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Rumors have been bouncing about to this effect for a month or so, but Boy Genius Report quotes an anonymous source at AT&T who insists a new iPhone will drop in June. The new phone could contain a new Infineon HSDPA wireless data chip that will come in handy, given that AT&T already has 7.2Mbps [...]

Two different sources within Comcast have confirmed the company’s tentative and upcoming DOCSIS 3.0 deployment schedule, which has not been officially announced by Comcast. According to the sources, Jacksonville is scheduled to go live before the end of the week. After Jacksonville, Comcast’s North Central, Chicago and various California and Atlanta markets will see DOCSIS [...]

If you’re in a Comcast market that’s fortunate enough to have been upgraded to DOCSIS 3.0, you can get the faster .95 “Ultra” (22Mbps/5Mbps) and 9.95 “Extreme 50″ (50Mbps/10Mbps) tiers — but only if you get a new DOCSIS 3.0 modem. Up until now, users in upgraded Comcast markets were only able to rent the [...]

It’s hard being different. For years Skype has been something different. A new kind of communications company. One that does all the things that a cutting-edge 2.0 new age telecommunications company should be doing. But today it seems that they’ve come to the reality that sometimes you just have to be like everyone else. The [...]

I know I don’t. Over the past few days the relaunch of GrandCentral as Google Voice has generated a robust discussion about what Google is planning to do with voice. Thoughts range from Google building a standalone SOHO voice offering to Google using Google voice to bolster other offerings. But there’s one thought that keeps [...]

We’ve previously discussed how a company by the name of Bigfoot Networks has begun marketing a “Network Gaming Accelerator card” they promised would lower your latency and “kill lag.” To sell gamers and investors on the idea, a few years back they released an amusing (but since pulled) pseudo-scientific whitepaper that redefined “lag” (or latency) [...]

For a few years, Autonet Mobile has been promoting their in-car Wi-Fi hotspot, which uses a Sprint wireless broadband connection (kind of a 3G EVDO Wi-Fi MVNO 4×4, you dig?) to provide connectivity on the go, though actually getting it was a bit of a challenge. Until recently, the device seemed to be in a [...]