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Articles tagged with: Ipod and Wifi
iPhone Showing High Wi-Fi Usage Rates in the USA and UK
Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has highlighted growing Wi-Fi usage in the US and the UK in its November Metrics Report. Worldwide iPhone requests grew 52 percent month over month to 359 million in November, giving the iPhone 6.3 percent of total requests. In the US the iPhone is now the top device with 9.9 percent of requests. more
Related Tags: android, wi-fi, t-mobile, nokia, iphone, smartphone, smartphones, blackberry, admob, sony, playstation, 3, blackberry-bold, operating-system,
Spoofing the Location Finder in Apple's iPhone
In January, Skyhook Wireless announced that Apple would use Skyhook's WiFi Positioning System (WPS) for its popular Map applications. The WPS database contains information on access points throughout the world. Skyhook itself provides most of the data in the database, with users contributing via direct entries to the database, and requests for localization. more
Related Tags: skyhook, skyhook-wireless, wlan, apple-ipod
Research Boosts Wireless Data Transfer
New research at the Georgia Institute of Technology could soon make that tangle of wires under desks and in data centers a thing of the past. Scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at Georgia Tech are investigating the use of extremely high radio frequencies (RF) to achieve broad bandwidth and high data transmission rates over short distances. more
Related Tags: ibm, samsung-electronics, analog, wlan, laptop, multiple-input-multiple-output, georgia-tech, philips, georgia, health, cmos
One Hundred Million Mobile VOIP Users in 2011
As more consumers carry their ipods with them everywhere, they are hoping Apple will add WiFi and VOIP for the killer converged mobile entertainment device, according to a new study from ON World. more
Related Tags: skype, voip, instant-messaging, tablet, mobile-voip, mesh
Threat To The Mobility Premium - Clear and Present Danger
The Shosteck Group's latest study warns that the threat to the mobility premium is a "clear and present danger." The rapid adoption of Internet pricing and a slowdown in subscriber growth in some markets could potentially drive the mobile industry down the commodity route towards a low margin "bit-pipe" access business model. The increasingly widespread adoption of "all-you-can-eat" data tariffs for 3G services, and the increasing size of voice "buckets" in some markets is driving the industry away from usage based pricing models towards the flat-rate subscription models adopted by ISPs since early 2000. more
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