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  • Mobidia‘s My Data Manager Android Application Helps People Save Money on Mobile Data and Avoid Bill Shock

    Posted on June 14, 2011 | No Comments
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  • San Francisco passes law requiring mandatory display of phone radiation levels

    San Francisco passes law requiring mandatory display of phone radiation levels

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Despite scientific studies showing no link between tumours and mobile phone radiation, San Francisco have decided that it is in the consumer's best interest to clearly display the specific absorption rates (SAR) emitted by every phone sold. The law requires phone retailers to display this information next to each phone in their store in at least 11 point type.

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  • The FCC’s National Broadband Plan is now live!

    The FCC’s National Broadband Plan is now live!

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Might as well get this over with now. The FCC has announced its National Broadband Plan, which describes where the agency would like to see the U.S. in a few years' time vis-à-vis broadband and connectedness. It's sorta like the UK's Digital Britain report, published last year. The big thing is this: it's in America's best interest to turn itself into a first-world nation again, and the best way to do that is to develop its Internet infrastructure a wee bit more. That's the gist of it: better, faster Internet access for many more people.

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  • Mysterious iPhone model found in app usage records?

    Mysterious iPhone model found in app usage records?

    Posted on November 29, 2009 | No Comments
    O iPhone3,1, where art thou? Last time we spotted that signature, it was buried in lines of code as part of a beta OS 3.0 firmware build. Now according to data from analytics software inside iBART, the San Francisco-centric transportation app has been host to a new visitor with the aforementioned device identification number. As MacRumors points out, iPhone2,1 was originally spotted in October 2008 and later became the iPhone 3GS about eight months later. Not that it's necessarily the case Apple will keep to the same schedule -- nor should it come as a surprise that the company's maybe-kinda-sorta looking into a successor to its prized moneymaker -- but if you happen to be in the Bay Area and see someone quietly pulling out a sleek touchscreen, it might be in your best interest to make friends.

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    Mysterious iPhone model found in app usage records? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • BlackBerry Curve 8520, LG Shine II coming to AT&T

    BlackBerry Curve 8520, LG Shine II coming to AT&T

    Posted on November 16, 2009 | No Comments

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    That successor to AT&T's wildly popular LG Shine that we spied back in August has finally popped official today, becoming the Shine II (surprise, surprise). It's a very evolutionary set -- if you squint, you can't see much difference from the original -- but this might be a situation where it's in AT&T's best interest not to mess with success just as long as they don't end up pulling a RAZR over the next several years. It's got a 2 megapixel cam, a mirror-finish 2.2-inch LCD, GPS, 3.6Mbps HSDPA, and microSD expansion to 16GB; look for it on November 22 for $119.99 after rebate on contract. Perhaps more notably, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 has migrated from T-Mobile over to AT&T today with the same EDGE data and optical pad as its cousin; it'll be hitting in the "coming weeks" for $99.99 after rebate. Of course, the Bold 9700 hits on the 22nd for a hundie more, so there'll be some soul searching among AT&T-based BlackBerry lovers over the next few days, we suspect.

    BlackBerry Curve 8520, LG Shine II coming to AT&T originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Google, Verizon team up to throw support behind FCC’s net neutrality push

    Google, Verizon team up to throw support behind FCC’s net neutrality push

    Posted on October 21, 2009 | No Comments

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    Google and [insert any wireless carrier here] are the last two entities in the world that we'd expect to issue a joint statement on net neutrality, seeing how Google firmly believes the FCC should enforce it regardless of medium while carriers generally want to be exempted -- but Verizon and The Goog have put their differences aside for just one day to put together a thoughtful, lengthy piece on the subject. There aren't any surprises in the piece other than the fact that CEOs Lowell McAdam and Eric Schmidt are personally attributed to the statement, but it echoes what most ISPs have been saying since new FCC chair Julius Genachowski came into play: they generally acknowledge that a free, unhindered internet has led to a better world and that it's in everyone's best interest to make sure that it continues to be that way. They go on to say that "there will be disagreements along the way" -- Google and Verizon don't see eye-to-eye on the finer points, for example -- but that they're all looking forward to a spirited debate with the folks over in Washington. Ultimately, the FCC's ability to effectively police true neutrality on wireless networks ties in deeply with its ability to free up a lot more spectrum -- something the CTIA's been pushing for lately -- and Genachowski recently mentioned that they'd be looking into it, so this could all end up working out without any broken hearts or black eyes.

    Google, Verizon team up to throw support behind FCC's net neutrality push originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Ten-person boat features built-in grill

    Ten-person boat features built-in grill

    Posted on October 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Summer, much like Karma Chameleon, comes and goes. It comes and goes. And I'll be damned if this past summer came and went with few (if any) of us wiling away the hours in a circular boat with a built-in grill.

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  • Motorola wants everyone to Cliq, looks beyond T-Mobile

    Motorola wants everyone to Cliq, looks beyond T-Mobile

    Posted on September 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Last Thursday, Motorola announced its first Android-based smartphone, Cliq, alongside its new custom Android interface, MOTOBLUR. Although no specific availability or pricing information was released, it was pretty clear (read: T-Mo’s CTO was on stage) that T-Mobile would be the exclusive carrier of MOTO’s new Hail Mary device. But that was so last week. Fast forward [...]

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  • Schiller responds to Ninjawords debacle

    Schiller responds to Ninjawords debacle

    Posted on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
    You and I can rail like a beplagued Job against the unfairness of the Apple store but do we ever get emails from Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president? John Gruber does. Gruber got an email from Schiller last night after the SVP talked through the Ninjawords debacle with the Application Approval team. As you [...]

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  • And now Germany bans the public display of Counter-Strike

    And now Germany bans the public display of Counter-Strike

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Another ban hammer has fallen on Germany. Now it looks like the country, in its various Länder, has passed a law banning the public display, at LAN parties and the like, of the game Counter-Strike, effecting the closure of a tournament there.

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