T-Mobile is rolling out new plans for business customers who would rather pay overage fees than have their data speeds slowed to a crawl. The new mobile broadband plans offer enterprise subscribers a choice between throttling and overage fees. “The availability of our new overage-free and high-speed data plans empowers our customers to not only […]
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Report: Internet access skyrockets on mobile
More and more, people are turning to their mobile phones for their Internet fix. According to new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 17 percent of cell phone owners do most of their online browsing on their phone rather than a computer or other device. The study found that most prefer their […]
Bluetooth Smart to be the wireless technology most used in consumer medical devices by 2016
IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS)) projects that by 2016, wireless-enabled consumer medical devices will use Bluetooth Smart technology the most. IMS Research forecasts that more than 4.7 million consumer medical devices containing Bluetooth Smart will be shipped in 2016 with more than 10.3 million shipped from 2012 to 2016. According to IMS […]
LCD module designed for easy reading
Electronic Assembly has designed the EA DIP203-4 LCD module for applications where the display has to be clearly legible. The module comes with a high-contrast alphanumeric LCD supertwist display for showing four 20-character lines. LED background lighting supplied as a standard feature makes the text clearly stand out. The dot matrix display is available in […]
Microcontrollers feature ARM Cortex-M core for projects needing digital signal control
STMicroelectronics is now delivering the first samples of its new STM32 F3 series of microcontrollers, featuring the ARM Cortex-M core, to major OEM customers. STM32 F3 microcontrollers are system-on-chip devices based on the Cortex-M4 core with FPU, and are optimized for efficient handling and processing of mixed signals in circuits such as three-phase motor controls, […]
SCTE to host digital home symposium before Cable-Tec Expo
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers announced this morning that it would host a digital home symposium in Orlando, Fla., the day before its SCTE Cable-Tec Expo gets underway. The pre-conference symposium, which is called “The digital home: Preparing for the future,” will take place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando beginning at […]
Verizon, T-Mobile deal not a fix, say opponents
Challengers to Verizon Wireless’ purchase of nationwide AWS spectrum say the operator’s agreement to swap spectrum with T-Mobile USA won’t fix the competitive harms of the transaction. The reaction comes after T-Mobile, a vocal critic of Verizon’s AWS acquisition, said Monday it would swap or sell spectrum with its competitor in 218 markets. Since the […]
Falcon to resell Imagine video equipment
Imagine Communications has announced a customer and also said it entered a technical and reseller partnership with Falcon IP/Complete. Falcon will sell and install Imagine’s full range of Ice Video Platform transcoding solutions to cable, telco and OTT video service providers. Meanwhile, Imagine said that Media Three has installed its Ice Video Platform IPTV transcoder. […]
AT&T widens PTT trials
AT&T is expanding a trial of its push-to-talk (PTT) service as it seeks to attract customers leaving Sprint’s iDEN network, which is slated for shutdown next summer. The trial of its HSPA-based PTT service is now available to double the number of business users eligible to participate in the free program, AT&T said today. “AT&T […]
Seeing inside tissue
PASADENA, Calif.—Imagine if doctors could perform surgery without ever having to cut through your skin. Or if they could diagnose cancer by seeing tumors inside the body with a procedure that is as simple as an ultrasound. Thanks to a technique developed by engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), all of that may […]