Posted on February 10th, 2009 by admin
Google is teaming up with other technology companies to develop specifications that the Federal Communications Commission can use in developing its “white space” database White spaces are unused slivers of spectrum in the 700MHz band that sit between broadcast TV channels.
But TV broadcasters and wireless microphone companies have long opposed the use of this spectrum, saying it will interfere with their services. Google believes that using geolocation technology used along with spectrum sensing technologies will offer complete protection to licensed signals from harmful interference. Read more »
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Posted on February 8th, 2009 by admin
U.S. and U.K. developers can now go to the Android publisher Web site and upload their applications along with consumer pricing. Paid applications will go on sale in the U.S. starting in the middle of next week and in additional countries in the coming months. Developers of Android applications finally will be able to charge consumers for them, ending a few months of free Android downloads and potentially making Google’s mobile platform more attractive to developers.
The payment and billing tool for Android Market will be Google Checkout. That platform, launched in 2006, allows payment through major credit cards and lets users save their payment information on the site. Android Market for free applications will become available to phone users in Australia beginning Sunday, Pacific time. Singapore users will get access in the coming weeks. Later this quarter, developers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France, and Spain will be able to offer paid applications
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Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by admin
YouTube would allow users to download clips onto their computers and allow media partners to charge for those downloads. The download program is beginning as a test that involves only a handful of partners. They include universities like Stanford, Duke, University of California-Los Angeles and University of California-Berkeley, which are making their videos available for download for free.
YouTube’s downloading program is not much of a challenge to paid downloading services like iTunes. Google has experimented with video downloads before. Its Google Video service allowed people to buy or rent videos. The program was killed for lack of demand. The Google Video downloads were protected with digital rights management software that limited what users could do with them.
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Posted on January 20th, 2009 by admin
China United Telecommunications (China Unicom) is reportedly sending top executives to meet with Apple in the U.S. next month as rumors that the operator plans to bring the iPhone to China gain steam. China Unicom plans to launch WCDMA (Wideband Code Divison Multiple Access) 3G services in May. The 3G iPhone supports WCDMA, which is widely used in Asia, North America and Europe.
However, China Mobile was granted a license to offer 3G services using TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous CDMA), a different 3G technology that was developed in China and is significantly less mature from a development standpoint. One of the main sticking points between Apple and China Mobile was the Apple Store, which the company uses to sell and distribute third-party applications, Sina reported. This was a sales channel that China Mobile, which has its own plans for an application store. Read more »
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Posted on January 13th, 2009 by admin
ID cards help protect against identity fraud, illegal working and immigration, crime and terrorism, and those trying to abuse positions of trust. Identity cards for foreign nationals give employers a simple, more secure way to prove a person’s immigration status and eligibility to work in the UK.
Under the proposed regulations, which are part of government plans, applicants under six categories for UK immigration will need to provide fingerprints and a photograph to be stored electronically on the card. The Home Office has made a formal request to Parliament to increase the scope of ID cards for foreign nationals. Until now, only students and foreign nationals applying to stay in the UK on the basis of marriage have been obliged to have the biometric cards. Read more »
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Posted on December 30th, 2008 by admin
Surely women appreciate a cell phone (and other stuff) by its look, shape and design rather than its functionality, but men are those who highly appreciate the additional advantages of a cell phone. Nokia 7070 Prism features a diamond pattern design all over its body, which looks very elegant. The keypad of the phone is quite stylish featuring triangle shaped keys. There’s no doubt that it would be uneasy to find a fashionable cell phone with such a price.
Playboy camera phone represents a slim unlocked GSM phone that features a somewhat standard feature set. The most important aspect of this device is its metal finishing. The phone is available in metallic pink, gold, or platinum featuring etched-in Playboy design. The Playboy cell phone comes with a stereo headset with remote control, small leather bag, as well as a Playboy bunny charm. Nokia 5630 XpressMusic is really slim, which is very good. In fact the Nokia 5630 is 12mm thin. All these features make this Nokia 5630 a great Valentine’s Day present for your lady
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Posted on December 13th, 2008 by admin
Today, Blockbuster announced it will be renting video games in the Total Access program, putting them in competition with not only Netflix, but Gamefly as well. Gamefly offers all those systems and also includes the PSP, Nintendo DS, and Gameboy advance, as well as the Nintendo Gamecube.
Blockbuster Total Access plans cost between $9.99 and $19.99 per month, and Total Access Premium plans range from $21.99 to $34.99 per month. An additional tier that includes video games has not yet
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Posted on November 13th, 2008 by admin
Today, Youmail launch ts carrier-agnostic free visual voicemail app for BlackBerry. The YouMail application is available directly through the native browser on handsets running BlackBerry OS version 4.3 and up. Only T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T Wireless subscribers can currently use YouMail’s new utility after first signing up for a YouMail account.
On a BlackBerry Storm that is already equipped with visual voice mail, we downloaded and installed the YouMail application, and followed the on-screen prompts to set up In terms of free applications, setup hassles like ours can be considered a down payment for a decent service, which YouMail delivers Read more »
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Posted on October 13th, 2008 by admin
A writer at Wired.com this week pointed to a document editing issue in Google Apps. Other users have complained, for example, about Google document ownership getting assigned to the wrong people, an inability to delete images of Google documents, and the lack of SSL encryption for docs published in the Standard Edition. The user who discovered the document editing issue was a co-worker of Michael Calore, who writes for Wired.com.
This is exactly the kind of breach of security that you absolutely don’t want happening with your personal or business documents. Undoubtedly, Calore’s co-worker isn’t the only person to have gotten tripped up by Google’s permissions, although some might not want to admit their mistakes. Other users, though, have gotten unforeseen results from Google Docs which seem to have nothing to do with settings they’ve chosen.
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Posted on September 14th, 2008 by admin
Tasmania’s ICT industry is being held back by poor infrastructure, ineffective government support and market size. One way the authors felt the government could help going forward would be to introduce programs to encourage Tasmania’s consulting and services market. The Intelligent Island program is seen by some respondents to have missed its target; most of the focus group attendees didn’t experience any advantage within their business
Tasmanian ICT revenue amounted to a total of $1.4 billion in 2008, 1.6 per cent of the total Australian ICT revenue, according to the report. Within various industry segments such as telecommunications, wholesale trade, manufacturing and software and computer services, only software and computer services revenue grew as a percentage of total Australian ICT revenue between 2003 and 2008 Read more »
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