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Standard & Poor’s, the financial institution that’s been around since the 1860s and is responsible for telling the market how awesome or how worthless a company’s stock is, has announced that they’re going to keep an eye on Nokia and that they’re thinking of downgrading their rating. They blame the issues that you, me, and…
The bean counters at ABI research are tabulating the total number of mobile connections all around the world, including broadband connections, meaning those who have 3G access, and predict that by the end of this year there are going to be over 1 billion people paying for high speed wireless. At the end of 2010…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the guys responsible for making sure that all the wireless radios, whether they be consumer mobile phones or encrypted military communication channels, actually work, has said that they’re going to begin investigating whether or not they can repurpose 95 MHz of spectrum in the 1755 to 1850 MHz…
T-Mobile, the smallest of America’s four major wireless operators and a company that enjoys their underdog status while acknowledging they need to improve their image, has just announced that they’ve launched 21 Mbps HSPA+ service in 8 new markets (Albany, Augusta, Columbus and Macon, Georgia; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Champaign, Illinois; Lansing, Michigan; and Rochester, Minnesota) and…
Of all the things we’re looking forward to the most this calendar year, it’s Nokia’s long overdue answer to the competition that Android and Apple have been painfully throwing at them over the past few years. The Finnish firm has said, on numerous occasions, that MeeGo is going to power their future flagship devices, but…
Firefox, the browser that was once an indispensable tool for those who took web browsing seriously, has tried to squeeze itself down to size to fit on mobile platforms, but performance and stability were always causes for concern. Mozilla, the guys who make Firefox, have announced a new beta for their Firefox for Mobile browser…
When Verizon Wireless launched their 4G LTE network the only devices that supported the new high speed offering were USB modems. Not exactly the sexiest thing to write about, but it gave people a taste for what the future had in store. With download speeds averaging 12 Mbps and uploads around 2 Mbps, combined with…
It doesn’t take an expert to know that 4G is getting crazy amounts of attention right now and that handset makers are looking to build products that take advantage of the high speed networks that are currently being rolling out by all four of America’s wireless operators. So it shouldn’t be a surprise then to…
Cisco Systems, makers of the huge routers and switches that make sure you can get your daily fix of kitten videos on YouTube, has published their forecast for where data growth is heading over the next 4 years and of course the mobile internet bit of their study is getting the most attention. Cisco says…
Intel is a company you don’t want to mess with. Their relentless pursuit of making better products year after year, combined with their massive manufacturing capacity, put them in a position where they’re able to move the industry at the pace which they see fit. Their road to domination hasn’t exactly a smooth path however.…