FORTUNE Techland | Battle over next-generation cellular networks 12/19/2007
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FORTUNE: Techland The battle over next-generation cellular networks «
Faster, Sprint, faster! I’d put down money today to be the first on my block with WiMAX, if it’d help.
“Half the world doesn’t even own a mobile phone but wireless carriers are already fighting over the next-generation cellular network.
Consumers may care less about whether they’ll be using WiMAX, LTE or UMB to download video to their phones or browse the Web faster than ever before. But one by one, mobile operators are aligning themselves with one of these competing next-generation, or 4G, technologies, placing billion-dollar bets on the horse they hope will win the race.”
Amazon SimpleDB 101 & Why It Matters | GigaOM 12/15/2007
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Amazon SimpleDB 101 & Why It Matters – GigaOM
“If you are in the business of managing massive amounts of distributed data, you cannot gloss over the Amazon WS trifecta — data-in-the-cloud is the future and with WS, Amazon is way ahead of the pack. What about the offerings of other vendors?”
NASA goes AJAX 12/03/2007
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NASA – NASA Launches New and Expanded Agency Web Site
NASA Launches New and Expanded Agency Web Site WASHINGTON – As the agency commemorates its 50th anniversary, NASA has launched “NASA.gov 5.0,” the first major redesign of its primary Web site in more than four years. The new design goes beyond a cosmetic facelift. It features a new level of interactivity and customization, and provides the opportunity to comment on selected NASA stories, create personal playlists of favorite NASA videos and share agency content with social bookmarking sites on the Internet.”
Google Has Even Bigger Plans for Mobile Phones – WSJ.com 12/02/2007
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Google Has Even Bigger Plans for Mobile Phones – WSJ.com
“The company is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can be used to provide mobile phone and Internet services, in a Federal Communications Commission auction in January. Google is prepared to bid on its own without any partners, say people familiar with the matter. It is working out a plan to finance its bid, which could run $4.6 billion or higher, that would rely on its own cash and possibly some borrowed money.”
