Comcast has apparently started testing its own web-connected cable boxes in an Augusta, Georgia pilot program, according to the Wall Street Journal. The project is referred to as “Xcalibur” internally, though participating customers reportedly know of it as “Spectrum.”
The January 2011 issue of Consumer Reports hits the newsstands tomorrow and features the results from a survey of 58,000 readers regarding the overall levels of satisfaction with their respective cell phone service providers.
A man in Cedar Hills, Texas claims that his Motorola Droid 2 smartphone exploded as he was talking on it, causing damage extensive enough to warrant four stitches inside his ear.
When Apple announced its new 1.5-inch touchscreen iPod Nano in early September, it didn’t take long before people started dreaming of making the tiny music player into a wristwatch.
For website owners, a spot on the first page of Google’s search results for a given query is the holy grail. Google uses a proprietary algorithm to determine a site’s influence on the web and assigns it a “Page Rank,” named after Google co-founder Larry Page.
It’s the Super Bowl of shopping, the Olympics of overspending, the ultimate culmination of consumer exuberance. It’s Black Friday!
Are you there Google? It’s me, Doug. Whether it’s right or not, you’re getting worked left and right with this Google TV thing. Being blocked by all the major networks was bad enough, but now Viacom’s blocking you too.
Verizon’s 4G wireless network will be available in most major cities by the end of the year, though pricing for the service hasn’t yet been revealed. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the company hinted at speed-based service fees similar to how home broadband plans are priced.
Three of the nation’s four major wireless companies are betting big on the idea that we’ll use our cell phones instead of our credit cards. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have jointly announced “Isis,” and plan to roll the service out to merchants over the next year and a half.
If your AT&T phone drops a call or connects to the web more slowly than normal, complaining about it on Twitter might actually help.
Get any interesting e-mails lately? If you’re a Gmail user, you should have gotten one directly from Google yesterday saying, “We’ve reached a settlement in a lawsuit regarding Google Buzz.”
