Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

T-Mobile USA has announced that its first HSPA+ laptop modem in the webConnect Rocket USB Laptop Stick will be available on Sunday, March 14 for $100 after $50 rebate with new 2 year agreement in Philadelphia area T-Mobile stores, as its nascent HSPA+ network is currently only available in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
T-Mobile has also announced new [...]

Opera has announced the availability of the latest beta version of Opera Mini 5 for Android devices.
The updated beta features Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and bookmark sync as well as support for virtual keyboards and a download/password manager. The only exception is the lack of support for multitouch gestures.
The download is available here.

Virgin Mobile has updated its Broadband2Go pricing and data allotment to place it inline with offerings from major carriers based on customer feedback. The $40 plan now includes 1GB of data access for 1 month, while the $60 plan now includes 5GB of data access for the same 1 month timeframe without a contract [...]

Sprint has announced another round of WiMax rollouts planned for this year, which include major markets and more cities.
The new markets slated for rollout this year include Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C along with other confirmed markets and cities that Sprint refused to disclose at this time.
Sprint [...]

Comcast, soon to be known as Xfinity, is now offering High-Speed Internet subscribers online backup storage via partnership with Mozy, starting with 2GB of free storage for all customers.
The caveat to the storage options is that Comcast/Xfinity is tying the amount of storage to the amount transferred within the overall monthly bandwidth cap, which means [...]

Verizon Wireless has confirmed that the carrier is testing the Internet Multimedia Subsystem network overlay and backend enhancement on its current 3G network. The enhancement allows voice calls to be carried as data calls instead of being sent over the circuit-switched voice network
The subsystem is being selected as the voice call carrier for its [...]

Chipset solutions developer and manufacturer Beceem has announced that it is currently developing a combination WiMax/LTE chipset for integration into future devices.
To that end, the manufacturer is pairing up with Motorola in order to integrate its BCS500 dual-mode chipset into Motorola’s existing WiMax device and networkinginfrastructure with the chipset currently sampling and intended [...]

Veoh Networks, one of the many video streaming portal clones to spring up in the wake of YouTube’s success has laid off all of its staff and is in the process of filing for Chapter 7 liquidation proceeedings after its venture capital partners (which included Shelter Capital Partners, Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Adobe Systems Intel [...]

Following our previous coverage, 4chan has issued a statement on the heels of Verizon Wireless lifting their block (or, as Verizon argues, “protection”) against 4chan.
Verizon Wireless early today argued that the denial of access stemmed from a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the internet site 4chan.org. That’s about the end of where 4chan and [...]

Google has just announced its new microblogging service designed to compete with established services such as Twitter with Google Buzz.
Google Buzz will be integrated within GMail and will allow for automatic contact and friend lists by email correspondence, public/private sharing and inline inbox integration with real-time updates and multiple source browsing in a single feed [...]