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Israel announces plans to construct national broadband network, increases fiber intake
Israel is home to a burgeoning tech industry, however the country’s broadband infrastructure hasn’t really been capable of keep pace. In the case of broadband penetration, surely, Israel ranks just 21st out of 34 developed nations, in keeping with statistics gathered by …
Nielsen: Soon-to-be seniors adopting smartphones faster than every other age group
In case your granny recently purchased her first actual smartphone, she’s not alone. Based on the most recent Q3 figures from Nielsen , Americans between the ages of 55 and 64 are adopting smartphones at a faster rate than another age group. Very nearly 30 percent …
Android powered 56 percent of smartphones sold within the last three months
When last we checked in with Nielsen (which was earlier this month) Google’s mobile OS had a large lead, powering just below 42-percent of smartphones sold, while Apple had cornered a greater than respectable 28-percent of the market. Within the few short weeks since, Android …
Android Network Toolkit permits you to exploit local machines on the push of a button
Defcon 2011 is in full hacking swing, and Itzhak Avraham — “Zuk” for brief — and his company Zimperium have unveiled the Android Network Toolkit for straightforward hacking at the go. Must find vulnerabilities on devices using nearby networks? The app, dubbed “Anti” for brief, …
Verizon reports ‘strong’ Q1 earnings: $27 billion revenue, 2.2 million iPhone activations
Yesterday was AT&T’s turn , and today it’s Verizon revealing its earnings for the 1st quarter of 2011. The corporate has reported $27 billion in consolidated revenue from its wireless and wireline businesses, that is up 5.3 percent year over year (on a non-GAAP basis), while …
AT&T reports best-ever first quarter for smartphone sales with 5.5 million, 60 percent of them are iPhones
We’ve been expecting this one, the primary indicator of the mythical Verizon iPhone ‘s impact at the fortunes of the formerly exclusive Applephone carrier, AT&T. Because it seems, business is rolling along as usual over at the blue team, where AT&T spent Q1 2011 activating a …
Adafruit’s Internet of factors Printer combines your love of data, receiptsLove staying connected and using excess paper? Adafruit's got your back with its latest project. The net of items (IoT) printer goes online via an Ethernet jack, printing up data on 2.5 inch wide receipt paper. You may print such things as Twitter feeds, news briefs or sports scores using its open source software. Putting the box together requires some soldering and an Arduino, but
SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon offSanDisk has developed a chip that earns it membership within the exclusive 128-gigabit club . Not content with simply matching the Micron / Intel effort, SanDisk and its partner Toshiba claim their new memory uses 19- rather then 20-nanometer cells within the production process. Shrinking the dimensions is something, but SanDisk's new chips also use its X3 / three-bit technology.