Yahoo is now using Google search in the UK. Confused? So was I, when I first read this post on Connected Internet. After all, didn’t Yahoo just sign a comprehensive search deal with Microsoft? Actually Google has replaced Yahoo search on BT Yahoo, an online portal… Read More »

We’ve been hard on the federal government for the disconnect between its need to get out $4 billion in broadband stimulus money to areas without broadband and its simultaneous need to map the areas where folks don’t have broadband in order to determine the best way… Read More »

Clearwire has enough money to provide 4G wireless broadband service to 75 million people this year, and hopes to raise enough to boost that to 120 million by 2010. Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow tells The Seattle Times today that the $2.5 billion the company has allocated… Read More »

Apple pulled the Google Voice iPhone application from the iPhone, according to letters the company filed in response to an inquiry by the Federal Communications Commission. Apple says that it has not outright rejected the Google Voice app, but is merely studying it. Problem is, it… Read More »

Updated: A tipster just pinged me to let us know that AT&T is having some real problems with its wireless network on the east coast of the United States.  I have emailed the company. A company spokesman just emailed and let us know that… Read More »

Following up on my previous post, “How Smartphones Are Making Wi-Fi Hot Again,” I’ve heard from different network providers that have shared their data with me. Today, folks from AT&T let us know that the traffic on their Wi-Fi network is going up pretty sharply. During the… Read More »

Verizon and Qualcomm said today that their new joint venture, which will provide access to Verizon’s network for machines and other embedded wireless applications, will be called nPhase. The name comes from the original M2M company that Qualcomm acquired in 2006, and the service provided by… Read More »

Has Your AT&T 3G Network Improved?

By now, you all are very aware of my decision to break up with my iPhone because of connectivity problems with AT&T’s network. Since then, others have complained and switched away from the iPhone as well. As expected, my breakup didn’t go down too well in… Read More »

Broadband Growth Falls Sharply in the U.S.

After years of breakneck growth, U.S. broadband is in slowdown mode. During the second quarter of 2009, U.S. service providers added less than 650,000 new accounts, down more than 50 percent from 1.6 million additions in the first quarter. (Stats below the fold.) To be fair, the… Read More »

AT&T Shuts Down Broadband TV Service

AT&T is shutting down its broadband TV service on Sept. 1, leaving users with a little over two weeks to continue watching live TV streamed to their PCs. AT&T launched the service in 2006. When it comes to streamed television over the Internet, several new entrants… Read More »

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