If the Federal Communications Commission has its way, a national broadband plan with 100-megabit Internet connection to 100 million U.S. homes will be available by 2020. This could likely enhance health care in remote regions.The national broadband plan includes a 25-page chapter on health care and the FCC has asked the Department of Health and [...]
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Nokia ups ante against Apple
In a move, which alleges Apple of infringement of patents in all almost all its products ranging from computers, to cell phones to music players; mobile phone manufacturing giant, Nokia, has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission. As per the estimates this lawsuit involves millions of dollars in royalties. This step is [...]
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O2 joins the chorus of bashing iPhone usage for network congestion
For service providers, the decade ends on a clogging a note Another service provider succumbed to ‘excessive data demands’ of iPhone, this time on the other side of Atlantic. O2, one of the leading providers of wireless service in the United Kingdom, has apologized to customers for recent network issues including the inability to make [...]
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AT&T goofs-up with iPhone… Again!!!
The iPhone fixation received a sporadic jolt in the New York City Area as AT&T, the network carrier of Apple’s iPhone stopped the online retailing of the cult device in the area. Considered to be one of the many public relation and strategic goof-ups by the service provider, AT&T termed it as a “modification to [...]
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Nokia comes out with bathtub in response to kitchen sink thrown by Apple
Nokia accuses Apple of ‘hitchhiking’, moves to US ITC Nokia has fired the latest salvo in the ongoing patent infringement tussle by filing a complaint with US International Trade Commission accusing Apple the California-based maker of popular computers and music players of violating multiple Nokia patents with its products. The imported electronic devices named in [...]
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AT&T faces same issues which O2 suffered from last summer
AT&T users are not the only one fighting with the network congestion problems while using their smart Apple iPhone. The recent acknowledgment from UK based O2 about the network problems tells that the high increase in the number of smartphones had even made them to went through the same situations from last six months. As [...]
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Apple gains on iPhone sales and Tablet report
Speculators and investors make the most of numbers floating around Brisk sales of Apple iPhone this holiday season prompted analysts to upgrade Apple’s share target price. Apple iPod touch 8 GB along with the Kindle Wireless Reading Device and Garmin nuvi 260W 4.3-inch GPS were the best selling electronics devices, according to Amazon during the [...]
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Google’s AdMob proposed acquisition: A spanner in the works?
Consumer groups cite ‘monopoly in mobile ads’ and ‘privacy’ as major concerns Is the giant’s acquisition deal is in trouble? If not ‘YES’ we cannot say ‘NO’ even, as two consumer groups asked the US Federal Trade Commission to block Google Inc.’s proposed $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob Inc., on the grounds [...]
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Gameloft decides to invest little on Android gaming
Google is doing much to enhance and make its mobile OS Android as a dear one to all but they have slightly missed their concern regarding developers. Gameloft has declared that they will be investing less for Android platform. How much will you like a phone with less apps and games? But Google seems to [...]
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