Roundup: Verizon Pre not coming too soon, the fall of Vidoop, and more
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Verizon won’t be offering the Palm Pre within half a year — Lots of coverage on Techmeme.
“The Fall of Vidoop” – A fascinating, in-depth look at issues inside the secure storage company, as told by former employee and web developer… Continue Reading
Roundup: Twitter’s inventor readies next big thing, Verizon supports texting bans, and more
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Twitter co-founder to launch iphone payment service — The project, code-named Squirrel, will allow your iPhone to take credit card payments (though it won’t be the first service to do this), TechCrunch’s MG Siegler reports.
Verizon will support bans on text… Continue Reading
IBM pours $2B into smart grid as other big names reach for a piece of the pie
IBM’s lending and leasing branch, IBM Global financing has committed $2 billion to fund startups and utilities working on smart-grid and green technology projects. With this investment, it leaps to the front of a crowd of major corporations like Intel, AT&T, General Electric and others… Continue Reading
Roundup: Microsoft’s team-up with Verizon, Wolfram/Alpha’s demo, and more
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Are Microsoft and Verizon teaming up on an iPhone rival? — That partnership may be the real source of rumors about negotiations between Verizon and Apple, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Stephen Wolfram demos Wolfram/Alpha search engine — Larry Dignan… Continue Reading
Verizon flirts with Apple, but Android is already girlfriend material
There’s been lots of speculation that Verizon, the largest U.S. phone network, is flirting with Apple, with the idea of introducing an iPhone on Verizon’s network next year.
Verizon is building out a new fourth-generation network, based on Long Term Evolution (LTE), which is why… Continue Reading
Roundup: Pleo is dead, Twitter spreads swine flu, Google Earth solves plane crash and more
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Verizon iPhone in the works — Apple and Verizon have been talking about launching an iPhone for the Verizon network as early as next year. USA Today has the story.
Tragedy strikes as Pleo, the magic dinosaur, is liquidated —… Continue Reading
Roundup: US CTO choice gets thumbs up, EPA seeks new powers, Pirate Bay protests erupt
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Tech industry cheers Obama’s CTO choice – He may not have come out of Silicon Valley, but Aneesh Chopra from Virginia is getting positive reaction to his appointment as the nation’s top technology official. The Wall Street Journal has more. Our… Continue Reading
Apple to Verizon: Can you hear me now? Maybe.
Before it settled on AT&T as the carrier for the iPhone in the United States, Apple shopped the phone to Verizon Wireless and was shot down. It’s thought that Verizon didn’t want to make the concessions (including ceding a lot of control) to Apple which… Continue Reading
Roundup: New Android G2 makes an appearance, layoffs hit 300,000, Apple sales slowing
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HTC’s G2 Android phone – Sites like Gizmodo are giving the new Android phone the thumbs up based on working demos available at the Mobile World Congress.
Hacking Caller ID – A service dubbed TrapCall from TelTech Systems of New Jersey… Continue Reading
Roundup: Zune prunes, tech gets part of the stimulus, Sprint cuts a lot of jobs and more
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Zune prunes — Microsoft’s Zune portable media player saw its revenue decrease by over $100 million, or 54 percent, in the fourth quarter of 2008. Microsoft blames price cuts on the 30 gig model (you know, the one that had the… Continue Reading
Text messaging further exposed as a colossal rip-off
I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am that The New York Times decided to take on the colossal rip-off that is text messaging in a story this weekend. Text messaging is a great service, but it should be included for free with… Continue Reading
The iPhone outsells that thing I’m using as a paperweight (the RAZR)
About four years ago Motorola’s RAZR was the sexiest phone out there. I remember waiting with bated breath for the CDMA (a wireless technology) version, so I could use it with my Verizon account. Times have changed.
Now, of course, the RAZR seems like a… Continue Reading
Roundup: Layoffs hit Revision3, Google Earth on the iPhone and more
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Layoffs hit Revision3 — A number of shows are leaving the online video network or have been canceled.
Google Earth now available for the iPhone – The Google Earth Blog declares that the new iPhone app is “awesome.”
Microsoft opens Surface… Continue Reading
The pressure from Google and Apple continues: Verizon goes contract free
As the mobile world continues to evolve rapidly in the United States, Verizon is trying to maintain its role as a cellular leader despite many of its rivals garnering far more buzz. AT&T has the iPhone and now T-Mobile is set to be announced as… Continue Reading
iPhone apps like Whrrl preview the power of location, but there is far greater potential
With a global positioning system (GPS) chip now in the iPhone 3G, location services are becoming important to many mobile application developers. Each day, we’re seeing new iPhone apps launch which, if they’re not centered around location, rely heavily on it for core functions. But… Continue Reading
Roundup: Cloud computing stays free, big wind in SoCal, open source business and more
Dell doesn’t get cloud computing — A bid by computer maker Dell to trademark the term “cloud computing”, a broad term generally used to describe services and software that live on the Internet, has been preliminarily rejected by the US Patent Office.SoCal Edison signs for… Continue Reading
Verizon shows you Visual Voice Mail — if you show them the money
Talk of Apple’s iPhone forcing competitors in the mobile industry to adapt has largely been focused on its large multi-touch display and more recently, the App Store. But there’s another, small feature that never ceases to wow new iPhone owners: Visual Voice Mail.
It’s been… Continue Reading
Stalking your friends could be big business. $3.3 billion location-based social network economy by 2013?
While even the popular social networks nowadays aren’t making that much money (Facebook expects to make $350 million in revenues this year), the burgeoning field of mobile social networks could be big business shortly, a new report by ABI Research indicates. Specifically, location-based mobile social… Continue Reading
Entropic’s chips to cut the cost of multiple satellite TV set-top installations
It’s painful to get satellite TV service installed at your home because technicians have to spend a lot of time wiring multiple set-top boxes to a single dish antenna.
Entropic Communications has a solution that eliminates that problem. And today, the San Diego, Calif. company… Continue Reading
Location buzz continues: Nokia buys Plazes, Verizon backs Loopt & NIM
Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, has agreed to acquire the Swiss-German start-up Plazes, the companies said in a statement today.
Plazes, based in Berlin, Germany is a service that lets you share your location and leave a brief message — akin to… Continue Reading