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Hipcricket launched its HIP 6.0 platform, which is a cloud-based mobile marketing and advertising platform. The product includes enhanced analytics and hyperlocal targeting capabilities, said the company.
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From the files of the “Obvious Department” it turns out that AT&T uses experince more dropped calls than any other wireless carrier.

“ChangeWave Research, the company that does the polling for the InvestorPlace.com site, released the results of a survey of 4,040 smartphone users in the US done during March of this year. They were looking into “trends in customer satisfaction and loyalty, future market share demand, and the issue of dropped calls,” and discovered that AT&T’s results were in a death-spiral on all those measurements. As far as dropped calls go, while Verizon customers reported that 1.5% of their calls were dropped – the best result of the 4 US major carriers – AT&T customers said that 4.5% of their calls were dropped. Sprint and T-Mobile customers were essentially in a tie for second, with 2.4% and 2.5% of calls dropped respectively. And unsurprisingly, only 23% of AT&T customers said they were “very satisfied” with their service, as opposed to 49% of Verizon customers.”

So maybe us iPhone customers are not simply crybaby types. Perhaps there is more to it than AT&T wants to admit.

Will AT&T’s investment in new towers pay off? And how will we customers fare when the new iPhone is released later on this year. Will chaos ensue or will we see a smooth ride?

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Crossnerd, a peculiar puzzle game from little-known Swedish developer bitCycle, has arrived as a breath of fleshy hair in the App Store Word subcategory. With its ingenious concept, meticulously crafted levels, and enjoyable gameplay, it has cult-status potential written all over it. It is simple to understand, yet surprisingly rich in strategy and a perfect blend of logic, memory and word juggling.

At each level the player is presented with a Scrabble style crossword in which some of the letters have swapped places, and the goal is, naturally, to swap them back again. It is only possible to swap tiles of the same type: Ends, straights, corners, 3-ways or 4-ways. This makes spatial thinking a key element of the game, which is fun. No, really. It IS fun. Any swap that doesn’t return both tiles to their original places will rescramble the crossword and the player has to start over.

This first version of Crossnerd, Crossnerd LT, is available for free and meant as an introduction for greater things to come and as an invitation to help shape the future of Crossnerd. The developers have ambitious plans for the game, including the addition of new game modes, a level builder and, of course, lots of new exciting level packs.

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The FCC is hunting for more spectrum for wireless broadband use as part of its effort to make 500 MHz of spectrum available for mobile broadband over the next 10 years, including 300 MHz in the next five years.

The commission issued a public notice seeking comment on whether to allocate 35 MHz of the so-called Big LEO band for mobile broadband use. The spectrum, used mainly for weather balloons and satellites, sits between 1675 MHz and 1710 MHz. The notice, which said the comment period is open until June 28, is seeking comment on how the spectrum is currently being used, and if there is a more efficient way to send the traffic currently on the spectrum over land-based networks.

This new effort is just part of a wider push to free up spectrum. Last month the commission approved a plan to free 25 MHz of spectrum for mobile broadband on the Wireless Communications Services spectrum in the 2.3 GHz band.

In other FCC news, Blair Levin, the former head of the FCC’s national broadband plan task force, addressed the contentious issue of broadband reclassification, which the FCC is going to explore later this month at its open monthly meeting. Last month FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski pushed ahead with a new legal strategy that would allow the commission to implement net neutrality regulations for wireless and wired networks. Genachowski’s so-called “third way” essentially will reclassify broadband from a Title I information service to a Title II common-carrier service while at the same time forbearing from, or agreeing not to pursue, many of the regulations that are imposed on Title II services such as telephone systems.

In an interview with Broadcasting&Cable, Levin said that “10 years from now as we are trying to improve the way we handle this tremendous gift of broadband, we won’t be so worried about Title I and Title II.”

Telecom firms including AT&T (NYSE:T) have opposed the FCC’s reclassification efforts, arguing they will stifle investment. Levin, who used to be a telecom analyst for Stifel Nicolaus, said Wall Street is very comfortable with uncertainty, and that it just needs ways to measure that uncertainty. He said investors prefer to mitigate uncertainty, especially political uncertainty. 

“But I think it is a mistake to think that anything that the commission were to do would give it the kind of certainty that some people appear to be saying is required for investment,” he added. “I think if you look at the real numbers on investment, there are lots of things that affect it.”

For more:
- see this GigaOM post
- see this Broadcasting&Cable article

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It looks like the well-reviewed HTC EVO 4G is an overnight success, so successful, it’s stressing  the Sprint activation system and selling out in some stores

The super smartphone that is first to support 4G went on sale this morning at Sprint, Radio Shack and Best Buy. 

Our local Radio Shack Store sold-out of the HTC EVO 4G by 9:00 am this morning. Aother Radio Shack store sold out later around 11:00 pm. Some stores experienced activation problems.

There were around 30 people in line at the Pasadena Sprint Store in Old Pasadena this morning waiting for the HTC EVO 4G, a store rep told us,  by lunch time there were four people in line and that their stock wouldn’t last until the end of today.


MicroSD Glitch Fixed with OTA Update:

Users have reported
problems accessing the microSD card. HTC spokesman Keith Nowak told
Engadget that HTC identified the cause of problem of “insufficient file
permissions”  and other errors when attempting to write to the included 8
GB microSD on the HTC EVO 4G and
there’s an OTA fix coming “very shortly.

The Over the Air fix
version 1.32.651.6 is currently being pushed out to the HTC EVO 4G.
The1.32.651.6
update also fixes a potential security
vulnerability. Users can manually install he update, go to Settings >
System
Updates > HTC software update and follow the instructions.

You can read HTC EVO 4G User Guide or the  Getting Started Guide, online

.HTC EVO 4G
reviewers called the Android super phone, “everything a
geek could dream of,” “a beautiful and powerful window to the world,”
and the touchscreen “mesmerizing.” The major new features of the HTC
EVO 4G include a huge 4.3 touchscreen, 4G (WiMAX faster data
access), data and voice at the same time at 4G, and ability to work as a
Wi-Fi hotspot.

Click here for Wirefly’s HTC EVO price.

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Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:
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