 Instant messaging world confirms six degrees of separation August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A social graph derived from billions of instant messages validates folklore that there are about six degrees of separation between any two strangers on the planet. | |
Analog TV shutdown kills free cell-phone TV August 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Picture whipping out your cell phone and catching up with "Lost" or "Jeopardy," or watching the local 11 o'clock news, all for free. You can do this with an imported Chinese phone, but you can't with any phone sold ... | |
 China's mobile users top 600 million: govt July 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The number of mobile users in China, the world's biggest cellphone market, now tops 600 million, the government said, as subscribers increasingly abandon fixed lines. | |
Cable companies stole telcos' lunch in 2Q August 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- Phone companies have been feeling the heat from cable companies for years, as those traditional TV providers have expanded their own phone services and fought hard for broadband Internet subscribers. | |
 Saving lives with 10-kilo phone network July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A ten-kilo GSM mobile phone network developed by European researchers will allow rescue workers to set up communications just hours, or even minutes, after a man-made or natural catastrophe. It will mean more ... | |
Building a better telecom system July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Hurricane Katrina helped University of Texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, formulate a new plan for the U.S. telecom system: a de-centralized power architecture that would have kept the lights and phones on in New Orleans. ... | |
Delta to offer Wi-Fi on mainline domestic fleet August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Delta Air Lines Inc. said Tuesday it will offer broadband wireless Internet access on its entire domestic mainline fleet by the middle of next year. Several other airlines either offer similar service or plan to, ... | |
Broadband growth plummets in 2Q, cable stronger August 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- The number of new broadband Internet subscribers in the United States fell in the second quarter to the lowest level in at least seven years, a research company said Monday. | |
Next-gen broadband at your service July 28, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Faster, smarter broadband networks are on the way, thanks to European research. The next step will be to usher in compelling services for European consumers. Already companies are eager to get their hands on the technologies ... | |
 JAJAH turns mobile telephones into translation tools August 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Internet voice telephony firm JAJAH on Thursday launched a first-of-its-kind free service that lets English and Mandarin speakers use mobile telephones to translate conversations. | |
Beyond 3G -- ultra-fast mobile radio networks of the future August 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today’s growing third generation (3G) of mobile data services are only a taste of what is to come. Now, European researchers are paving the way to a world where ultra-fast internet access is available from ... | |
 Japan gets first home-grown commercial communications satellite August 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. announced Friday that it had successfully launched Japan's first domestically produced commercial communications satellite. | |
Analysts: US consumers buying fewer cell phones 23 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- U.S. consumers have been buying significantly fewer cell phones but paying higher prices for them, according to a research firm. | |
Monitoring against another Pompeii August 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A wimax-based connection to the internet will enable real-time monitoring of potentially dangerous active volcanoes. | |
Starz ending Vongo movie service for Starz Play August 13, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Liberty Media Corp.'s Starz pay TV subsidiary is pulling the plug on its Vongo movie-download service in favor of letting Verizon Communications Inc. and other affiliates market a similar service. | |
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