FCC addressing net neutrality on December 21st (updated)
Well, well, look at what's been added to a tentative agenda when the FCC meets on December 21st: net neutrality . Here's how the item reads: Open Internet Order: An Order adopting basic rules of the road to preserve the open Internet as a platform for innovation, investment, competition, and free expression. These rules would protect consumers' and innovators' right to know basic information about broadband service, right to send and receive lawful Internet traffic, and right to a level playing field, while providing broadband Internet access providers with the flexibility to reasonably manage their networks
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: chairman, congestion, content, genachowski, hurt-the-public, internet, regulation, result, security, web-sites, words
Comcast Xfinity remote app for iPhone, iPad launches, video streaming & Android version on the way
The Xfinity remote app Comcast CEO Brian Roberts showed off earlier this year is now available in the app store for the iPad and iPhone.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: BlackBerry, boxes, change-channels, content, enhanced-search, release, remote app, remoteapp, result, video, xfinity remote
Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) goes alpha for Android and Nokia N900
Well, it looks like you can finally get rid of that less-than-stable pre-alpha release of Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) for Android -- Mozillla has just released the full alpha release for not only Android (2.0 and later), but the Nokia N900 as well. The big news with this release is an increase in "performance and responsiveness to user actions" (always a good thing), as well as two new features dubbed "Electrolysis" and "Layers," the former of which lets the browser interface run in a separate process from the one rendering web content, while the latter promises to "greatly improve performance in graphic intensive actions like scrolling, zooming, animations and video." You'll also get full support for add-ons, and Firefox Sync built into the browser to let you have a continuous experience as you move between devices
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: browser, content, download, fennec, firefox, firefox-mobile, greatly-improve, latter-promises, nokia, nokia-n900, result, webbrowser
Verizon pushing Droid update for Flash 10.1 compatibility
You might recall that Verizon and Motorola's first go-around at pushing Android 2.2 to the original Droid didn't include compatibility with the Flash 10.1 install in the Market -- but don't worry, lovers of Flash-based web ads, because the fix is now upon us.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: adobe, ads, content, engadget, flash, flash-player, internet, stretch-it-over, upgrade, verizonwireless, vzw, wireless
Hulu CEO: we’re ‘complementary’ to cable
Hoping to trade in your expensive cable or satellite plan for a nice, juicy melon ball of cottage cheese-like... we mean, a portable Hulu Plus subscription at $10 a month?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: content, contrary, currency, evil, kilar, plan, satellite, your-expensive
FLO TV to offer time-shifted viewing, pay-as-you-go, web-based content later this year
It looks like FLO TV is about to get a little more interesting. Alongside your automobile and your various smartphones , you'll soon be able to turn to your smartbooks, e-readers, and tablets to access your mobile TV service. The diabolical plot begins when when the company launches "new applications that integrate video with web-based content" for distributing "live mobile TV and rich mobile media services to a range of new devices." What does all this mean, exactly?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: content, flo, interactivity, media, programming, qualcomm, smartbooks, smartphones, television, well-as-time, year
Samsung Wave is world’s first DivX HD phone, Galaxy S in a hurry to be world’s second
Want some DivX -encoded 720p goodness on your fancy new superphone ? Samsung will be the way to go, at least in the short term. The Korean company has announced that its Bada -infused Wave handset will be the first phone with certified support for DivX HD playback, with the freshly announced, Android -driven, Galaxy S following up at an unspecified point in time.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 720p, bada, content, divxhd, fancy, galaxy s, galaxys, result, samsung galaxy s, samsung wave, samsung-bada, short, smartphone, superamoled, Wave
Nokia: MeeGo "door is not closed" on N900
Now that we have clarity with regard to a Windows Phone 7 update on the HD2 ( sorry, folks ), let's move on to the next contentious platform: Nokia's N900 and MeeGo. As Nokia's only Cortex-A8 handset, there's plenty of hope that Nokia sees fit to upgrade the N900 to MeeGo once the unified Maemo and Moblin OS is ready for consumers
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: application, architecture, content, cortex, maemo-on-nokia, meego, moblin, n900, nokia, release, repository, rumor, senior-manager
Nokia’s limited edition Oakley N97 mini is a match made in Dog heaven
Nothing says, "I don't play sports but I want you to think that I do" quite like wearing a pair of Oakley shades.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: content, debacle, heaven, limited edition, mini, model, nokia, oakley, olympics, shaun, sports, very-successful
Vodafone wields largest base of music subscribers in Europe
You might think that a dedicated player like Napster or Spotify would hold claim to the largest base of customers for subscription-based music services, but quite the contrary -- it's actually megacarrier Vodafone , which offers access to around 2 million DRM-free tracks at a variety of price points in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK, a library that it says will grow to some 6 million in 2010. Universal, Sony, Warner, and EMI all have deals in place with the carrier -- probably one of the big reasons they've been able to amass so many subscribers, a number that currently stands around 450,000 spread across eight markets.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: content, contrary, europe, musicsubscription, platforms, result, spain, voda, vodafone