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 [...]
Panasonic plans to invest $1 billion by 2012 to develop green technologies for the home that would include energy-monitoring systems, marking a major shift in the company’s focus.
Panasonic President Fumio Ohtsubo said in an interview with the Bloomberg news service this week that growing consumer interest in more efficient products has led Panasonic to decide [...]
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 [...]
Sun Microsystems this week released VirtualBox 3.1, including several key enterprise features aimed at maintaining minimal downtime on virtual servers.
VirtualBox 3.1 has the ability to “teleport” virtual servers — move running virtual machines uninterrupted between disparate hosts on different operating systems and computer classes. It also includes a full suite of enterprise hypervisor features.
In addition, [...]
For the third time in a matter of weeks, jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches have come under attack, this time by a worm that could set up botnets and steal banking information.
Security researchers, already on alert as a result of the two previous attacks on jailbroken iPhones, jumped on the worm right away.
“This is one [...]
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 [...]
By the year 2020, you won’t need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the web using nothing more than their brain waves. Scientists at Intel’s research lab in Pittsburgh are working to find ways to read and harness human brain waves so they [...]
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 [...]
