The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are said to be considering a spectrum auction that could help close the digital divide.
The new spectrum sale comes with the condition that the winning bidder must offer free high-speed wireless internet access nationwide (US).
On June 12th, the proposal will be put forward by the FCC at its upcoming meeting, [...]

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Qualcomm Inc. have beaten several other bidders for 40 MHz (1452-1492 MHz) of L-Band radio spectrum in UK comms regulator Ofcom’s latest auction of frequencies, and is most likely use the frequencies for a mobile TV service with partners.
Ofcom said the chip group’s subsidiary, Qualcomm UK Spectrum Ltd, paid £8.34 million for the spectrum.
Late [...]

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IBM have released additional Lotus software fro Research in Motion’s (RIM) Blackberry platform, moving in to the Web 2.0 social networking applications.
IBM already offers core Lotus software that includes Notes based e-mail, portals, dashboards, messaging, calendaring and instant messaging, the company is adding Blackberry client for IBM Lotus connections, which is IBM’s social software for [...]

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Nokia has released its much famed n-gage gaming application to public today on Thursday. However, the official announcement would be on Monday, but the blog of the service says that they are up and people can start downloading the N-gage application from their website. Moreover, the website has also started giving trial versions and [...]

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1. What is Satellite TV for PC?
Satellite TV for PC refers to software that has been developed to enable you to watch satellite TV channels on your pc. It works by streaming TV signals over the internet from providers to your pc.
2. Is it Legal?
Yes, the satellite TV for pc is legal. Many channels that [...]

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If you have ever done any electronics before you will probably be familiar with multiplexing but charlieplexing adds a new dimension. It’s a technique commercially developed at Maxim by Charlie Allen hence the name but you can still use the technique in your own circuits.
Note: The actual technique has been around for some time but [...]

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Those of you involved in deploying Windows Vista to enterprises may be interested to learn of today’s publication of a study completed by Wipro and GCR Custom Research and commissioned by MS, wherein it’s demonstrated that running Windows Vista on mobile PCs delivers significant savings to organizations over running Windows XP.  The reduction in TCO [...]

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update @ 14:53 PDT:  The exec closest to the development process, Core Operating System Division (COSD) Sr. VP Jon DeVaan, gives his personal take on Windows Vista SP1 over at Press Pass — check it out.
Now is the time and the time is now:  let’s talk about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1).  Much has been made [...]

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Hello Windows Vista Team Blog readers,
We’ve heard that some of you are very interested in getting the localized version of the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 but was not sure how the download process works for this globalized integrated download. To clarify, the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 is available in any of the SEVEN [...]

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The wait is over!  The Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team is pleased to announce the newly-released Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 with many of the features YOU have been looking for.  For example, we’ve added features such as localization to 6 more languages in addition to North American English, IP range scanning and Simple Network Management [...]

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