Google Fiber offers neighborhoods a second chance to qualify for service

Google Fiber offers neighborhoods a second chance to qualify for service
Kansas City Star
As the Google Fiber project wrapped up its first rally to register neighborhoods for its ultra-fast Internet service by midnight Sunday, the company said it will give those neighborhoods that fell short of its goals a second chance to qualify. Google ...

Kansas City Star

Congratulations, Kansas City! - Google Fiber Blog
By G
On July 26, we kicked off a six-week rally to find out where you wanted us to build Google Fiber. Since then, we've been amazed and humbled by your excitement and commitment to the future of the Internet. Three fiberhoods reached their ...

Prepaid: Not just for burner phones anymore | Android Central: " . . .The numbers don't lie. With the same phone and relatively the same service (or even better in terms of data offerings) from a prepaid carrier, you'll save hundreds -- or even thousands -- of dollars over the life of the 2-year contract. The deceptive marketing of the major carriers in the U.S. masks the true cost of ownership of a device over the life of the contract. Putting it on a chart like this, which shows that even in the most expensive case you "break even" in 8 out of 24 months, makes it extremely clear what savings there are to be had by going prepaid. Now there’s no need to keep making the same point over and over, I think the above chart and graph speak for themselves. There’s no way to make a blanket statement about everyone’s situation, but the numbers would have to be significantly different for the prepaid carrier to ever be more expensive than the postpaid carrier in the long term -- or even the relatively short term. . . .There are officially some 40 distinct MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) carriers in the U.S., giving you plenty of options to choose from . . ."

Apple Gets Ready for iPhone 5 - John Paczkowski - Mobile ...
By John Paczkowski
One developing theory to come from their work: The vertical bands of color on the banner are actually stretched iPhone icons that suggest the device Apple plans to introduce will be a taller, stretched version of its predecessor. ... Add yours. Microsoft Will Recomply With EU Antitrust Mandate on Browser Ballot ... Google Glass Makes Surprise Appearance at New York Fashion Week ... Making Money While Keeping Prices Low: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Explains It All (Mostly) ...
AllThingsD

How smartphones make us superhuman
CNN International
In addition to enabling us to video events on a second's notice, potentially altering the course of global politics, these high-tech human "appendages" increasingly have become tools for fighting corruption, buying stuff, bolstering memory, promoting ...

Do patent rows really affect tech buying decisions? CIOs respond ...
But what is the real impact on the tech buying choices of IT leaders? ... Dale Huhtala executive director, enterprise technology infrastructure services at Service ...

BBC News - Google Maps uses Ground Truth project to battle Apple
Google Maps' boss reveals the tech behind the platform ahead of Apple's move to drop ... Google launched its mapping technology in the UK and US in 2005.

In One City, Signing Up for Internet Becomes a Civic Cause
New York Times
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With Google's promise last year to wire homes, schools, libraries and other public institutions in this city with the nation's fastest Internetconnection, community leaders on the long forlorn, predominantly black east side were...

New York Times

Sprint preps 100 more cities for LTE rollout
CNET
Sprint wants you to know that although it's far behind AT&T and especially Verizon in deploying its4G LTE network, the carrier is hard at work. This morning, Sprint announced its plan to roll out LTEin over 100 more cities "in the coming months ...

New iPhone 5 Reportedly Has 4G LTE For Globetrotting Apple BYOD-Fans
Forbes
Supporting LTE is difficult. …LTE networks operate on a wider variety of radio frequencies than 3G networks. … Because Apple's…”iPad 4G + WiFi” is only compatible with LTE networks in the US and Canada [it was claimed] that its marketing confused ...

Forbes

NBN Co warns Turnbull broadband policy may cost more
ZDNet
NBN Co warns Turnbull broadband policy may cost more. Summary: NBN Co chairman Harrison Young has said that many of the aspects of the Coalition's broadband alternative to the NBN might end up costing taxpayers more money in the long term.

Fixed broadband boom forecast for SA
TechCentral
Internet use in SA rises significantly with income, reflecting the relatively high price ofbroadband, the report adds. “People in households with monthly incomes of R9 000 or more accounted for 78% of all Internet users, even though this group ...

TechCentral

Patriots fans to be first to use new Wi-Fi at season opener
Computerworld
(Photo via Reuters). The new 802.11n Wi-Fi network is composed of more than 200 indoor and outdoor access points from Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications company, said Ram Appalaraju, vice president of Enterasys marketing.

Computerworld

Judge Says Sniffing Unencrypted WiFi Networks Is Not Wiretapping
Techdirt (blog)
Unfortunately, last year a judge in a case related to Google's Street View capturing came to the opposite conclusion, but in a convoluted way where the court declared that WiFi is not a radio communication (even though it is). However, in a totally ...

