Activity for June 24

Comment - What's wrong with iPhone 4's antenna?
(Jun 24, 2010 - 1:02 PM)

The metal sides of the iPhone4 are supposedly part of the antenna. The effect you see is most likely not a simple attenuation from getting material between the iPhone antenna and the network antenna. If you touch an antenna, you detune it: The frequencies for which it is best adapted change. Touching the antenna is like changing the length of a trombone. The antenna loses its ability to hear and emit the frequencies on which the network operates (and gains the ability to hear and emit close by frequencies on which the network does not operate).
Comment - E-reader price war: Amazon slashes Kindle 2 to $189
(Jun 21, 2010 - 6:32 PM)

At $150, the wifi-only Nook is only $50 away from the magic price-point of $100 where ordinary people will start to take an interest in e-book readers.
Comment - FCC expects 90 MHz of new wireless broadband spectrum to come from satellite licenses
(Jun 19, 2010 - 7:37 PM)

The FCC needs to take back TV channels 2-6 to use them for wireless broadband. There are only about 6 stations in the country that use channel 6 and virtually none that use 2-5. The reason for this is that channels 2-6 don't work well at all for ATSC DTV. New technology can be created that could use the frequency effectively for wireless broadband.
Comment - Facebook CEO: 'We are removing the connections privacy model'
(May 26, 2010 - 5:15 PM)

you are such a renegade
Comment - J Allard and Robbie Bach are out, in doomed Microsoft Entertainment & Devices shake-up
(May 25, 2010 - 11:16 PM)

Microsoft won't give up the mobile market to Apple and Google without a fight- only a few years ago the percentage of web users on a mobile phone was very close to 0. With iPhone as well as iPad and Android coming to larger screen size tablet devices, soon as much as a third of the computer market could be replaced by mobile web users. It is conceivable that over the course of decades, tablet devices could even be more common than laptops. Google and Apple iAd have revenue streams from advertising on the new mobile web which will grow exponentially. If Microsoft can't save Windows Phone, they will be extremely handicapped in getting a significant portion of the mobile advertising market.