5:26 PM
US border agents in the Port of Oakland intercepted and destroyed a shipment of the dangerous Khapra beetle from Pakistan. The Khapra beetle is native to India and can eat its way through up to 70% of grain stores to which it has access. The larvae are not easy to recognize because they are extremely small, and the border agents found them even though they were hidden among a container full of palletized goods. Great job by those people!
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/border-agents-intercept-destructive-pakistani-insects-oakland
The federal government is looking at using credit ratings to verify the identities of American workers, which could prevent undocumented immigrants from getting work by using stolen Social Security numbers:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/congress-plans-use-credit-rating-verify-american-workers
A judge called the claim for damages against Lime Wire over their copyright infringement "absurd". If the music business had their way, Lime Wire would be forced to pay *$75 trillion*, which is more than 110% of the GDP of the entire world!
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47409&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Aircell unveiled the first smartphone (Android-based) designed specifically for business aircraft. Passengers can make and receive voice calls while flying on business aircraft and can use the power of the Android OS platform while in the air:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1103&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=00000&PRODLETT=EQ&CommonCount=0
This article claims that Motorola has hired a number of experienced engineers from Apple and Adobe because they are trying to develop a web-based mobile operating system as an alternative to Android:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/mobility/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400097
There is a lot of speculation that Amazon's Android Appstore is a just the beginning for Amazon, with predictions that Amazon will make an Android smartphone soon with their Appstore preinstalled:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47408&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
The BlackBerry tablet will run Android apps:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/24/official-blackberry-playbook-will-run-android-apps/
Sprint said that they have 100,000 femtocells on their network (nearly 1/3 of the total in the US) and expected to have 1 million femtocells on their network in a few years. It is interesting that there are about 100,000 more femtocells than cell towers in the US!
http://www.fiercewireless.com/ctialive/story/sprint-weve-got-100000-femtocells-our-network/2011-03-23
Not only is AT&T blocking the upload speed for the Motorola Atrix, Motorola is openly admitting that the Atrix has poor voice quality. Motorola is asking for 1,000 Atrix users to help them figure out how to fix the serious voice quality problems. Poor voice quality on a hot new phone that uses AT&T's network...never heard of that happening before:
http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-atrix-4g-get-update-fix-voice-quality
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/border-agents-intercept-destructive-pakistani-insects-oakland
The federal government is looking at using credit ratings to verify the identities of American workers, which could prevent undocumented immigrants from getting work by using stolen Social Security numbers:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/congress-plans-use-credit-rating-verify-american-workers
A judge called the claim for damages against Lime Wire over their copyright infringement "absurd". If the music business had their way, Lime Wire would be forced to pay *$75 trillion*, which is more than 110% of the GDP of the entire world!
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47409&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Aircell unveiled the first smartphone (Android-based) designed specifically for business aircraft. Passengers can make and receive voice calls while flying on business aircraft and can use the power of the Android OS platform while in the air:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1103&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=00000&PRODLETT=EQ&CommonCount=0
This article claims that Motorola has hired a number of experienced engineers from Apple and Adobe because they are trying to develop a web-based mobile operating system as an alternative to Android:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/mobility/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400097
There is a lot of speculation that Amazon's Android Appstore is a just the beginning for Amazon, with predictions that Amazon will make an Android smartphone soon with their Appstore preinstalled:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47408&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
The BlackBerry tablet will run Android apps:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/24/official-blackberry-playbook-will-run-android-apps/
Sprint said that they have 100,000 femtocells on their network (nearly 1/3 of the total in the US) and expected to have 1 million femtocells on their network in a few years. It is interesting that there are about 100,000 more femtocells than cell towers in the US!
http://www.fiercewireless.com/ctialive/story/sprint-weve-got-100000-femtocells-our-network/2011-03-23
Not only is AT&T blocking the upload speed for the Motorola Atrix, Motorola is openly admitting that the Atrix has poor voice quality. Motorola is asking for 1,000 Atrix users to help them figure out how to fix the serious voice quality problems. Poor voice quality on a hot new phone that uses AT&T's network...never heard of that happening before:
http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-atrix-4g-get-update-fix-voice-quality