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So how do we use SMS? According to the following infographic, prepared by Online-Education.net, text messaging could lead to lying, deception and cheating. In fact in a study of college students, 95% said they felt more deceived in texts than in video chats which may not be that surprising since there’s no eye contact or…
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) launched its Bluetooth Developer Portal to help developers and engineers learn the basics of Bluetooth device and application design. In other words, here you’ll find a collection of resources like training tools, forums, quick-start guides, and webinars to help you create apps using standardized Bluetooth data profiles. The mentioned…
We’re all expecting the next iPhone to have 4G LTE support and many of you may be wondering what this will mean for your data caps. Well, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is saying that the next iPhone on Sprint will continue to have unlimited data even if it has 4G. “I’m not anticipating the unlimited…
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, during a conference call this morning, told investors that the company planned to transition Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile prepaid customers to 4G WiMax later this year. This news came after Sprint posted another disappointing quarter. Hesse was mum on the details, but assured investors that more information would be revealed…
China Mobile will launch an LTE network in Hong Kong on Wednesday, April 25. The world’s largest mobile operator by the number of subscribers will join CSL, which is already offering 4G services there. Pricing of the services was still not announced though China Mobile said it will unveil that information in the next few…
Whoops! It looks like someone over at Verizon goofed by outing the upcoming Droid Incredible 4G a little earlier than expected on the “Droid Does” site. This might bring some validity to the handset being rumored to hit Verizon April 26. The specs on the new Incredible resemble those of HTC’s new high-end GSM phones,…
Our biggest fear as being an owner of a smartphone is our privacy and security being compromised. A location company by the name of Navizon, developed a new system called Navizon I.T.S., that tracks visitors in malls, museums, offices, factories, secured areas and all other indoor spaces. Yikes. The point of this software is to…
Verizon today announced its plans to sell off all of its 700 MHz A and B spectrum licenses to rationalize its spectrum holdings. This sale will go down if the government allows the largest wireless provider in the United States to buy AWS spectrum from a contingent of cable companies. The plan for Verizon is…
Although there’s no single LTE connection in Brazil at the moment, Pyramid predicts there will be more than 18 million 4G users in the country by the end of 2015. Moreover, this prediction comes despite operators’ skepticism on the Brazil’s preparedness for the technology, which [skepticism] comes from the fact that 3G has yet to…
Verizon Wireless has announced that its expanding its 4G LTE network to nine new markets, which are heavily concentrated in California. The areas that’ll be getting LTE include Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Monterey, Sacramento, Salinas, and the San Francisco Bay area in California. The only outlying area is Reno, Nevada. All these locales will get LTE…