McDonald’s free Wi-Fi part of growing trend
Everybody wants free Wi-Fi, and the decision by McDonald’s Corp. to offer it in more than 11,000 of its U.S. restaurants in January is part of a growing trend toward offering wireless service at little or no cost.
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Opinion: The year ahead in mobile: Mobile services and fewer platforms
Five predictions from mobility analyst Michael Gartenberg.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 supports MS Exchange 2010
BlackBerry-smartphone-maker Research In Motion announced that its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0 software for corporate e-mail deployments now supports Microsoft’s new Exchange Server 2010.
What Google phone does and doesn’t mean for wireless industry
When Google released its own Nexus One phone to its employees to play with, it served notice that it plans to push the Android brand aggressively throughout the winter.
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DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together
Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess
2010 to be ‘year of conflict’ in mobile
Despite a lagging economy that continues to drag down the market, 2010 promises to be an exciting year in mobile, analysts say.
Review: SolarVoice 908 headset lets the sunshine in
Want to go green with your smartphone? Try the SolarVoice 908, a Bluetooth headset that charges itself via a built-in photovoltaic panel.
Biking 2.0: MIT ’smart’ wheel tracks mileage, traffic, friends
Why just go for a plain old bike ride when you could pedal and keep track of traffic, mileage and your friends all at the same time?
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Census Bureau error puts texting rate at a fraction of CTIA estimate
Just how much texting is actually going on is apparently in some disagreement, with numbers for growth in texting contained in a U.S. Census Bureau press release issued today just a fraction of what the private sector has reported through the CTIA.
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