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Comcast Goes Mobile and Launches Xfinity Wi-Fi
Comcast is diving head-first into the Wi-Fi arena, offering Xfinity Internet customers the ability to access thousands of additional hotspots throughout the greater Philadelphia, a sizable area of NJ and northern Delaware. This is followed by an earlier Comcast announcement that introduced users the same ability, only in the Greater New York Tri-State area; the ...
Hulu Heading for IPO With a $200-300M Potential
As a source revealed, Hulu is planning an IPO which could raise anywhere between $200-300 million, and hoist its total value to right around a sweet figure of $2 billion; a respectable figure for the second largest video site in the U.S. As some insiders say, a filing by Hulu in the end of the ...
The Charitable GSMA’s $5 Billion Profit Potential
The GSMA, an international trade organization for mobile carriers including big names such as Vodafone, AT&T and Nokia is being led by vice president Hilary Clinton on a campaign to spread 150 million mobile phones among women in developing countries worldwide. The campaign, anticipated to conclude within the next 3 years poses a very appealing ...
Extra Features vs. Native Look Moves the Mobile Arena
Like with any other success story in the IT world, whenever a start-up or enterprise comes up with a really good and pioneering idea, there will always be at least half a dozen others who’ll come up with their own version of it, and outmatch the original architect in its own backyard. This time, this ...
The U.A.E Drops Ban Threat on RIM’s BlackBerry
Research in Motion and the United Arab Emirates had reached a settlement about the access and security concerns raised by the government regarding RIM’s BlackBerry e-mail and browsing services, as reported by the New York Times. “The U.A.E. telecommunications regulator said BlackBerry services were now “compliant with the U.A.E.’s telecommunications regulatory framework,” and that all ...
Recycling Old Electronics is a 50-50 Trend, Minus 11
The growing competition amongst manufacturers has introduced the world to wonders like never before, including the smartphone, HDTV, iPad and the high-power laser pen. But all the new gadgetry also a has a flipside, as it directly influences our ecosystem. As mentioned by Retrevo: “Based on a 2008 EPA report, we calculate that by the ...
The Sprint ID Android Software Launch and Foreseen Advancement
Sprint has launched this Wednesday a brand new theme and demographics-oriented software for Android phones (the LG Optimus S, the Sanyo Zio and the Samsung Transform at least for now), called Sprint ID. This content platform automatically unpacks pre-selected apps, graphics, audio, etc. onto the Android, as provided by Sprint’s content partners. With big names ...
IE’s Market Share is falling, to Less than %50
Once dominating over %90 of the entire browser market, IE is critically slipping off of its 10-year reign, dropped down to %67 two years ago, and now to a descending figure of %49.9 as reported by StatCounter, a web analytics firm. The former Windows-synonymous, and uncomfortably pre-installed, browser is still in use by the majority ...
Freedom of Speech is Spreading throughout the WWW, but Seriously Libya.
A recent warning by blogger Ben Metcalfe sent out shortly after the seize of one of his domains (a .ly one, AKA Libya), also reported here, alerts that .ly domain holders may be looking at a crusade of sorts against their URLs shorteners. These are being shut down, unless attuned with the Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law, ...
Twitter DM Loophole, Shortly after Massive JS Attack
A recent report has uncovered a security loophole in Twitter, concerning users’ private direct messages (DMs). It’s one that can potentially give web developers easy access to private information exchanged between two individual users. After numerous concerns regarding privacy breaches in the Twitter API, the pessimists had proven to be right, and while Twitter has ...