Smartphones with Intel Chips Debut at CES
At the end of last year, Intel showed Technology Review prototypes of chips that it said that it said would help it enter the rapidly growing market for phones and tablets. Today, at CES, Motorola and Lenovo announced that they would start selling smart phones with Intel chips inside this year. The news got here […]
Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces
Microsoft has developed a new kind of Wi-Fi network that performs at its top speed even in the face of interference. It takes advantage of a new Wi-Fi standard that uses more of the electromagnetic spectrum, but also hops between the narrow bands of unused spectrum within television broadcast frequencies. In 2008, the us Federal […]
World travelers beware: 4G LTE phones won’t work abroad
LTE may be the global standard for next-generation wireless networks, but that doesn’t mean you can take your 4G Verizon Wireless phone abroad and expect to roam on other 4G networks. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I explain the sad reality of why you can’t take a U.S. 4G LTE phone and expect to […]
LTE’s Immaturity in the US
Don’t be expecting a constant experience across fledgling long term Evolution (LTE) networks in the U.S., judging from the findings of a latest benchmark examine via signals analysis group. The study, called “The Mother of all Network Benchmark Tests” — which tested mobile broadband networks across the U.S., including 3G, LTE and mobile WiMax — […]
Will the next iPhone have LTE?
It’s with great trepidation that we risk waking the slumbering iRumor giant, and suggest what the next iPhone could bring. One of the biggest questions is whether Apple will add LTE to its next hardware update. Will they bother? What are the pros and cons? Are they hurting by not having LTE in the 4S? […]
Mobile carriers: Five predictions for 2012
The biggest news for 2011 in this sector was AT&T’s $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile. And when the deal was announced in March, AT&T seemed confident it could make it happen. So confident in fact, that it agreed to one of the biggest break-up fees ever. But as we all now know, regulators didn’t […]
Samsung still dominates mobile phone market, but Apple is gaining
Samsung is still the biggest maker of mobile phones, but Apple is gaining ground, according to data released today by market researcher ComScore. Samsung accounted for 25.6 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers for the three months ending November 11, a slight increase of 0.3 percent over the previous three months. While Apple came in fourth […]
Verizon fixes latest network outage
Verizon has had a busy month repairing network glitches. The carrier confirmed early this morning via Twitter that it has resolved the latest outage, which hit many of its cellular data customers yesterday. In tweeting the news, Verizon Wireless said that the 4G LTE issue was resolved overnight. 3G connectivity, as well as calling and […]
Facebook Launches ‘Timeline’ Globally
Long-discussed Timeline, a digital scrapbook feature on Facebook, is launching globally. More pictures, more information and more chronology — and your archived stuff will automatically populate the new feature. Timeline is similar to having an auto-generated personal website, replete with everything — that’s everything — you’ve ever posted to Facebook. So, if you have a […]
GPS Could Send You On Long Strange Trip
These days when you get into your car, you probably take an extra step that maybe a few years ago you didn’t: typing your destination in your GPS system. Many of us in South Florida would be lost without the step-by-step directions, but sometimes our GPS’s can send us the wrong way. It happened to […]
Google to Battle Siri with Majel
Google is reportedly working on a rival to Apple’s virtual assistant Siri, codenamed Majel, and will likely launch the service next year. Majel is called after actress Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, and when you have geek cred you could additionally recognize that she was once the voice of the Federation computer (and Nurse Chapel) on “famous person […]
The 4G mobile technology, Connectivity, Features and new launches
We have heard that what happens at CES in Las Vegas. The new mobile phone technology 4G stole the show at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Here is an outline of 4G technology and what it manner to you. What is 4G? 4G is the latest standard in wireless mobile telephony. It is the […]