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08/08/2011
San Diego Union-Tribune – Online
The fight in Congress over comprehensive immigration reform sometimes feels intractable. Democrats are nominally for big changes. Yet in 2009-10, when Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, sweeping changes didn’t advance for reasons that still aren’t fully clear.
Meanwhile, Republicans are nominally strongly against illegal immigrants. Yet [...]
08/08/2011
CNET.com
Welcome to Smartphones Unlocked, my new monthly column designed to explain the ins and outs of smartphones to help you better understand how they work. The world of smartphones is fast-paced and can sometimes be confusing and difficult to keep track of all the new technology in these devices, particularly if you’re new to them, [...]
07/28/2011
Washington Post
Airplanes are an example of something called biomimicry (BYE-oh-mim-ah-kree), the science of using designs in nature to create a new product or solution. Nature is a great place to look for ideas because over millions of years, the natural world tends to create systems that work well.
( Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP ) [...]
07/29/2011
DigiTimes
China Unicom, China Telecom and China Mobile, the three largest mobile telecom carriers in China, have begun deploying femtocell networks in the China market, according to industry sources.
China Unicom began deployment of home-use femtocells to enhance coverage of its WCDMA 3G network for data communications in 2009, the sources indicated. Beginning 2011, China Unicom [...]
07/29/2011
Dow Jones Newswires – Beijing Bureau
BEIJING—E-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said Thursday that the first mobile phone using an Alibaba-developed operating system will go on sale in China at the end of the month, kicking off competition with Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
Within months, Alibaba Group unit Alibaba Cloud Computing said [...]
07/29/2011
Bloomberg News – San Francisco Bureau
Google Inc. (GOOG), facing a growing threat of intellectual-property lawsuits, acquired a batch of patents this month from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) to bolster its portfolio.
“Like many tech companies, at times we’ll acquire patents that are relevant to our business,” the Mountain View, California-based company said yesterday in [...]
07/28/2011
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Steve Perlman is known for ambitious technology projects. But his take on wireless communications definitely raises the bar.
Steve Perlman at the Uplinq conference in June
The Silicon Valley inventor, who has recently been delivering videogames online with a startup called OnLive, has also been quietly working for more than [...]
07/28/2011
Associated Press (AP) – Washington DC Bureau
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s current plan would direct the Federal Communications Commission to auction off highly valuable radio spectrum to wireless carriers desperate for more airwaves. Companies such as AT&T and T-Mobile USA say they need more capacity to keep up as their customers increasingly use iPhones, tablets [...]
07/28/2011
San Diego Union-Tribune
Qualcomm has teamed up with a private high school in Japan to launch a 3G smart phone wireless textbook project to help drop outs and students seeking vocational training earn diplomas.
The effort involves Renaissance Academy in Daigo-cho, Ibaraki, Japan. The school offers specialized and vocational training often outside the classroom. Many of [...]
07/28/2011
IntoMobile
I’ve no doubts in my mind Qualcomm is super serious about the prospects of the augmented reality technology. The company — which we usually know for their chipsets — has a dedicated R&D center in Vienna, Austria that has already released an Android SDK, allowing mobile developers to add AR experiences to their apps. Now [...]
