When the New York Giants and New England Patriots take the field for Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the eyes of over 100 million people around the world will be upon them. ArsTechnica explains how to watch the Super Bowl, on the biggest and littlest screens. Nearly six [...]

Dish Network, in its filing with the FCC this week, has argued against the restrictions that AT&T Mobility wants to impose on Dish’s spectrum licenses, reports Fierce Wireless. Dish also clarified elements of its nationwide LTE Advanced plan. Dish wants to use 40 Mhz of spectrum in the 2.1 GHz MSS (satellite phon

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., urged the Internet community on Tuesday to rally to push Congress to free up more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi and other new wireless technologies. “It’s going to take your voices and the voices of a whole bunch of folks similar to what happened a few weeks ago … to just rise [...]

India’s Supreme Court sent shockwaves through the country’s mobile sector earlier today by cancelling all 122 of the 2G licenses that were awarded under controversial circumstances in 2008. The markets reacted swiftly. Stocks of telecom companies whose licenses have been scrapped, like DB Realty, whose promoters are inv

In its IPO filing Facebook mentioned the word “mobile” 123 times, says GigOM. But in most cases Facebook didn’t use the word mobile in positive ways. Of Facebook’s 845 million monthly active users, 425 million accessed Facebook in December alone through a smart-or feature phone app or through its mobile-optimized we

Qualcomm today announced a LTE to WCDMA call using one of its MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 chipset, and a VoIP-over-LTE connection. Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) is a 3GPP specified feature that enables continuity of service by seamlessly switching to a WCDMA network when a consumer on a VoLTE call leaves LTE coverage. Up until this poin

This video compilation of thought leaders at Digital Book World has some interesting takes on eBooks and publishing. The model that the big six publisher, Random House, Hachette (Time Warner Books), Macmillan, Penguin, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster is seen by many as “time limited.” Mike Shatzkin says,

Oregonian reporter Joseph Rose puts Apple’s Siri to the test when he takes his iPhone out for a drive to try hands-free texting. An iPhone ad on the Apple website shows a driver receiving and flawlessly sending a handsfree text with Siri. Rose was not so lucky. He also mentions a new Canadian study showing [...]

The Federal Communications Commission today voted to approve a comprehensive overhaul of Lifeline service, which helps tens of millions of low-income Americans afford basic phone service. The FCC also voted to improve data collection and a database to make it easier to verify a consumer’s eligibility and ensure one home d

Andrew Seybold, in a think piece posted on Fierce Wireless says it’s doubtful that the FCC could meet its five-year goal of freeing up 300 MHz of spectrum. “It takes months to prepare for such an auction, then it takes a few years to relocate those already on the spectrum, first finding a place to [...]

Some amazing formation flying experiments have been performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the University of Pennsylvania’s the GRASP Lab. The Quadcopter vehicles were developed by KMel Robotics. The quadrotors are X-shaped with a central control unit at their center. Based on commands, 16 quadcopters change dire

A Senate antitrust panel is planning a hearing to discuss Verizon Wireless’s multibillion dollar deals to buy wireless airwaves from cable operators, reports Reuters. Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.), chairman of the Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights subcommittee, said the hearing will include a review of a

Sprint Nextel will give LightSquared an additional six weeks to get approval to build its nationwide 4G LTE wireless network from the FCC or it will terminate its agreement with the company, according to Dow Jones Newswires. Sprint had previously extended its deadline from the end of 2011 until Jan. 31. Last summer Sprint a

On Saturday, the FCC announced a request for comments (pdf) on the LightSquared situation. Comments are due by Feb. 27, and responses promised by March 13. LightSquared applauded the move. Lightsquared filed a petition for declaratory ruling to the FCC last month. The request is for input on LightSquared’s request for

A new bill being introduced by Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey would require cell phone makers and network operators to inform consumers about any location-tracking or information-sharing software/services that are installed on the device. Rep. Markey (D-Mass.), co-Chair of the Bi-Partisan Congressional Privacy Caucu

Android Pit says Samsung’s next great Android super phone could in the form of an 11.6” Samsung tablet. The massive 11.6” display may feature 2560×1600 pixel resolution and could be driven by a 2 GHz Exynos 5250 dual-core processor. Last year’s Mobile World Congress saw Samsung introduce the Galaxy S2,

