Verizon and Google will be making some sort of announcement today. Does this mean the end of net-neutrality? We’ll soon find out.
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Breaking: Verizon and Google To Make Announcement at 1:30PM ET
We’ve just received word from Google PR that Google and Verizon will be holding a joint conference call at 1:30PM ET today. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg will both be on the call.
Check back around 1:25PM ET as both companies will preview the announcement on their respective public policy blogs. Looks like …
Will Google and Verizon’s “Deal” Change the Web? [Updating]
Over the last 10 months Google and Verizon have been working on a deal that could change the way we consume and peruse the Web. The deal would allow companies like Google, a content creator, to pay an ISP like Verizon to deliver its content to users much faster than any other content provider.
According to the NYT, the Federal …
RIP Google Wave
Surprised? You shouldn’t be! The Techland team has been using Wave since October and many of us are still confused about what it’s supposed to do. Looks like we’re not in the minority.
“…Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will …
Sprint To Update HTC EVO 4G To Froyo In August
Good news, EVO 4G owners. Sprint has announced that it will be pushing out the Android 2.2 update beginning August 3 (everyone should have it by mid-August). The following new features, include:
• Voice Dialing Over Bluetooth.
• Application Storage on External Memory, giving users more storage room for all their …
Google Earth Gets Live Weather
Giving you yet another reason that you never need to go outside, Google Earth has added live weather. It’s accessible by activating the “clouds” layer inside the program and shows rain and/or snow wherever it may be happening around North America or Europe. Currently in Boston where I live, it’s… not doing either of those things.
If …
So Long, Nexus One
It was fun while it lasted.
Apple Looking To Ditch Google With Another Mapping Company Acquisition
Reports out of Canada indicate Apple has acquired its second mapping company in less than 12 months. Poly9, a Quebec-based company specializing in interactive 3D mapping software is the same company that NORAD contracted to track Santa Claus’ escapades on the eve of Christmas.
There’s no official word from either side but the …
Samsung Galaxy S: Hands-on With The T-Mobile Vibrant
Less than 48 hours after receiving the AT&T Captivate from Samsung, we now have the T-Mobile Vibrant, the second of four Galaxy S Android devices to launch this summer. Like the Captivate, the Vibrant features a beautiful 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen, 16GB of onboard memory, Swype, full DLNA support, a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, …
Google Simplifies Android Development with ‘App Inventor’
Google is attempting to make Android app creation accessible to the masses with “App Inventor,” which is software that enables Android application development without the need to actually write code.
The basic premise is that App Inventor provides a visual programming interface with pre-built “blocks” that are dragged and dropped …
comScore: Android’s Market Share Continues To Climb While Others Slip
ComScore has just released its numbers for May for U.S. smartphone owners over the age of 13. Wait. What does a 13-year-old need a smartphone for? According to comScore, 49.1 million Americans owned a smartphone from February to the end of May, which is an 8.1 percent increase from the previous three-month period ending in …
JavaScript Showdown: Android 2.2 vs iOS4
The gents at Ars did a little JavaScript testing on Google’s Android 2.2 versus Apple’s iOS4 to see which platform had a speedier Web browser. Based on SunSpider and V8 benchmarks, Froyo blew the doors off iOS4 and Éclair. According to said benchmark tests, Froyo is nearly three times faster than Éclair and three times better …