Korea Telecom (KT), the first operator to offer commercial WiMAX (originally called WiBroSamsung), now has national coverage in South Korea — 85% of South Korea’s population in 82 cities. It plans to add LTE in the future. KT offers peak data rates of 40.3 Mbps and recently introduced its first tablet, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab WiBro. by its developer
Google has shipped the last of the test Cr-48 Chrome OS laptops, according to the Chrome OS product manager VP Sundar Pichai. Chrome OS laptops from Samsung and Acer are expected by summer. Google may announce more details of its plan for the Chrome OS at the Google I/O event in May. American Airlines, Cardinal Health, Intercontinental Hotel Group, Kraft, Logitech and Virgin America are some of the companies that have tested the Web-only product. It has been criticized as an effort by Google to get people to use its online services.
MediaFly has launched a ”Jimmy Kimmel Live!” app for Apple’s iOS devices. It offers interviews with guests, musical performances, comedy pieces, photo galleries and cast bios. It also links to the show’s Web site, YouTube pages and social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. MediaFly said it intends to make the app available on other smartphones and tablets.
Apple TV update version 4.2, which added MLB and NBA games for subscribers, also added 5.1 Dolby audio to Netflix streaming. The $99 box still trails the offerings on smart TVs and on other smart TV adapters like Roku, Xbox and PlayStation 3 such as Hulu Plus and Amazon’s Video on Demand. In Europe, Apple TV doesn’t have LoveFilm, Europe’s biggest online subscription service, Netflix or any European sports. It’s strictly iTunes for movie and TV show rentals (no purchases), the free video clips on YouTube, Flickr and MobileMe.
Microsoft is expected to stop making the Zune handheld media player but continue the online Zune service, according to Bloomberg.com quoting someone who declined to be identified because the decision hasn’t been announced. Sales are reportedly limited to existing inventory. The company is porting the Zune software to Windows smartphones where it’s losing market share to Apple and to Android-based phones. When Zune was launched in 2006, CEO Steve Ballmer said Zune would outsell Apple’s iPods. NPD Group said that in 2010 Apple’s iPods accounted for 77% of handheld media players sold.
Tablets and other portable devices may soon get a longer time between battery charges if nanotube technology from the University of Illinois works out. Engineers there say they have found a way to reduce significantly the power consumption of the flash memory that stores music, video and other content. It could result in 10 times the battery life found in handheld devices today, according to Eric Pop, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering who led the research team in an interview with Information Week. There’s a lot of work ahead, he said.
The number of apps in the Android Market is approaching Apple’s, according to Business Insider. It says Android now has over 250,000 compared to Apple’s 350,000. Business Insider once predicted Android would have overtaken Apple by now. It now says it’s only a matter of months.
HP CEO Leo Apotheker this week re-stated to analysts his intent to ship all HP PCs and other devices with WebOS. The PCs would also have Windows. WebOS would be more than 100 million devices this year, he said. HP is also starting a cloud-computing service that developers can use to create applications for consumers and businesses using HP tools and running on HP servers. ”Any developer can deliver his or her innovation to either the consumer, the enterprise or the small and midsize business,” Apotheker said. It could be that HP is planning to use WebOS in a line of cloud computers in addition to its TouchPad tablet and Palm smartphones. It’s a market that Google is also aiming at with its Chrome OS.
Typifying what voters hate about the insider game in politics, the cable TV companies have hired former FCC chairman Michael Powell to run their association, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). Powell will be the industry’s advocate, spokesman, and representative in its relationship with Federal government at all levels. Since leaving the FCC, Powell has been senior advisor with Providence Equity Partners. He succeeds Kyle McSlarrow who left the NCTA to lobby the government as the president of Comcast/NBC Universal in Washington.
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