7:30 PM
The FCC approved rules that will enable medical body-area networks to operate on 2.36 GHz to 2.4 GHz to support the transmission of health-monitoring from patients using body-worn sensors. A study recently showed that 48% of monitored hospital patients survived cardiac arrests, but just 6% survive without monitoring. The 40 MHz used for medical monitoring has traditionally been used by commercial test pilots--the medical monitoring will be used in hospitals, clinics, doctors offices and patients' homes, far away from where commercial test pilots operate:
http://urgentcomm.com/mobile_data/news/fcc-body-monitoring-spectrum-20120524/?NL=UC-03&Issue=UC-03_20120524_UC-03_69
The third phase of Oracle's lawsuit against Google was canceled, since the damages phase wasn't needed after the jury gave a clean sweep to Google in the second phase. Instead of the original $6 bil in damages Oracle was hoping to get, Oracle can only get about $32 mil now and they *only* get that if the judge declares that APIs can be copyrighted:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/open-source-software/what-the-final-decision-oracle-v-google-really-means-194068
Verizon says that 36 potential buyers have already expressed interest in buying its 700 MHz spectrum that it will sell if it gets FCC approval to buy the cable companies' AWS spectrum:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-36-buyers-interested-our-700-mhz-spectrum/2012-05-24
Google has reportedly chosen Asus to make their first tablet and their supply chain vendors revealed that Google/Asus will have *600,000* tablets ready to ship next month!
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120523PD214.html
Google will reportedly unveil their Nexus tablet during Google I/O next month, priced at $199 with NVIDIA's quad-core Tegra 3 chip onboard the 7-inch tablet:
http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/google/android/google-nexus-tablet-details-revealed-built-by-asus-nvidia-tegra-3-on-board/
IDC reports that Android went from 36% of the world's smartphone market in Q1 2011 to 59% in Q1 2012, with the iPhone going from 18% to 23%. Symbian went from 26% in 2011 to just 6.8% in 2012 and Blackberry dropped from 13% to 6%. 89.9 mil Android smartphones shipped in Q1 2012, with Samsung making 45.4% of all Android smartphone sales...and that is before the Galaxy S III is released!
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120524005389/en/Android--iOS-Powered-Smartphones-Expand-Share-Market-Quarter
Verizon announced their video portal called Viewdini, an Android powered app that lets customers with LTE smartphones and tablets to access video content from Comcast, Hulu, Netflix and mSpot:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizons-viewdini-hint-whats-come/2012-05-23
Texas-based chain Pizza Patron announced that they will give a free large pepperoni pizza to anyone who orders in Spanish on the evening of June 5:
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/chain-offers-free-pizza-if-you-order-spanish-140746
Woman's iPhone was stolen while she was on a Disney Cruise and she has discovered that a Disney employee named Nelson has her stolen phone...because her iPhone automatically posts photos to her account in the cloud. She posted a batch of those photos on her Facebook page:
http://m.npr.org/story/153317969?url=%2Fblogs%2Falltechconsidered%2F2012%2F05%2F22%2F153317969%2Fstolen-phone-beams-photos-to-owner-who-puts-them-on-facebook
http://urgentcomm.com/mobile_data/news/fcc-body-monitoring-spectrum-20120524/?NL=UC-03&Issue=UC-03_20120524_UC-03_69
The third phase of Oracle's lawsuit against Google was canceled, since the damages phase wasn't needed after the jury gave a clean sweep to Google in the second phase. Instead of the original $6 bil in damages Oracle was hoping to get, Oracle can only get about $32 mil now and they *only* get that if the judge declares that APIs can be copyrighted:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/open-source-software/what-the-final-decision-oracle-v-google-really-means-194068
Verizon says that 36 potential buyers have already expressed interest in buying its 700 MHz spectrum that it will sell if it gets FCC approval to buy the cable companies' AWS spectrum:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-36-buyers-interested-our-700-mhz-spectrum/2012-05-24
Google has reportedly chosen Asus to make their first tablet and their supply chain vendors revealed that Google/Asus will have *600,000* tablets ready to ship next month!
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120523PD214.html
Google will reportedly unveil their Nexus tablet during Google I/O next month, priced at $199 with NVIDIA's quad-core Tegra 3 chip onboard the 7-inch tablet:
http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/google/android/google-nexus-tablet-details-revealed-built-by-asus-nvidia-tegra-3-on-board/
IDC reports that Android went from 36% of the world's smartphone market in Q1 2011 to 59% in Q1 2012, with the iPhone going from 18% to 23%. Symbian went from 26% in 2011 to just 6.8% in 2012 and Blackberry dropped from 13% to 6%. 89.9 mil Android smartphones shipped in Q1 2012, with Samsung making 45.4% of all Android smartphone sales...and that is before the Galaxy S III is released!
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120524005389/en/Android--iOS-Powered-Smartphones-Expand-Share-Market-Quarter
Verizon announced their video portal called Viewdini, an Android powered app that lets customers with LTE smartphones and tablets to access video content from Comcast, Hulu, Netflix and mSpot:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizons-viewdini-hint-whats-come/2012-05-23
Texas-based chain Pizza Patron announced that they will give a free large pepperoni pizza to anyone who orders in Spanish on the evening of June 5:
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/chain-offers-free-pizza-if-you-order-spanish-140746
Woman's iPhone was stolen while she was on a Disney Cruise and she has discovered that a Disney employee named Nelson has her stolen phone...because her iPhone automatically posts photos to her account in the cloud. She posted a batch of those photos on her Facebook page:
http://m.npr.org/story/153317969?url=%2Fblogs%2Falltechconsidered%2F2012%2F05%2F22%2F153317969%2Fstolen-phone-beams-photos-to-owner-who-puts-them-on-facebook