AT&T customers will finally be able to purchase their first Android phone, the Motorola Backflip, on March 7 for $100 after rebates. AT&T’s Backflip has a five megapixel camera with editing software, 3.1-inch capacitive touchscreen with WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth, and can connect to the web and the Android Market.

The Motorola Backflip has a [...]

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 [...]

There’ll be no shortage of coverage of The Big Event from Apple today. C/Net, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Digg, JKOnTheRun, and ArsTechnica and others will be liveblogging.

The Neiman Journalism Lab will have a journalism-centric perspective. With the Apple Tablet, Print Media Hope for a Payday says the NY Times. Apple’s tablet could mark the end [...]

Proxim Wireless today announced that the state of Bolivar, Venezuela has deployed a large, integrated public safety network in Bolivar City using their wireless technology. The network, which connects both state and local police, the National Guard, state transportation and public safety agencies, utilizes Proxim’s Tsunami QuickBridge.11 radios to create a wireless video surveillance [...]

The GSM Association, in a report issued today, argues that the majority of the 2.6GHz band should be devoted to their LTE system, and not competitors like WiMAX.
The GSMA’s report (pdf), represents GSM-based cellular operators. Cellular operators are generally committed to FDD-based LTE, not TDD-based WiMAX. WiMAX supporters say a TDD system, using Time [...]

AT&T announced today that it has upgraded High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 technology across virtually all its 3G cell sites. After testing their HSPA 7.2 software, AT&T decided to expedite deployment of their initial upgrade, system-wide, across the U.S. AT&T decided to “expedite” the software upgrade to its cell sites “to improve customer experience”.
Unfortunately, [...]

DataJack, launching next month at CES, is a dongle with a difference — it offers 3G high speed cellular data for just $39.99 a month, without any contract commitments.
DataJack promises no early termination fees, no deposits, no credit check, and their USB modem costs just $99 at signup. The modem has a micro-SD slot [...]