RIM's BlackBerry 10 delayed until late 2012

RIM's BlackBerry 10 delayed until late 2012, hints at dual-core 4G device
SlashGear
RIM also hinted that the BlackBerry 10 device would be dual-core and support 4G LTE. The company believes that this highly integrated dual-core LTE platform is needed for the phone to succeed, but that the selected processor best fit for the job will ...
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Galaxy Nexus for Verizon LTE unboxing and speed test (video)
Engadget
We dropped by a New York City retail store to try out Google's first Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone in the flesh, before bringing one home for a proper unboxing and LTEperformance test. As expected, the production version that we finally got our hands ...

New Clearwire Funding Won't Guarantee LTE Plan
PCWorld
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Clearwire's big payday on Tuesday, when it raised US$734 million through a stock offering and a new investment by majority owner Sprint Nextel, helped the WiMax carrier but didn't seal the deal on its planned LTE network. ...

Build back that broadband wall
Washington Times
By Randolph J. May The Federal Communications Commission's unyielding pro-regulatory proclivities threaten to burden Internet broadband providers with the same public utility-style regulation that prevailed in the telecom world during much of the last ...

Verizon Wireless Expands Its 4G LTE Network in San Diego on Dec. 15
Sacramento Bee
15, more Verizon Wireless customers in more areas of the San Diego metropolitan area can take advantage of Verizon Wireless' 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, the fastest 4G network in the nation. Cities and towns in the expanded 4G coverage area ...

LightSquared 4G network plans face setback
Financial Times
By Paul Taylor in New York Plans by LightSquared, the communications group backed by Philip Falcone's Harbinger Capital, to build a nationwide US broadband wireless data network have suffered a further setback after an official report confirmed that ...

Sequans' LTE Technology Powering Consumer Devices for SKY Brasil's TD-LTE ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PARIS, Dec 15, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 4G chipmaker Sequans Communications SA /quotes/zigman/4742901/quotes/nls/sqns SQNS -5.32% is providing the LTEsemiconductor solution for customer devices for SKY Brasil's TD-LTE network that launched December 13 ...

Global LTE Market Trends Examined in New In-Demand Research Report Now ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Over recent years, the whole world has been witnessing a considerable increase in LTEadoption. There have been over 36 fully commercial network launches and 150 LTE-enabled devices available in the market. New database "LTE Insights Service - The LTE...

New Group Promotes Broadband Via Unused TV Frequencies
Digital Media Wire
A new international trade association, the Whitespace Regional Area Network Alliance, has formed in order to promote the use of TV band frequencies to deliver broadband services to rural and developing areas. Its goals include the deployment and use of ...

Digital Media Wire
Broadband Forum Honors Three of its Top Contributors
Sacramento Bee
By The Broadband Forum MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Dec. 15, 2011 -- Greg Bathrick and J. Rao Cherukuri named Distinguished Fellows, while Thomas Haag is inducted into the Forum's Circle of Excellence MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Dec. ...

Huawei hurls Gigabit broadband across 100 meters of old copper ...
By Sharif Sakr
There's little point in having a super-speedy optic backbone if broadband gets yellow-flagged on the final straight between junction box and home.
Engadget

Samsung Galaxy Note LTE Headed For AT&T Next Year | TechCrunch
By Chris Velazco
Because AT&T will be getting the recently announced LTE variant, PocketNow mentions that the U.S. model will sport a Qualcomm SoC instead, specifically the dual-core 1.5GHz MSM8660 chipset. On paper, it looks like the Qualcomm chipset ...
TechCrunch

Verizon to launch 11 new 4G LTE markets on December 15th
By Todd Haselton
Verizon Wireless announced Wednesday that it will activate its 4G LTE network in 11 new markets on Thursday, December 15th. The carrier will also expan.
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Galaxy Nexus LTE on sale at Verizon | Android Community
By Chris Davies
Verizon's Galaxy Nexus by Samsung is now on sale through the carrier's website, with the LTE 4G version of the Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone priced at $299.99.
Android Community

AT&T to get 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Note | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
The Samsung Galaxy Note is certainly a highly desirable device to own, especially for those who wish to flirt with both a tablet and a phone in a single form factor. Well, we do know that AT&T will be making [...]
Ubergizmo

4G Lumia, Droid 4 Imminent, and Other Stories We Didn't Post
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a ...
gizmodo.com/5867462/4g-lumia-droid-4-imminent.../1

Clearwire green-lights LTE build by raising $734 million ...
One day after announcing the final details to its public offering, Clearwire has closed on the stock deal, raising $734 million in equity investment from new ...
gigaom.com/.../clearwire-green-lights-lte-build-by-raising-734...

App Store - WiFi @
To download the free app WiFi @ by WiTagg, get iTunes now. Already have ... WiFiGet is a powerful WiFi Hotspot Finder and LAN Scanner. It comes with the ...
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Technolog - Wi-Fi beats cellular for tablet connections
Wireless carriers may be pricing themselves out of the tablet market; a new study shows that more tablet owners are choosing to use Wi-Fi only connections ...
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Study: Tablet Buyers Use Wi-Fi, Not Cellular Data | PCWorld
Tablet users overwhelmingly prefer to use Wi-Fi rather than cellular data plans.
www.pcworld.com/.../study_tablet_buyers_use_wifi_not_cellu...

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