Researchers from ABI seem to believe that municipal Wi-Fi may still have a future, and that by 2012, if all current issues are resolved, its global service area will extend to around 30,000 square miles, a 60x increase.
"Rumors of municipal networks' death is premature," ABI Research director Stan Schatt told BetaNews this afternoon.
Yahoo announced on Thursday that its Maps site had improved its amount of content, adding new information for 300 North American cities and 12,000 specific neighborhoods.
Point-of-interest information has also been upgraded, highlighting such features as schools, rest areas, and ski resorts. Yahoo also says it has also improved worldwide coverage, especially in Eastern Europe.
Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas mistakenly allowed a Google Maps street view vehicle perform a drive-through, photographing the army base in 360 degree-viewable detail.
An anonymous source told the Los Angeles Times that an official at the Fort Sam Houston auxiliary military base in San Antonio, Texas, allowed Google staff access on two occasions, under the assumption that a non-photographic online map provided by Google would be helpful to visitors. He claims that, while on base, Google did not follow the rules.
Though there have been rare exceptions, TiVo generally does not turn a profit. However, that is not to say the company cannot exceed expectations.
The DVR maker was projected to sustain a net loss of between $9 and $12 million for the fourth quarter of 2007, but in the end, net loss for the company was only $6.4 million. The result for the whole of last year was a loss of $31.5 million, a 34% improvement over the prior year's $47.7 million loss.
Fire Eagle is Yahoo's location-aware middleware, which ultimately lets users share their locations with online services, so those sites and applications can deliver results relevant to where they are.
Ten thousand invitation codes were sent out yesterday, in addition to the literal golden tickets given out to those present at Etech in San Diego. Yahoo hopes to entice developers to integrate Fire Eagle into their services to help make location-specific data readily accessible.
Establishing deals with practically every hardware manufacturer, Gemstar's program guides have already found their way onto millions of screens. Today's announcement just keeps up the pace.
Gemstar-TV Guide announced a multi-year licensing deal with Mitsubishi to build its Digital G-Guide interactive program guide (IPG) directly into new Televisions and DVRs in Japan. Gemstar claims that more than 20 million CE devices and personal computers in Japan use G-Guide.
In a move to make its online applications more accessible to people who use collaboration tools -- especially with Outlook -- Google yesterday announced it's going to implement a little interoperability of its own.
Google yesterday announced that its Google Contacts Data API is available to developers.
Market research firm In-Stat published a study covering the US residential broadband market entitled asking the question "How Fast is 'High Speed?'"
In-Stat surveyed over 700 homes with broadband connectivity in the US, and included homes with: cable modems, satellite broadband, DSL, fixed wireless, and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). To determine the speeds, each home visited an online "speed test" site, taking bandwidth measurements.
UC Berkeley's Center for Law & Technology has released a study revealing the need for corporations, especially Bank of America and AT&T, to accurately represent the threat posed to their customers.
Chris Hoofnagle, Senior Fellow at University of California, Berkeley's Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), co-authored the study which took complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission in January, March, and September of 2006. In that year alone, the FTC recorded 246,035 identity theft-related incidents. For the three months in the study, there were 88,560 among 44,262 institutions.
The company that brought forth the Era of Compatibility so long ago, announced today it is teaming up with VDEL (Austria) and LX Polska (Poland) to produce Linux-based PCs for the Russian business market.
VDEL and LX Polska will produce the machines under the moniker "Open Referent," and will pre-install Red Hat Linux and come with IBM's Lotus Symphony software suite. Lotus Symphony competes with Microsoft Office, and supports Open Document Format (ODF).
Japanese consumer electronics maker Pioneer, makers of what many consider to be the best plasma panels on the market, is reported to be ceasing production of its own plasma screens, according to Nikkei.
Pioneer is known for producing what many consider to be the best plasma panels on the market. The Japanese business news service Nikkei reported today that as early as this year, Pioneer's Kagoshima production facility could close, and its Yamanashi and Shizuoka plants will shift focus to assembly.
Gamasutra's list of best selling games this week sees Sins of a Solar Empire in the number one slot, beating out Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and WoW: The Burning Crusade.
The Realtime Strategy/4X game was released on February 4, and has already received critical acclaim from several video game review publications. What has won it such praise is its unique combination of 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) civilization management gameplay with the battle speed of a RTS, and its sheer size, which creates an immersive effect heretofore unseen in strategy games.
Today, Dell announced the availability of its Latitude XFR D630, a ruggedly designed notebook meant to serve as competition to Panasonic's Toughbook.
Though it cannot claim to have made the strongest nor first rugged laptops, Panasonic's Toughbook line of computers undoubtedly is the most recognizable rugged laptop brand on the market today. Dell, however looks to be moving in on the territory, by making direct challenges to Panasonic's performance.
Nav N Go, a producer of navigation software for handhelds, may finally be ready to bring its 3D GPS software to American handhelds, as it debuts its latest version this week at CeBIT in Hannover.
The company only recently began a strong appeal to United States clients, making its first appearance in the US at CES 2008 in January. At that time, the company was showing off its iGO multimedia navigation software, which today it has made official.