The DASH7 Alliance, a non-profit industry consortium that promotes wireless sensor networking standards, today announced the public release of the DASH7 Alliance Protocol. DASH7, an open source wireless sensor networking standard, competes with Zigbee (900MHz/2.4GHz), Z-Wave (900 MHz), Bluetooth (2.4GHz), WiFi (2.4/5 GHz), and Low Power UWB for machine to machine communications, but features multi-kilometer […]

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Amazon has announced a $139 entry level tablet that is branded as the Kindle Fire HD. This is a brand new device that has upgraded specs from the prior Kindle Fire models. The 7 inch touchscreen has a resolution of 1280×800 pixels, 66% more pixels than the previous generation Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire HDX […]

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AT&T plans to use 700 MHz Lower D and E Block licenses for LTE Broadcast, reports Fierce Wireless. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson disclosed the plans during an appearance at a Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference this week. AT&T acquired the unpaired licenses from Qualcomm in December 2011, for $1.93 billion. The E Block in the 700 […]

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Blackberry has signed a letter of intent with Fairfax Financial for a $4.7 billion buyout. The deal would pay each shareholder $9/share in cash, and could end up bringing Blackberry under the auspice of privatization. Fairfax has six weeks for due diligence and negotiations. In that six weeks, Blackberry is allowed to “go-shop”, which means […]

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Apple launched both the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s on Friday, September 20, selling a record-breaking nine million new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c models, just three days after the launch, according to Apple. Early results by Localytics show a clear sales lead to the more expensive iPhone 5s, which outsold the 5c by a […]

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The iPhone 5C and 5S go on sale today with the gold 5s in short supply, reports The Verge. It took less than 30 minutes for the gold 5S to slip to an October wait in the US. The gold iPhone 5S is now listed with an “October” shipping date in the US, UK, and […]

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