The Obama Administration signed an order today mandating that federal agencies make more efficient use of the spectrum they own so that it can be shared with consumers. Obama has for years been seeking ways to free up 500MHz of spectrum that can be turned over to wireless network operators and used for mobile broadband. [...]
Gorilla Glass could be heading to vehicles in the future, according to a Corning executive. The glass, currently used in a vast number of smartphones and mobile devices, could be used with, or replace entirely, some sections of glass used in automobiles, though the company is also looking into other glass applications. Jeffrey Evenson, senior [...]
AT&T would like to strike more Wi-Fi roaming agreements with its international peers. Bill Hague, AT&T’s executive vice president of international affairs, said that such agreements would benefit not only consumers, but the network operators, too. “Roaming agreements will increase revenue for everyone, and far more than anyone could do individually,” said Hague while speaking [...]
The special committee formed by Clearwire tasked with evaluating Dish Network’s tender offer is set to recommend that Clearwire accept Dish’s offer, reports the Wall Street Journal. The committee believes Clearwire’s full board should shun Sprint’s offer of $3.40 per share in favor of Dish’s offer of $4.40 per share, according to the sources “familiar [...]
Netflix will be adding separate user profiles to its accounts sometime this summer. The additional profiles will allow the streaming video service to keep a track record of what shows and films are viewed by individuals, rather than on the per-account basis it currently uses, in an effort to improve recommendations provided to its users. [...]
In an effort to qualify for equal music licensing terms as conventional broadcast radio, Internet streaming music service Pandora has purchased Rapid City, SD radio station KXMZ-FM. The purchase comes in response to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) engaging in what Pandora calls “discriminatory treatment” in licensing music to the Internet [...]
Facebook is joining the ranks of Twitter, Instagram and other services by introducing support for hashtags. People use the Hashtag , #, to identify topics and allow other users to search for them. During primetime television alone, there are between 88 and 100 million Americans engaged on Facebook – roughly a Super Bowl-sized audience every [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union in conjunction with the New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the US government. The suit alleges that the National Security Agency’s phone monitoring program violates the groups’ first and fourth amendment constitutional rights violating freedom of speech, freedom of press, as well as unreasonable search and seizure. Both groups [...]
Apple has released a downloadable version of yesterday’s WWDC keynote, headed by CEO Tim Cook and featuring many other Apple executives, as a standard-definition and HD (separate 720p and 1080p editions) podcast. The presentation, which featured a bit more humor than was recently seen following the death of former CEO Steve Jobs, also mentioned in [...]
Google today announced that it has acquired Waze, a company that provides real-time data on traffic conditions. According to Google, Waze and its engineering team will remain in Israel for now, but its technology will eventually be added to Google Maps to help improve its live traffic features. A lot of Waze’s traffic data is [...]
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