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Femtocells overtake
macrocells
in the US
By March, 2011, there
could be twice as many
femtocells as macrocells in
the US, says Informa Telecoms
& Media.
Femtocells already outnumber
conventional outdoor
cell sites in the US,
and several operators
worldwide now off er femtocell
services either at discounted
rates or for free in
a bid to retain customers.
“This will have a massive
impact on mobile broadband
capacity at a time
when networks are under
increasing strain,” says
Dimitris Mavrakis, senior
analyst at Informa, who
predicts there will be almost
49 million femtocell
access points on the market
by 2014.
Turning on You-
Tube in Turkey
The Turkish government is
no longer blocking access
to YouTube. The videosharing
website was
blocked in May, 2008, with
the government citing uploaded
videos that it considered
insulting to Turkey’s
founder, Mustafa
Kemal Ataturk.
The off ending videos
have now been removed.
In a statement, YouTube
said that a third-party had
removed the videos using
an automated copyright
complaint process and that
the company is looking
into whether this was in accordance
with its policy.
Telefónica on
track with
e-bookstore
Telefónica still plans to
launch its e-bookstore by
the end of 2010, says
Spanish news agency Efe.
The Spanish operator announced
the project in
February, with plans to sell
e-books for tablets, ereaders,
mobile phones
and computers. Telefónica
has said it has a deal in
place with Publidisa, the
largest distributor of digital
content in Spanish and
that it also plans to digitize
the contents of the Spanish
national library.
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“It was my wife’s idea – she was six months pregnant and
she couldn’t fi nd a restroom.”
SAM FEUER, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF MINDSMACK, A NEW YORK COMPANY BEHIND FASTMALL, AN INDOOR MAPPING SERVICE, IN THE NEW YORK TIMES.
Television contenders get serious
After years of failed expectations,
will TV over the internet fi nally
break through thanks to Google?
There are others in the “over the
top” gang that want to take control
of the market.
▶ GOOGLE MADE ITS big splash into
the digital home with the US launch
of Google tv, including content
deals in several areas – websites optimized
for tv (cnn, Cartoon Network),
video-on-demand (hbo,
Processor
market shows
strength
▶ THE MOBILE processor
market is set to grow to
4 billion units by 2014,
says InStat, with tablets
growing at the highest
rates. But mobile phones,
both smart and feature
remains the largest market
opportunity for the present
and the near future.
In terms of innovation,
smartphones will still
drive advances in mobile
processor technology,
with the integration of
multiple cores, graphics
processing units and
baseband modems. ●
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Netflix) and applications (cnbc) –
as well as hardware from Sony and
Logitech.
The “over the top” marketplace
has no dominant player, after years
of unfulfilled hype, but there are a
host of competitors for Google,
including Apple tv, which just
Cloud sensitive to distance
▶ SERIOUS QUESTIONS remain about cloud computing in
terms of security and end-user experience, says Forrester
Research in a new report. Forrester warned that the often
signifi cant distances between data and applications will
result in latency and that “ignoring geographic issues may be
‘perilous’ for corporate customers.” The report also said many
companies don’t have enough cloud experience to know if
they have adequate security in place. The report used data
from cloud vendors in the United States, Canada, Mexico,
Asia, Western Europe and the Middle East. ●
Germans to get super−fast access
▶ THE GERMAN government
wants super-fast broadband
network access for at
least 75 percent of German
households by 2014,
according to a new strate-
gy document seen by the
newspaper Handelsblatt.
The government projects
the creation of
30,000 new jobs in the
German ict sector in the
launched its second generation,
YuiXX, Sezmi, Roku, and the Boxee
from D-Link, with boxes from
Amino and Samsung, among others,
due to launch in the near future.
Several tv networks in the US
have initially blocked their content
from showing on Google tv, illustrating
a deepening rift between
Google and many content providers,
which do not trust that Google
services will offer them a sustainable
business model. ●
The fi rst radio−based pager−like device was pioneered by the Detroit Police
Department in the US. Prolific inventor Al Gross patented the first
telephone−based pager in 1949.
next five years, as well as
1 million new jobs across
Europe by 2020 thanks to
the roll out of super-fast
broadband. ●
▶ FOUND THEIR NICHE The pager boom was halted a decade ago by the advent of mobile phones,
but those trusty beepers – with their high-frequency radio signals – still have their uses with restaurant
customers waiting for a table, mountain rescue teams working in remote areas and doctors working
around sensitive equipment that might be aff ected by a mobile signal.
The fi rst Gross telephone-pager users were doctors at the Jewish Hospital in New York in 1950. The term “pager”
was coined in 1959, when Motorola came out with its fi rst radio-based device. However, pagers as we now know
them did not appear until 1974, with the introduction of Motorola’s Pageboy.
Motorola has dominated the pager industry from the beginning, introducing the fi rst numeric pager – the Bravo
– in 1986 and the fi rst two-way pager – the Tango – in 1995. ●