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How to get an iPhone app noticed: hitch your wagon to the Olympics

It's certainly true - a lot of people are pouring into Canadian city Vancouver to watch the Winter Olympics. And it's a fair bet a lot of them have iPhones, and have never been there before. "We have the app you need!" says Lonely Planet. And it's free...[more...]

by Guy J Kewney | posted on 09 February 2010

Broadband Wireless — the future is 5 GHz

The future is 5 GHz - and eventually, spectrum from 4 GHz to 10 GHz. Purge yourself of 700 MHz thoughts![more...]

by Brough Turner | posted on 03 February 2010

Schroedinger's Cat's Whisker: a single benzine molecule as transistor

A single-molecult transistor has been built - but "smaller and faster 'molecular computers' — if possible at all—are many decades away," reports Wireless Design Online.[more...]

by Guy J Kewney | posted on 30 January 2010

iPhone's new OS: Will Apple wise up to the iPhone’s ‘fatal flaw’?

London, Manchester, 22 January 2010: When Apple launched the iPhone in 2007 it revolutionized the mobile handset market paving the way for a plethora of ‘smart’ devices which enable users to do everything - from catching up on their email to surfing the web, downloading music or taking photographs with an in-built digital camera.[more...]

by Staff Writer | posted on 22 January 2010

Open Source at last! Android gets iPhone feature from hacker

Klonkid himself A celebrated Android hacker has released software that greatly enhances Google's Nexus One smartphone, endowing it for the first time with the same coveted multitouch features that grace Apple's iPhone.[more...]

by Dan Goodin | posted on 22 January 2010

GSM on death bed - EFF warning

"GSM, the technology that underpins most cellphone communications around the world, uses a deeply flawed security technology," reports the Electronic Freedom Foundation today, in its top ten warnings for 2010.[more...]

by Guy J Kewney | posted on 14 January 2010