Although Apple’s iPad has yet to hit the market, the Federal Communications Commission has expressed concern over its potential impact on AT&T’s 3G network.
Without naming AT&T, which has secured a carrier deal for the tablet device, Phil Bellaria, director of scenario planning, and John Leibovitz, deputy chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, outlined their concerns in an FCC blog post Monday:
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Some of you who have been basking in the beauty of your new Nexus One Googlephone may not have tried out all of its delightful features.
And what I am about to tell you may lead you to utter some naughty words. Please, go ahead. I have heard them all, in several different languages. And I respect the vehemence of the vernacular.
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Freescale Semiconductor has designs on new “smartbook” tablet computers and to prove it it’s rolling out a second-generation reference design at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Amazon.com on Saturday released its annual post-Christmas statement on holiday sales, and made one thing clear: the Kindle was king, perhaps fueled by continued shifts in plans for shipments of Barnes & Noble’s competing Nook e-reader.
“We are grateful to our customers for making Kindle the most gifted item ever in our history,” said Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Tablet: Is this the best WinTel-HP can do?
If the Apple tablet emerges as expected, this will be another big device market, following smartphones, that the PC industry cedes to Apple.
The writing is already on the wall already for Microsoft and smartphones, as spelled out in a previous post and as documented in shrinking market share numbers.
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The education-specific channel of its iTunes Store, launched in 2007, has reached a new milestone, recording more than 100 million downloads, Apple told CNET on Friday.
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Though still losing money, Palm might have something in the way of positive momentum going.
The smartphone maker on Thursday reported second-quarter fiscal 2010 revenue of $78.1 million, but a loss of $85.4 million, or 54 cents per share. It’s a drastic improvement from the $508.6 million loss, or $4.64 per share, a year ago, and the $164.5 million, or $1.17 per share, loss in the previous quarter.
Wall Street analysts were anticipating a loss of 32 cents per share.
Palm says it shipped 783,000 smartphones during the quarter, a 5 percent decrease from last quarter, but a bump of 41 percent over a year ago.
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As a company that has built a business model atop trust, Google is in a sticky position as it prepares to formally introduce the Nexus One phone.
Google employees were given free Nexus One phones at a company party Friday night, and the Internet went into a tizzy. Reports surfaced later in the weekend that this device was the long-awaited Google phone, the company’s answer to Apple’s strategy of controlling the hardware, software, and distribution model with the iPhone, rather than the partner-oriented strategy of developing the guts of the operating system and letting partners each put their own stamp on the finished product.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the digital music format used at Apple’s iTunes. Apple uses the AAC format.
Apple was engaged in a bidding war with Google when it acquired music service Lala, The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reported on Friday. That helps to explain why Apple agreed to pay $85 million, a sum that I (and others) believed was far too much for a down-on-its-luck start-up.
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Nikon's new 300mm f2.8 lens
The camera industry is in the throes of a digital photography revolution. But a new version of Nikon’s 300mm telephoto lens announced this week, a $5,900 model intended for professionals, shows at least some parts of the photography market are constant even as the rest is overhauled.
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