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Getting Touchy-Feely with Mobile Devices
By Jeff Orr, Senior Analyst - Consumer Electronics |
Shock and vibration are environmental forces that mechanical engineers have dealt with for decades. The venerable Timex advertising slogan for watches said “Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.” These forces wreak havoc on mobile devices that impact unforgiving floors, skid across asphalt streets and are continuously shaken in transit. Vendors are harnessing this device movement to create engaging features for mobile broadband handsets. Accelerometers, force feedback, and haptics technology, typically reserved for scientific and research applications, are finding new uses in consumer devices more…
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Indian Telecom Players Gear Up for Massive WiMAX Deployment
By Basharat H. Ashai, Market Analyst - Asia Pac & Middle East |
India has been grappling with 3G and BWA/WiMAX spectrum allocation issues for quite sometime. In September 2006, TRAI, The Regulatory Authority of India, recommended that 3G spectrum be auctioned, thereby ending speculation that it would be given away for free to existing operators. TRAI identified 2 x 25 MHz of spectrum in the 2.1 GHz band for 3G services to be auctioned following a simultaneously ascsending auction (SAA) format. As per the TRAI guidelines, five operators would be accommodated in blocks of 2 x 5 MHz in this band in the first lot. The remaining operators will be allocated spectrum as it becomes available. more…
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