Outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour blasted Google Buzz during the agency’s privacy workshop March 17. The FTC should stop imploring and start pushing policies and privacy controls into legislation.
For the past couple of years now, when talking about the Apple TV product, Apple likes to throw out the word “hobby.” It’s as if they’re ashamed of the device. And considering sales are anemic next to Macs, iPods, and iPhones, it’s no big surprise that they talk this way.
The Android-based electronic reader uses a Wi-Fi connection for updates, Web access, and downloading books.
Spring Design has started taking pre-orders for the Alex, an electronic reader that offers full Web browsing.
AT&T Adds Address Book, New E-mail Options for Blackberrys, Gaming Hurts Schoolwork
Google has started selling a version of the Nexus One phone that runs on AT&T’s 3G network, putting it in direct competition with Apple’s iPhone. But AT&T is not selling or subsidizing the phone. It’s only available on Google’s Web site for the full [...]
Windows Phone 7 Series won’t be able to cut and paste, as Microsoft continues to create something with all the limitations of the iPhone and little of the charm.
Microsoft’s upcoming update for its web browser, Internet Explorer 9, puts a lot of focus on support for the HTML 5 standards. IE9 is also expected to beef up performance, offloading tasks within the web browser to the graphics processing unit (GPU), or using separate CPU cores for certain elements of web pages if available. [...]
Internet giant denies change, but famous ‘Tank Man’ picture now accessible
BEIJING – Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google’s Chinese search engine Tuesday, after the company said it would no longer abide by Beijing’s censorship rules.
Almost 40 percent of BlackBerry users would switch camp to an Apple iPhone, a recent study into smartphone brand loyalty shows. Google’s Nexus One is almost as desirable, according to the study by Crowd Science (PDF link), which shows that a third of the BlackBerry users polled were willing to switch their device for the [...]
March 16 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.’s Nexus One phone is selling at a slower pace than the first iPhone, reaching about 135,000 units in the time it took Apple Inc. to sell 1 million, according to Flurry Inc.
March 15 (Bloomberg) — Mobile-phone companies led by AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless may be the biggest winners from a U.S. plan for more high-speed Internet service.
