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Well, that's that. Symbian and MeeGo are on the way out, new partners Nokia and Microsoft confirmed early Friday, and Windows Phone is in.
The widely anticipated news came just a few days after word leaked of an internal Nokia memo from CEO Stephen Elop, who compared Nokia's precarious perch atop the wireless world to that of a man standing on a "burning platform," with multiple explosions—the biggest coming from such runaway smartphone success as Apple's iPhone and Google's Android OS—erupting all around him. The only way to survive, declared Elop in the leaked memo, would be to leap into the "freezing water" below.
Yep, it's another iPad 2 rumor story, this time from the Wall Street Journal—except this one seems as focused on lowering expectations for Apple's next-generation tablet as it is on hyping its new and improved features.
The reportedly in-production iPad 2 will indeed add "at least one" camera for video chat, the anonymously sourced Journal story claims—raising the possibility that it won't get a rear-facing camera for recording HD video, like on such Android-powered competitors as the Dell Streak 7, the Motorola Xoom, and the LG G-Slate.
NEW YORK – As cell phones have spread, so have large cell towers— those unsightly stalks of steel topped by transmitters and other electronics that sprouted across the country over the last decade.
Now the wireless industry is planning a future without them, or at least without many more of them. Instead, it's looking at much smaller antennas, some tiny enough to hold in a hand. These could be placed on lampposts, utility poles and buildings — virtually anywhere with electrical and network connections.
