Google Adds Video/Voice To GMail, Reinforces Friendly Corporate Overlord Persona
Google, for me, has grown into the teddy bear of global powers. It’s this large, fluffy, plushy thing with shiny button eyes and the liquidity to build a giant laser in space capable of splitting the planet in half. So I thought it was adorable when I heard that the teddy bear is releasing voice [...]
White Space closer to becoming “Wi-Fi Space”
You may remember Corey’s piece back in August explaining a proposal before the US Congress to allow television “whitespace” – the TV frequencies that aren’t used between normal channels – to become conduits for high-speed Internet access nationwide.
Well, after Tuesday’s landmark vote from the Federal Communications Commission, that is one step closer to a reality.
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Mobile Firefox - Updates!
Two weeks ago I brought you the happy happy funtime news that Mozilla has designed a mobile version of their Firefox browser for your cell phones. Well, on Monday the news broke, along with leaked photos of the browser and some information about the features.
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The Mobile Web War has begun!
If you thought the Cola Wars of the 80’s and 90’s were bad, just wait until you have to start choosing between mobile web browsers on your phone.
Its Official! Comcast sets monthly broadband cap at 250GB/month!
Sounds ludicrous? That’s because it is! Comcast claims that with a 250GB bandwidth cap, users could:
* Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
* Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
* Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)
Users who go over the 250GB/month quota get a [...]
Google Wants Whitespace To Be Your Space
For those who remember the days of tuning their television, whitespace refers to the frequencies that weren’t used between channels. That whitespace is still out there today, floating about without a purpose. But for a while now, industry giants like Microsoft and Dell have been lobbying Congress to free up the airwaves for [...]
Olympic games may mean trouble for comcast subscribers
Gizmodo explains the recent disadvantage of having Comcast or Time Warner as your internet service provider. As Dave had mentioned in a prior post, Comcast has a monthly bandwidth quota of about 250GB but now, Time Warner wants to start using 40GB as their high end bandwidth quota. What does that mean for [...]
No Weekend Update but an Update on GoDaddy
If you want a weekly update on tech news, Gizmodo has that covered this weekend.
I’m here to talk about the email I received on Thursday from GoDaddy about the failure to register my newly purchased domain. I received another email from GoDaddy, only this time, it was from the President of this domain seller. [...]
Domain SNAFU - GoDaddy flubbed up the release of .me domains
Today was to be the big day for GoDaddy, one of the biggest domain sellers in the world. Today, they were given permission to release the .me domain (just like .com or .net). TechCrunch reports:
Earlier this year GoDaddy won the rights to distribute domains under the extension .me, which belongs to the country [...]
Weekend Recap - July 14th 2008
Quite a few stories this weekend (of course being the first weekend of the 3G iPhone).
XBox360 20GB for $299? Better believe it! - Gizmodo/Kotaku
Typing with one hand… wait, its typing on one hand! - Engadget
Internet speeds at 640BG/sec, that’s 17 DVDs of info per second! - ZDnet via Digg
Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo!’s buyout has [...]
