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UK Broadband will be kitting up Swindon council offices with LTE connections next year, using the 3.4GHz spectrum it acquired more than a decade ago – and which it has been filling with a variety of technologies ever since. But while the LTE network might provide back-haul to public services one day, for the moment it is simply connecting up council sites.

Earlier this week the council survived a vote of no-confidence on that issue – having announced the LTE scheme – but this new effort won’t get Swindon its money back. Instead the council hopes that the LTE network will make an equivalent sum, eventually.

Quite how that will work isn’t clear. Broadband UK does have a licence to provide mobile telephony at 3.4GHz, a licence variation it acquired in 2007, but mobile phones are unlikely. The company owns 40MHz of spectrum split into two equal chunks, for up and down links starting at 3480MHz and 3580MHz respectively. That’s enough for a decent LTE service, just, but LTE handsets or tablets that will operate in that band aren’t even on manufacturers’ road maps yet.

There are 42 bands approved for LTE around the world, making the “quad-band” complexity of GSM look trivial. LTE devices will have to support a range of bands, but it will be a very long time before they’ll support 42 of them, and the details of the 3.4GHz band aren’t even harmonised across Europe yet.

But that’s not a problem for fixed wireless access, where receiving equipment can be tuned to the network. 3.4GHz won’t penetrate walls, or anything else, and so is well suited for line-of-site distribution to fixed locations (as UK Broadband will be providing to Swindon).

Swindon’s hopes of sharing that bandwidth in the future, and perhaps making back its investment in municipal broadband, will more likely rely on local Wi-Fi connections using the LTE network for back haul, if they ever appear at all that is.

But if the network is deployed next year, as planned, then Swindon will be able to claim to have the UK’s first LTE network, even if only a select few will be able to use it.

[Source: The Register]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:26 PM PDT

We’ve recently made some accessibility enhancements to Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites. Improvements have been made in keyboard shortcuts and support for screen readers among other items.

Google Calendar: Google Calendar now has new keyboard shortcuts and better screen reader support for our blind users. Members of the blind community can now use JAWS, VoiceOver and ChromeVox to manage your calendars, create and edit events or simply browse your events.

Google Docs and Google Sites: New keyboard shortcuts and better screen reader support with support for two screen readers: JAWS and ChromeVox.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

For more information:
Google Calendar: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/improved-accessibility-for-google.html
Google Docs and Sites: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/09/improved-accessibility-in-google-docs.html
Accessibility: http://www.google.com/accessibility/

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Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:01 PM PDT

Version 2.4 of the Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook® tool is now available with the following new features and improvements:

- Internationalization – The tool is now available in 26 languages including English
- Improved Notes sync – sub-folders sync now supported
- Performance improvement when copying/moving/deleting a large number of messages
- Support for moving/copying messages between message stores
- When replying to a message that is not in the Inbox, the reply is saved in the same folder

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Filipino, Finnish, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

How to access what’s new:
Download page. If the plugin is already installed, then it will auto-update to the new version.

For more information:
Release notes

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Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT

We recently launched a Charts API as part of Apps Script to allow chart creation to be more automated and easily programmed. These charts can then be attached to sites, sent as email attachments, or displayed using an Apps Script UI app.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

How to access what’s new:
Google Apps Script Chart Services: http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/service_charts.html

For more information:
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/09/visualize-your-data-charts-in-google.html

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Posted: 15 Sep 2011 06:54 PM PDT

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This release addresses a vulnerability that allowed Contributor-level users to improperly publish posts.

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This release addresses a vulnerability that allowed Contributor-level users to improperly publish posts.

We highly recommend you upgrade your WordPress sites to 3.1.3 immediately. Backup your current site and test the new release to ensure it does not break any functionality.

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To be extra clear: This isn’t a recall of notebook PCs, just the affected batteries. Even if your notebook is listed as part of the recall, it does not guarantee that your serial number is impacted. Those eligible will receive a replacement pack for each verified, recalled pack at no cost.

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[Source: HP]