Loopt, a popular social-mapping app for mobile phones is evolving into a mobile match-maker. A new app, called Loopt Mix, has much of the same functionality as the feature integrated with the Loopt app, including the ability to browse profiles of people near you. Mix now includes real-time, in-app chat with push notifications. It lets you [...] Full story...
The FCC has released its full National Broadband Plan (Executive Summary and pdf), a road map for bringing broadband to nearly all Americans.
Bay Area Rapid Transit, in partnership with San Francisco-based developer Junaio, has released an official augmented reality app that allows you to find BART stations and train schedules.
South by Southwest Interactive, ground zero in social media, produced several new apps for social media over the last few days.
The Financial just reported that the top wireless carriers in the United States added 4.2 million retail subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2009.
The annual gathering for the global satellite-enabled communications, Satellite 2010, starts today. Some than 9,300 satellite professionals will particpate in the conference, which runs March 15-18th, near Washington, D.
The State of the Media report, released Monday by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, has good news and bad news for newspapers.
The Motorola DynaTAC, the first mobile telephone, weighed 2 pounds, sold for $3,995 and offered just a half-hour of talk time in 1983.
Stacey Higginbotham of GigOm has an interview Mike Sievert, chief commercial officer at Clearwire.
Sievert said it cost Clearwire “somewhere in the mid-$20 range” per person to build out its WiMAX network, an estimate that relies on several things, from the cost of the spectrum to the number of the towers Clearwire needs to deploy.
Apple began taking preorders for the iPad this morning, and published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader, notes Wired.
Twitter’s geolocation feature was officially announced today by Twitter co-founder and CEO Biz Stone.