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Global mobile operator Truphone is adding voice over IP to the iPad applications that give users to the ability to make voice calls. Truphone’s application turns Apple’s tablet PC into “a mobile phone that offers free or low-cost international calls, as well as advanced instant messaging features that integrate a user’s contacts from across multiple […]

Verizon Wireless has joined AT&T in objecting to the Federal Communications Commission’s restrictions on Harbinger Capital Partners, a private equity firm which intends to sell spectrum for a nationwide, wholesale Long-Term Evolution network. The FCC, though, is requiring Harbinger to seek its approval before leasing capacity on the network to the “largest or second-largest wireless […]

The International Trade Commission moved forwarded April 1 with Apple’s complaint that HTC smartphones violate certain Apple patents. Apple filed its original complaint with the ITC March 2 while also seeking relief with the U.S. District Court in Delaware.Apple ultimately wants the ITC and the court to halt the importation of the infringing HTC smartphones […]

Prospects are good for the anticipated April 5 launch of the space shuttle Discovery on its trip to the ISS. At an April 2 countdown status briefing, NASA said, “Test Director Steve Payne reported that all launch preparations continue to go well as the official countdown is now under way, saying, ‘We’re eager to get […]

NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko are headed to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. Liftoff occurred April 2 at 12:04 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They are expected to reach the ISS April 4.The flight occurs just days before the space shuttle […]

Computer Sciences, aka CSC, has won a one-year contract option “to provide supercomputing support services at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. The extension is valued at approximately $57 million,” NASA announced March 29. “The option exercised on the cost-plus-award-fee contract begins April 1, 2010, and will continue to March 31, 2011. The […]

The Maine House of Representatives has voted to reject an alternative version of a law to require a cancer warning on cell phones. Under the proposal, Maine state officials would have been required to add links to their Websites about the connection between cell phones and brain cancer.　 The original proposal would have required cell […]

More than a year ago, federal agents arrested 11 people in seven states for submitting false statements and documents in support of their H-1B visa petitions. The Department of Justice also issued indictments against IT services firm Vision Systems Group of New Jersey for conspiracy and mail fraud involving H-1B visas. The federal investigation involves […]

A pilot program employing WiMax 4G communications and GE smart meters has worked to allow Consumers Energy’s Michigan customers to demonstrate how real-time, wireless communications between meters in the home and the utility’s network management and control systems can improve efficiency and reliability. The Michigan pilot is the latest step in GE Energy’s smart grid […]

Clearwire Communications said March 29 it is officially open for business in the greater Houston area. The coverage area includes more than 1,900 square miles and more than 4 million people. Regionally, service extends as far north as Conroe and as far northeast as Kingwood; as far west as Katy and southwest as Richmond/Rosenburg; as […]