Category | United States

FCC embraces Social Media

Posted on 19 August 2009

The Federal Communications Commission or FCC has finally embraced social media by bringing its presence on web and twitter. FCC has launched its very own blog called Blogband. It has also joined the twitter circus which you can follow @fccdotgov. The first post has been done by the FCC Chairman Julius Genachowsky.
Genachowsky has mainly [...]

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Verizon slashes pricing for smartphones

Posted on 03 August 2009

Verizon has dropped the prices of pretty much all the smartphones in its kitty to only $99 for a two-year agreement. The only two smartphones which have been kept out of this price drop are BlackBerry Tour and Samsung Saga. This is certainly a nice development for all the consumers planning to move to Verizon [...]

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Barack Obama Redefines Election Campaigning Online

Posted on 16 October 2008

 
Barack Obama has in ways more than one redefined the way politicians campaign. He has used the web like.no.other in the recent times in the history of US elections. We talked about a Firefox extension yesterday which lets users to stay updated with the news of Barcak Obama but it was not the only web [...]

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DECT Based Phones now in USA

Posted on 08 June 2007

DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephony) is a relatively new cordless telephony standard in the United States, but it has been successfully deployed in Europe from last 10 years.
not like Wi-Fi, which operates in unlicensed frequency band in the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz bands but DECT operates in a licensed band (1,920 MHz to 1,930 MHz).
Siemens product [...]

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Wi-Fi Hotspots for Time Warner Customers

Posted on 23 April 2007

Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.
For Fon, which has forged similar agreements with ISPs across Europe, the deal will boost its credibility with U.S. consumers.
For Time Warner Cable, which has 6.6 million broadband subscribers, the [...]

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SAP sued by Oracle for corporate ‘theft’

Posted on 23 March 2007

Oracle Corp. has filed a suit today against SAP alleging violations of U.S. fraud legislation, unfair competition and civil conspiracy.
Oracle filed the lawsuit against SAP, its SAP America division and its TomorrowNow subsidiary in U.S. Federal District Court in the Northern District of California. Details of the complaint can be found here. TomorrowNow provides third-party [...]

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Ipod can get banned in NY

Posted on 16 February 2007

Reuters have today reported that New York inhabitants who carelessly cross the street listening to an iPod or talking on a cell phone could soon face a $100 fine.New York State Sen. Carl Kruger says three pedestrians in his Brooklyn district have been killed since September upon stepping into traffic while distracted by an electronic [...]

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Certification of election computers

Posted on 19 January 2007

The security and reliability of electronic voting systems continues to worry many election experts and security researchers. During the 2006 midterm elections, a combination of ballot problems and the lack, on e-voting machines, of an obvious warning for voters who failed to vote in a race led to massive undervoting in Sarasota County, Florida, [...]

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Best Selling Smartphones in USA

Posted on 03 January 2007

Symbian are not that popular in US mobile market, they rank on third position and have rather small market share,this is entirely different to the global mobile market share, where Symbian has over 80% monoply.
The Main reason for this is that Nokia dont have many good CDMA phones that are needed for Verizon Wireless and [...]

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Cingular’s transition to become AT&T

Posted on 03 January 2007

FCC has approved AT&T’s proposed acquisition of BellSouth. This approval has finally come after AT&T offered a few more concessions to consumers, such as network neutrality, in order to break the 2 vs. 2 voting stalemate at the FCC. The deal is worth US$85 billion.
This approval clears the way for AT&T to start the re-branding [...]

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