Friday, 13 August 2010

If Verizon and Google Win, We Lose

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August 13, 2010
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If Verizon and Google Win, We Lose If Google and Verizon get their way, no one will be able to stand up for wireless customers. Well-considered regulation is needed to stop outrageous practices
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Google Street View Disasters Embarrassing moments, unexplained car crashes, and crazy stunts. You never know what the Google Street View team is going to capture on camera next. If only an 'Undo Button' were in play for those captured here.
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Google Defends Net Neutrality Plan Counterarguments address "myths" that Google says are misunderstood about its dual-Internet proposal with Verizon.
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Smartphones Are Red Hot, Android Is on Fire  Researcher Gartner is only the latest in a line of outfits to confirm the health of the smartphone market and Androids stratospheric rise.
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You, Too Can Discover a Pulsar: 5 Ways to Share Spare CPU Cycles Seek aliens, fight cancer, solve puzzles and maybe even find God by donating your spare CPU cycles to join a virtual supercomputer.
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Tweetmeme Hands the Retweet Button to Twitter Analysis: With a slight redesign and some new functions, the "retweet" button moves and Tweetmeme's focus shifts.
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Sony Ericsson Playstation Phone: How Cool It Coud Be Heres a wishlist of what I would like to see in the fabled Playstation phone.
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Oracle v. Google: Far-Reaching Implications of the Lawsuit Analysis: Silicon Valley's billionaire businesses have many ties and links in their battle over servings of Java.
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Long-Rumored 'Verizon iPhone' Gets a Name The Verizon iPhone drumbeat continues as pundits insist that Apple is indeed working on a CDMA variant of the iPhone 4 -- and one pundit claims to know its code name.
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Droid 2 Teardown: 4 Findings Secrets of the Droid 2's power sources, transmission functions, input and more are laid bare in a dissection.
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Fly the Unfriendly Skies in BioShock Infinite Irrational's surprise third BioShock game turns out to be a total head-spinner, launching you skyward, literally, into a post-Victorian America, and toward a fabled city in the clouds.
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Microsoft Readies Internet Explorer Beta 9 A public beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is scheduled to begin on September 15 -- but only for some Windows users.
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Dude, Where's My Android Tablet? We're almost halfway through Q3 of 2010, yet the deluge of Android tablets has yet to arrive -- here's a roundup of what's been going on.
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id's Rage Blazes at 60 fps On iPhone, but What About Android? id Software demonstrates it's upcoming uber-3D action game, Rage, running at a blistering 60 frames per second on Apple's iPhone 4.
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Running in the Right Google Social Circles OK, so Google knows everyone you know, and everyone they know. What can you do with that information?
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Microsoft's Xbox 360 Smokes Wii, Sony's PS3 Closes Ranks Microsoft's new slim-style Xbox 360 propels the console past Nintendo's Wii in unit sales for the first time since September 2007's Halo 3 launch.
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India May Restrict Skype and Google India may ask Google; Skype and other online service providers to allow the country's law enforcement agencies to access communications on their networks.
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Here Comes IE 9: Beta Launches September 15 Microsoft will announce a beta of Internet Explorer 9 at its "Beauty of the Web" event next month.
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Microsoft: Stick with What You Know, Even If It Sucks Microsoft needs better products -- not ill-advised marketing campaigns or promotional websites -- to truly challenge Apple.
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Getting Things Done With Froyo Voice Actions Google has added new Voice Action interactive voice control features to Android 2.2--enabling users to perform most common Android functions just by speaking.
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If Verizon and Google Win, We Lose If Google and Verizon get their way, no one will be able to stand up for wireless customers. Well-considered regulation is needed to stop outrageous practices
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Google Street View Disasters Embarrassing moments, unexplained car crashes, and crazy stunts. You never know what the Google Street View team is going to capture on camera next. If only an 'Undo Button' were in play for those captured here.
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