Posts under ‘Resources - Mobility’

Via the New York Times
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: December 7, 2008
CNN says it wants newspaper feedback as it creates a news wire service to compete with The Associated Press and other services. At a meeting last week, one newspaper staff member offered his advice — and shared the framework of CNN’s plans — in real time [...]

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December 4, 2008 - 9:38 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins Add a Comment

TalkShoe this afternoon released a major upgrade to their live podcasting platform, one that allows for a call to be created mobile, on the fly and independent of a connection to the web.
CEO Dave Nelson [...]

Via Metro
Tech Now by Paul Brent
November 06, 2008 03:46

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Via Mobile Crunch
by Greg Kumparak on November 3, 2008

As the entry fee for smartphones drops lower and lower, the wallet friendly price point found with most feature phones (or, as some might say, “dumbphones”) is beginning to lose its luster. In a day when obtaining a smartphone requires little more than 50 bucks [...]

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November 1, 2008 - 9:52 am PDT - by Paul Glazowski

I don’t know whether to think recent calculations for mobile video consumption (or lack thereof) via the four top wireless carriers in America are just a little bit Halloween spooky, a big point of concern, or perhaps a good omen.
It’s [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: October 20, 2008 - 01:14PM CT
It turns out that the typical American family is also the most networked, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In addition to having 1.34 children, a dog, and a white picket fence, the American nuclear [...]

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By Jacqui Cheng | Published: October 09, 2008 - 05:05PM CT
Hate on the kiddies and their SMS speak all you want, but text messaging is taking off among the masses. AT&T has released data from two studies it recently commissioned, showing that both families and romantic partners are using SMS more and more [...]

Via PR 2.0
Twitter is nothing short of a phenomenon. At the very least, it connects people to each other through a rich and active exchange of ideas, thoughts, observations, and vision in one, highly conducive ecosystem (known as the Twitterverse). The social fibers that weave together this unique micromedia network is strengthened by the expertise, [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: October 15, 2008 - 06:08PM CT

The FCC’s Office of Engineering Technology has released its long-awaited technical report (PDF) on “white space” prototype devices, and the conclusion comes right up front: “At this juncture, we believe that the burden of ‘proof of concept’ has been met. We are satisfied that spectrum sensing in combination [...]

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October 16, 2008 - 4:47 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder

The Communications Data Bill, suggested by UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, proposes that all UK residents’ mobile and Web communication should be stored by the ISPs and MSPs in a giant database for 12 months. Actual content of conversations would not be stored, just times and [...]