IDG News Service-HTC and Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced the Droid DNA smartphone,which comes with Android 4.1 and a 5-inch high-definition display that the company said is the most advanced in the market today. The Droid DNA ...
Tags: HTC, HD screen, Droid DNA smartphone, Android 4.1
Ofcom today told mobile operators that applications for the 4G spectrum auction must be submitted by 11 December 2012. The telecoms regulator announced the date as part of a statement finalising the rules for the process, including the ...
Tags: Ofcom, applications for the 4G, telecoms, 4G mobile services
Anyone who finds it hard to believe that the average U.S. mobile subscriber sent 696 text messages per month in the second quarter of this year may be relieved to know that this figure fell to 678 per month in the third quarter. It was ...
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The schedule for the long-awaited, and much-delayed 4G spectrum auction has been finalised by communications regulator Ofcom, and could see further 4G services becoming available by next May. Mobile operators O2 and Vodafone are expected ...
Virgin Media Business will provide free citywide Wi-Fi to citizens of Leeds and Bradford after winning the first contract to offer the service outside London. The deal means Virgin will provide free mobile internet to 1.2 million people ...
Tags: Virgin, Leeds and Bradford, citywide free WiFi, small cell transmitters
Vodafone has claimed that mobile operators need help in tackling a "backhaul bottleneck" in order to roll out a successful 4G network. At a Westminster e-forum event today, Vodafone's head of regulatory affairs, Matthew Braovac, argued ...
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IDG News Service-Just as mobile operators start to get their networks back up in most areas affected by Hurricane Sandy last week,another storm is heading for the region that was hardest hit. Carriers are preparing to keep their regular ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft will provide information about the location and quality of free Wi-Fi hotspots in Windows Phone 8 so users can find the best nearby networks. The information will come from a database of 11 million hotspots ...
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Spectrum in the UK contributes £52bn to the economy, according to research carried out by Analysys Mason on behalf of two government departments – the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department for ...
Tags: spectrum, property, public mobile communications, finite resource
IDG News Service - Consumers in the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy may not get wired phone, Internet and video service back for as long as two weeks, Verizon Communications warned on Friday, while the FCC reported continued slow ...
Android-operated devices now represent three-quarters of the smartphone market, according to third quarter figures, far ahead of the iPhone in second place with 15 per cent. BlackBerry is a distant third, according to the research by ...
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It has been a long and somewhat slow journey to get here, but this week the UK finally saw the launch of a 4G network by mobile operator EE. Formed from the merger of T-Mobile and Orange, EE has rolled out the faster broadband ...
Tags: 4G network, EE, broadband, mobile networks, 4G, mobile, phone
The text on Amazon's newest Kindle reads top-to-bottom and right-to-left. The massive online retailer announced its first Japanese-language e-reader on Wednesday, a version of its Kindle Paperwhite that will go on sale in mid-November. ...
Tags: Amazon, E-Reader, Japanese-language e-reader, tablets
IDG News Service-Mobile payments with Google Wallet are growing fast,but the road to wide acceptance of NFC in the U.S.will be slow,the head of Google's payments unit said Friday. The number of NFC(near-field communication)transactions ...
Tags: Google, Mobile payments, cloud-based version
All of the UK's major mobile operators have joined forces to prevent interference from their impending 4G networks to Freeview TV signals across the country, following joint meetings with the government and Ofcom earlier this month. EE, ...
Tags: major mobile operators, prevent interference, 4G networks, Freeview TV