iPad Coming to Verizon on October 28th [Ipad]
Apple’s AT&T exclusivity has officially ended, at least as far as the iPad is concerned.
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UFOs (Or Balloons) Attack Manhattan! [Video]
Next Year There Might be Powermat Phones That Charge Wirelessly Without Cases [Charging]
True, you can charge some phones now without buying a special inductive-charging case (via their swappable batteries ), but Powermat wants to work with manufacturers to put the technology into phones from the get-go.
Yahoo Messenger for Mobile to Get Video Chat
If you have to give credit to Apple for one thing, it would be their penchant for legitimizing fringe technologies. They did it first with the iPad, creating a viable market for tablet computers. The introduction of FaceTime for iPhone seems to be doing the same thing for the video chat industry
If you have to give credit to Apple for one thing, it would be their penchant for legitimizing fringe technologies. They did it first with the iPad, creating a viable market for tablet computers. The introduction of FaceTime for iPhone seems to be doing the same thing for the video chat industry. Kind of a shame, considering the HTC EVO 4G beat the front-facing camera of the iPhone to market and allowed for pretty much the same functionality. Anyway, more and more companies are moving towards video chat in their mobile platforms, and Yahoo plans to join them with the inclusion of the functionality in an upcoming release of their Messenger app for mobile.
Yahoo Messenger has advantages in some key areas over FaceTime however, including the ability to place video calls over WiFi and 3G. Users can also use the service to call cross-platform. A PC can video call up an Android handset, an Android user can video chat with an iPhone user, or any arrangement of devices.
No definitive release date is given for Yahoo Messenger with video chat, but we should be seeing it pretty soon. Stay tuned.
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Verizon Reveals LTE Plans at CTIA 2010: 1/3 of US Population to Get Coverage in 2010
Verizon’s COO Lowell McAdam took the stage during this week’s CTIA 2010 in San Francisco, speaking about the carrier’s upcoming rollout of the 4G LTE network.
Verizon’s COO Lowell McAdam took the stage during this week’s CTIA 2010 in San Francisco, speaking about the carrier’s upcoming rollout of the 4G LTE network. Apparently, it’ll debut before the year end and provide LTE coverage for 1/3 of the US population before the year is out.
The freshly appointed COO (a week on the job) claimed that Verizon will offer 4G connectivity in 38 markets this year and they’ll bundle half a dozen smartphones and tablets with this service. They’re made by “top OEMs” and they’ll reach speeds of 8 to 12 megabits per second. We suppose that there’s also a Motorola Stingray tablet among them and at least a HTC smartphone.
Here’s a map of the initial rollout, if you’re curious.
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Verizon Reveals LTE Plans at CTIA 2010: 1/3 of US Population to Get Coverage in 2010
Newspaper Publishers Still Hope Tablets Will Save Them [Tablets]
The NYT, WSJ and USA Today , are building special tablet-y apps for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab , hoping to easily port the app over to other Android tablets.
