| FCC approves Verizon deal to buy cable company spectrum, asks for concessions Aug 23rd 2012, 22:43  Verizon received the Department of Justice's blessing for its cable company spectrum purchase last week, and now it's the FCC's turn to rubber stamp the plan. The agency has followed Chairman Julius Genachowski's recommendation and voted that Verizon can snap up the relevant AWS airspace as part of its LTE network expansion. Some riders are attached to the deal, although they're not all weighty. Verizon has to make an "unprecedented divestiture" of spectrum to T-Mobile in addition to its swap with Leap, promise certain coverage levels in the newly acquired zones at 3- and 7-year milestones, guarantee some roaming deals and provide updates on how its DSL service adoption is impacted by all that 4G. That Verizon has 45 days to finalize the T-Mobile deal gives some idea of how quickly everything has to move, although it could be a long while before we see AWS-ready Verizon devices in the shops. To no one's surprise, advocacy groups are still upset: the Alliance for Broadband Competition believes the FCC decision "does not go far enough" to keep a level playing field, for example, and wants to voice its problems to the FCC. Anxiety still exists that just about any deal concentrates too much spectrum in the hands of Big Red. Still, there's a sense among groups like these that Verizon has had to at least partially address worries over unfair competition. Continue reading FCC approves Verizon deal to buy cable company spectrum, asks for concessions Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless FCC approves Verizon deal to buy cable company spectrum, asks for concessions originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |  FCC | Email this | Comments | | Telenav Scout for Apps comes to Android and Windows Phone, Scout Drive Button released for website-based nav Aug 23rd 2012, 22:17  iOS app devs got Telenav turn-by-turn navigation access in March of this year, and now the same can be said for folks programming for Android and Windows Phone. In case you forgot, the Scout for Apps platform allows developers to incorporate Scout's personalized navigation directly into their applications. Not only that, but Telenav's making it easier for website owners to do the same for their websites with the release of the Scout Drive Button. The button puts the power of browser-based GPS mapping in an easy-to-implement widget, for free, with no coding expertise required. It also allows users to click the Drive button in their desktop browser to send a link to their phones that'll launch navigation directly, as opposed to inputting the address into a nav app manually. Interested? More info awaits after the break, and devs can get down and dirty with both Scout for Apps and the Drive widget at the sources below. Continue reading Telenav Scout for Apps comes to Android and Windows Phone, Scout Drive Button released for website-based nav Filed under: Cellphones, GPS, Internet Telenav Scout for Apps comes to Android and Windows Phone, Scout Drive Button released for website-based nav originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Telenav Developers (1), (2) | Email this | Comments | | Apple releases Mountain Lion 10.8.2 build to devs, focuses on Facebook, iMessage and more Aug 23rd 2012, 21:41  Shortly after letting the 10.8.1 Mountain Lion out of the bag, Cupertino's now released the next dotted version of its feline OS X to members of the developer community. According to the seed note, this early release will be focusing on a slew of social areas as well as other handy applications, including Facebook, Messages, Game Center, Reminders and, of course, the company's own web browser, Safari. As is usually the case with these young builds, Apple suggests you install it on a machine "you are prepared to erase if necessary," though something tells us you were already well aware of that. But in case you do want to install v10.8.2, you'll find the rest of the deets at the Apple Developer site linked below. Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Software Apple releases Mountain Lion 10.8.2 build to devs, focuses on Facebook, iMessage and more originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  iClarified | Apple Developer | Email this | Comments | |
