ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com) has been tracking cities and population coverage for 4G for the past year. At the end of 2009 there were more than 170 802.16e carriers across 65 countries, covering 480 million people. That number is projected to cross the one billion mark by the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q 2012).
Read MoreSome folks are predicting that the iPad will kill off many of Apple’s products since the company is touting the “magical device” as having features of laptops, netbooks, ebook readers, iPods and more. The iPad won’t kill off many Apple products (though if I were the MacBook Air and iPod touch, I’d be worried) but it will change them.
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iPad cases continue to pour in like the flood waters recently did in Nashville (where I live, by the way). Here’s a look at the latest batch.
Acme Made (http://www.acmemade.com) has released two new iPad cases: the Skinny Sleeve and the Slick Case. Crafted of “StretchShell” neoprene and employing a stretch-stitch seam, the Skinny Sleeve is able to hug the iPad, purportedly making it one of the thinnest sleeves available.
Read MoreWe’re still playing the “will they or won’t they?” guessing game as to if and/or when there might be a Verizon version of the iPhone. But I think — or maybe I’m just hoping — that we’ll see one sooner rather than later.
Read MoreSonnet Technologies has announced the availability of the Fusion Fibre-for-4 package, which offers the Fusion RX1600Fibre rackmount 16-drive RAID 6 Fibre Channel (FC) shared storage system with a 4-port 8Gb FC interface, four 1-port 8Gb Fibre Channel PCIe host adapter cards, four fiber optic cables, and a 4-seat Tiger Technology metaSAN software license.
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