Archive for August, 2009
Rubin: Google Okay with Skype on Android
Andy Rubin, Vice President, Mobile Platforms, says in a Google Blog post that last Friday’s USA Today was inaccurate when it said that Android phone users can’t use Skype:
The article stated:
“Consumers who use Android, the Google-developed operating system for wireless devices, can’t use Skype, a leading Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. A pioneer in [...]
No commentsKeyOn Applies for $150M to Expand 3.65 Ghz WiMAX
KeyOn, a wireless broadband provider in Omaha, Neb., said this morning that it’s applied for $150 million in broadband stimulus funds in order to expand its WiMAX network and cover an additional 4 million people — a cost of $37.50 each, reports Stacy Higginbotham.
KeyOn uses WiMAX on 3.65GHz from Airspan and provides broadband, satellite television [...]
U.S. Pays More, Gets Less in Telecom
Cell phone users in the U.S., Spain, and Canada pay more for mobile phone service than cell phone users in other parts of the world, according to a survey published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
For a medium-use package that provides about 780 voice minutes, 600 short text messages, and eight multimedia messages, [...]
CEA Reflects on DTV Transition
C/Net interviewed Gary Shapiro, president of CEA, about the DTV conversion in the United States:
Q: You said last week that the DTV transition was “the equivalent of putting a man on the moon.” That’s quite a comparison. Can you explain why you think this was such a dramatic feat?
A: We first started this in the [...]