A new, free hurricane app from the American Red Cross offers location-based NOAA weather alerts and lets users send a one-touch "I'm safe" message via social networks to family and friends in an emergency. This screenshot shows the ...
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AT&T is putting the pedal to the metal on its LTE deployments, saying Thursday it has added seven more markets to its list, atop of the four market launches it had announced three days earlier. The carrier now offers LTE service in 120 ...
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Computerworld - Imagine sitting down at work, plopping a mobile device on the desk and having it wirelessly charge itself while, at the same time, synchronizing new data to your PC. In that world, one could also wirelessly charge a phone ...
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India's auction of mobile spectrum has not attracted new foreign investors, reflecting growing uncertainty about investment policies in the country and the growth potential of its mobile market. Telenor and the Indian joint venture of NTT ...
In the release notes to Version 3.5.6 of the Linux kernel, maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman warned users that there would likely be only one more version of that branch of the kernel, and that users should get ready to move to the 3.6 branch ...
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Computerworld - AT&T Tuesday unveiled a personalized video service to help explain each new customer's wireless bill in some detail. The video service, to be rolled out nationwide in early 2013, uses computer animation and voice narration ...
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to approve an agreement that will bring an end to a 15-year fight over interference concerns over mobile broadband service in the 2.3GHz band of spectrum. The FCC's vote Wednesday will ...
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PC World - This year has already been a notable one on many technological fronts, but certainly one of the more exciting ones among them is the Linux-powered revolution that's taking place in personal computing. Delivering significant ...
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Computerworld - ISIS, a consortium of three wireless carriers, is reportedly set to launch its mobile payment pilot test on Aug. 20 in Austin and Salt Lake City. Separately, ISIS competitor Google on Wednesday announced a cloud-based ...
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IDG News Service - The launch of the first commercial Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) services took place last week, but most operators are likely to take a cautious approach as they face technical and business challenges. U.S. operator MetroPCS ...
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Computerworld - With 15 million packages to sort each day, UPS workers are taking advantage of new wearable scanning technology that speeds up package loading and quickly transmits online tracking data to customers. Motorola Solutions ...
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PC World - It's been a busy few months lately in the world of Linux distributions, and August appears to be no exception. Hard on the heels of the 19 new distros I wrote about the other day resulting from this month's "31 Flavors of Fun" ...
Tags: PCLinuxOS, "31 Flavors of Fun"project, Bodhi Linux, Damn Small Linux
A recent study by four UCLA documents what some wireless data customers have long suspected -- that users can be charged for wireless data they never received. In the most extreme case of overcharging, an unnamed carrier charged the ...
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A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday reversed an order by the U.S. International Trade Commission that ruled that Nokia did not infringe two wireless cellular patents of InterDigital Technology Corporation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...
When Apple announces its next iPhone as expected on Wednesday, many analysts predict it will have faster LTE wireless capability along with other improvements, including a larger 4-in. display, more powerful processor and overall design ...
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