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Add billions of mobile phones to the world’s e-waste problem
With the great global surge of mobile gadget use has come a tsunami of cell phone garbage, the United Nations warned on Monday—especially in India and China. And that’s on top of tidal waves of computer, video receiver, and kitchen electronics junk skewing about the planet in all the wrong places. All in all, global e-waste is growing by 40 million tons a year, a study by the UN’s Environmental Programme concludes.
Continue reading »Femtocells in spotlight as new route to LTE
Rascal picoChip in hot pursuit MWC As expected, femtocells are one of the big themes of this year’s Mobile World Congress.…
Continue reading »YouTube Use Accountable for 10% of Mobile Data
Mobile traffic reports during the second semester of 2009 indicate that YouTube is responsible for utilizing a tenth of existing data transfer resources, similar to P2P file sharing. A comprehensive study conducted by experts from Allot Communications, providers of network optimization for operators, reveals that mobile users favor streaming over HTTP. However, P2P traffic is closing in fast, accounting for the congestion of the most crowded five per cent of cells, with figures of up to 34 per cent, compared to about 12 per cent overall.
Continue reading »Cisco and Juniper armed for wireless showdown
The Falcon has (kinda) landed The industry’s two largest network vendors will be dueling on wireless with competing wares on display at the Mobile World Congress in Spain next week.…
Continue reading »Google’s Android code deleted from Linux kernel
‘Go fork yourself!’ After removing Google’s Android driver code from the Linux kernel, Novell Fellow and Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has argued that the mobile OS is incompatible with the project’s main tree.…
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