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| | | MWC 2008: Mobile website population booming
Posted by Maggie Holland at 12:01PM, Wednesday 13th February 2008
The number of mobile websites has shot up by six times the figure reported by dotMobi in November.
This year will undoubtedly be the year of the mobile internet, with the number of mobile websites having grown phenomenally from 25,000 in November last year to around 150,000 today.
So says dotMobi who completed its latest trawl of the web to update its figures just last night and spoke to IT PRO this morning on the penultimate day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
dotMobi spiders the whole of the internet, using some 200-plus servers to conduct its analysis, the figures from which have helped to confirm that this year will be a momentous one for the mobile web, according to Paul Nerger, vice president of advanced services and applications at dotMobi. | IT@Intel is a resource that enables IT professionals to engage with their peers in the Intel IT organization—and with thousands of other IT professionals—so they can gain insights into the tools, methods, strategies and best practices that are proving most successful in addressing today's tough IT challenges. | WidSets - Web communities to go
How often do you wish you had access to your favorite web communities straight from your cell phone? Wouldn't you like to stay on top of things all the time and know what your friends are up to? Wouldn't it be great to communicate with them and stay in touch just as if they were right next to you?
With WidSets you can do all that - and more. You can get traffic alerts, news, blogs, gossip, restaurant reviews, weather reports and loads of other stuff that you would normally get through a web service, without having to wade through hundreds of websites | Comcast CEO shows off 150 megabits per second download on next-gen modem. Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems. The cost of modems that would support the technology, called ''channel bonding,'' is ''not that dissimilar to modems today,'' he told The Associated Press after a demonstration at The Cable Show. It could be available ''within less than a couple years,'' he said. | Race is on to lay undersea fiber optic cable on eastern Africa coast
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Plans to lay an undersea fiber-optic cable off eastern Africa could be the beginning of the end of crackling long-distance calls, slow dial-up Internet connections and universities without e-mail.
Four projects are in the works to link 22 eastern, central and southern African countries to the world's network of submarine cables and 21st century communications. They would enable cheaper international calls with no static and fast Internet access.
The first cable could be finished as early as March 2008.
At the moment, the Indian Ocean's eastern African seabed is the only one in the world without a submarine fiber-optic cable, forcing the region to rely heavily on limited and expensive satellite links. As a result, countries along the coast and in its hinterland have some of the highest communications costs in the world. | Navizon Peer-to-Peer Wireless Positioning -In early 2005, a small group of hardcore GPS geeks (who were tired of their GPS devices not working in dense cities, urban canyons, indoors, etc) got together to come up with a solution that would enhance the performance of their GPS equipment and applications. Our goal was to find a way to make our own GPS devices work in difficult, if not IMPOSSIBLE situations.
The result was Navizon Pocket PC Client Software.
But then we got to thinking; not everybody can afford a GPS receiver and sometimes people who do own them often don't have them handy when they need them -- so -- wouldn't it be cool if you could accurately navigate urban and suburban areas using just WiFi and Cellular signals? I'm mean, those signals are pretty much everywhere people are... Our thinking lead us to envision a dynamic, collaborative, networked "Wireless Positioning System" that would be 1) EASY and 2) FUN! -- that could help people in cities and suburbs around the world navigate using only available wireless signals (Cellular and 802.11 WiFI). | Technology Meets The City
The availability of information and technology is creating new opportunities to comprehend the character and dynamics of cities. Wiki City, a current research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's SENSEable City Laboratory, is trying to harness this available information to create interactive systems that enable people to better understand and participate in their cities.
In the SENSEable City Laboratory's "Wiki City Rome", signals from cell phone and Global Positioning System navigational devices were used to create a real-time map of the mobility of people and transit in Rome during a recent all-night street festival, White Night. Wiki City seeks to create an interactive and participatory connection between people and their city, much like the concept of the user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia. | US Broadband Users Want More Zip
MARCH 6, 2008
How fast is fast enough?
US Internet users are consuming more online video, playing more video games and generally doing more of the things that eat bandwidth.
As a result, fiber-to-the-home and faster cable modem technologies are fueling a new round of bandwidth envy
"Many consumers are actively looking for a broadband service that will increase the amount of bandwidth that they can use," said Mike Paxton, an analyst at In-Stat
Nearly 33 million US households will have broadband services with speeds of 10 Mbps or higher by 2012, up from 5.7 million at the end of 2007, according to a March 2008 report by Parks Associates.
That is fast enough to stream high-definition video. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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