Nokia , the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Bochum jointly unveiled a plan today to stimulate growth, create new jobs and generate investment for Bochum and the neighbouring cities.
If you're the type who likes to wirelessly stream HD video from your PC to your TV, or if you live in a densely populated environment that's packed with interference in the 2.4GHz range, listen up.
Telenor and Nokia today announced cooperation on mobile services to accelerate the adoption of new Internet services on the Ovi services platform provided by Nokia.
In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the civil-liberties groups said the DOJ failed to provide an adequate and timely response to a records request filed last year under the Freedom of Information Act.
"This is a critical opportunity to shed much-needed light on possibly unconstitutional government surveillance techniques," said Catherine Crump, the ACLU lead attorney. "Signing up for cell-phone services should not be synonymous with signing up to be spied on and tracked by the government."
Complying With Current Law
At least some U.S. attorneys may have violated a DOJ "internal recommendation" that "federal prosecutors seek warrants based on probable cause to obtain precise location data in private areas," according to a Washington Post article published last November. Moreover, the ACLU said other media reports have raised the possibility that law-enforcement officers may have obtained tracking data directly from the nation's mobile carriers without any court involvement.
Due to the limited amount of information currently available about the government's tracking practices, the ACLU said it believes the lack of information on the issue raises serious questions about whether the government is complying with current law and the U.S. Constitution.
"The government's policies and practices for monitoring the locations of mobile phones are unclear," the ACLU noted in its original records request. "It is not even apparent whether the government routinely obtains mobile-phone location information without any court supervision whatsoever."
Information pertaining to the DOJ's procedures for obtaining real-time tracking information is vital to the public's understanding of the privacy risks of carrying a mobile...
The company's black, oval-shaped smartphones are built for users to actually open. For example, buyers will be able to take the unit's casing apart to get at the electronic circuitry. Openmoko says it will even supply the tools to make opening the device a snap.
And the handset's flexible development platform will allow designers to create Linux-based mobile applications for specialized markets, Taiwan-based Openmoko said. The goal is to empower developers and consumers alike to personalize their devices, much like a PC.
Under the Hood
Measuring 4.75 x 2.44 x 0.73 inches and tipping the scales at 6.5 oz, the Neo Freerunner sports a 2.8-inch touchscreen with a display resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. Underneath the hood, the handset integrates chips for connecting tirelessly with functions and services compatible with the Bluetooth 2.0, GPS and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) standards.
The handset uses a 400-MHz ARM9 processor, 128MB of WSDRAM and 256MB of NAND Flash memory. Though there is no camera, the smartphone has two three-axis motion sensors and a microSD expansion-card slot.
The Neo FreeRunner is a tri-band GSM device that comes in 850/1800/1900-MHz and 900/1800/1900-MHz forms. To find out which Neo to buy, Openmoko suggests that prospective buyers first determine the GSM bands supported in their home markets.
Customization Options
On the software side, the new handset can dial numbers, send and receive SMS text, and record personalized contact information. Openmoko expects to supplement these with downloads, beginning with the release next month of a software suite that will include...
July 3, 2008 Taiwan's Asustek Computer , the leader of the mini-notebook category due to its early launch of the Eee PC , launched two new models of the family last month, the 901 and 1000, the first Eee PCs ...
Industry watcher Gartner predicts India’s wireless market penetration will rise from nearly 20 percent now to over 60 percent by 2012. According to industry associations, India has 272 million wireless subscribers, of which 205 million are GSM subscribers, reports EE Times.
They predict Indian wireless subscribers will grow at a compound annual rate of 21 percent in the next four years, exceeding 735 million by 2012. Wireless revenues are expected to reach $37 billion, according to a new market analysis.
The Indian wireless market “will move to its next phase of evolution with the commercial launch of WiMax in the first quarter next year and the launch of 3G services by the middle of the second quarter next year,” said Madhusudan Gupta, a Gartner senior research analyst.
Tata Communications Ltd. is weeks away from choosing mobile WiMax infrastructure and customer premises equipment (CPE) vendors for its $500 million wireless broadband network in India, notes Unstrung.
The operator already claims to have the largest WiMax network in the world with 1,000 base stations deployed, using 802.16d (fixed WiMax) equipment from Telsima Corp.. Tata has signed up 10,000 customers since it launched in March this year. (See Tata Unleashes WiMax in India.)
Two new carriers are set to join 14 established wireless providers in the coming months. Hence, Gupta predicted heightened merger and acquisition activity during 2009 as India’s wireless industry consolidates around market leaders.
India will be the Largest Market for Mobile WiMAX by 2013, says Cantab Wireless, a wireless communications analyst company, based in Cambridge, UK.
