The next version of Wi-Fi wireless networking is called 802.11ac, and it can operate around 1.3 gigabits per second, or three to four times the speed of currently available high-speed Wi-Fi, or 802.11n. According to Rahul Patel, vice president in the mobile and wireless group at chip design firm, Broadcom, the new standard has broad [...]

On December 10th, Amazon.com is offering customers a five percent (up to $5) discount on items if they check prices of those items as sold at local businesses. Using the Amazon Price Check app on Android and iPhone, customers receive the 5 percent discount on up to three items scanned in any brick-and-mortar store. Critics [...]

Three more law firms filed a class action lawsuit in Delaware late last Friday. According to federal court records, this brings the total to eight cases against Apple, Carrier IQ, and others over privacy issues related to logging software. The list of defendants include hardware manufacturers HTC, Samsung, and Motorola, and carriers AT&T, Sprint, and [...]

Nevada Federal Court Judge, Kent Dawson, recently issued a landmark order allowing Chanel to seize domain names it believe to be counterfeiting its products and transfer them to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge’s order also states, “all Internet search engines” and “all social media websites” explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google to [...]

AT&T has withdrawn its application to the FCC to approve the transfer of wireless spectrum licenses from T-Mobile. Stating it wants to focus on the current antitrust battle with the Department of Justice. Will Draper, analyst with Espirito Santo, says;  “It tells us something about timing too, suggesting that AT&T may decide to walk away [...]

Facebook has signed Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to manufacture a smartphone, codenamed Buffy, that has the social network integrated at the core of its Android OS . The question now is; will anyone care to have a Facebook phone instead of simply a phone with a Facebook app on it? The first Facebook phone project, [...]

As Christmas is just rolling around the corner, we’re sure you’ve got plenty of family gatherings, business events, and Christmas shopping to attend to. Whether you’re lighting a menorah, stuffing stockings, or Santa-stalking, we’ll be keeping tabs on the telecom news. Stay tuned–we’ve got a tree full of telecom ornaments and tidbits to pass out. [...]

magicJack VocalTec, Ltd., the company that invented VoIP (with over 30 patents to affect that claim) and has sold over eight million units, recently announced two major retailers are reporting the largest sales records in the history of magicJack products. They are expecting sales of magicJack units to be approximately 400,000 to 500,000 in a [...]

Reuters is reporting that Samsung’s TV Division President, Yoon Boo-keun, has indicated that Samsung’s Google TV devices will launch in early 2012 but NOT at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 in Las Vegas. It was at last year’s CES that Samsung quietly showcased two devices, a set-top box and a Blu-ray player, running Google’s [...]

Existing enterprise level clients are seeing significant savings and flexibility from the new MPLS Mesh technology over their existing traditional VoIP solutions. This is an ideal product for customers who are looking for a more efficient, secure and economical IP-VPN solution over more traditional VPN or packet based solution. By allowing customers to pick and [...]