News release: “The music industry must move away from the retail CD as its primary revenue generator before Christmas 2009, according to Gartner. Gartner said that reliance on revenue from the sale of prerecorded CDs is hindering the music industry from fully embracing online distribution opportunities…Enabling the transition away from retail music CDs toward online… Continue Reading
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Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January-June 2008
National Health Interview Survey Early Release Report: “Preliminary results from the January-June 2008 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that the number of American homes with only wireless telephones continues to grow. More than one out of every six American homes (17.5%) had only wireless telephones during the first half of 2008, an increase of… Continue Reading
Wireless Car Key Device Prevents Teens from Driving While Cell Phone Texting
News release: “In 2007, statistics show that about 84% of the US population subscribed to a form of wireless mobile phone service. At any given time, about 6% of travelers on the road are talking on a cell phone, while 10% of teen drivers are talking or texting. Researchers have shown that using mobile phones… Continue Reading
FCC Adopts Rules For Unlicensed Use of Television White Spaces
News release: “In its continuing efforts to promote efficient use of spectrum and to extend the benefits of such use to the public, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today adopted a Second Report and Order (Second R&O) that establishes rules to allow new, sophisticated wireless devices to operate in broadcast television spectrum on a secondary… Continue Reading
Commission consults on how to put Europe into the lead of the transition to Web 3.0
News release, September 29, 2008: “Europe could take the lead in the next generation of the Internet. The European Commission today outlined the main steps that Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution that will intensify in the coming years due to trends such as social networking, the… Continue Reading
New York Public Transit Information Added to Google Maps
Chris Harrelson, Tech Lead & Creator of Google Transit: “We’ve just added comprehensive transit info for the entire New York metro region, encompassing subway, commuter rail, bus and ferry services from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit and the City of New York. That… Continue Reading
Study Says 17% of Americans Use Only Cell Phones
News release: “A new study from The Nielsen Company says that more than 20 million U.S. telephone households (17 percent) are wireless substitutors homes without landlines that rely solely on a mobile phone for their home telecommunications.” Call My Cell: Wireless Substitution in the United States, September 2008 News release: “JupiterResearch..has found that wireless… Continue Reading
"Use of wireless services is increasingly a necessary and integral part of our everyday lives"
Teenagers: A Generation Unplugged – A National Survey by CTIAThe Wireless Association® and Harris Interactive: “As the wireless industry celebrates the upcoming 25th anniversary of the first commercial cell phone call (October 13, 1983), this in-depth online study of more than 2,000 teenagers around the nation sheds new light on how todays teens feel about… Continue Reading
FCC Seeks Comment on Implementation of NET 911 Improvement Act
USDOJ: “Enhanced 911 systems would accommodate calls from Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled phones under rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Electronic 911 (e-911) calls are routed to about 6,000 call centers nationwide (known as public safety answering points) using various technical protocols to identify the caller’s location and the appropriate answering point to handle… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: The Kindle for Professional Researchers
The Kindle for Professional Researchers: DC based journalist Cheryl Miller offers seven good reasons to buy this gadget seemingly tailor-made for dedicated readers, but she also provides caveats worth your attention. Continue Reading
World Wide Web Consortium Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
“W3C…announced new standards that will make it easier for people to browse the Web on mobile devices. Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, published as a W3C Recommendation by the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, condenses the experience of many mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating mobile-friendly content. These guidelines will help to… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: 60 Gadgets in 60 Minutes, FOIA Facts, Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide
FOIA Facts: My Proposals for the FOIA: Following up on the passage earlier this year of the OPEN Government Act of 2007, FOIA expert Scott A. Hodes make two proposals absent from the law, but which would help FOIA requesters. Published June 29, 2008 60 Gadgets in 60 Minutes – Three techie gurus (Barbara… Continue Reading
