How Google Forced Verizon to Allow Smartphone Tethering

How Google Forced Verizon to Allow Smartphone Tethering - Technology Review: "The FCC settlement was made under rules set in 2007, when it auctioned off a chunk of radio channels known as the C block for use for mobile communications. Verizon bought that for $9.63bn, but only after Google intentionally drove up the price to trigger conditions that restricted the eventual winner to allowing “open devices and open applications” on connections using it. It was those rules that caused the FCC to force yesterday’s settlement. Verizon has made C block radio frequencies a core part of its wireless data network."

4G isn't fast enough for tablet and smartphone users
ZDNet (blog)
In a survey of 5000 U.S. smartphone and tablet users, Keynote found that “while expectations vary somewhat depending on the platform – desktop, smartphone or tablet – they are definitely increasing (PDF Link). In short, user expectations no matter the ...

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Now in US, LTE Version Arriving Later
eWeek
While Samsung hasn't yet shared pricing information, the company said that the device will come in three connectivity options: WiFi only, WiFi and 3G Evolved High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA+), and later this year, a WiFi and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) ...

Nearly Half of Smartphone Owners Use Shopping Apps
PC Magazine
Nearly half of all smartphone owners have been bit by the mobile shopping bug, according to a just-released survey from Nielsen. The survey of more than 5000 iPhone and Android smartphone owners in the U.S revealed that 47 percent of users fired up a ...

Nuance's Nina to enable iOS apps to authenticate users by the sound of their voice
Apple Insider
The somewhat tedious process of logging into applications on Apple's iOS devices using the on-screen keyboard may soon become a thing of the past thanks to a new software platform from Nuance that promises to allow app makers to authenticate a user by the ... the Dragon Dictation software built into iPhones on Monday announced Nina -- a virtual assistant for mobile customer service apps the will allow companies to quickly add speech-based virtual assistant capabilities to their existing iOS and Android apps.

Has functionality finally caught up with the Android spec race?
SlashGear
I've written about that before, as a challenge the Android hardware industry (and the chip manufacturers whose silicon powers those devices) faces as a whole; in short, it's easy to wax lyrical about how potent your processor is, and how many pixels it can ...

SlashGear

Samsung Upgrade Offers Up to $300 for Your Old Phone
PC Magazine
Samsung announced on its Facebook page that users can upgrade to a new Samsungsmartphone and get up to $300 for your old phone. Samsung ... An Epic 4G Touch from Sprint , meanwhile, could bring in about $85 - as will a Motorola Droid Bionic .

Samsung's smartphone Jelly Bean update plans detailed
SlashGear
The question on every smartphone owners lips when a new version of Android is released is always, “When is my device going to get it?” Manufacturers are often cautious in giving out exact timelines as phones and tablets need to be extensively tested before ...

SlashGear

Nuance unveils Nina, a Siri sister that lives in third-party apps
CNET
With Nina's help, iOS and Android developers can bring speech recognition, text-to-speech, and voice biometrics to their individual applications. Nina works much in the same way as Siri, allowing users to provide voice commands that the technology then ...

On Computers: The smartphone revolution is here
Norwich Bulletin
Smartphone shoppers will be hooked on same-day delivery. Amazon soon will roll this out. They're building huge distribution centers in major markets, with robots doing the product picking. Order a.m., deliver p.m. will be commonplace after that. Shoppers ...

More Android malware sprouting up amidst 2012 Olympics
ZDNet (blog)
Android has been cited time and again as the mobile operating system most plagued by malware. It might not come as a surprise then that cyber criminals are taking advantage of the 2012 Summer Olympics as an opportunity and a cover-up for more malware ...

Apple enhances Wi-Fi Diagnostics in Mountain Lion
CNET
First off, while previously the tool was only available from directly in the /System/Library/CoreServices folder, it is now more conveniently available by holding the Option key, clicking the Wi-Fi menu, and selecting Open Wi-Fi Diagnostics. When the utility opens ...

