The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sent a letter to Verizon demanding answers about why it increased early termination fees for smart phone users as well as whether customers are charged for inadvertently accessing Verizon’s Internet services.
At dispute is that Verizon doubled early termination fees (ETF) for new customers that signed up to its wireless services [...]
Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service.
A new “translated search” tool lets people direct Google to seek results from Web pages written in an array of languages and then deliver results in a searcher’s preferred tongue.
The feature has been available at the Google Translate service, but is becoming [...]
Google’s expanding its grasp on the Internet with a newly revealed DNS resolving service. Google Public DNS, announced Thursday on Google’s blog, will offer you an alternative way to connect to Web sites.
The DNS is a crucial part of the Internet. It converts the text addresses people can remember into the numeric Internet Protocol addresses [...]
Microsoft is kicking Bing Maps into a higher gear, announcing a beta version of Bing Maps that uses Silverlight to display 3D images and its own version of street-level images.
The company announced the new beta Wednesday amid a discussion of other improvements to Bing Thursday at its San Francisco offices in a presentation for the [...]
Google has rolled out a new version of its free Google Maps Navigation application that’s compatible with smartphones running the Android 1.6 operating system, such as T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G and its G1. When the app was introduced last month in beta, it could only be used by smartphones running Android 2.0, the latest version of [...]
Google Calendar is testing out a new feature that should make scheduling events a tad easier than it used to be by allowing you to see at a glance if the event you’re creating will conflict with the schedules of the people you’re inviting. Dubbed “Sneak Preview”, the feature’s name is perhaps more exciting than [...]
Right now I’m Web-surfing with a browser that’s sleek and fast. It has Speed Dial thumbnails to quickly load a favorite Web page and preview thumbnails to help rotate through open Web pages by sight. The app I’m wielding sounds a lot like Opera 10, Opera’s desktop browser (Mac | Windows), or even the recently [...]
As much as Twitter is a powerful communication and social application, it’s a relatively simple Web app. As part of a new contest sponsored by Engine Yard, Ruby on Rails developers are going to turn Twitter into their own application server.
The contest asks developers to program the “Worst App Server Technology Ever” (Waste) using Twitter [...]
If you’ve been on Twitter for a while, there’s a good chance you’ve come across a tweet that asked you to retweet something (usually a link to a spammy-looking site) for the chance to enter a contest. Of course, these are typically bogus, leading many people to simply ignore them. And that poses a problem [...]
There is a perception that Google’s Chrome is a rounding error when it comes to browsers. And maybe it still is, but Google is now fighting that perception in a very public way. Today, it announced that the Chrome Team won a Founder’s Award for their achievements so far.
Now, 30 million is certainly [...]
