1. U.K. Fixed & Mobile Broadband Services Compare “Well” To Major EU Economies, Says Ofcom Explore TechCrunch (Mar 5 2013) Mobile Broadband The U.K. has the highest proportion of online individuals out of the five leading economies in the EU, according to telecoms regulator Ofcom which has compared the U.K.'s fixed and mobile broadband performance to France, Germany, Italy and Spain. It's just one of the metrics Ofcom is tracking, having been tasked by the U.K. government to produce regular European broadband scorecard reports. (Read Full Article)

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2. Why Qualcomm Wants To Bring Ultrasound Transmitters To Smartphones And Tablets Explore TechCrunch (Feb 27 2013) Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has a track record of pushing new capabilities into its chips faster than its competitors in a bid to carve out a bigger chunk of the market -- and one of its latest acquisitions is in the field of digital ultrasound. So what capabilities could this technology bring to phones and tablets? (Read Full Article)

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3. Maybe Those Chromebooks Weren’t Such A Crazy Idea After All Explore TechCrunch (Feb 3 2013) When Google launched its Linux-based Chrome OS in early 2010 and its Chromebook pilot program later that year , most pundits didn't quite agree with our own MG Siegler's premise that Google had dropped a " nuclear bomb on Microsoft ." A few years later, it sure doesn't look like Microsoft has much to fear from Chrome OS . But despite its slow start, it looks as if the Chrome OS momentum is ... (Read Full Article)

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4. Sprint Reportedly In Talks To Acquire Remaining 49 Percent Of Clearwire, Along With Spectrum Rights Explore TechCrunch (Dec 11 2012) Regulatory Sprint is said to be in talks to gobble up the remaining 49 percent of Clearwire it doesn't already own, according to new reports from CNBC and the Wall Street Journal. The deal is meant to sort out issues that Sprint has had in steering the decision-making process of Clearwire's business sources told the WSJ, and also it would help Sprint acquire the spectrum rights currently owned by Clearwire ... (Read Full Article)

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5. Kabam Takes Strategic Investment From Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Explore TechCrunch (Dec 11 2012) Applications Kabam, which is behind iOS hits like Kingdoms of Camelot and The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-Earth, just took a strategic investment from Warner Bros. Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. We don’t know the terms of the deal, but it follows a recent partnership between the two companies where Kabam took Lord of the Rings intellectual property and parlayed that into two different ... (Read Full Article)

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6. Poikos Takes The Prize At The Pioneers Festival In Vienna Explore TechCrunch (Oct 31 2012) Applications The Pioneers Festival kicked off in Vienna this week and by the looks of the 2,300 attendees at the amazing Hofburg Imperial palace, the conference is shaping up to be a stand-out event in Europe, not least because it is enormously upbeat and positive. Something we need more of in Europe. With a palace as a setting, art installations and a Croatian-born electric super car in the foyer ( the ... (Read Full Article)

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7. End Of An Analogue TV Era: U.K.’s Digital-Terrestrial TV Switchover Is Done — Opening The Door For 4G Mobile Services Explore TechCrunch (Oct 23 2012) 4G , Mobile Broadband After years of planning and step-by-step engineering, the U.K.'s switchover from analogue to digital-terrestrial TV broadcasts has finally been completed -- marking the end of more than 70 years of analogue broadcasting in the U.K and opening the door for the launch of 4G mobile services in spectrum previously used by TV broadcasters. (Read Full Article)

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8. Pandora Ships Its Biggest Android Update Yet With A Redesign, Music Exploration Features And More Explore TechCrunch (Aug 23 2012) Applications Pandora has been fairly open about the fact that mobile is a major focus for the music streaming company. More than 70% of listening on Pandora takes place on a mobile device—33 million hours of songs are played in a single day on Pandora, and 23 of those hours take place on mobile platforms. And more than 100 million of Pandora's 150 million registered users have accessed Pandora via mobile ... (Read Full Article)

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9. Sprint’s LTE Service Quietly Appears In The SF Bay Area Explore TechCrunch (Aug 7 2012) LTE Sprint is making solid headway with its new LTE network -- it's already live in 15 (mostly Texan markets) with another four slated to light up before Labor Day rolls around and the carrier aims to have 12,000 LTE sites online by the end of the year. Sure, the process has been held up at least partially thanks to some damn birds , but now it seems another region should officially get the LTE nod ... (Read Full Article)

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10. Bringing Technologies To Mobile Applications Explore TechCrunch (Jul 8 2012) Applications I started as a mobile entrepreneur in the pre-iPhone era in 2006 as the founder of SnapTell, the first successful mobile app in the image recognition space. SnapTell was acquired by Amazon’s subsidiary A9 in 2009. In 2011, I left Amazon to join Charles River Ventures to start a new company, Concept.io, which launches later this year . I reflected on lessons learned before embarking on the new ... (Read Full Article)

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11. Tango Takes Face-To-Face Video Calling Beyond The iPhone With 8 Million Downloads Explore TechCrunch (Feb 4 2011) 3G , Wi-Fi The average length of a video call is 4 minutes. Downloads are split evenly between iOS and Android, and 60 percent of calls are over 3G or 4G data networks instead of WiFi. (Are you listening Apple/AT&T/Verizon?) Although the U.S. is the single largest ... (Read Full Article)

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12. Vodafone Egypt Remains Silent As Access Goes Down Ahead Of Friday Protests Explore TechCrunch (Jan 27 2011) Respected blog The Arabist reports that DSL and 3G services have been taken offline in Cairo. This is confirmed by CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman , on the ground in Cairo. Now, coincidentally or not, this has come literally within the hour after AP TV ... (Read Full Article)

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