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Private Tour: How Mobile TV Gets Made
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TV in 43 more cities. What do you get? Here's a sneak peek.. When the local TV networks stop broadcasting analog signals (currently scheduled for June 12), the airwaves at 719 MHz will be freed up for new content. Who is stepping up to the plate? Qualcomm’s...
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$2.78 Billion In Bids Of US Wireless Auction
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2.78 Billion In Bids Of US Wireless Auction. fcc auction wireless. Top bidders put up a total of almost $2.78 billion on Thursday in the opening rounds of the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of coveted U.S. government-owned airwaves. The figure...
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AT&T Gets Valued Spectrum To Increase Mobile Tech
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that it won key "B Block" spectrum in the government's auction for 700 MHz airwaves.. San Antonio (CA) - Communications giant AT&T announced this week that it won key "B Block" spectrum in the government’s auction for 700 MHz airwaves. The Federal Communications...
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AT&T Mobile TV Service Turns On Next Week
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from cable TV, for $15 a month. Qualcomm, which also operates Verizon’s service, is the technical backbone for AT&T’s live mobile TV structure. Qualcomm’s MediaFlo technology allows mobile spectrum to access a separate set of airwaves that carry TV signals...
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FCC Delays Consideration Of Free Internet Plan
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FCC Delays Consideration Of Free Internet Plan. FCC Internet. The top U.. The top U.S. communications regulator on Thursday postponed consideration of a plan to auction a piece of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service...
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Digital TV Coupons to Dry Up Soon
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will take place on February 17, 2009, thus freeing up the previously used public airwaves for the FCC to delegate, and will be used mostly for police and fire purposes. A chunk of the airwaves will be sold off in hopes to launch a public internet service. But...
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New Asus Eee PC Goes WiMAX
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it in coming weeks. WiMAX, otherwise known as 802.16e, needs is own host of routers and access points, just like WiFi. Among the devices Asus is launching as "last mile" solutions (the products that will bring WiMAX the last step from the airwaves to your...
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20 Unusual Uses for USB
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be reduced to USB 1.1 speeds with this hub. Bored with your MP3 player? Give FM radio a try. Even if you’re not connected to the Internet, Thanko’s USB key with integrated FM receiver connects to a computer and scans the airwaves for local stations. The...
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Gadgets We've Loved, Spurned, and Lead On
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the couch in the living room. Our musical demands traveled over the WiFi to the box, up the stairs to the office, then down again through the airwaves to the box, and then to the living room speakers. It was magic. It was romantic: there was always music playing...
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SMS Celebrates 15th Anniversary
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cell phone text message was sent, to an employee at Euro mobile service provider Vadafone with the message "Happy Christmas". Airwide Solutions, which helped pioneer the technology, claims it was the first message to be sent via the mobile GSM airwaves. 15...
