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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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Yes, It’s Everywhere: Now, Tweets From Space

Yes, It

In space, perhaps, no one can hear you Twitter. But on earth, a Tweet from space can have plenty of followers.

NASA astronaut Mike Massimino certainly does – 273,676 of them, in fact – and they follow all his Tweets from space under the name Astro Mike. He’s been sending them since April, transmitted through a radio link from his current home in the space shuttle Atlantis to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, according to Vnunet.

NASA has plans to expand its Twitter use, and Mark Polansky, captain of the next shuttle mission, has already signed up for the service as Astro_127.

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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T-Mobile Expanding 3G Network

T-Mobile Expanding 3G Network

Although it still hasn’t been officially announced, U.S. mobile operator T-Mobile is widely expected to introduce the first mobile phone build on Google’s Android platform next month, in the form of the HTC Dream. The potential problem with this scenario is that, while the Dream supports 3G data connectivity, T-Mobile is the number four mobile operator and only has 3G service up in a handful of markets. T-Mobile introduced 3G service in New York City in May and has since extended service to a handful of other markets, including Miami, Houston, Boston, San Diego, and Las Vegas.

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EarthLink Terminates Philadelphia Wi-Fi

Struggling ISP and broadband provider EarthLink has announced that it is pulling the plug on Philadelphia’s Wi-Fi network as of June 12, 2008. The move marks the latest chapter in EarthLink’s rapid exit from the never-really-materialized municipal Wi-Fi arena, in which metropolitan areas attempted to set up various forms of Wi-Fi Internet access for residents: late last year, EarthLink announced it was cutting funding for municipal Wi-Fi projects, preferring to take the hits for breaking contracts than continue to pour money into the projects. Previously, it had backed out of Wi-Fi networks in San Francisco and Houston.  Read more...

AT&T to Replace U-Verse Batteries

AT&T has announced it will be replacing some 17,000 batteries used as backup power in cabinets housing equipment for its U-verse television service, following two fires—and two explosions—with the equipment in the last year. Although some damage occurred to nearby property, no one was hurt in the incidents.

The problematic battery units are not located in U-verse equipment in consumers’ homes; rather, they’re installed at facilities AT&T uses to host equipment for its U-verse service. The backup batteries being replaced were all manufactured by Avestor; however, the company went bankrupt in October 2006 and ceased operations by the end of that year. Scientific consulting firm Exponent has reportedly found that the fires and explosions were due to manufacturing defects in the batteries, rather than a fundamental design problem. AT&T says it stopped installing Avestor-made batteries in its equipment in early 2007.  Read more...

Using Cell Phones for Boarding Passes

Using Cell Phones for Boarding Passes

Cell phones may be a no-no on flights once a plane gets into the air, but on the ground, they may soon help save paper and improve security in the process of boarding. According to the Houston Chronicle, Continental Airlines has become the first airline to adopt paperless boarding passes for a trial run at George Bush International Airport in Houston, substituting cell phones for cellulose.

The system works using 2D barcodes, the mess of black and white squares often seen on the back of state drivers’ licenses, which can be encoded with information. Passengers receive the barcode on their phones and pull it up on the screen when they go to board. Screeners merely scan the barcode prior to letting a passenger on the flight to verify its authenticity.

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Earthlink Abandons SF, Houston Wi-Fi

Nationwide ISP Earthlink is struggling to contain costs, recently announcing it is cutting 900 jobs and closing offices—but wht’s more, the company is giving up on plans to run municipal Wi-Fi networks in Houston and San Francisco, and may pull out of other municipal Wi-Fi deals in short order.

Although Earthlink has not yet commented publicly, comments to the Associated Press from the office of San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom indicate Earthlink has withdrawn from its year-and-a-half-old deal to deploy and operate a city-wide Wi-Fi network in San Francisco. The baseline tenant on Earthlink’s San Fransisco network was to have been Internet titan Google, which would have paid Earthlink to offer a free, low-speed Wi-Fi service in the city. Higher speed access would have been available for just over $20/month.  Read more...

AT&T Shows Off Remodeled Cingular Store

AT&T Shows Off Remodeled Cingular Store

AT&T Wireless, err we mean Cingular, err, we mean AT&T, has unveiled what your neighborhood AT&T cellular products store will look like after they rip out all of the Cingular logos and dress their employees in new AT&T garb. The first AT&T Experience Store is open in Houston and coming soon to a strip mall near you.

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