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As News.com reports, AT&T announced on Wednesday that it will soon offer its broadband subscribers unlimited free Wi-Fi access in its hotspots and a new supercharged 10Mbps tier of internet access service.
Free Wi-Fi will be offered only to AT&T broadband subscribers who subscribe to services with 1.5Mbps downloads or higher. Subscribers to AT&T wireless service will not be offered free Wi-Fi.
AT&T is reported to have more than 10,000 Wi-Fi hot spots in the U.S. in locations like McDonald’s restaurants, Barnes & Noble bookstores, coffee shops, and sporting venues. The carrier has been offering free Wi-Fi access to its higher-speed broadband customers since last year.
With that new offer AT&T is likely to bundle cell phone service with their broadband service. As news.com reports it might also be a way of competing with other cellular providers like T-Mobile USA. T-Mobile offers its subscribers access to its more than 8,000 Wi-Fi hot spots. Also, T-Mobile gives its customers the ability to switch between Wi-Fi and the cell phone network while they are at home.
AT&T also announced that it would offer a new home broadband service with 10Mbps downloads and 1.5Mbps uploads. New service has been called U-verse. U-verse has been designed to deliver TV and broadband over the same Internet connection to the home. That new service would costs $55 a month. U-verse subscribers also qualify to receive free Wi-Fi access.
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Written by Krzysztof on January 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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In news useful for folks that run websites with videos — On2 Technologies announced that it has released a new update to its Flix Engine, allowing to create Apple iPhone compatible video.
Flix Engine is a server side encoding platform used by a number of Web 2.0 websites and leading enterprises for creating video in multiple formats, including video for Adobe Flash Player 8 and 9, H.264 and 3GPP. As a result of this announcement, Flix Engine now also supports Apple QuickTime files for iPhone and iPod, providing video programmers and service providers support for the leading video formats for web and mobile video within a single encoding platform.
Bill Joll, president and CEO of On2 Technologies said “With support for iPhone, we are adding the capability for service providers to now reach one of the breakthrough video products that has recently been introduced in the market, as well as the video iPod. Importantly, service providers can efficiently purpose content for multiple platforms simultaneously with Flix Engine.”
On2 Flix Engine is a video encoding software development kit (SDK) with industry standard API’s for building encoding applications. Flix Engine is available in Windows and Linux versions. Currently shipping, the new update is provided as a free upgrade to Flix Engine.
For more information on licensing On2 Flix Engine visit www.on2.com.
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Written by dennis on January 23rd, 2008 with no comments.
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During this year’s Macworld Steve Jobs announced that Apple has sold more than 4 million iPhones since its launch. Despite owning only 2 percent of the smart-phone market and less than 1 percent of the overall mobile-phone market, iPhone still manages to keep up its reputation as the main shaker.
As the New York Times reports, Google announced that it received more traffic from iPhones this Christmas than from any other mobile device. One of the main reasons why iPhone users have been visiting the web so often could be the fact that software developers are still limited to creating Web-based applications. Will that change when Apple will introduce it’s iPhone SDK in February and native applications will be able to run on it without the user having to hack the device?
Apple has not revealed, however, how many iPhone users have bought music using iPhone’s iTunes interface. As we learn from other sources this has not appeared to be iPhone users’ favourite activity. A recent M:Metrics study, for example, shows that 20 percent of mobile phone users internationally listen to music on their mobile devices. However, most of them gets their music from other sources than a mobile music service like iTunes. They prefer to download their tunes from their computers’ archives or other sources.
Music industry is keeping an eye open on the iPhone. Music labels are concerned with the fact that more and more mobile phone users are sharing music files or obtaining them without using official music services. Their income from the carrier deals may be seriously reduced if more mobile devices become more open-access like iPhone. The executive of one of the labels has put it this way: “As more phones become Wi-Fi-enabled, the need to go through official pipes to pay the piper is not always going to be there.”
Some companies like Alltel for example are already offering services that allow customers to stream and download digital-rights-management-free digital music files from their home computer to their mobile phone from anywhere in the operator’s service area.
Thanks to: Reuters/Billboard
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Written by Krzysztof on January 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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DriveSavers appears to be the first company out there to be offering recovery services for Apple iPhone. Not in the sense of flashing your corrupted firmware for you because you’re too lazy to do it yourself, but rather actual iPhone storage recovery services. And this could be very handy for people that keep a lot of notes, photos, and other personal stuff on their iPhones, because a lot of us do end up doing something to our phones after which they stop working.
Solid state drives (SSD)—built into iPhones—use less power, run silently and are more resistant to shock than common hard drives. However, this technology can also be compromised by user error, mismanagement and software or hardware failure. Last year, DriveSavers can do recoveries of iPhones that lost data because of either deleted files or corrupted file systems.
“iPhones can go anywhere, capturing precious moments through digital photos, gathering new contacts and creating important notes. Unfortunately, if the newly created data is lost before it is synchronized with the computer, it can be devastating to the user. Now that we’ve added iPhones to our growing list of recovery services, customers have peace of mind that there is somewhere to go to get their critical iPhone data back,” said Scott Gaidano, president of DriveSavers Data Recovery
For more information see www.drivesavers.com
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Written by dennis on January 21st, 2008 with no comments.
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On 15 of January 2008, during MacWorld Expo in San Francisco Equinux announced plans to enter the TV receiver market for Mac OS X in the United States.
Equinux’ TubeStick hybrid is a USB TV receiver that allows its user to watch, pause and record live television on any Mac in HD quality. And with The Tube software that comes with TubeStick hybrid, users can even chat with other viewers during each TV show, using the TubeTalk feature.
The Tube provides you with manual and automatic Timeshift and lets you rewind the current program to record it from start with its Déjà Vu functionality. With The Tube you can schedule recordings of your favorite TV shows, manage them in a library and sort them by name or by date. The Tube supports Mac OS X’s Spotlight to search for recordings and displays a QuickLook preview when showing them in Finder for Mac OS X 10.5.
With the new TubeToGo web services its users can schedule, manage, publish and watch TV recordings via iPhone or iPod Touch on the go. TubeToGo lets you remotely schedule recordings via a web-based iPhone application, and publish your recordings library on .Mac or to a remote FTP server and watch it via WiFi connection on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can also setup The Tube to automatically create Video Podcasts to watch your favorite shows on the go, even when you’re offline.
TubeStick hybrid will be available starting in February at your local Apple reseller, from Amazon or the equinux Online Store for only $129.95. TubeStick hybrid is exclusively designed for the US market. TubeStick hybrid is shipped with the latest edition of The Tube and a one month trail for TubeToGo web service. TubeToGo will also be available from February on a subscription basis.
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Written by Krzysztof on January 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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