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Net neutrality back in spotlight for debate
Insight Clause in application for U.S. broadband stimulus grants has renewed the debate over Net neutrality, as new bill is introduced and discussion now focuses more on wireless services.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Web sites, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireless, Broadband, Net Neutrality, FCC, Internet, service provider, Mobile/Wireless
HTC Magic
Reviews The Vodafone-exclusive HTC Magic is a well-designed handset that's comfortable to hold, has a responsive touch-screen and should satisfy anyone who is happy to use Google's suite of applications.
Tags: Battery, Screen, Google Inc., Touch Screen, Accelerometer, HTC Magic, T-Mobile G1, YouTube Inc., keyboard, Google Android
Sony Vaio VGN-Z11WN/B
Reviews Beautifully designed and reassuringly robust, the 1.5kg Vaio Z11 marries a decent-sized 13.1in. screen with good portability and integrated 3G/HSDPA. It's not flawless, but if you can afford it, buy it.
Tags: Battery, Mode, Graphics, Notebook, Graphics Subsystem, Brightness Adjustment, VAIO Z11WN/B, Sony Vaio, performance, Wi-Fi
Truphone adds Skype, Twitter to iPhone client
News The internet telephony company has turned its client for the iPhone and iPod Touch into an aggregator for Skype, Twitter, Google Talk, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger.
Tags: Mobile commerce, Web sites, Skype Technologies S.A., Twitter, Voice Chat, Internet telephony company, telephony company, Apple iPod, flat fee, IM
Cisco buys into corporate IM
News Cisco Systems is buying Jabber, an open source corporate instant-messaging platform, to compete more aggressively in unified communications.
Tags: Networking, Instant messaging, Jabber, Google Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., IM, EarthLink Inc., networking company, Google Talk, WebEx Communications Inc.
Google Calendar now the target of phishers
News Phishers send e-mail referencing legitimate events on Google Calendar to users to try to trick them into giving out their account details.
Tags: Security, Spam and phishing, Phishing, Google Inc., E-mail Message, Google Calendar, Password, e-mail, Google Talk, News.com
Oy! Google Translate now speaks Yiddish
News Google adds nine new languages to its translation service--which can translate text, comments, live chat, or entire Web pages--bringing the total to 51.
Tags: Business applications, machine translation, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Gmail
Android modders to cut Google Apps out of ROM
News Maker of CyanogenMod, a modified version of Google's Android mobile operating system, is to distribute the product without proprietary Google Apps included.
Tags: Open source, ROM, YouTube Inc., Google Android, Google Talk, blog, Google Apps, Google Maps, Open source
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses
News Google joins the data portability crowd with 'Friend Connect' allowing users to bring their data from social networks. The programming-free network is said to even incorporate Web sites that are not socially-enabled.
Tags: Networking, Data Management, Networking technology, MySpace, Google Inc., Site, Orkut.com, Social Web, Plaxo Inc., Use Case
Mozilla launches Snowl messaging prototype
News The prototype Firefox extension will bring unified messaging to the open source browser, if early experiments are promising.
Tags: Web browsers, Software, Open source, E-mail clients, Message, Web Browser, Google Inc., Messaging, Mozilla Corp., social networking
Smartphone users, keep complaining
News Want great software for your mobile phone? Keep up the complaints. That was the message at a session aimed at developers at the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Tags: Smart phones, Stephen King, RIM BlackBerry, software, mobile, Smart Phone, mobile software, Developer, Customer Satisfaction, Smartphone
Google merges Gmail with chat
News Gmail Chat lets people send instant messages from e-mail account, see when contacts are online and save chat history.
Tags: Personal applications, E-mail clients, Instant messaging
Google plugs hole in Presentations
News A hole in Google Presentation has been fixed after e-mail addresses leak out.
Tags: Data security, Web sites
Google embraces open IM standards
News Users of Google Talk can now communicate with other instant messaging services that support the XMPP protocol.
Tags: Standards, Instant messaging
Google's privacy faux pas with Reader
News In its attempts to add social elements and other user-linked features to its range of products, is Google pulling a Facebook?
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Internet advertising
