Verizon’s V CAST Media Manager, a subscription service to offload media and documents from smartphones to the cloud, is available for Android and BlackBerry. Verizon’s brand and marketing dollars could push the service to consumers unaware of competing products. Should Dropbox, Zumodrive and others be worried? Read More »
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The parade of new Android smartphones continued this week with the appearance of the Motorola Droid 2 and the Samsung EPIC 4G. This week we reviewed both phones, plus we put them against the EVO 4G in a video smackdown showing the phones going head-to-head. Read More »
Verizon is hard at work to get its LTE high-speed network online late this year, but MetroPCS may be first according to information its LTE network will go live in September. The fifth-largest operator in the U.S. will light up Dallas and Las Vegas next month. Read More »
The growing popularity of video — online and on-demand — is making carriers rethink their network plans. Many broadband providers are currently experimenting with new 10G technologies so as to offer much more bandwidth to your home than even current fiber-to-the-home networks offer. Read More »
It takes three minutes for Jon Stewart to channel Vint Cerf (Internet’s Obi-Wan Kenobi) comments to essentially poke fun at the Google/Verizon proposal over network neutrality. It is actually pretty funny! Read More »
Verizon has delivered broadband speeds of almost 1 gigabit per second to a customer in Taunton, Mass. as part of tests of its FiOS fiber to the home network. The test customer achieved throughputs of 925 Mbps down and 800 Mbps up. Read More »
In November 2007, I remember reading then-Senator Obama’s Technology and Innovation Platform for the first time. I was amazed that a candidate had said that he understood what net neutrality was about and that he knew it was important to the nation’s economy and culture. Read More »
Google has broken the relative silence it has maintained after coming out with a controversial framework for addressing net neutrality, which it developed with Verizon. In a post called “Facts about our network neutrality proposal” Google explains itself. But here are the facts about Google’s facts. Read More »
Several grassroots organizations are planning a protest at noon tomorrow at Google’s Mountain View campus. The groups plan to protest because the search giant has teamed up with Verizon to offer a compromise on net neutrality that has the potential to create a two-tiered Internet. Read More »
On Monday Google and Verizon announced a controversial framework for compromise on the contentious issue of network neutrality–the idea that ISPs shouldn’t discriminate against web traffic. But for those who really want to dig into the issue, read what the web is saying. Read More »
The nation’s two largest carriers added more connected devices last quarter than postpaid subscriptions, according to data released this morning by Chetan Sharma. In his quarterly update he noted that wireless penetration in the U.S. surpassed 100 percent if one takes out children under five. Read More »
The news media wasn’t buying the network neutrality compromise that Google and Verizon shared on Monday, but today the two chief executives of the companies wrote a joint editorial explaining their goals and their proposed framework in the Washington Post. If they can get… Read More »
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