laptops
Save DAB! Send FM radios to Africa
Or bury them in a hole in the ground. We don’t care Dumping tech is in the news again. Last week MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte appealed for broken OLPC laptops to be sent to Haiti , but this will be dwarfed if the UK radio industry gets its way.
Continue reading »VID SPOOF: Hosting a Win 7 BitTorrent Party
Mocks the recent official release of Windows 7 by showing people gathered around food, laptops out, and ready to use their favorite BitTorrent client and tracker site to download a copy for free. As most of us here already know, Windows 7 was officially launched last Thursday the 22nd. I, and many others, have been using it for quite some time now so and I’m not sure that a majority have exactly ran down to their local Best Buy to buy a legitimate copy.
Continue reading »Smartphones suck 8x more cellular capacity than laptops
Conventional wisdom says that laptops with data cards cause more of a traffic jam on cell networks than handhelds because of the relative increase in data consumption. However, a new study from mobile broadband technology provider Airvana says that smartphones generate the majority of “signaling activity”—messages to and from cell sites for polling purposes. This is an indicator of an “urgent need” for improved data processing among cell networks in the US.
Continue reading »FCC boss: mobile wireless in peril from spectrum shortage
Speaking at a mobile wireless conference on Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski warned that the wireless industry needs more spectrum and needs it fast. “I believe that that the biggest threat to the future of mobile in America is the looming spectrum crisis,” he told the crowd at CTIA, the Wireless Association’s
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