Archive for the ‘Mobile Technology’ Category
FCC Rejects Free Wireless Service Proposal
Joelle Tessler, Mobile Tech Today, 9/3/2010 The FCC has rejected a plan proposed by M2Z Networks that would have allowed free nationwide wireless service. M2Z wanted the FCC to demand that the winner of an auction for the radio spectrum provide free Internet service to anyone who connects to it. M2Z’s plan had encountered resistance [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: CTIA, FCC, T-Mobile
iOS Passes Linux to Become Third-Most Popular Internet Browsing Platform
Eric Slivka, MacRumors.com, 9/3/2010 As noted by Computerworld, Internet research firm Net Applications has calculated that Apple’s iOS has passed Linux to become the third-most popular Internet platform, surpassing Linux to trail only Windows and Mac OS X. According to Net Applications, the milestone came in July, when the release of the iPhone 4 apparently [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, iPad, iPhone · Tagged with: Linux
Flash on Android “Shockingly Bad” – Will BlackBerry Fare Better?
Ronen Halevy, BerryReview, 9/1/2010 Since DevCon back in October of last year RIM has said that Flash is coming to the BlackBerry OS in the summer of 2010 and people have been waiting for it. There have been quite a few delays and Adobe split hairs nice and thin with excuses. I asked back in [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Flash
Windows Phone 7 released to manufacturers
Matt Hamblen, Computerworld, 9/1/2010 Windows Phone 7 has been finalized and released to manufacturers, Microsoft announced in a blog Wednesday. The milestone means manufacturers can integrate the software with their hardware and networks to create smartphones and devices for customers prior to the holiday selling season, a Microsoft spokeswoman said. In the blog, Terry Myerson, [...]
In: Mobile Technology, WinPhone 7 · Tagged with: AT&T, HTC, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon
Firefox Mobile comes to Android in ‘Fennec’
Jessica Dolcourt, CNET, 8/27/2010 Mozilla is one step closer to getting its Firefox browser surfing on Android phones, and on the Nokia N900. On Friday the company issued an alpha version of Fennec, the code name for every instance of “Firefox Mobile” that’s still in development stages. Features-wise, Fennec alpha is very similar to the [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: Motorola, Nokia
Hedge Fund Manager Falcone’s Big Bet On Wireless Broadband
Tricia Duryee, MocoNews.net, 8/27/2010 Investors in the Harbinger’s hedge fund are increasingly uncomfortable with Philip Facone’s obsession with building a high-speed wireless broadband network. Falcone, who got rich by out-smarting the subprime housing bubble, has committed roughly $3 billion or 40 percent of the fund’s assets to LightSquared, making the telecom company the hedge fund’s [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, Clearwire, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone
RIM Acquires Mobile Software Firm Cellmania
Chloe Albanesius, PC Magazine, 8/25/2010 Research in Motion has acquired mobile software firm Cellmania for an undisclosed sum. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company produces a solution known as mFinder, which allows companies to track downloaded content on mobile phones, offer subscription billing, as well as time- and location-based content management. “Our team has joined RIM’s [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology
Google aims Goggles at Apple’s iPhone
Rik Myslewski, The Register, 8/23/2010 Google Lab’s visual-search technology, Google Goggles, should be available for iPhone users later this year. “We’re working on an iPhone version, and hope to have it out by the end of the year,” David Petrou, a Google staff engineer working on the Goggles project, told his keynote audience at Monday’s [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: HTML5
Virgin launches contract-free unlimited mobile broadband
Ian Paul, ComputerWorld, 8/24/2010 Sprint’s Virgin Mobile today announced an overhaul of its Broadband2Go mobile broadband service. The carrier plans to offer a new contract-free, unlimited mobile broadband plan for $40 per month. Virgin Mobile will also phase out most of its current tiered mobile data plans. The new broadband plans will be available for [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, AT&T, MiFi, Sprint, Verizon
Mobile 3D planned for MeeGo Linux
Gavin Clarke, The Register, 8/23/2010 Intel and Nokia are reviving the spirit of Second Life with plans for 3D interfaces on mobile devices running their MeeGo Linux distro. The companies have announced their first joint innovation center at Finland’s Oulu University, and it will specialize in the development of 3D interfaces and environments for MeeGo. [...]
In: Mobile Technology, WinPhone 7, iPad, iPhone · Tagged with: Flash, Linux, Nokia