Galaxy S Relay 4G To Ship In Coming Weeks
WebProNews
T-Mobile unveiled the Galaxy S Relay 4G from Samsung on Thursday, the latest in the Samsung Galaxy line, which will be offered exclusively by the carrier. It's powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and leverages T-Mobile's 4G (HSPA+ 42) network.

Oman jails six men for internet slander: activist
Chicago Tribune
MUSCAT (Reuters) - An Omani court sentenced six people to jail terms ranging from a year to 18 months for slander over internet posts against the government that it called "abusive and provocative", an opposition activist present at the hearing said on ...

WSJ reports next iPhone will support LTE around the world | TUAW ...
By Mel Martin
This is hardly shocking news, but good news that will make the iPhone competitive going forward. The Wall Street Journal reports the upcoming iPhone will support LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks all over the world, including the US, ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

How the Internet Will Change Personal Finance
By Vincent Turner
The Internet has created an unprecedented amount of opportunity to redefine the personal finance space but as at September 2012 the landscape is still hugely dominated by antiquated and enterprise-centric solutions. The lion's share of ...
The Next Web

Sprint announces 100-city LTE expansion in 'coming months,' adds ...
By Brad Molen
Sprint 4G LTE service is expected to be available in the coming months in Chicago, Boston, New York and Los Angeles. And that's not all. We expect to bring Sprint's all-new network to more than 100 new cities during this period.
Engadget

Internet Fasting
By Elizabeth Scalia
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: ...
The Anchoress

One Way Amazon Has Outdone Motorola Mobility And Nokia
Forbes
Motorola Mobility and Nokia failed to deliver the message. They failed to demonstrate the advantages of their new smartphones against the iPhone. They left important details out of the presentation. Motorola Mobility, for instance, didn't provide price ...

Toys 'R' Us to launch kids' tablet next month
CNET
The Leapfrog Explorer was a hot kids tablet last Christmas. But as the Journal points out, the Leapfrog is more of an educational device with no Internet access. With the Kindle Fire and GalaxyNexus 7 selling for $200, can Toys "R" Us carve out a ...

Apple's Krall Leads Samsung Win in Jobs' Global Smartphone War
Bloomberg
Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer and Galaxy S III smartphone are arranged for a photograph in Seoul. If Apple Inc. ... The fight is central to Apple's identity under Cook, who succeeded Jobs as chief executive, as it got 46.4 percent of its sales from ...

Bloomberg

Motorola Mobility and Movistar Present in Chile RAZR MAXX: Battery Life as You ...
Equities.com
The new Motorola RAZR MAXX Android powered smartphone is now available in Chile through Movistar, allowing you to talk, send and receive text messages, watch videos and more... for much longer. Still seriously thin at just 8.99mm, RAZR MAXX is built ...

Windows Phone 8: What Microsoft Needs To Compete
InformationWeek
It's currently a two-horse race in the smartphone market: Android on Samsung and iOS on Apple. The nation's wireless carriers ... Samsung's Ativ S takes to the next level what the company does best in the smartphone market--beautiful displays and ...

iOS and Windows Phone: Let the Games Begin
Windows IT Pro
I'm also leaving out Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry and Android devices:BlackBerry because its email experience has been static for years and Androidbecause its fragmented nature means that making blanket statements about stability, behavior, ...

Windows IT Pro

Motorola Mobility Simplifies Your Life with MOTOSMART XT389, Now Available ...
Equities.com
MOTOSMART XT389, the latest Android-powered smartphone from Motorola Mobility to hit stores in Peru, is slick, thin, and gives you one-touch access to your top contacts, favorite apps, music and more. Organization is the key to a stress-free life. And ...

Sony Xperia Tablet S Video Review
MobileTechReview.com
The Sony Xperia Tablet S is Sony's second generation Android tablet that features an updated design, the latest Tegra 3 quad core CPU, Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (upgradable to 4.1 Jelly Bean) and an excellent consumer IR remote. ... The Sony ...

New Motorola Mobility Set-Tops Power the Evolution of TV
Equities.com
Release date- 07092012 - AMSTERDAM - IBC 2012 - Motorola Mobility extends its leadership in IP and cable set-tops today, with the launch of ten new models designed to give service providers in EMEA smarter, more energy-efficient options for delivering ...

Consumers can expect new electronics this fall
Columbus Dispatch
Under new owner Google Inc., Motorola Mobility is trying to change that. It has scheduled an event in New York on Wednesday. No further details were available. It could be a new phone or a new tablet running Google's Android operating system. Either ...

Columbus Dispatch

Spiceworks Tablet App Designed for iPad, Android Tablets
eWeek
Among the features available for the tablet-based version of the application is Help Desk, which allows IT specialists to open, access, edit and manage Spiceworks help desk tickets from theiriPad, iPhone or any Android smart phone or tablet, and ...

