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Clearwire Bringing WiMax to 10 New Markets

Clearwire Bringing WiMax to 10 New Markets

So far, Clearwire has only launched WiMax 4G mobile services in Baltimore, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Portland Oregon, but the company keeps saying it plans to activate additional markets in the near future. Today, the company announced ten more locations that are in line for WiMax services, with two online today and eight more coming September 1. But they aren’t exactly major metropolitan areas: Bellingham, Washington and Boise Idaho get their WiMax today, while eight Texas markets—including Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Killeen/Temple, Waco, and Wichita Falls—are set to be activated September 1.

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Clearwire Officially Fires Up WiMax in Vegas

Clearwire Officially Fires Up WiMax in Vegas

Clearwire has officially launched its Clear-branded 4G WiMax mobile broadband service in Las Vegas, Nevada, marking the company’s fourth major WiMax service area following Baltimore, Portland Oregon, and Atlanta. Clearwire says the Las Vegas service area covers about 1.7 million people over 638 square miles.

“Wile it’s true that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, now, thanks to Clear, that doesn’t mean it has to stay in one place,” said Jeremy Abler, General Manager of Las Vegas market for Clearwire. “Clear will bring to Las Vegas residents the super-fast mobile internet experience they’re used to having at home or the office, anywhere around town, or on the go.”

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DTV Soft Test Prompts 55,000 Help Line Calls

DTV Soft Test Prompts 55,000 Help Line Calls

Remember when the United States was going to transition to digital television on February 17? Shortly after taking office the Obama administration pushed the date back to June 12, 2009 to give consumers more time to set hands on $40 vouchers aimed at defraying the cost of digital converter boxes for older analog sets—and maybe defray from injuries from people trying to climb up on roofs in the middle of ice storms to set up new antennas.

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Comcast Goes Wireless: Plans to Resell WiMax Services

Comcast Goes Wireless: Plans to Resell WiMax Services

Cable giant Comcast—which, incidentally, now claims to be the third largest provider of residential phone service in the U.S.—is reportedly making plans to bundle and resell WiMax mobile broadband as part of its service offerings, beginning in Portland, Oregon. According to The Oregonian, the cable company is eyeing a mid-year launch for the service, and will likely bundle it in with its existing cable television, Internet, voice, and mobile services—in theory, that could make Comcast’s service offering in the Portland area a “quintuple play,” encompassing up to five consumer services in one package (and on one bill).

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Toshiba Rolls Out WiMax Satellite Notebook

Toshiba Rolls Out WiMax Satellite Notebook

Just yesterday Acer took the wraps off two WiMax equipped notebooks available for sale in Baltimore, the first city lite up on Sprint’s planned nationwide Xohm WiMax network. Now Toshiba is getting in on the act, rolling out a WiMax-equiped version of its Satellite U405 notebook with a 13.3-inch display and combined WiMax/Wi-Fi networking.

The Satellite U405-ST550W features an intel Core 2 Duo processor, an integrated Webcam with face recognition, a 320 GB hard drive, 4 GB of RAM, USB 2.0, and (interestingly) an eSATA port.

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Survey Ranks U.S. Cities with Home Networks

Survey Ranks U.S. Cities with Home Networks

A new market research study from MultiMedia Intelligence ranks U.S. cities on the basis of how wide their residents have adopted in-home networking during 2007. Perhaps not surprisingly, San Francisco topped the survey results, with some 28 percent of households having adopted home networking technologies. San Francisco was closely followed by Miami at 27 percent, and Los Angeles at 24 percent.

If you’re wondering why other well-known tech hubs didn’t even make the list, the survey apparently examined only top "designated marketing areas," a list of fourteen U.S. cities that omits places like Seattle and Austin as well as central cities like Denver, St. Louis, and Minneapolis.

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Best Buy Planning Airport Gadget Kiosks

Best Buy Planning Airport Gadget Kiosks

Electronics retailer Best Buy has announced a partnership with Zoomsystems to introduce self-serve gadget kiosks in a handful of major U.S. airports. Described as a pilot program, the kiosks will operate under the name “Best Buy Express” and carry small electronics items like portable storage devices and memory cards, chargers, headphones, travel adapters, gaming devices, digital cameras, and cell phone and computer accessories.

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Tour Tracker Catalogs Live Music Events

Tour Tracker Catalogs Live Music Events

Finding a good show in New York City or Los Angeles can be as easy as wandering down the street on a Saturday night. But when you’re stuck somewhere away from the pop culture nexus of the universe, or looking to see a specific band, things can get complicated. On Thursday, AOL introduced a new Web site designed to aggregate touring information from all over the Web to serve as a one-stop shop for live music seekers.

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T-Mobile AtHome Puts Landlines on Broadband

T-Mobile AtHome Puts Landlines on Broadband

T-Mobile is getting set to take its TMobile AtHome broadband-based calling service nationwide beginning July 2, enabling users to connect their traditional landline phones to their broadband Internet connections and make unlimited nationwide calls for as little as $10 a month—in addition to existing T-Mobile charges, which start at $40 a month. The service works by connecting a T-Mobile HiPort router (made by LinkSys) into a customer’s existing broadband Internet connection; users can then connect standard telephone equipment to the router.

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Icahn Launches Yahoo Proxy Battle

Billionaire American financier Carl Icahn isn’t pleased that Yahoo didn’t accept Microsoft’s unsolicited offer to buy the company, even after a protracted and surprisingly public courtship dance. He’s so upset, in fact, that he’s sent a letter to Yahoo’s chairman Roy Bostock that he has formed a 10-member group that he hopes to install on Yahoo’s board of directors, who will in turn push the company to accept a Microsoft takeover at $33 per share.

Icahn also says he has acquired 59 million shares of the company, is seeking antitrust approval from the FTC to acquire another $2.5 billion in Yahoo stock.  Read more...

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