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Kansas City picked for a Google Fiber project with 1Gbps Internet

Published on: 4th April, 2011

A few days ago, Google picked Kansas City, Kansas for being part of its Fiber project, which implies a first roll out of the 1Gbps Internet access. The option for the city has been the result of acerb competition from 1,100 candidates. Google already has a development agreement in place and will be working with [...]

China accused of hacking Gmail to suppress dissent

Published on: 24th March, 2011

A few days ago, Google accused the government of China for the second time to have hacked into Gmail accounts in order to quash protest. Numerous problems of Chinese customers have been signalled over the past month for both sending and flagging messages. Activists are said to have been the primary targets, but attacks were [...]

Two thirds of the United States do not meet new broadband minimum, says FCC

Published on: 17th December, 2010

In a new study published recently, the FCC revealed that more than two thirds of the United States broadband Internet access do not meet the new broadband standards. This happens because about 68 percent of connections that were measured at the end of last year were below the required speeds of 4Mbps for download and [...]

TV studios blocked Google TV over piracy fears

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Google TV is partly blocked by TV studios over piracy concerns, according to some sources. CBS and Disney’s ABC have already confirmed that they would keep the TV OS from viewing their respective Flash video sites. The Wall Street Journal found out from leaks that NBC and Disney have considered Google was not doing enough [...]

Starbucks to launch a new digital network in cooperation with Yahoo

Published on: 26th October, 2010

Starbucks customers in the United States will soon get a new portal page to log into the Internet, which will offer news, entertainment and content related to health/lifestyle, all these free but available only in stores. The content is coming from premium content providers. The SDN (Starbucks Digital Network) and its content have been optimized [...]

Yahoo Messenger on iPhone will have 3G video chat

Published on: 16th October, 2010

Yahoo has posted the expected update 2.0 of Yahoo Messenger, free on the App Store, adding two-way video chat. This is one of the first iOS applications that support two-way video chat through 3G. It gives owners of the fourth generation iPod touch and of the iPhone a chatting option by using the front or [...]

Android and Maemo to receive Firefox 4 mobile beta

Published on: 14th October, 2010

Mozilla has posted the first beta version of Firefox 4 mobile for Maemo and Android devices. The new version, known as Fennec before the change, introduces a new concept named Layers, which should be faster for scrolling, zooms through the interface and animation. Multi-touch zooming is now recognized on any device supporting the feature. The [...]

Further details of the plans of Facebook’s handset

Published on: 30th September, 2010

Together with various reports revealing Facebook’s plans related to the development of a mobile platform, details of a handset for the social network have been released. According to earlier rumors, the device would be built by INQ and would be shipped in Europe in the first half of next year, while a US launch would [...]

Ping of Apple reaches one million users in only 48 hours

Published on: 9th September, 2010

Lately, Apple has hit a new milestone very quickly by reaching one million Ping users within only 48 hours after going online. The score is a third of the three million users having downloaded iTunes 10. eddy Cue, vice president of Internet Services, expected even a much higher number, as there were even more people [...]

Twitter for iPad adds clever user interface elements

Published on: 6th September, 2010

Twitter has posted its iPad update, freely downloadable form the App Store. The already universal application has the same navigation bar as the Tweetie for Mac, but has some unique interface elements that were never or only rarely seen in an iPad application, like the slide-out panes. When tapping an update, not only full information [...]

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