Verizon is considering adjusting its data plan pricing as it prepares to launch its next-generation 4G wireless network. Not only will the network price data plans based on the amount of data consumed, it may also price data plans based on the speed of the connection itself."If you want to...
The Emergency Broadcast System was for decades the way in which we were notified of emergencies via the television and radio. (Or more likely, the way in which we were notified of a "test of the Emergency Broadcast System.") But undoubtedly we are turning to other real-time technologies to inform...
Microsoft's debuted its unified communications platform Lync at a news conference today. Lync will go on sale December 1. Several big name companies like Boeing, Estee Lauder, France Telecom, Nikon and Orange are already using the solution according to Microsoft's announcement. Microsoft will also offer Lync Live next year along...
Google Docs is now available for editing in a mobile browser with support for the Android and the iPad.The support is part of the new editor for Google Docs that was announced earlier this year. Edits that are made in a Google Doc from a mobile device will also appear...
There has been a lot of discussion surrounding location-based services in the past months, much of it centered on the so-called "check-in" applications - the apps that allow users to register their location at a particular venue using a mobile social networking type service like Loopt, Gowalla, Foursquare, Brightkite, SCVNGR...
No tweeting, live blogging, posting to Facebook or any other use of social media will be permitted when President Bill Clinton gives the keynote address at Dreamforce, the annual Salesforce.com event taking place Dec. 6-8 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.The unusual notice came to us today from The...
It's prediction season on the Internet, and today's dose of futurism comes from security firm Imperva. The company just released its Security Trends for 2011 paper. Among other things, Imperva predicts consolidation of the cyber-crime industry, convergence in international privacy and data security laws, and more state-sponsored cyber-attacks targeted at...
The Facebook news yesterday about its new messaging platform is raising questions for the telecommunications giants about what they have to do in face of emerging competition from the social networks.It's a critical time for the telcos. All the attention has been on Facebook's battle with Google. But there are...
Google Goggles, the mobile app that lets you search the Web by simply taking a picture with your smartphone, is announcing a marketing experiment today that merges offline marketing with the mobile Web. Today on its blog, Google announced that it is working with Buick, Disney, Diageo, T-Mobile and Delta...
According to a recent report from global hiring marketplace oDesk, demand for developers with Android skills is up 710% in October 2010 versus October 2009. The increased demand is not surprising, given the mobile operating system's rapid climb over the past 12+ months, now reaching its new status as the...
The final version of the National Education Technology Plan (NETP) was released last week, setting forth the Obama Administration's plan for improving access to and integration of technologies for teaching and learning. Among the recommendations the Department of Education makes in the NETP is a call for support for "efforts...
Although there's much buzz about location-based technologies being able to help you check in "where you are," the far bigger problem when it comes to place is simply "where to go." Where's a decent nearby Mexican restaurant? What's the best local coffee shop? To help address that, Google has just...
A few weeks back, we rounded up four ways to attend meetings on an iPad and more recently our own Klint Finley wrote about how iPads are being used in the enterprise. Without a doubt, Apple's wildly popular tablet device is finding its own niches to fill within businesses both...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt just announced on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit that the next version of Android, code-named Ginger Bread, will include native support for what's called Near Field Communication, or NFC. NFC is a short-range, high-frequency wireless technology which lets devices, primarily mobile phones, communicate with other...
This morning, Facebook announced its new messaging system. CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that the system was "not email" and not intended as the media-hyped "Gmail killer". Zuckerberg did say, however, that "this simpler type of messaging is going to be how people shift their communication."We got in touch...
Jay Adelson, known to some as the recent CEO of Digg but known to others for far more, has taken a position as the new CEO of pre-launched and eagerly-awaited geolocation data platform SimpleGeo, the company announced today.SimpleGeo says it will launch "this Fall" and its goal will be "to...
At Facebook's Mobile Event two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg said that there was still at least "one big announcement" to come this year. And as we're hearing rumors that Facebook is about to unveil "Project Titan," it seems likely that today is it. Facebook is holding a press event this...
What's tomorrow, besides Tuesday? Oh, nothing big, you know. It's "just another day," according to Apple. Just another day, that is, "that you'll never forget".Apple has changed its homepage to say that tomorrow morning, at 10 am Eastern time, it will have an "exciting announcement from iTunes" and like with...
Social networking will be a more popular communication mechanism than either voice or SMS, according to 31 global mobile operators cited in a new report from Airwide Solutions. The report, commissioned by Airwide and performed by research agency mobileSQUARED, asked operators across Europe, North America and in the Asia-Pacific regions...
A number of reports released this morning say that Samsung Galaxy A and S smartphones will finally be able to update to the newest version of Android - Android version 2.2, code-named "Froyo" - as of tonight at 8 PM. The phones can be updated by visiting SamsungMobile.com, it's said,...
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