TerreStar Networks Inc. announced today the successful launch of TerreStar-1, the world's largest, most advanced commercial communications satellite that will deliver voice, data and video services on an all IP next-generation mobile broadband network anywhere in the United States and Canada. The TerreStar-1 satellite will be an all-IP core network that will operate with the latest in smartphone technology.
TerreStar's network will operate in two 10-Mhz blocks of contiguous MSS spectrum in the 2 GHz band throughout the United States and Canada - with a spectrum footprint that covers a population of nearly 330 million.
Prior to the launch of TerreStar-1, the Company, with its partner EB (Elektrobit), introduced the world's first quad-band GSM and tri-band WCDMA/HSPA smartphone with integrated all-IP satellite-terrestrial voice and data capabilities. Similar in size to today's mainstream mobile devices, TerreStar's dual-mode smartphone will allow users to seamlessly and securely stay connected to TerreStar's satellite and terrestrial network.
Citi today announced the launch of "Citi Tap and Pay" (CTP) in Bengaluru, India; a next-generation contactless credit card payments based on Near Field Communications technology. CTP pilot service will be one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive pilots ever undertaken and is part of Citi’s ongoing efforts to harness new innovative technologies to provide enhanced convenience, accessibility and mobility forcustomers. Citi has established a fully secure, scalable and interoperable mobile payments ecosystem in Bengaluru in collaboration with Nokia, Vodafone, MasterCard and ViVOtech.
With the launch of CTP in India, customers in Bengaluru will experience the simplicity, ease and convenience of using their mobile phone as a credit card. The technology will allow customers to tap their mobile phone on a contactless reader at the point of sale to pay for purchases, eliminating the need for the traditional swiping of credit cards. The service also does away with the need for customers to send SMS or incur mobile data charges to make these payments.
Boingo Wireless, the world’s largest Wi-Fi network, announces that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. 7,483,984, covering the method and apparatus for accessing networks by a mobile device. The patent advances the company’s client technology for detection, association and logging into wireless networks, on any device.
The methods covered by the patent include accessing wireless carrier networks by mobile computing devices, where a client software application hosted by the device accesses carrier networks using wireless access points. For example, when a computer – or netbook, smartphone or any other Wi-Fi-enabled device – is in a location where there are multiple signals, the patented technology looks at each signal and alerts the user which signal will work, showing the signal as an understandable name and ID for the user.
The patent covers all wireless technologies and spectrums, as well as any mobile device that access wireless hotspots.
T-Mobile is on track to announce their second Google's Android powered smartphone. The new smartphone phone will be names myTouch 3G. Like the G1, the new handset will be manufacture red by HTC and is expected to go on sale this summer. Google executives are forecasting about 18 Android powered smartphones to hit the market this year. For more information visit Wall Street Journal.
NVIDIA Corporation and industry partners unveiled 12 new high-definition mobile Internet devices (MIDs) all powered by the NVIDIA Tegra processor, the world’s smallest and lowest power computer-on-a-chip. These new Tegra-based devices, which include netbooks and tablets, deliver desktop-class Internet browsing with Flash videand animation acceleration, and up t1080p videplayback. NVIDIA Tegra processors feature always-on operation for instant access tthe Internet, which compares tthat of cell phone-class power management, and up t5x the battery life of current netbooks—making days of HD mobile Internet experiences a reality.
With more than 20 Tegra-based projects currently in the works today, those attending Computex can see the following devices:
The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, today introduced its target mark, a stylized letter “N” that enables consumers to easily locate embedded NFC tags.
The N-Mark indicates the spot where an NFC device can read an NFC tag to establish a connection. By holding an NFC-enabled device close to the N-Mark, consumers can "pick up" information stored on NFC tags embedded in everyday objects such as posters, bus stop signs, parking permits, street signs, medicines, magazine pages and food packaging.
The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University and Universal Display Corporation today introduced the first a-Si:H active matrix flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display to be manufactured directly on DuPont Teijin’s polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrate.
