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Captioning the Action I was shocked to read in "The Best Inventions of the Year" that you gave credit to a foreign university for a wireless captioning-subtitling glasses prototype without acknowledging innovators here in the U.S. who have been working on this technology for almost a decade [Nov. 19]. The Georgia Tech Research Institute is already in the final stages of commercial development of a wireless captioning-subtitling system in collaboration with a licensee and leaders in the movie industry. TIME's failure to recognize long-standing innovators in this area and inability to perform due diligence are very...
...SunCom Wireless is up big on T-Mobile buyout...
...Vamoose bus company—which promised direct Harvard Square-to-New York trips featuring wireless internet—has suspended service entirely as a result of a licensing hitch, just two weeks after the company’s buses began running. The company’s service has been halted since Nov. 26, Vamoose co-owner Florence Bluzenstein said, because the company failed to secure one of the two licenses required to operate out of Cambridge. The company had gotten a “stop-location” allowed Vamoose to stop in front of either the Charles Hotel...
...would require a lot more bandwidth at a much higher cost. Instead, the service turns the plane into a flying Wi-Fi hot spot for mobile devices. When a plane reaches 10,000 feet, three WiFi access points hidden in the cabin's ceiling are activated, so that most wireless devices with Flash browsers or Wi-Fi-enabled laptops can connect to Yahoo Messenger or Mail, which can also be used to send text messages to mobile phones. (Sorry, Gmail and other e-mail services won't work.) BlackBerry handsets will also work just as they do on land...
...Tuesday, Verizon Wireless announced its intent to open its networks for use by all devices and applications beginning in 2008. This unprecedented move by Verizon is an improvement for consumers. While Verizon still offers exclusive devices, customers with devices purchased elsewhere can now join Verizon without having to buy a new phone. This saves customers a significant amount of cost and hassle, and we hope that other companies will follow suit. This represents a change from the so-called “walled garden” approach that Verizon and competing companies within the United States had previously employed, which...