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New Tech Still on Tap for 2009

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

[A NOTE FROM HARRY: Here's a post by Mari Silbey, one of Dave Zatz's Zatz Not Funny colleagues. We'll be borrowing some of her ZNF items along with Dave's--welcome Mari!] We have yet to hit the holiday shopping season, so you know there will still be plenty of gadget goodness before the year ends. However, there’s [...]

Comcast Turns to WiMAX in Portland

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Comcast is using Clearwire’s network to offer its customers wireless high speed Internet in Portland, Oregon, and plans to launch the service in Chicago, Atlanta, and Philadelphia by the end of 2009. Called Comcast High-Speed 2go, it would offer speeds of up to 4 MBps. To entice customers to sign up for the service, the cable [...]

LTE vs. WiMAX: The 4G Wireless War

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

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Remember when 3G was the future of wireless data? It’s not even universally available in the U.S. yet, and the race is already well underway to replace it. WiMAX, the 4G network technology that counts Sprint and Intel among its boosters, has a head start. But it’s losing ground to Long Term Evolution (LTE). LTE’s promise [...]

5Words for May 6th, 2009

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

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Here’s what I’m reading today: Dell adds Wimax to notebooks. Free iPhone apps make money. Will Pre multitasking work well? An AT&T app for iPhone. South Carolina goes after Craigslist. The prehistory of today’s Internet. Windows 7’s XP compatibility: incompatible! Rock Band’s Lennon, Harrison guitars. Swedish NASA hacker is indicted.

5Words for March 19th, 2009

Thursday, March 19, 2009

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Like news? You’ll LOVE these! Gizmodo tests WiMax, likes it. Cisco flips for the Flip. Hacker compromises Mac in seconds. New features in Silverlight 3. Sirius founder: Sirius is doomed. New iPhone clues in beta? Steve Ballmer’s still courting Yahoo. Random rumor: OLED Macs, iPhones. Dell’s Adamo notebook on sale. iPhone tethering seems to work. Sprint roadmap: Pre, other phones. Mobile Firefox now in beta.

Sprint a Little Wishy-Washy on WiMax?

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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GigaOM is reporting that Sprint has reportedly begun testing LTE equipment, a move that may suggest it may not be completely confident that WiMax may be its eventual route for 4G. Sprint owns 51 percent of Clearwire, a company commited to bringing near-nationwide WiMax access by 2010. However, its competitors have all decided that LTE is [...]

Sprint Next to Attempt Throttling With XOHM

Monday, September 29, 2008

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Do these companies ever learn? The blogosphere was abuzz Monday with the latest company to try to throttle the bandwidth usage of its users–Sprint’s WiMax venture XOHM. The service launched in Baltimore today, but hidden within its “Acceptable Use Policy” was the fact that it was reserving the right to throttle bandwidth. Sound familiar? That’s because [...]