Implementing Universal Display Corporation’s phosphorescent organic light-emitting diode (PHOLED) technology and materials and the FDC’s proprietary bond-debond manufacturing technology, the 4.1-inch monochrome quarter video graphics array (QVGA) display represents a significant milestone toward achieving a manufacturable solution for flexible OLEDs.
Flexible OLEDs are designed to target a number of military and commercial applications that require more rugged displays. With Universal Display’s PHOLED technology and materials, the new display achieves the same brightness as traditional displays with extremely low power consumption.
Ericsson and TeliaSonera have unveiled the world's first commercial Long- Term Evolution (LTE) site in Stockholm, Sweden - an important milestone in making the mobile digital highway a reality. LTE will transform the mobile-broadband user experience, providing the ultra-high data speeds needed for services such as internet TV, mobile video blogging, on-line video games and the mobile office environment.
The site will be part of a commercial network scheduled to go live in 2010, bringing data rates far above what is possible in today's mobile broadband networks and allowing Stockholmers to stay connected and enjoy seamless, high-quality, online services even while on the move.
Clearwire Corporation and Cisco anounced an alliance designed to enhance and expand CLEAR 4G mobile WiMAX services throughout the United States. Under terms of the agreement, Clearwire has selected Cisco as its national Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) core infrastructure provider, and Cisco has announced plans to build new mobile WiMAX devices for the CLEAR 4G mobile WiMAX service for the consumer, small office or home office (SOHO), and small- and medium-sized business (SMB) markets.
As part of a multi-year network build-out plan with Cisco, the CLEAR 4G mobile WiMAX service will be available in major metropolitan areas across the United States. Clearwire’s open all-IP network, combined with significant spectrum holdings, provides substantive network capacity to deliver next-generation broadband access. In addition, Cisco is aiming to introduce its first mobile WiMAX device later this year. Clearwire currently provides mobile WiMAX services in Baltimore, Md., and in Portland, Ore., and plans to bring its CLEAR 4G service to more than 80 markets across the United States by the end of 2010.
T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the first-of-its-kind embedded SIM for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions. Nearly the size of a head of a pin, the durable embedded SIM withstands challenging environmental factors such as temperature, humidity and motion to deliver reliable wireless connectivity. The embedded SIM is ideal for telematics and smart grid infrastructure solutions where environmental factors may reduce reliability and increase maintenance costs of removable SIM-based solutions.
The embedded SIM preserves many of the benefits of a GSM-based SIM solution (authentication, encryption and storage), but at a fraction the size of the traditional SIM you’d find in a mobile phone. In addition to the much smaller size, the embedded SIM differs from today’s SIMs in that it’s built from silicon — not plastic.
The Bluetooth SIG has formally adopted Bluetooth Core Specification Version 3.0 High Speed (HS), or Bluetooth 3.0. This latest iteration of the popular short-range wireless technology fulfills the consumers’ need for speed while providing the same wireless Bluetooth experience – faster. Manufacturers of consumer electronics and home entertainment devices can now build their products to send large amounts of video, music and photos between devices wirelessly at speeds consumers expect.
Bluetooth 3.0 gets its speed from the 802.11 radio protocol. The inclusion of the 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) provides increased throughput of data transfers at the approximate rate of 24 Mbps. In addition, mobile devices including Bluetooth 3.0 will realize increased power savings due to enhanced power control built in.
Pilotfish, an industrial design and product development studio based in Munich, Amsterdam and Taipei, today introduced Ondo, a dedicated music editing phone concept. The Ondo concept enables OEMs to visualize a new form of user interaction for mobile phones.
User The target user for “Ondo” is the music enthusiast who seeks to interactively capture and edit sounds. Going beyond software-based solutions of other products, it is specifically designed to effectively collect pure sounds and is specially constructed to create a tactile sound editing experience.
Music Editing Made from form-sensitive flexible materials, “Ondo” allows the user to modify recorded sounds by physically twisting and bending the device.