Codename Android is the best ROM going [Review]
BetaNews
In the world of custom Android distributions one name comes to mind -- CodenameAndroid. When I got my Samsung Galaxy Nexus the first thing I did was to installAndroid 4.1 Jelly Bean because I wanted the extra oomph brought by it. Little did I know ...

BetaNews

Motorola Mobility and Nextel Argentina Introduce Motorola i867, the Newest ...
Equities.com
Release date- 06092012 - BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Motorola Mobility of Argentina S.A and Nextel Argentina announce the launch of the new Motorola i867, a dynamic and attractivesmartphone that allows broader and simpler communications. With Nextel ...

Aerobahn Now Available for iPad and Android Tablets
Embedded.com
EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerobahn® airport surface management system, made by global ATM leader Saab Sensis, is now available for tablet computer platforms, including Apple iOS and Google Android. The Aerobahn tablet ...

Tale of the tape: 7-inch Kindle Fire HD vs. Nexus 7
Los Angeles Times
Amazon revamped its 7-inch tablet offering last week with the new Kindle Fire HD. The 7-inch Kindle Fire HD is the successor to the tablet the online retailer released last year and the answer to Google's Nexus 7 tablet that was introduced this summer.

Strategy Analytics: HTC, Apple & Samsung Top Smartphone Retail Price Decline...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
It was introduced to challenge smartphone prices and has proved to be depreciation resistant compared to others. The crop of second generation smartphones such as the Samsung S2, Nokia N8, LG Optimus and BlackBerry Curve 3 8520 have similar price ...

The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

Kobo and Kindle's Android e-readers get kicked up a notch
ITWorld Canada (blog)
Just over a week ago, I started complaining about trying to read books on an Android tablet. At the time, I was unaware that there were new e-readers coming from both Kobo and Amazon, oddly enough; not that I suspect any complaints from this end would ...

Motorola Flip Stand: A $30 Universal phone/tablet dock
Liliputing
There's not exactly a shortage of tablet stands or docks on the market… but what makes theMotorola Flip Stand noteworthy is the fact that Motorola has made a habit of releasing new docking peripherals for nearly every new phone model the company has ...

Samsung Galaxy S3 Android Jelly Bean update: perfect version ready
Northern Voices Online
It is very powerful and Samsung has slotted in its own Exynos 4212 Quad chipset inside the gadget that has a 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9 processor. After HTC One X, we have now Galaxy S 3 as the next major quad core based Android smartphone. But considering ...

MagneGas Releases Investor Relations App for iPad and Android
Sacramento Bee
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 10, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- MagneGas Corporation ("MagneGas" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MNGA), the developer of a technology that converts liquid waste into a hydrogen-based metal working fuel and natural gas alternative, ...

Share office documents between Windows and an iPad
PCWorld (blog)
But the iPad's operating system, iOS, doesn't have a file management system--or at least not one accessible to the user. Every app manages its own files. And the app gets to decide with what other apps it will share those files, and how it will share them.

9 Smartphone Apps Every Salesperson Must Have
Forbes
Not a Blackberry because no one in this country uses Blackberrys any more. You will have an iPhone or a phone that uses the Android operating system. This may not be the case in just a few years when (in my opinion) tablets, like the iPad, Nexus and ...

US judge: HTC patents likely valid in Apple suit
CNET
If Apple is found to have infringed HTC's patents, that could lead to a U.S. import ban on the iPadand iPhone 5, or give HTC enough ammunition to push for a settlement with Apple, which has its own patent claims filed against the Taiwanese smartphone ...

Intel's Otellini: 'I don't think there is a tablet or phone-centric world'
PCWorld
For example, even though I love my iPad, that doesn't mean I've completely given up my laptop. I couldn't do my ... PCW: You are working with Motorola Mobility and Lenovo smartphones today. When will we ... But we're in a number of Android tablets ...

Download: BIGFLIX (Android, iOS, Windows Phone)
Techtree.com
The Indian movie-on-demand service BIGFLIX is now available on the Android, iOS, as well asWindows Phone platforms. With this free app, users can access over a thousand of the latest blockbusters from Bollywood and Hollywood, movie trailers, and even ...

What Really Made Steve Jobs So Angry at Google?
Gizmodo
This discussion is timely given Google's current PR effort to convince the public and the media that Google and Apple are likely to negotiate a patent "truce" and make Google's Android's patent liabilities go away. ... in November of 2007, Google ...

Ainol Novo 7 Crystal budget Android Jelly Bean tablet
Phones Review
If you are one of the Android faithful in the market for a reasonably priced 7-inchAndroid slate there is no shortage of options available in the budget Android tabletmarket, but how about an Android 7-inch tablet that runs Android Jelly Bean for a ...

Phones Review

Nokia And Motorola Trying To Regain Dominance
Mobile bloom News
New York was the venue of choice for both Nokia and Motorola which chose to unveil new devices on Wednesday and it appears that both companies are making every effort possible to join Apple andSamsung as the dominant players in the smartphone industry ...

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