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- Video of CarPlay shows how iOS and QNX help integrate iPhones and car infotainment systems
- Facebook Messenger arrives for Windows Phone 8
- FreedomPop launches "Snowden Phone" for anti-spying privacy phone with Bitcoin support
- Dish Network wins 1900 MHz spectrum auction for $1.56 billion
- Small cells, big difference: how Qualcomm and Sprint are testing ways to improve coverage in dense areas
- 94% of T-Mobile BlackBerry trade-in customers ditched BB OS for something new
| Video of CarPlay shows how iOS and QNX help integrate iPhones and car infotainment systems Posted: 05 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PST  Despite the underlying BlackBerry QNX operating system, CarPlay still looks and moves like something one might expect from Apple. Here's a look at the feature formerly known as iOS in the Car. Read the full story here. |
| Facebook Messenger arrives for Windows Phone 8 Posted: 05 Mar 2014 09:55 AM PST  Windows Phone 8 users now have a dedicated Facebook Messenger app rather than the old solutions of using the Facebook app or the Messaging Hub. The switch to a standalone app includes new support for stickers and photos, and lets users jump right to messages rather than rely on the app. More importantly, it makes it easier to distribute updates when new features are added. It's far easier to issue app updates than it is to issue firmware updates when the messaging client is updated. Redundancies are created in notifications, so users will need to turn off message notifications in Facebook and Windows Phone if they were previously enabled.Download Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone Read the full story here. |
| FreedomPop launches "Snowden Phone" for anti-spying privacy phone with Bitcoin support Posted: 05 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PST  Wireless provider FreedomPop has offered a new-ish phone for people who care just as much about government surveillance and security as they do about apps and messaging. FreedomPop's Privacy Phone has encryption, privacy controls, and even Bitcoin payment. Read the full story here. |
| Dish Network wins 1900 MHz spectrum auction for $1.56 billion Posted: 05 Mar 2014 07:45 AM PST  Dish Network still isn't giving up on its wireless aspirations. Though the company missed out on opportunities to purchase Sprint and Clearwire, it's still amassing wireless licenses for the eventual launch of a wireless provider or sale of its comparatively small but valuable spectrum holdings. Dish won the entire set of licenses in the 1900 MHz frequencies recently auctioned off by the FCC. Dish offered an unchallenged bid of $1.564 billion for 176 licenses and walked away the winner of the auction. Now that Dish has added to its spectrum treasure chest, the hard part becomes figuring out how these new airwaves can help launch the wireless network CEO Charlie Ergen seems determined to start. Read the full story here. |
| Posted: 05 Mar 2014 07:35 AM PST  Anyone who ventures into the densely populated areas of major U.S. cities can tell you that cellular coverage can be spotty if not downright useless at times. Qualcomm is in trials to fix that problem with small cell sites. Read the full story here. |
| 94% of T-Mobile BlackBerry trade-in customers ditched BB OS for something new Posted: 05 Mar 2014 06:02 AM PST  Hardly any of the people who have ventured into T-Mobile to take advantage of its BlackBerry trade-in promotion have chosen to remain in the BlackBerry camp, despite higher values for choosing a BB10 phone. Read the full story here. |
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