Wireless Oom

02/2011
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Google Inc. accused rival Microsoft Corp. of copying its Internet search results, the latest salvo in the competition between the two technology behemoths.
Google made the claim Tuesday after releasing the results of a test it carried out purporting to show how Google’s results for search terms were copied [...]

02/2011
Giga Om
The annual smart grid event Distributech kicked off in San Diego Tuesday morning and — as expected — unleashed a whole series of news from smart grid-focused firms. From new home energy management products to plug-in car software to distribution automation gear, this is a list of trends and news from the show. That [...]

02/02/2011
Xconomy
A Jackson, MS, technology company is today launching a wireless communications platform for utility smart grids, giving San Diego’s Qualcomm a fresh opportunity to develop a vast new market for its Brew MP mobile operating system. As I reported last June, mobile applications developers have preferred other types of mobile operating systems (including Android, iPhone, [...]

02/2011
AFP
South Korean vendor to announce global release date for G-slate later this month.
LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it would release its first tablet computer in the U.S. in March, as it prepares to go head-to-head with Apple Inc.’s iPad.
LG said the G-slate was among the first tablet models to run on the “Honeycomb” operating [...]

01/28/2011
CNET.com – New York Bureau
Yes, it’s finally happened. The digital book has overtaken the paper book on Amazon.com. And this time that isn’t only true about hardcover books. Now we’re talking paperbacks.
In reporting its latest earnings, Amazon said that it was selling more Kindle books than paperback books, though the score is still close. [...]

01/28/2011
Computerworld
Reports that the next iPhone and iPad could include Near Field Communication (NFC) technology have raised the prospect that many more consumers in the U.S. will soon be able to use their devices to pay for almost anything — a candy bar, a subway ride, a parking space, or a bag of groceries.
But while [...]

01/28/2011
Wall Street Journal
Verizon Communications Inc. will pay $1.4 billion to acquire Terremark Worldwide Inc., an operator of data centers, in a move aimed at selling more computing services to business customers.
The deal, Verizon’s largest since its $6.8 billion purchase of MCI in 2005, comes as telecom operators are moving deeper into selling processing power, [...]

01/28/2011
IDG News Service – New York Bureau
IDG News Service – Qualcomm later this year will start shipping test units of its next-generation tablet and smartphone chip, which will be faster and more power-efficient than existing chips and have an LTE modem.
The Snapdragon MSM8960 chip will be based on a new architecture designed to deliver [...]

01/28/2011
CNET.com – New York Bureau
The Federal Communications Commission took two important steps this week to free up more wireless spectrum for wireless broadband services.
On Wednesday the agency published a list of nine companies that have been granted permission to provide a database of unlicensed “white space” spectrum that can be used by device makers [...]

01/26/2011
DigiTimes – Online
Most major handset makers all plan to launch dual-core smartphones in 2011 as Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Texas Instruments (TI) and Broadcom have come out with dual-core platforms, according to industry sources.
While LG Electronics (LGE) and Motorola already unveiled their dual-core smartphones at CES, HTC, Samsung Electronics and Nokia are expected to [...]