U.S. Recovery Act Includes $182 Million For Broadband; Still Lags France

Finally, the U.S. government is today announcing its first $182 million of awards for the broadband including fiber optic programs. The administration stated that it plans to hand out an initial $2 million for broadband projects in the next 75 days. This is all fine and dandy, but France just announced their initiative this week which would cover the country in 100Mbps and spending EUR 4.5B on the deal to get it done. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is mandating that 70% of the country must be covered with, get this, 100Mbps of fiber speed in the next ten years. How wrong is that?

Milestone Firmware Successfully Ported to USA Droid; Included Multi-touch

Looks like AllDroid’s Eugene and Barakinflorida put their own device on the line to demonstrate that the Milestone’s firmware has been successfully ported over to the American version, the Droid.  Most impressive about this port is that the multi-touch interface is there in all it’s smooth glory. You can expect Eugene to have a cooked up ROM ready for download in a few days.

[via Engadget]

NVIDIA to show off the Tegra 2 at CES, should fix the lag

So NVIDIA is going to have a set up at CES in January and they are bringing some exciting stuff. The Tegra 2! The impressive thing is that we haven’t even seen the full capacity of the Tegra 1 which is currently in the ZuneHD. The ZuneHD runs 3D games without hesitation or lag. In fact the entire UI of the ZuneHD seems to be super smooth and phone companies sure could take a cue from this strategy. With the Tegra 2 coming out along with other monster processors like the TI OMAP 36x, OMAP 4, Snapdragon, and the original Tegra, there is no excuse for lag on any smartphones released in the second half of 2010. Every company has had or is having issues with lag such as Palm, Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, and HTC. Lag or slow response times are hopefully a thing of the past and we can all just move on to the bigger and better hardware. I’ll keep my fingers crossed. NVIDIA is also rumored to have some new hardware running on the Tegra 2 chip such as Tablets, MIDs, and/or Phones.  Some devices are supposed to launch with this hardware in the first half of 2010 but the smartphones won’t feel the love until the second half of 2010. I’ll take the HD2, Pre, or Nexus One with the Tegra 2 thank you very much.

[Via Slashgear]

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