You’ve probably had it drilled into your head that your gadgets are doing terrible, terrible things to the environment — and not just ’cause they end up as toxic landfill in poorer countries. Many of your chargers and electronics continue to draw power even when they’re off or your device is disconnected.
You’ve probably had it drilled into your head that your gadgets are doing terrible, terrible things to the environment — and not just ’cause they end up as toxic landfill in poorer countries. Many of your chargers and electronics continue to draw power even when they’re off or your device is disconnected.
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California demands manufacturers ditch inefficient vampire chargers
It may not exactly be the good news RIM fans have been hoping for, but those committed to the company’s products do now at least have two more big-name apps at their disposal. First up is Spotify, which is now out of beta and available for GSM-based BlackBerry smartphones including the Bold 9780, Bold 9700, Curve 9300, Bold 9000, and Curve 8520. The app itself is free but, as with the company’s other mobile apps, you’ll need a $10/month Spotify Premium subscription to take advantage of mobile streaming.
It may not exactly be the good news RIM fans have been hoping for, but those committed to the company’s products do now at least have two more big-name apps at their disposal. First up is Spotify, which is now out of beta and available for GSM-based BlackBerry smartphones including the Bold 9780, Bold 9700, Curve 9300, Bold 9000, and Curve 8520. The app itself is free but, as with the company’s other mobile apps, you’ll need a $10/month Spotify Premium subscription to take advantage of mobile streaming.
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Spotify hits some BlackBerry smartphones, Angry Birds finally reaches the PlayBook
Not exactly a huge surprise here considering that the carrier is still just getting its LTE network off the ground , but AT&T has now confirmed that it won’t be offering any LTE-capable smartphones until late this year (LTE data cards will apparently come sometime before that). Put another way, however, that also confirms that AT&T will be offering at least one LTE smartphone before year’s end.
Not exactly a huge surprise here considering that the carrier is still just getting its LTE network off the ground , but AT&T has now confirmed that it won’t be offering any LTE-capable smartphones until late this year (LTE data cards will apparently come sometime before that). Put another way, however, that also confirms that AT&T will be offering at least one LTE smartphone before year’s end.
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AT&T: no LTE smartphone until late 2011
Fresh to BlackBerry’s Beta Zone portal , RIM has introduced BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing, an app designed to take the (apparent) mystery out of joining a conference call — thus putting the jobs of many executive assistants in jeopardy. Scheduled telephonic meetings are pushed to an employee’s phone, automatically blocking out time in the calendar. When it’s collaboration time, all attendees are reminded with a handy ‘join now’ button that automatically dials into hosted conferences — complete with access codes and all
Fresh to BlackBerry’s Beta Zone portal , RIM has introduced BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing, an app designed to take the (apparent) mystery out of joining a conference call — thus putting the jobs of many executive assistants in jeopardy. Scheduled telephonic meetings are pushed to an employee’s phone, automatically blocking out time in the calendar. When it’s collaboration time, all attendees are reminded with a handy ‘join now’ button that automatically dials into hosted conferences — complete with access codes and all
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RIM betas BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing, allows your boss to join his / her own concalls
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski briefly mentioned data roaming at CTIA last week, but now he’s telling Congress that action is inbound, to ensure rural carriers don’t get left behind the rest of the cellular industry. You see, in 2007 the Commission mandated cheap roaming agreements for voice and messaging services to let regional carriers compete, but cellular data is the bee’s knees now (as those of you reading this on a smartphone can attest) and those agreements won’t protect the Tiny Tims of telecom in a world of VoLTE anyhow
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski briefly mentioned data roaming at CTIA last week, but now he’s telling Congress that action is inbound, to ensure rural carriers don’t get left behind the rest of the cellular industry. You see, in 2007 the Commission mandated cheap roaming agreements for voice and messaging services to let regional carriers compete, but cellular data is the bee’s knees now (as those of you reading this on a smartphone can attest) and those agreements won’t protect the Tiny Tims of telecom in a world of VoLTE anyhow
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FCC looking at data roaming rules, not interested in commonizing carriers
It ain’t as crazy as you may think. If you’ll recall, we actually heard last month that Deutsche Telekom was mulling the idea of spinning off T-Mobile USA from its portfolio, and now it looks as if one carrier in particular is interested.
It ain’t as crazy as you may think. If you’ll recall, we actually heard last month that Deutsche Telekom was mulling the idea of spinning off T-Mobile USA from its portfolio, and now it looks as if one carrier in particular is interested.
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Deutsche Telekom thinking of merging T-Mobile USA with Sprint?
When 21 rogue apps started siphoning off identifying information from Android phones and installing security holes, Google yanked the lot from Android Market , and called the authorities to boot.
When 21 rogue apps started siphoning off identifying information from Android phones and installing security holes, Google yanked the lot from Android Market , and called the authorities to boot.
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Google flips Android kill switch, destroys a batch of malicious apps
It’s not much of a secret that the Merge is destined for Verizon — but for some reason we can’t put our finger on, HTC has been very careful not to mention the carrier by name since the phone’s reveal last week. Maybe Verizon’s not yet 100 percent certain it wants to launch this one yet?
It’s not much of a secret that the Merge is destined for Verizon — but for some reason we can’t put our finger on, HTC has been very careful not to mention the carrier by name since the phone’s reveal last week. Maybe Verizon’s not yet 100 percent certain it wants to launch this one yet?
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HTC Merge rolls into FCC with mentions of Verizon
In an interview with Nokia VP Niklas Savander at Mobile World Congress , Phone Scoop probed a bit more on the company’s plans to rework the Windows Phone user experience — a user experience that’s been essentially closed to OEMs thus far apart from the occasional tile here or added menu item there.
In an interview with Nokia VP Niklas Savander at Mobile World Congress , Phone Scoop probed a bit more on the company’s plans to rework the Windows Phone user experience — a user experience that’s been essentially closed to OEMs thus far apart from the occasional tile here or added menu item there.
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Nokia says it can customize the heck out of Windows Phone, won’t do anything that would delay updates
Sprint has had an on again / off again relationship with LTE for some time now, but it looks it may finally be nearing a commitment one way or the other. Speaking in a roundtable discussion at Mobile World Congress this week, Sprint’s Senior Vice President of Networks, Bob Azzi, said that the carrier would be studying the rate at which its customers migrate from EV-DO to mobile WiMAX over the next four to six months, and that it would evaluate the best way to use its existing spectrum before it reaches a firm decision on a possible switch to LTE.
Sprint has had an on again / off again relationship with LTE for some time now, but it looks it may finally be nearing a commitment one way or the other. Speaking in a roundtable discussion at Mobile World Congress this week, Sprint’s Senior Vice President of Networks, Bob Azzi, said that the carrier would be studying the rate at which its customers migrate from EV-DO to mobile WiMAX over the next four to six months, and that it would evaluate the best way to use its existing spectrum before it reaches a firm decision on a possible switch to LTE.
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Sprint evaluating switch to LTE over the next four to six months
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