Archive for the ‘QuickHits’ Category
Smartphone Dominance
A picture paints a thousand words. [H/T Fortune]
After Two Millennia, the End of the Paper Era
Computers have been promising the demise of paper for decades. but have either failed to deliver or increased the use of paper because of wasteful printing. The concept of eliminating [...]
iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 Available to Sprint
Apple’s iPhone 5 will not become a dual mode “world phone” that supports GSM and CDMA and will no longer be exclusive to the two biggest wireless carriers in the US. [...]
Trouble at HP and a Little Redemption
Updated 8/25/2011 – Last week HP announced an abrupt and uncertain end to their PC division while scrapping their WebOS “TouchPad” tablet product. Abrupt wouldn’t be so bad if it [...]
Google Buys Motorola Phone Patents and Hardware
Since losing their exclusive bid for Nortel’s patent portfolio (after refusing to enter a joint bid with group of companies including Apple and Microsoft), Google managed to acquire Motorola’s mobility [...]
Public Knowledge Sides with LightSquared
Public Knowledge filed comments to the FCC that clearly sided with LightSquared in their dispute with GPS device makers. When it comes to wireless broadband that uses spectrum that was [...]
CCIA Using Hearsay to Fight T-Mobile Merger
The President of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) Edward Black told The Hill Newspaper that an AT&T/T-Mobile merger would be bad for mobile application makers. Black argues that [...]
7-14-2011 Quick Read List
House Dems introduce spectrum bill – House Democrats have introduced a wireless spectrum bill H.R. 2482 which is similar to a recently proposed Senate bill. A key difference is that the [...]
Experts Vindicate Cell Phones of Cancer Risk
A group of international experts have reviewed the body of scientific research regarding the safety of cell phone radio signals and concluded that the evidence is increasingly vindicating cell phones. [...]
Netflix is Good for Broadband Providers Under Free Market
The CEO of Comcast turned some heads today when he had some nice words to say about Netflix being good for his business. Conventional wisdom seems to be that Netflix [...]
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