MetroPCS Unveils Smartphone with TV Tuner
CIO Today
MetroPCS has launched the first smartphone in the U.S. to receive free live mobile-DTV broadcasts transmitted by local TV stations. The Samsung Galaxy S Lightray4G has a built-in, extendable antenna that can receive special TV signals, broadcast from ...

CIO Today

MetroPCS' Galaxy S Comes With a Built-In Boob Tube
TechNewsWorld
The Galaxy S Lightray 4G comes with the ability to play TV signals courtesy of Dyle TV, a mobile content service offered by Mobile Content Venture. It's touted as the first smartphone in the U.S. offering mobile digital television. The phone runs Android ...

Smartphone Market in the US 2011-2015
Sacramento Bee
TechNavio's report, the Smartphone Market in the US 2011-2015, has been prepared based on an in-depth analysis of the market with inputs from industry experts. The report covers theSmartphone market in the US and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market. Key vendors dominating this market space include Apple Inc., HTC Corp., LG Corp., Motorola Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Key questions ...

Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 Banks On Stylus
InformationWeek
The Note 10.1 is a riff on the Tab 10.1, Samsung's 10-inch Android tablet, and the Galaxy Notesmartphone. It uses the same form factor and screen size, but adds an active digitizer layer to the ... Samsung is making the Wi-Fi-only version available first. It supports 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and GPS. A version of the Galaxy Note 10.1 with LTE 4G will hit store shelves--including those of AT&T and Verizon--later this year. The Note 10.1 has a 5-megapixel main camera with a flash and fixed-focus lens, 1.9-MP ...

Multi-User Account Support Coming to Android
WebProNews
Users of Google's Android platform have been requesting support for multiple user accounts for months now. The feature has not been necessary for smartphones, which are mostly personal devices. The rise of tablet computing, however, means that mobile ...

Hisense Releases Dual-core Android 4.0 Smartphone with Spreadtrum TD ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Dr. Leo Li, Spreadtrum's president and CEO, said, "Supporting the rapid development of the domestic 3G smartphone market, Hisense has now released this dual-core high performancesmartphone with Android 4.0 for China Mobile consumers. ... Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPRD) is a fabless semiconductor company that develops mobile chipset platforms for smartphones, feature phones and other consumer electronics products, supporting 2G, 3G and 4G wireless communications standards.

Every iOS Device To Be Updated With A Smaller Dock Connector This Fall [Rumor]
Cult of Mac
Rumors of a smaller iOS dock connector have been continuing to surface in the weeks leading up to Apple's September fall event. Initially the consensus was that we'd see a smaller 19-pin connector in the new iPhone, but lately the word on the street is that ...

More Android and Linux Support for Raspberry Pi
Wall Street Journal (blog)
“The [Adafruit] software includes a customized distribution of Raspbian, Occidentalis, that either turns on or optimizes SSHD access, Bonjour networking, WiFi adapter support and other hack-friendly tools. The build further rolls in Hexxeh's firmware and a big, ...

5 Reasons You Should Forcibly Upgrade Your Friends' iPhones to iOS 5
Gotta Be Mobile
Apple released iOS 5 nearly a year ago when the iPhone 4S hit the market, and adoption was swift. But iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS users who didn't upgrade right away are likely still using the outdated version of iOS, and if they just might be costing you ...

Gotta Be Mobile

New smartphone can tune in to TV signals
Newsday
... Galaxy S Lightray 4G, which can tun into special television signals. (July 26, 2012). In time for the Olympics, MetroPCS is selling the first phone that can receive local TV signals, potentially lending TV stations some relevance in the age of thesmartphone.

Newsday

Smartphone Maker HTC Posts Profit Drop
CIO Today
HTC has grown on the strength of the design of its handsets, based on Google'sAndroid operating system. But its sales have declined in a market increasingly dominated by Apple and Samsung Electronics. Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp. reported Friday a 58 percent drop in second quarter profit year-on-year, its third consecutive quarterly decline as intensifying competition from Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. hurt sales. HTC said profit ... RIM Upgrades PlayBook with 4G LTE. 5. Salesforce.com CEO ...

