Clearwire’s Chair Resigns, Company’s Fate Questioned
Craig McCaw, Clearwire Chair, has left the company. Clearwire says no disagreement prompted McCaw’s resignation, but the company’s fate is now even more in question. Clearwire has had a difficult year. Early on, they were expanding 4G into NYC, LA, and San Fran. The very next month, they were cutting 15% of their staff and [...]
Read MoreBlack Web 2.0′s New Year’s Resolution Tech 2011
As we begin our preparations to ring in the new year, some of us will attempt to take advantage of the clean slate status of the new year by making resolutions to change ourselves for the better. Many people discover that making a resolution and actually keeping it are two totally different things and end [...]
Read MoreiPhone Dev-Team to Update RedSn0w Beta Today
According to @redsn0w_testers, RedSn0w 0.9.7b4 will be released today. Today’s beta4 will eliminate separate usbmuxd process (so many more Mac users can use it). After that, expand to Windows. This is the 4th beta of the new “backup method,” which redsn0w calls “Jailbreak Monte.” Currently, this jailbreak technique disables bluetooth and there are reports of [...]
Read More35 Percent of Blacks Watch TV Online, 13 Percent Consider Cancelling Cable
As African Americans continue to bridge the disparity in broadband usage and access, we’ve witnessed a number of trends that show that not only are we adopting technology, we’re beginning to dominate in usage. Blacks currently outpace other ethnic groups in mobile phone usage according to the Pew Report and now it seems online television [...]
Read MoreSkype Does Video on iPhone
It has been expected that Skype would soon bring its video calling feature to the iPhone and most expected them to announce it at CES. It looks like Skype had something to prove after their recent outages and has made video calls available in the latest version of the iPhone app. This gives you options [...]
Read MoreGoogle, Clooney, & Cheadle Aim Satellites at Sudan to Prevent Genocide
Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Jerry Weintraub have announced a partnership with Google, the U.N., and several anti-genocide organizations to launch a satellite surveillance project to monitor the Sudan region. No, this isn’t another Ocean’s Eleven sequel, it’s a move by a group called Not On Our Watch to help prevent [...]
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