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Speaking at the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference this week, Leap CEO Doug Hutcheson says the company plans to expand its LTE network coverage from 20-25 million POPs (potential subscribers) by the end of this year to 60-65 million POPs by the end of 2013 or early 2014. Leap says the company expects to have enough spectrum for LTE over the next three years. In 2010 Leap signed off on an MVNO deal with Sprint, and earlier this year struck a new five-year wholesale deal with Clearwire allowing Leap to buy capacity on Clearwire’s upcoming LTE network. Rumors <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Leap-Have-Held-Acquisition-Talks-119457″>recently indicated Leap has been in talks with AT&T about a possible acquisition, though incompatible network technology make the deal anything but certain.
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Already wobbly T-Mobile took a huge financial hit during the AT&T deal, with customers who didn’t want to be AT&T customers fleeing the carrier while many business activities were put into neutral. As is usually the case the lower level employees paid for T-Mobile’s bad idea, the company last March <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Here-Come-the-TMobile-Layoffs-118944″>announcing at least 1,000 layoffs with more in the works.

As promised, T-Mobile CEO Philip Humm is alerting employees to a new round of layoffs this week, though Humm isn’t yet getting specific about the totals for this round of layoffs. From the letter:

In a recent insensitive blog post, AT&T’s top lobbyist Jim Cicconi <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Learned-Absolutely-Nothing-From-Failed-TMobile-Deal-118959″>tried to blame the layoffs on the blocked deal, ignoring that AT&T would have fired even more employees if the deal had gone through — and that the deal was idiotic and unnecessary in the first place.
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Additive manufacturing (AM) known as 3-D printing or Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) makes teleporting a reality. Not people yet, but soon– though at best it would only be a copy.

BAM (Biomedical Additive Manufacturing) however, is a reality, and according to a recent  University of Texas  publication, real meat AM organs are projected to arrive in under 15 years. Had they arrived a little sooner, Steve Jobs could have printed himself the liver he needed. Already, AM hips, joints and artificial limbs are digitally manufactured and successfully installed in and on people.

The manufacturing of the humanoid is inescapable since the same printing machine could make lunar landing gear components and hip acetabula indiscriminately. Materials including titanium and multiple varieties of polymers are applied in micron thin layers and forged using Selective Laser Sintering (SLS). The original technology grew out of Stereo Lithography (SL) that used polymers for quick prototypes. Now AM is the rapid manufacturing of single fully customized objects, both humanoid and otherwise.

This is the most disruptive gig going: No more shipping. And the AM printers are becoming cheaper. Currently some can be homemade for under a few thousand dollars, whereas those under development to assemble complete airplane wings are of course vastly more expensive. AM is the ultimate fax, fax on crack, and Computer Assisted Design (CAD) is the engine of it all. What’s digitally designed can be stored in the cloud and rained down– or up– to any one with the appropriate printing machine. Think Guttenberg’s printing press changed things? This is bigger. Printing DNA (yes, the stuff of genes!) is on the horizon. Digitized objects or progeny in the clouds delivered to outer space or inner space. We’ve arrived: virtual reality to real reality. Beam me up my perfect fitting jeans or a kneecap or even designer human ova. “In the future,” says the National Center for Manufacturing , “90 per cent of all products will be developed virtually.” Fax is a feminist issue now. Study CAD!

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Responsible responsive design demands responsive images—images whose dimensions and file size suit the viewport and bandwidth of the receiving device. As HTML provides no standard element to achieve this purpose, serving responsive images has meant using JavaScript trickery, and accepting that your solution will fail for some users.

Then a few months ago, in response to an article here, a W3C Responsive Images Community Group formed—and proposed a simple-to-understand HTML picture element capable of serving responsive images. The group even delivered picture functionality to older browsers via two polyfills: namely, Scott Jehl’s Picturefill and Abban Dunne’s jQuery Picture. The WHATWG has responded by ignoring the community’s work on the picture element, and proposing a more complicated img set element.

Which proposed standard is better, and for whom? Which will win? And what can you do to help avert an “us versus them” crisis that could hurt end-users and turn developers off to the standards process? ALA’s own Mat Marquis explains the ins and outs of responsive images and web standards at the turning point.

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The latest version of the American Consumer Satisfaction Index is now out, the Index ranking everything from the airline industry to the IRS on a one-hundred point scale. For our interests, the latest May ACSI rankings offers insight on customer satisfaction with fixed line phone service, subscription TV services, wireless phone service and cellular phone manufacturers.

On the fixed line phone service front, satisfaction with traditional telco phone service continues to drop, as those companies shift their focus away from DSL and landline and toward wireless services with higher profit margins and growth. Interestingly though, Comcast’s VoIP service continues to see a drop in ratings as the last-ranked provider. Cox comes in first place, though the services are grouped very tightly together in terms of satisfaction.

The Wireless rankings see traditionally last-ranked AT&T finally making a promised jump, moving three points to a score of 69 in a last-place tie with T-Mobile. Sprint continues to hold the top spot with a score of 71, continuing to shake off their problematic acquisition of Nextel. Again however, in these wireless rankings carriers are very closely bundled together in mediocrity.

When it comes to subscription TV services, the ACSI rankings continue to put Verizon’s FiOS TV service at the top of the heap with a score of 74, while traditional customer satisfaction report cellar dwellers Comcast and Charter saw slight improvements, but continued their last-place showings with scores of 61 and 59, respectively.