CIO Today

Will Apple Update Its Entire iOS Lineup This Fall?
Gizmodo
Will Apple Update Its Entire iOS Lineup This Fall? At this point, Apple is widely expected to swap out the iPhone's longstanding 30-pin dock connector with something a lot smaller. But what about the rest of Apple's iOS product lineup? Hell, what about the ...

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates headed for Galaxy S2, Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note ...
Ubergizmo
Other than that, it is said that Samsung is testing Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S2, and initial tests do look just fine. It makes perfect sense though to release Jelly Bean for this particular smartphone, especially when it is still doing extremely well in ...

Ubergizmo

Samsung's Stylus Madness is Simply Madness
PCWorld
According to the latest scuttlebutt, the new 5-inch Note will have a bigger screen (5.5 inches), more processing muscle (quad core CPU with each core running at 1.6MHz or 1.7MHz), more memory, 4G connectivity, and Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) out of the box. ... to have a quad core processor with each core running at 1.4GHz, 1280-by-800-pixel display, storage up to 64GB, 2GB of RAM, 5MP and 2MP cameras, and support for multiple wireless modes—Wi-Fi only, Wi-Fiplus HSPA+, and later this year, Wi-Fi plus LTE.

Verizon Wireless to roll out 4G LTE network in the Muskegon area Aug. 16
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com
However, to access the capabilities of 4G LTE customers will need to have a wireless device, such as a smartphone or a computer tablet, engineered for the new technology, they said. Many local Verizon ... Broadband service. The high-speed Internet wireless connection to a stationary device allows for a localized wi-fihot spot to be established in a home or small business. The HomeFusionBroadband router serve up to four wired devices and at least 20 wireless devices in the home or small business, Gilbert said.

Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com

Galaxy Note WiFi and 3G models coming this month, LTE variant later this year
androidandme.com
Android and Me. 6 days ago ... Galaxy Note WiFi and 3G models coming this month, LTE variant later this year · Tweet ... The Note 10.1 will launch with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, though an upgrade to Jelly Bean will likely come shortly thereafter.

Worldwide Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 sales this month; LTE in pipeline
SlashGear
The slate, announced back at Mobile World Congress in February, will initially be offered in WiFi-only and HSPA+ forms, each with a 1.4GHz quadcore processor,Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and support for Samsung's new Learning Hub with ...

SlashGear

Meet Nina: Siri's cousin for apps
CNN
The product is called Nina, and it'll let businesses build voice capabilities right into their apps --iOS or Android -- via a software development kit (SDK). Nuance says it's the first voice assistant with an SDK (Siri still doesn't have one), and Nina obviously has access to ... Using a Verizon 3G modem, Nina had trouble figuring out the longer bill-paying command above, but on Wi-Fi she executed it almost instantly. Nina also happens to sound almost exactly like Siri, though Nuance says businesses will be able to choose ...

Verizon's HopeLine app for Android provides resources and support ...
By Michael Gorman
Verizon's HopeLine app for Android provides resources and support for victims of domestic violence Verizon's HopeLine program has recycled old phones since 2001 by giving them (along with 3000 minutes of service) to victims of domestic ...
Engadget

Nokia Announcing Windows 8-Powered Smartphone in September ...
By Zoe Fox
Nokia's latest smartphone line can be expected as early as September at Nokia World. ...http://8.mshcdn.com/wp-content/gallery/. A comparison of the CNN apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Note how on the Windows Phone version ...
Mashable » Mobile

Android Community Weekly: August 5th, 2012 | Android Community
By Cory Gunther
Back to school sales will be appearing soon, but for now lets dive into what we saw from theAndroid news desk this week. So far the summer hasn't ... Motorola also was in the news a few times this week with more leaks. The rumored DROID ...
Android Community

