The Federal Communications Commission is poised to hand a big victory to the cell phone industry by allocating more airwaves for mobile broadband services, reports The Washington Post and TheHill.com. But it’s unclear where the 500 megahertz of spectrum will come from.
The FCC’s goal is to make available 500 megahertz of spectrum available for [...]

Fast Company reviews some of The Tech of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Here’s a brief synopsis:

NBC’s TODAYshow will feature live, 360-degree, interactive video (Seth Wescott shares gold and Wayne Gretzky talks Olympic hockey), in a broadcast first. The 360 degree videos allow you to view the TODAY set on Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain. “This technology truly [...]

Google says it planned to build an open-access, fiber-to-the-home service, at speeds up to 1Gbps. Google’s Public Policy Blog says the project will build on their ongoing efforts to expand and improve Internet access for consumers – from our free municipal Wi-Fi network in Mountain View, CA, to their advocacy in the 700 MHz spectrum [...]

More than 60% of mobile Web pageviews are to social networking sites, according to mobile metrics startup GroundTruth, a new firm that analyzes anonymous data contributed directly by U.S. carriers.

Mobile-specific social networking sites are more popular on the mobile Web. For instance, Mocospace is the no. 4 overall mobile site, according to GroundTruth. (MySpace and [...]

UK owners of laser printers need to worry about buying ink toner cartridges, too. Even though laser printers take a long time to run out of powder. What some don’t know is that a toner is not printer ink. Toners are containers for electrically charged powdery particles encased in wax suspension. The charge of the powder in the casing is opposite the charge of the paper, making the powder to fuse with the paper’s surface. The toner cartridge simply acts as a container for the powder. To keep costs within limits, since toner cartridges can be expensive, you may want to find out about remanufactured toner cartridges. Although toner cartridges can last longer than inkjet cartridges, remanufactured toner cartridges last longer than the original cartridges. Remanufactured cartridges produce high quality print outs like the original cartridges.