This should come as a surprise to nobody and outrage almost nobody, but “unlimited” cellular internet access doesn’t always mean unlimited and fast cellular internet access.
In light of Verizon’s recent $30-per-month unlimited data plan requirement for smartphone owners, the company has also slipped this little tidbit onto its website …
Official: Free internet porn is not illegal. Nor is it unfairly competing with porn companies who’d rather you paid for your thrills, according to a California Appeals Court, which has dismissed a case against one free site, Redtube.com, as an unfair attack on free speech.
According to plaintiff Kevin Cammarata, Redtube.com – …
Where’s TV headed? Ask Hulu CEO Jason Kilar. His company has insight from “daily interactions with users, advertisers, and content owners,” as he mentions in a recent company blog post.
What Do We Want?
In a nutshell, consumers want fewer ads, the convenience of on-demand programming available from any device, and we’ve …
My TIME.com Technologizer column this week is about camera phones and traditional digital cameras. I love ’em both. But I’m frustrated by the fact that conventional cameras–which still take the best photos–remain some of the least Internet-savvy gadgets around. (As I say in the piece, most people still get photos off a camera and onto …
The idea of using your phone as a gaming device isn’t completely foreign seeing that iPhone and Android users are glued to games like Angry Birds and Doodle Jump already. Marketing a game console that’s also a phone, however, hasn’t exactly been successful in the past (see N-Gage). With Android technology, Playstation backing the games …
Municipal and community wireless gurus convened in Washington, D.C. this week — via old-fashioned chairs and, of course, Skype — to discuss the state of alternative Web networks. The events in Egypt, where citizens had their Internet snatched away in the wake of protests, gave them a good soapbox to stand on to suggest the embrace of …
If you’re a Verizon employee and you’ve been waiting for the iPhone, it looks like you’ve officially been asked to put customers first.
“After all, that’s the way we do business. That’s the Verizon Credo in action. This is an historic moment in time to rally together and show our loyal customers and new ones what our culture is …
Starting February 13th, AT&T smartphone owners will be able to download an app that converts a phone’s cellular data connection into a conventional Wi-Fi signal that can be used by other devices.
AT&T currently offers a “tethering” option that lets you share a phone’s connection with one other device via Bluetooth or a USB cable but …
Best Buy announced today that they will be carrying the Verizon iPhone and the AT&T version in a move that surprised some customers. Rumors had been circulating that Best Buy was not going to carry the Verizon iPhone at launch and was instructing their employees to tell customers that the AT&T network was technically faster. “Clearly …
Here’s what happened.
Google suspected Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, of copying some Google-ish search technology to display certain results to users.
The long version has been thoroughly covered by search expert Danny Sullivan but the basic story is that last May, some people at Google began to notice that Bing was returning
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For those of you out there who are fans of Google’s apps, the company announced on their blog today that they’ve created Google Shopper for the iPhone and added a check-in function for Google Latitude.
Previously only for the Android Market, Google Shopper allows you to search for the item you want by typing the word in, …
Google held a press conference today to show off some features from its upcoming tablet-specific Android operating system, Honeycomb.
While most of what Google talked about has been public knowledge for a bit already (see here and here), the company also announced that the Android Market app store found on its phones has now …