Uniquely Android: Llama
By Raveesh Bhalla
Motorola Corvair comes back to the rumor mill after alm... Menu button issue to ... UniquelyAndroid is a series we started last month to shine the spotlight on those apps that take advantage of the unique capabilities of the platform and provide an experience that you wouldn't find in most other phones. So far, we have ... The tasks to perform aren't much either: when I leave my house, I've made it switch of my WiFi, switch on mobile data and increase my screen brightness. When I return ...
Android Phone Fans

eBay Now for iOS offers same-day product delivery in San Francisco ...
By Steven Sande
eBay provides users in a beta program (signup form here) with an iOS app with which they can browse and purchase merchandise from a number of local stores and then have the swag delivered to them the same day. The eBay Now program ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Robin Is a Voice-Operated Assistant for Android that Finds Parking ...
By Alan Henry
Robin Is a Voice-Operated Assistant for Android that Finds Parking, Speaks Traffic AlertsAndroid: Robin is the latest Android app to try and be the truly interactive voice-based personal assistant that Android needs, and it does the job pretty ...
Lifehacker

STRaND-1 Android smartphone is a space-bound satellite
By J. Angelo Racoma
A british company plans to launch an Android smartphone into space to test capabilities as an actual satellite with the STRaND-1. STRaND-1 will test the smartphone's other systems in space, including its Wi-Fi, magnetometer and microphone ...
Android Authority

Like Nokia, RIM Had Considered Switching to Android At One Point
By Chuong Nguyen
According to RIM's chief, Android may not be the bailout solution for the struggling Canadiansmartphone-maker as Android licensees Motorola and HTC have recently had shown declines in profitability in a competitive smartphone market that ...
Gotta Be Mobile

AT&T's new Mobile Share plan officially starts August 23rd ...
By Robert Nazarian
Last month AT&T announced their new Mobile Share plan, which is essentially a whole new pricing structure for accounts with multiple phones for sharing data. They said it would start in late August, but didn't give an exact date. They just ...
Android News, Rumours, and Updates

HTC goes large: 5-inch Android smartphone coming soon? | Digital ...
By Simon Hill
It looks like HTC is set to unveil a 5-inch Android smartphone within the next couple of months. Is HTC about to go head to head with Samsung in the large smartphone market? According to DigiTimes, the Taiwanese manufacturer will release ...

eBay testing same-day delivery service for iOS called eBay Now ...
By Justin Rubio
eBay has launched the eBay Now app for iOS devices, giving San Francisco residents the option of having $5 same-day delivery when making purchases of over $25 from a local store. eBay quietly...
The Verge - All Posts

Nuance unveils Nina, the virtual assistant for iOS and Android apps
By Christian Zibreg
Nuance, the voice recognition engine that powers Siri, today announced a new kind of digital personal assistant aimed at mobile customer service apps. Called Nina, she “transforms iPhone and Android mobile apps into powerful engagement ...
iDownloadBlog.com

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus Gets Android ICS Update | Geeky ...
By Roland Hutchinson
Last week we heard that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 had started to receive the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update in the UK, and now it looks like another Galaxy Tab device has received the update as well. Samsung have started rolling out the ...
Geeky-Gadgets

Meet the Motorola Corvair, a Verizon FIOS-friendly tablet ...
By Will Gill
Android 2.3 OS; 6-inch screen; 4000 mAh battery; Wi-Fi reliable; FIOS TV compatibility for recording, playing, and changing channels. Basically this tablet is acting as an Android-based universal remote. What is even cooler though, is that you ...
AndroidSPIN

Ofcom braced for legal action over 4G mobile phone internet auction ...
This could mean 4G services from autumn next year. "After all ... The US and Germany are among more than 40 countries to have 4G services ahead of the UK.
www.guardian.co.uk/media/.../ofcom-braced-4g-mobile-phon...

Virgin Mobile | HTC EVO V 4G No Contract Android-Powered Phone
Check out the HTC EVO V 4G Android-powered phone from Virgin Mobile. ... 3.5 mm Headset jack; EVDO Rev A / WiMAX / Wi-Fi; HAC Rating: M4/T3; Memory: ...
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