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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...]

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...]


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

One benzine molecule...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...]

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...]


Open Source at last! Android gets iPhone feature from hacker

Klonkid himselfA 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...]

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...]