Google patents its augmented reality Project Glass
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:44
Search giant Google has patented the technology behind its augmented-reality glasses, known as Project Glass.
Three patents for a "wearable display device" with characteristics of the much-talked about futuristic glasses were submitted last autumn.
The patents reference such functions as displaying data in front of the wearer's eyes and playing audio.
Postal Service offers discount for smartphone codes
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:46
The Postal Service will offer a temporary postage discount for mailings that include smartphone barcodes as it seeks to stem volume losses by encouraging advertisers to send more mail.
The mail agency will offer a 2 percent postage discount during July and August for letters and cards that use the two-dimensional barcodes, known as QR codes, according to a statement on Monday.
Amazon adds billing alerts to cloud services menu
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- Published on Monday, 14 May 2012 17:15
A raft of startups have built their businesses around tracking pay-as-you-go cloud costs for customers. Amazon, king of the cloud, has been paying attention.
The company just added alerting capabilities that will flag unexpectedly heavy usage of Amazon Web Services. For customers that enable them, that could mean avoiding unpleasant surprises when the bill comes due.
Text4Baby mobile service gives new moms health updates
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- Published on Friday, 11 May 2012 17:14
What every mother wants for Mother’s Day: healthy children. A free mobile service called Text4Baby sends breaking health information to new and expecting mothers.
Participants in the program receive between one and three text messages each week informing them of health alerts or offering advice for breastfeeding, labor or other prenatal issues. The alerts also provide reminders for thing such as taking prenatal vitamins and scheduling check-ups.
EU cuts the cost of Europe calls
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- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:30
Regulations to make using a mobile phone abroad significantly cheaper have been passed by the European Parliament.
The plans, which were voted in by a huge majority, include imposing a price cap on operators. From July, using mobile data in Europe will not cost more than 70 cents (56p) per megabyte - far less than current rates.
T-Mobile customer growth back thanks to prepaid, wholesale
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- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:00
T-Mobile USA saw customers flock back to its network, with growth largely propped up by its prepaid and wholesale businesses.
The carrier, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, posted a profit of $200 million, or slightly better than its year-ago profit of $135 million. Revenue, meanwhile, fell 2.5 percent to $5.03 billion.
The customer growth marks a significant improvement over the last several quarters, in which T-Mobile couldn't stop the bleeding.
Mobile firms attack 'early 4G' on Everything Everywhere
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- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:05
Three mobile operators have told the UK's telecoms regulator that rival Everything Everywhere (EE) should be blocked from rolling out 4G mobile services before them.
EE had asked Ofcom for permission to reuse some of its existing spectrum for next-generation data services. During a consultation period, which ended this week, all three rivals stated their objections.
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 May 2012 19:22
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Watch out Cisco. Huawei’s coming!
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- Published on Monday, 07 May 2012 18:24
Huawei, six months after creating its enterprise networking division here in the U.S., is ready to make a big splash at Interop this year.
The Chinese networking gear maker is the one thing Cisco’s CEO John Chambers has said he’s worried about, even as the networking world embraces software-defined networks, new protocols such as OpenFlow and even whitebox switch makers.
Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone unveiled
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- Published on Friday, 04 May 2012 17:27
Samsung has unveiled its latest flagship smartphone - the Galaxy S3.
The handset has a 4.8 inch (12.2cm) screen, an increase on the 4.3 inch screen of its predecessor. The device is perceived to be critical to how people view both Samsung's brand and the Android system it runs.
