05/16/2011
Giga Om
We are moving from the Information Age to the Insight Age, as Parthasarathy Ranganathan, an HP Labs distinguished technologist told me. As part of that shift we need a computing architecture that will handle the storage of data, and the heavy processing power required to analyze that data, and we need to do it [...]
05/16/2011
FierceBroadbandWireless
As the FCC mulls AT&T’s (NYSE:T) proposed $1.93-billion acquisition of Qualcomm’s (NASDAQ:QCOM) 700 MHz spectrum Qualcomm had used for its now-defunct MediaFLO mobile TV effort, representatives from the FCC, Qualcomm and AT&T visited AT&T’s Innovation Center in Washington, D.C. to witness a demonstration of carrier aggregation technology, which AT&T plans to deploy in the MediaFLO [...]
05/16/2011
TelecomAsia.net
Singapore’s M1 is targeting nationwide LTE deployment by Q1 next year.
M1 spokesperson Ivan Lim told TelecomAsia the company had already applied to the IDA to amend its existing facilities-based operator license to allow for the provision of LTE and related services. The upcoming network will target both the enterprise and consumer segments, said Lim. [...]
05/16/2011
Total Telecom Online
Finnish handset giant ditches mobile services brand in favour of using Nokia name; transition to be complete by end of 2012.
Nokia revealed on Monday plans to abandon the Ovi brand and market its range of mobile services under the Nokia name instead.
The Finnish handset giant said the rebranding will begin in July [...]
05/16/2011
Dow Jones Newswires – Toronto Bureau
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. has recalled about 1,000 of its PlayBook tablets that were shipped with faulty operating systems which may have prevented users from performing the initial setup of the device.
In a statement, RIM said the majority of the affected devices are still in the distribution [...]
05/16/2011
Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) – France hopes to get at least 2.5 billion euros ($3.53 billion) for the fourth-generation (4G) wireless frequencies it plans to grant to telecom operators in an upcoming auction, Industry minister Eric Besson told Le Figaro.
France is in the final stages of setting terms for the auction of fourth-generation mobile spectrum, which [...]
05/13/2011
Giga Om
Netflix on Android was big news yesterday, but I wouldn’t count Amazon out of the portable video market just yet. Pocketables, a mobile enthusiast website, reports that Amazon Unbox videos play back on the HTC Thunderbolt, without much effort on a user’s part. The simple process entails nothing more than a download of the [...]
05/12/2011
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Nvidia Corp. (NVDA), a maker of graphics chips, forecast second-quarter sales that exceeded analysts’ estimates, as demand for personal computers benefited from a new microprocessor from Intel Corp.
Revenue in the current period will rise 4 percent to 6 percent from the first quarter to as much as $1.02 billion, Nvidia said in a [...]
05/13/2011
Bloomberg
Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Oyj are among four technology companies to challenge Apple Inc. ’s European Union-wide trademarks for “Appstore” and “App Store.” Photographer: George Frey/Bloomberg
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) are among four technology companies challenging Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s European Union-wide trademarks for “Appstore” and “App Store.”
Nokia, the world’s largest mobile-phone maker, [...]
05/12/2011
Fast Company
Qualcomm and the X Prize are offering money for a device that can spot diseases better than a doctor.
Admit it: You’ve spent way too much time trying to match up your symptoms to an illness on the Internet, coming away only with the knowledge that either you’re going to be totally fine or [...]