The first and largest operator is the state-owned incumbent BSNL, notes Wikipedia, which is also the 7th largest telecom company in world. After the telecommunication policy was revised to allow private operators, companies such as Reliance, Bharti Telecom, Tata Indicom, Vodafone, MTNL, and BPL have entered the space.
Pakistan got its second mass scale Wimax operator Mobilink Infinity, writes Tee Emm in a note to DailyWireless.
“They are using Huawie Wimax 16e. Mobilink is the largest player in the cellular (GSM) market in Pakistan (owned by Orascom Telecom). Pakistan has 160 million population (half of it young adults) with 80 million cellular users. Before this we had Wateen (parent company Warid Telecom owned by Abu Dhabi Group) launching the largest commercial network, based on Motorola”, writes Tee Emm.
Last night, Charlie Rose had an interesting conversation with Naguib Sawiris, CEO of Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Holding.
Linksys’ Dual-N Band Wireless Router ($200), announced today, gives users simultaneous 5GHz and 2.4GHz bands so 802.11N users and 802.11G users can coexist without N users having to use the crowded 2.4GHz space.
Also, since it’s dual N-band, two N users can connect (one to each frequency) without interfering with the other, explains Gizmodo.
A USB storage device allows access to your music, video, or data files from within your network, or through the Internet. It features advanced wireless security and SPI firewall for protection from Internet attacks.
Mozilla set the record with 8,002,530 downloads in June. The Mozilla Foundation will receive the official certificate in London next week.
"Setting a world record really doesn't matter. It's a marketing stunt," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at JupiterResearch. "At the end of the day you still have to look at who has the overwhelming browser market share. It still belongs to Microsoft."
Breaking Down Browser Shares
Indeed, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the dominant browser. But Firefox is gaining ground, according to a new report from Net Applications. The release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17 spurred rapid usage gains, topping four percent worldwide. In the first hour after the product was released, Firefox 3.0 gained one percent of worldwide market share.
Firefox 3 gains came mostly from users upgrading from Firefox 2, while its overall usage share grew about .4 percent, primarily at the expense of Internet Explorer, according to Net Applications.
IE's market share dipped from 73.75 percent in May to 73.01 percent at the end of June, Net Applications' latest data shows. Firefox increased its overall share during the same period from 18.41 percent to 19.03 percent.
Is Firefox Really the Safest Browser?
In a flurry of good news reports for Firefox, Mozilla users are most likely to be using the latest versions of their browsers, with 83 percent of Firefox users patched, according to joint research from Google, IBM and Communications Systems Group in Switzerland.
By contrast, only 63.3 percent of Safari users and 56.1 percent of Opera...
Sen. John McCain said at a campaign stop Tuesday that he will push for a national broadband wireless network for public safety, reports C/Net.
Speaking at the National Sheriff’s Association Annual Conference, McCain said a national, interoperable public safety broadband network was long overdue.
“For more than a decade now, I have tried to persuade the Congress to provide dedicated radio spectrum and funding for communications equipment to local, state, and federal law enforcement officers,” said McCain
McCain, who spent six years as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, which is responsible for telecommunications policy, said during his speech Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission needs to make more radio spectrum available for law enforcement. He also said he would try to limit the amount of spectrum the FCC could auction off to the private sector.
Ever since the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, politicians have lamented the lack of interoperability among various emergency communications networks. The FCC set aside a 10MHz chunk of spectrum in the 700 MHz band called the D-Block that was to be used to build a national public safety network that would also be shared with the public.
But no bidder reached the reserve price for the “D block” spectrum licenses.
McCain hasn’t publicly taken a stance on these individual spectrum plans, but it’s clear he believes public safety organizations should get priority over any private sector companies. How McCain would fund such a network is less clear.
“APCO International believes a public-private partnership between the D Block and public safety is currently the most viable option for funding and deployment of a national interoperable broadband network for public safety,” said Willis Carter, president of the Association of Public-Safety Officials International. “The FCC should move with all deliberative speed while ensuring that public-safety needs are addressed.”
The FCC has taken a first step toward re-auctioning the 700MHz “D block” in the 700 MHz band.
The FCC voted to ask for public comments (pdf) on how to re-auction the 10MHz piece of spectrum. Commissioners wanted to pair it with another 10MHz controlled by public-safety agencies to build a nationwide network shared by public-safety agencies and commercial users.
The Integrated Wireless Network (IWN), was proposed seven years ago to provide interoperable, mobile data and voice communications to DOJ, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Treasury Department.
But according to an audit by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general, it is “at a high risk of failure.” Industry observers say the federal radio network would cost $5 billion to $30 billion to build —- money that has not been appropriated by Congress.
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