The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act has passed both chambers of Congress in the USA and is expected to be signed by President Obama. In general terms, the new law would requires telecommunications equipment to be usable by individuals with disabilities unless it's too difficult or too expensive to arrange this.
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The University of Leeds is loaning smartphones to all its fourth and fifth year medical students, enabling them to access files and assessments when they're off-campus. It's believed to be the first time a UK medical school has provided undergraduates with this level of mobile phone technology.
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Digital entertainment company RealNetworks has announced a new version of its free RealPlayer video player. As well as letting consumers download and play photos, videos and music on their PCs, the new version allows them to copy files between their computer and their mobile device in either direction.
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The departure of Vodafone's Director of Internet Services, Pieter Knook, is attracting a considerable amount of attention in the media today.
Mr Knook was recruited from Microsoft in March 2008.
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Fixed and mobile broadband technology company Allot Communications says mobile data bandwidth usage increased by 68% during the first half of 2010. Video streaming consumed 35% of all mobile bandwidth, making it the largest-consuming application. Thanks in part to the continuing popularity of YouTube, it's also the single largest-growing application type, showing a 92% increase. YouTube alone accounted for 13% of mobile data bandwidth.
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