FCC decision could affect Verizon-Alltel deal
The agency will not take action on revising roaming laws which allow a carrier to reject a proposal for "piggy-back" carriage, if the requesting carrier already owned spectrum in the same market.
Earlier, US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin had proposed that the rules would be changed to allow smaller carriers that owned such spectrum a period of four years to use it, or choose to give the spectrum back and continue roaming.
More HTC Dream details revealed through FCC
The latest FCC filings indicate the HTC Dream will be roughly the same length as the iPhone 3G, although slightly thinner.
An iPhone 3G measures in at 115.2 millimeters by 61.2 millimeters: the Dream will be 115 mm by 55 mm, according to documents that were available for a time through the FCC's Web site. No doubt HTC's Dream, widely believed to soon become the first "Googlephone," will likely be thicker than the iPhone since it will include a slide out QWERTY keyboard.
Is Apple making overall headway with the iPhone 3G?
As Apple rolled out the iPhone 3G to 21 more counties last week, T-Mobile pointed to sales of 120,000 of the phones already in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, despite distribution and connectivity problems.
T-Mobile experienced delivery delays in all three countries, but customers complained about connectivity only in the Netherlands, according to Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile's parent company, Deutsche Telecom.
Facebook worm still spreading
Early in August, security firms noticed a worm spreading on Facebook through wall posts, claiming to contain a video requiring a new codec to be installed. Variants of this worm are now being spotted on a weekly basis.
The virus appears to be a slightly modified version of what Kaspersky Labs called Koobface; a worm elaborate in its design, but crude in execution.
Frontier ISP toys with 5 GB usage cap
Small regional ISP Frontier Communications has now joined Time Warner Cable in floating the idea of instituting monthly user caps even for subscribers who don't use much bandwidth, anyway.
Although Frontier has not yet decided about potential charges for monthly usage above 5 GB, the Rochester, NY-based DSL provider has now revised its usage policy for residential customers to set 5 GB as "a reasonable amount of usage [for] combined upload and download consumption," according to information on the company's Web site.
Many Obama supporters never received 3am VP wake-up text
"Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee," read the Obama campaign's early morning SMS message to his supporters. Trouble was, even by that time, many already knew it, and some weren't even getting the message.
The original plan was for Barack Obama supporters nationwide to be the first to receive the news of his vice presidential running mate. But well over two hours before many of those supporters received what ended up being, perhaps in an inadvertent tribute to Hillary Clinton, a 3am EDT wake-up call on August 25, CNN correspondent John King was the first to go live with the news that two highly-placed, then anonymous sources within the Democratic Party had confirmed to him that Joseph Biden was Sen. Obama's choice.
NBC failed to leverage Web for Olympic video, say reports
The TV network lagged behind competitor Yahoo in terms of traffic to its Olympic themed Web site, while its decision to limit Web video may have crippled online advertising revenue.
Although during the first three days of the Summer Olympic Games, NBCOlympics.com was able to hold onto the top spot, Yahoo's Olympic-themed site was able to beat NBC's since Day 4 in the race for Web eyeballs, according to Nielsen.
Ziff Davis indefinitely postpones DigitalLife, blames the economy
The yearly technology expo that had become a centerpiece of New York City's Digital Technology Week, and a viable alternative to CES has been postponed for 2008.
This morning, prospective attendees and exhibitors to the annual event, found this notice in small print, on the lower right corner of the event's Web site: "The DigitalLife event planned for September 25-28, 2008 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City has been postponed. Please check back for details on DigitalLife 2009."
European solidarity crumbling on digital mobile TV
A technology for mobile digital television in Europe may have had a better chance for a full rollout before the EC mandated it as Europe's official standard. Now, a leading analyst reports that hope may be fading for DVB-H.
In March, the European Commission agreed that DVB-H would be the standard for terrestrial mobile television broadcasting, thanks to the directing hand of Commissioner Viviane Reding. Only five months later, German service provider T-Systems, an arm of Deutsche Telekom, rolled out a DVB-T service to its customers despite the EC mandate that providers stick to DVB-H.
OLPC laptops now blanket the Pacific nation of Niue
The small country of Niue today became the first nation to provide OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) laptops to all of its public school students -- but then again, that number amounts to only 500.
Niue's 200 secondary school students received their PCs last month, according to a report by Radio New Zealand International.
Security lab warns of possible Chinese ISP DNS exploit
An apparent case of DNS poisoning in the caches of a major China-based ISP is causing extra concern today, in light of security engineer Dan Kaminsky's recent warnings about just how serious a cache poisoning exploit could become.
Visual evidence posted by security company WebSense earlier this week shows DNS resolution calls placed to the IP address of Chinese ISP Netcom using the command line tool nslookup, redirected to a completely different source whose IP address is linked to China. There, WebSense says, instead of the user's regular home page or Web mail, he'll see instead some links to exploits for RealPlayer, Adobe Flash Player, and Microsoft Snapshot Viewer.
Report: Google to be Verizon Wireless' default search
Verizon and Google may be close to establishing a revenue sharing mobile search deal, according to a report which have yet to be confirmed though have certainly not yet been denied.
Both Google and Verizon refuse to comment upon rumors, but a report from The Wall Street Journal this morning said the two companies could close a deal within the next few weeks. Such a deal would establish Google as the default mobile search engine for all of Verizon's handsets in exchange for a share of advertising revenue.
Is CDMA cell phone technology already dead? Analysts disagree
In separate reports issued this week, one prominent analyst firm proclaimed the impending death of CDMA cellular technology, while another touted its resurgence. So which is it?
Analyst firm Dell'Oro Group has declared CDMA -- for many years a widely used mobile communications standard, especially in North America -- already "dead."
Intel works on wireless laptop battery recharging
The groundwork may have been laid by Nikola Tesla for wireless transmission of electricity, but Intel is putting it to good use through a new effort to charge a laptop in much the same manner.
At the Intel Developer's Forum in San Francisco this week, a demonstration was shown where researchers were able to power a 60 watt light bulb from an energy source that was three feet away. About 75% of the power from the source was retained.
Pro-Tibet album may be behind China iTunes block
Users of Apple's music store in China have been reporting problems downloading music since the beginning of the week.
Chinese authorities have not directly confirmed blocking iTunes. Requests for comment have gone unanswered, or reporters have been told officials had no information on the block. However, the timing of this latest blockage seems to coincide with the release of a pro-Tibet album by the Art of Peace Foundation, which was released on Sunday.
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