Samsung’s Galaxy Note, the 5.3-inch smartphone/tablet hybrid device, will launch on Feb. 19 for $300 with a two-year contract from AT&T. Pre-orders begin Feb. 5. The Galaxy Note’s 5.3-inch screen straddles the line between smartphone and tablet. The Galaxy Note will be powered by a 1.5-Ghz, dual-core proces

Apple’s sales in China could soon reach 60 million per year, predicts Morgan Stanley. Apple sold 68.5 million iPhones worldwide in fiscal 2011, although the iPhone 4S, launched in October, sold more than half that many (37 million) in just one quarter. Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty surveyed the buying patterns a

The Wi-Fi Alliance and ZigBee Alliance got together this week in a public demonstration of interoperability between Wi-Fi devices and ZigBee-enabled smart energy meters at DistribuTECH in San Antonio. They were promoting the new Smart Energy Profile 2.0, designed for energy meters. The multi-vendor demonstration established

The world’s first commercial White Spaces network launched Thursday in North Carolina. So far, the FCC has only approved one white spaces device — a 1.5-lb. rectangular-shaped radio from Florida-based KTS Wireless. The KTS device, used in the Hanover NC network, is a small, last-mile, transmitter. It uses the compan

Today the WiMAX Forum announced that effective February 1st, 2012, Ronald Resnick will retire from his role as the President of the WiMAX Forum. “Mr. Resnick has been a valued part of the WiMAX leadership for the past eight years,” said Dr. Mohammad Shakouri, Interim Chairperson of the WiMAX Forum. “The WiMAX

Telecom networking giant Ericsson is buying BelAir Networks, adding its outdoor WiFi technology to Ericsson’s portfolio, reports Kevin Fitchard of GigaOM. BelAir gear is used extensively by AT&T (in NYC, Chicago and San Francisco), Cablevision (with a large-scale deployment in the NY area), and Time Warner Cable

During AT&T’s quarterly earnings call, CEO Randall Stevenson blasted the FCC over its leadership in making additional spectrum available to carriers, reports ReadWriteWeb. Stevenson said that because of AT&T’s spectrum crunch it will be forced to raise prices and take additional actions against the hig

Ekahau, a Wi-Fi site-survey leader, today announced a new version of its Ekahau Mobile Survey for the Android. The app works with Ekahau’s fully-featured site survey tool with heat-mapping capabilities for enterprise Wi-Fi networks which was previously available only for laptop-based tools. Ekahau says the tool, desig

Today Google launched a new Google Crisis Response capability on Google Maps. Google Public Alerts is designed to bring you relevant emergency alerts when and where you’re searching for them. For instance, at the time of this post, “Flood Indiana” triggers an alert for a Flood Warning in Northern Indiana.

Nuance Communications today announced a new version of its PaperPort Notes app for the Apple iPad. Nuance says for the first time, it lets people create notes simply by speaking. PaperPort Notes is powered by Nuance’s Dragon voice recognition via the cloud-based Dragon Mobile software developers kit (SDK), which is behind

Audiobooks.com has announced unlimited access to its library of 11,000 audio books through its website and an HTML5 mobile app for $24.95 a month. Unlimited content downloads have been popular for movie and music sellers, now AudioBooks is trying unlimited, monthly audiobook access, says Mashable. Amazon-owned competitor Au

Apple had its best quarter yet, with profit of $13.6 billion and revenues of $46 billion – more than double its year-ago quarter, making it the second largest U.S. company by market cap. It now also has $97.6 billion in its cash reserve. LightReading has some of key points of the company’s first-quarter earnings

AT&T and T-Mobile USA have formally filed with the FCC to transfer some of AT&T’s AWS spectrum to T-Mobile. The spectrum transfer is a condition of the breakup fee stemming from AT&T’s failed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA. Altogether 128 geographic bands are being transferred, some at 2.1GH

IHS predicts that Windows Phones will overtake iPhone in 2015, with Windows Phone reaching 16.7 percent of market share in 2015, behind first-ranked Android at 58.1 percent and just slightly ahead of iOS at 16.6 percent. The analyst said the introduction of the Lumia 900 running Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) at CES showed Micro