ZTE USA, Inc., a subsidiary of ZTE Corporation, a global telecommunications equipment and network solutions provider, today unveiled its LTE strategy for the North American market at CTIA Wireless 2009. With a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform-based UMTS solution already developed and devices expected in the next 12-18 months, ZTE is positioned to provide end-to-end solutions for North American operators looking to deploy LTE in the near future. ZTE is also showcasing a range of next-generation, integrated LTE solutions at the conference.
Several LTE solutions will be exhibited, including ZTE’s FDD-LTE, full-IP platform-based FMC core network and SAE EPC. LTE wireless services and SDR-based multi-mode base stations will also be shown onsite and further demonstrate ZTE’s capabilities in providing comprehensive and fully integrated solutions for GSM/CDMA, UMTS/EV-DO and LTE.
Airvana, Inc.today announced results of performance tests of the company’s HubBub CDMA femtocell that demonstrated dramatic improvements for indoor 3G coverage and performance when compared with using the existing macro-cellular network alone.
Based on the results of side-by-side testing, a typical HubBub user can expect to achieve broadband data rates throughout their house of approximately five times that of the existing wireless macro network. From a theoretical EVDO peak data rate of 3.1Mbps, femtocell data rates also proved to be significantly more consistent than the macro rates, exceeding 2 Mbps in all corners of the home on a statistically reliable basis.
Airvana’s radio frequency (RF) engineering team developed custom testing hardware and software specifically for this analysis and measured Airvana’s HubBub femtocell performance in a variety of single family homes, townhouses, and apartments in urban, suburban and rural settings, to simulate the full-range of subscriber dwellings.
Check out this video presented by Pattie Maes' lab at MIT. The video is of a new technology called TED, which is the brain power of Pranav Mistry, who is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab.
TED is a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Some of the applications are similar to ones seen in the movie "The Minority Report" staring Tom Cruise.
Pranav Mistry is a very smart guy. Some of his previous projects at MIT includes intelligent sticky notes, Quickies, that can be searched and can send reminders; a pen that draws in 3D; and TaPuMa, a tangible public map that can act as Google of physical world.
ZTE Corporation, a provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced another technological breakthrough by achieving the world's first EV-DO Revision B (Rev.B) VoIP Call on its CDMA2000 system, marking the first time in the industry that a CDMA vendor achieves an impressive 9.3 Mbps download rate and 5.4 Mbps upload rate. This remarkable feat once again demonstrates ZTE's leading position in the CDMA industry. The excellent results were announced by the company in the recently concluded 3GPP2 Standards Conference 2009 held in Shanghai, China from February 16-24, which was jointly organized by ZTE and China Telecom to promote next-generation wireless broadband communications.
EV-DO is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access. It was designed as an evolution of the CDMA2000 (IS-2000) standard that would support high data rates and could be deployed alongside a wireless carrier's voice services. It is standardized by 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) as part of the CDMA2000 family of standards and has been adopted by many mobile phone service providers worldwide, particularly those previously employing CDMA networks.
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that the Company has added support for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to certain chipsets in its product portfolio. Qualcomm is helping accelerate the commercial availability of mobile handsets featuring the short-range technology and is engaged with leading NFC solutions providers to develop reference designs based on the Company's Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets.
NFC technology is well suited for payment, mass transit, ticketing and other similar applications requiring a quick and secure contactless exchange of data between devices that are in close proximity to each other.
Nuance Communications, Inc., a provider of speech solutions, today announced the availability of Nuance Voice Control (NVC) 2.0.
NVC 2.0 is a customizable modular framework that allows operators and handset OEMs to speech enable any feature, application, or network service on any mobile device they bring to market, including feature phones.
The next generation of NVC integrates VSuite, the most widely distributed embedded command and control application currently available on more than 300 million phones worldwide, with Nuance’s innovative Open Voice Search (OVS), Mobile Messaging, and the ability to inform and launch any native or third-party mobile application.
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