For a little context on these ratings, the ACSI most recently scored the public’s satisfaction with the Federal government at around 67 points, while Homeland Security ranked a 59.
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We’ve been hearing from sources for a while that <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/118601″>the change was near, and now Time Warner Cable appears finally to be eliminating the Roadrunner brand from their product lineup. A source tells us that as of May 19, numerous markets are seeing the logo and branding eliminated by products, with existing tier names simply seeing the addition of the word “Internet.” For example, the company’s “standard” tier will simply become the Time Warner Cable “standard Internet” tier.

Our source tells us that markets should also see a shakeup in the pricing of some tiers and services. All markets may see different pricing based on regional competition, but this is an example taken from one market:

•$53.95 for Time Warner 10/1 (Downstream/Upstream) Standard Internet
•$20.00 additional for 20/2 Turbo Internet
•$30.00 additional for 30/5 Extreme Internet
•$50.00 additional for 50/5 Ultimate Ineternet
•$29.95 for 1/1 Lite Internet (Usually a retention only offer)
•$42.95 for 3/1 Basic Internet

All levels of service above Standard will require a DOCSIS 3.0 modem. In addition, the source states that Time Warner Cable’s RoadRunner Home-Networking services is going to be re-branded as Time Warner Wi-Fi. It will also see a price break, dropping from $10.95 to $4.95 a month. However, all levels of service above standard include Time Warner Wi-Fi for free. Current 15/1 Turbo users will be ‘grandfathered’ for pricing but speeds will not increase, and Time Warner Wi-Fi won’t be included for those customers.
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While AT&T’s LTE network is actually clocking in with faster speeds that Verizon’s in early deployment markets, users in some markets like Chicago are seeing notably slower speeds. Why? As Kevin Fitchard at GigaOM notes, AT&T has only 10 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum in play in Chicago while it has 20 MHz in most markets. That means slower speeds in what’s becoming a heated LTE marketing fight with Verizon, and it could prove to be a particular marketing problem when the LTE iPhone emerges. A quick look at what has been deployed hints that Chicago isn’t alone:

However, this is more of an engineering and marketing problem than it is a spectrum shortage problem. AT&T hasn’t even touched their AWS spectrum yet, and are among the worst cell carriers when it comes to using the spectrum they do have efficiently, being painfully slow at freeing up spectrum currently being used for legacy 2G (EDGE) services. It won’t be long before AT&T blames their own engineering sluggishness on the blocked T-Mobile deal. They just got done blaming AT&T prices hikes on the blocked acquisition, while in the same breath stating those hikes <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-CEO-Theres-Too-Many-Damn-Competitors-119320″>would have come anyway.

One also needs to define “slow” here; actual users in markets like Chicago say they still see speeds in excess of 20 Mbps sometimes, so it’s not quite something to cry about just yet. Average speeds for many of these users continues to be somewhere around 6 Mbps — plenty for largely anything you’d like to accomplish on a smartphone (at $10 per additional gigabyte).
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Many cable operators haven’t deployed DOCSIS 3.0 yet (especially on the upstream side), but that obviously hasn’t stopped the development of the next step in cable broadband technology. CableLabs says they’re cooking up a new specification that will succeed Docsis 3.0 with a particular focus on cable’s upstream speeds, the spot its weakest when compared to fiber to the home. The next standard, currently just being caleed DOCSIS 3.1 or 3.x, focuses on more effective modulation schemes. Hard technical specs aren’t available just yet, but you can expect to hear more at next week’s The Cable Show in Boston.
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2.6 million join Free Mobile s French revolution in first 80 days gigaom.com
Phone companies even on satisfaction usatoday.com
Finnish court rules open WiFi network owner not liable for infringement arstechnica.com
EchoStar prepares to launch satellite for ‘Gen4′ broadband Internet service fiercecable.com
Fresh study says Verizon beats AT&T in overall data speed fiercebroadbandwireless.com
BT to offer 330Mbps fiber next month cable.co.uk
Smartphones, Tablets Not Yet Meaningful Portion Of Total Video Viewing multichannel.com
As 17 more states join class action against book publishers and Apple, new details revealed paidcontent.org
Tablets generate triple the data traffic of smartphones fiercewireless.com
Voyager Mobile intros unlimited wireless plans starting at $19 bgr.com
Is live TV already becoming a thing of the past? nytimes.com
Foxand NBC: Dish’s commercial-skipping DVR ‘a strange thing to do’ at best,’an insult’ at worst theverge.com
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Will Apple or Google Buy Sprint to Break Into the Wireless Network Biz? ecommercetimes.com
Canadian banks issue landmark NFC payments guidelines that focus on open mobile wallets and consumer data protection nfcworld.com
Nationwide wireless emergency text alert system launching this month ubergizmo.com
Why is UK ISP TalkTalk s year-old porn filter suddenly big news? pcpro.co.uk
New Report Lists Top 10 Legitimate Sites Blocked by UK Adult Content Filters ispreview.co.uk
Amped Wireless Unveils the Industry’s Most Powerful, Long Range, Indoor Wi-Fi Solution yahoo.com
LightSquared s bankruptcy is Washington s failure too gigaom.com
Bell Mobility hit with $100-million class-action lawsuit alleging that expiry dates on its pre-paid wireless services are illegal cbc.ca
Clearwire: Our LTE Advanced network will be able to hit 168 Mbps fiercewireless.com
FBI Sounds Alarm on Hotel WiFi Caper technewsworld.com
Why Anonymous might well be the most powerful organization on Earth nationalpost.com
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