Communications Inc. to try to make... |
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Nov 2008 |
Netbooks equipped with solid-state drives (SSD) sporting as little as 16GB of storage capacity will be able to comfortably run Windows 7, Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday.
The operating system and auxiliary files generated by Windows 7 -- including restore files, log points, hibernation files, and temp files -- will require 8GB, leaving 8GB for applications and user data, Microsoft senior lead program manager Leon Braginski said during a presentation at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC... |
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Nov 2008 |
Social-networking giant Facebook got a notch bigger in the last three months, and the company has higher hopes from a partnership with Salesforce.com.
Specifically, the company grew its active membership total from 90 million in early July to 120 million now, said Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, speaking at Saleforce.com's Dreamforce conference here.
"We got more [members] in the last three months than in the first three years of our existence," Sandberg said. She also said the site ... |
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Nov 2008 |
Motorola, Inc. has announced the completion of the industry’s first over-the-air Long-Term Evolution data sessions in the 700MHz spectrum using itsLTE Radio Access Test Network and LTE eNode-B platform with a prototype LTE device.
A testing milestone, it was achieved in Motorola’s labs and at an outdoor location in central Illinois. This milestone is positioned as demonstrating the progress thatMotorola ( News - Alert) has made in achieving toward bringing its LTE solutions to market in 2009.
The sess... |
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Nov 2008 |
Perhaps the biggest threat to Google's increasing dominance of Internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or not, that Google's broadening reach is giving it unchecked power.
This scrutiny goes deeper than the skeptical eye that lawmakers and the Justice Department have given Google's proposed ad partnership with Yahoo. Many objections to that deal are financial, and surround whether Google and Yahoo could unfairly drive up online ad prices.
A bigger long-term concern for Google cou... |
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Oct 2008 |
Videogame titan Electronic Arts on Wednesday unveiled titles tailored for play on freshly-launched "Google phones" running on Android open-source software.
Globally popular "Tetris" is available for the first of what is expected to be an array of mobile telephones based on a free, open software platform created by a Google-led Open Handset Alliance.
US telecom carrier T-Mobile last week began selling G1 smart phones made by Taiwan-based HTC Corporation. Alliance-member Motorola is believed to be on th... |
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